Show ' ' '' 1 11 C -- 2 ' ' : ' -- I 0 0 ir ti e I:'1 ' - t v r i '''''' - t lit 'AS!10f t -- A 'A " Iz t— - -- 7 UtaIt woman' builds museum r- is r o the - 1 v '' t '- --- - t - - i tt1 1 1i co t- - Tv 40 I t 1 - - -1 - 'y ri 1 1 3 ' ''' ' 4tc I ' - t 1 I ' i i ' - TEASDALE' Wayne County — Thirty-threyears ago a lone girl hiker from Sweden stood on the west rim of Bryce Canyon 'gazing the distant Aquarius Plateau She said to herself 'That is where am going when I am ready to settle down Somewhere in that country I will find a permanent - I ' ' And that's Where she is today— except that she didn't exactly retire when she reappeared at Teesdale Wayne County two miles west of I124 between Bicknell and Torrey' in 1956 with two ancient cars a dilapidated trailer and a moving van She is Mrs Tora Selander Nel- - i t I 1 i I 4 11°11' i For two years now the Teesdale have been treated to one amazing sight after the other on top or around their old eyesore—an aban doned schoolhouse A lady on the roof with a hot tar bucket a lady precariously balanced on a narrows' second story window sill with a putty scraper or on the top rung of a ladder with a paint brush tied to a stick "An old lady with a dream" said the wise guys "One of these days she will fall off the ladder or roof ers A 1 and I have to we will bury her" ' - i a all to reality for mirly stood a day stands a see Where for disgraceful ruin to museum any city in the world fair-size- d cultureloving 'would - glad to be own She was asked how anyone with out an income or money in the bank became a collector of art and what In her ancestry or background start ed her towards such an extraordi nary undertaking going - - ' ' ': ' i :: il::' :!:: 1'4 i '': ": "i '0: - ' 1 ! 1 K :f k :' - r:" ' ': :s - kill ' :: ' ' 4 - ':la4 ' f i ''' i ' '' f - — ' ii f i ' '::: I – ' i 4 1 t l'a '—::::7:' 44177 I:0 ' ::- - f ' 1 - ' k r 1 k‘4- i s :i — ir-t 4 - :' ' ti '71' 's - --- ::::4 - ' 3 -' -- :' ' I' ''' ' '' i :' - '' i ''':- ' - " I t1 1 tf ::' :' '' I '' '1 '' 1 ::: '' i ' 1 1 11 l: ': ' i t i' 1 1 ' kti4P lit I - 41 1 fuv - r 1 (s i 1 ? i ' ' Visitor views A 4 A4e ancient cashmere shawl Salt Lake City Sunday October i '' ' Mrs Nelson 12 1958 "If ' i 4 ' ' bAAOA4ANWA645AA It 0 r--- ( t V - sits in i 0546ditokt0940WWelde464404&$0Kk 4 -'4 '1- ::' ::: ko ' 1 4:' f 10: 41 '''7 i st L" 47 l:' ft - x ' s i ---- ZAC I - s I N d ! ':: ''' ' i & i obtained many valuable museum pieces including an old parasol with a beautiful ivory handle and a tore toise shell fan "The other fans are heirlooms centuries old that belonged to the Kneeland family—one of the maternal lines of the Nelsons" she re plied when asked if they came from Spain "They were proud Scots knighted after the batUe of Bannockburn in 1314 They came to early Boston in their own ships and later sailed clippers to China—that - is how that dragon boat came '' i 1::" ' i - i ' ) '' 't Mrs Toro Se lander Nelson displays Eskimo baby blanket of Arctic duck down 'e '"' 4 !tt! 1 ' - tl'' 1 r i :" 'f:s)4b i - 1 1 t - A 4 I f 'ywr-t-pr- 4 ' " :" ' ' ''' - '' : :': ' ':' ::' ) - 1 :: :': 0 - -r-- ) N 4) ( i' 3::: y w"1-:: 1 -:' :''''g' ' i '''''- z ' :4s ' - ' i:: 1 :'' i t ::: s: ' 1 - - -- - t ' - '':''' ::':5":i - t r :i ::: - i i4 "'::: 1 k I i'4 t ' 'al ' ''' 'i'' ':iii 14 - 1 —v t- - ! r l'l-- -- — f ''- '' i' r - ------- -- ? f a CU 1 - - — ' - ii - 1‘'":"1"''z'z'''------------------ N47:"": 4:! : - k - - 7 'F'- - - '"i ' ' ''- : ' '- 0 akpwmifkfteUrstIS5ibft46t4gZ ' ir : t she - where Spain - jo - 1 1 was 21 and an accredited correspondent on the conflict The Germans took her across the Dutch border and in Amsterdam she found an extraordinary snuff box one that was used by most men to keep them awake during the lengthy church meetings SHE MADE her way out of Hol' ' -- teresting objects when traveling off the beaten track Those black and white mittens for Instance They were made for me when I de- livered medicine on skis to dying Laplanders" she continued In the small town of Dordrecht in the Netherlands she obtained a l mortar which is in her Gothic room and dated'1621 This was during World War I when she land o' ' 't c ' 4 - '' - education helped to give direction ' Extensive travel offered opportu- nity" she said "If you really want to see the world you find yourself a job that takes you around I started writ- ing travelogs in my teens That took me around Europe for seven years One effort at recording some forgotten peasant paintings was re- sponsible for the restoration of an century village It is now a famous museum" she said proudly "A strenuous winter hike saved a medieval church and look at those paintings They recall a mad journey I took as cook on a sealer in the Polar Sea One picks up In- ':":11M10f0st00104r"'410k"40"b'g'3M01towm”g000tmmooli — - bell-meta- But she didn't fall of the ladder or roof and today her "dream" is 1 - V -- ' camp" ' - for a lifetime Precious things are for centuries and millenniums With love of beauty as a beginning all else just followed A European art at ' k N "OH NOTHING special I was cursed at birth with a passion for beauty—beauty and significance Ordinitry things are for a week or e 1 ' by Gail Smith ' 1 ' I - 4 t 1 4 i - 4 ell 4 I' 1 --- - es ' I - 1 o ' - ' ' 7i 1 to display her priceless ' SO ) $ ps- - 4 - ' ' P 1 ::? t my way along with the Kashmir shawls" she continued Asked about her elaborate Indian collections she said she read many Indian books when she was a child and when she married a collector In the Southwest Indian relics were nearest at hand t ' ' ' SHE GIVES most of the credit for acquiring the Indian collection to her husband who collected such items for a number of great museums and she managed to hold out some choice pieces for her home The Nelsons traded for many of the items refusing to take money but insisting on trading for antiques That is how they obtained some rare Alaskan carvings from a deal er in New York City along with two or three Bayeta blankets When asked about the beautiful coat that was owned by Kit Carson she replied: "It came out of an old Spanish rawhide trunk stored for decades in a New Mexice attic Wish I had the trunk that once was carried on the top of stagecoaches We had to sell it to some museum I've forgotton which in order to keep that coat" she said She said she guessed the gray Egyptian beads are her oldestrnanmade items then the Greek pottery and that marble fragment from Nero's palace in Rome Many more precious collectors items are on display but too numerous to mention individually "What I am trying to do here" Mrs Nelson said "is to bring out appreciation of beauty in cultures not our own geographical awareness and historical perspective Together these things help one to perescape from the sonal groove I can think of no development more important to the time in which we live" she con ' eluded (The museum is open during the tourist season only) t - - too-narro- 1 1 J S 1 ) - k ''' museum Ranaissance - Room Desk is re'ic of 15th century 3 t |