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Show El. Students present Chair to DUP No one remembers when the child-size chair was placed in the elementary school. It has been there, enjoyed by the children, for many years. The little rocking chair was probably made by "The Basket Man," a man known to many of the older inhabitants of Parowan. PAROWAN - Girls and boys from the Parowan Elementarv Schnnl visited The Old Rock Church in Parowan. The children, and their teacher, Roma Jensen, presented an old hand-made willow rocking chair to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Mrs. Barbara Burt accepted the chair for the DUP. This pioneer craftsman would arrive in the valley in the spring. His hut was made of willows and a board or two and was up in the canyon near the Old Mill. The willows were easily ac-cessable ac-cessable there. The Basket Man made clothes baskets, waste baskets and chiars, from the willows. He sold them to the people in Parowan. The little rocking chair will be placed in the DUP museum as an example of a pioneer handcraft. j- , i M IN ; -3 r j dmL'---, DONATE CHAIR. Roma Jensen and two first graders present the Parowan DUP a willow weaved chair, which for years has been housed in the Elementary School. |