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Show Athenaeum Club Hears Details of Audrey Stevens' Family Trip '. . .J but you'd be surprised what variety var-iety can be obtained that way." Audrey told her audience. They visited St. Paul's Cathedral Cath-edral and toured General Mills; they saw the headwater lake of the mighty Mississippi River and went through the Badlands; they went into some caves near Rapid City and saw mamy mute evidences of the bad floods there. The trio had taken many pictures pic-tures on their venture and the slides kept the audience up to date on their itinerary. However, How-ever, it was the commentary by Audrey that really made the evening a treat. With a unique sense of humor, she related interesting anecdotes and elicited elic-ited many chuckles from the group. They investigated pasture-lands pasture-lands where they discovered bags of chemicals hanging on a line under which the cows could walk to remove bugs; they saw a whole village of prairie dogs; one night they pitched camp quite late and were awakened early by a practicing rodeo group. THEY VISITED MOUNT Rushmore, the site of Custer's Last Stand, spent Pioneer Day in Helena, Montana, and had a slide of the Post Office at Park City, Montana, to prove it was there! In Canada they toured the beauties of Glacier Park, noted the superabundance of wild flowers (along with the mosquitoes); mos-quitoes); Audrey said they walked walk-ed into the extremely elegant Prince of Wales Hotel in Water-ton. Water-ton. "We were in our grubby travel clothes," Audrey confided, con-fided, "but it didn't matter." On the last leg of their vacation vaca-tion trip they drove down through Idaho, through theSaw-tooth theSaw-tooth Mountains, and came to a town with a sign that proclaimed it as "Good Grief, Idaho. 3 people, 2 dogs, 1 old grouch." One of the final spots of interest was the Craters of the Moon where the United States astronauts had trained. Arriving home on August first, Audrey told the group, "It was only six weeks, but some of the time it seems like three months!" HERE, THERE & Everywhere Every-where took members of Athenaeum Ath-enaeum on a trip that led to many by-ways and gave a real incite into the vagaries encountered encoun-tered by a mother and her two teenagers when they went on a six-weeks trip last summer. Audrey Stevens, club member mem-ber from Timberline, daughter Adrian, and son Stanton, shared many out-of-the-way beauties and historical spots as they toured from Utah to Oklahoma, to Minnesota and back through the Dakotas, up into Canada and home. Leaving Park City on June 16, the trio wound their way in and out meeting up with Aunt Hazel and her dog, Boogie Elizabeth; they went to Foun-tainhead Foun-tainhead State Park, attended a watermelon seed spitting contest, con-test, bought fireworks in Oklahoma Ok-lahoma (where they're legal), encountered June bugs that seemed to make eating canned pork and beans something of an adventure. THEY WENT TO a pottery factory, spent some time on the campus of Oral Roberts University, Univer-sity, then went on through the Ozarks, visited Harry Truman's Tru-man's birthplace and the Truman Tru-man Memorial Library. She told about the far reaches of the Civil War in Missouri. In Kansas City they visited the stockyards and actually helped to herd hogs. They stopped at several State Capitol Buildings-Iowa, for one. Audrey spoke many times of mosquitos they seemed to crop up in every state and in Canada. Can-ada. They were travelling in a big 4-wheeI drive Travelalland had one tent which was christened christen-ed the "wonderful tent" early in the trip. Stanton pitched the tent for his sleeping comfort each night and Audrey and her daughter daugh-ter slept in the car. "WE HAD A COLEMAN stove and I did all the cooking on the tailgate. It takes some doing |