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Show 1 ..A , sos: j . '' , J y f j Is t --.it ?, . is ft. a- . ' f : T' -- I - j "..4 is jl ' --;-n v 4 ' i j y ) . " ;fcXv v. Left to right: Greg Alvey, Gary Rosenthal and Brian Hales are absorbed in presentation by mountain man Jsmediey Scott Sorenson. od;.s Elementary school students look back at history in Thanksgiving celebration U 1, wt MMnriMiftiniiaii Jim Smedley Scott "The Grizzly" Sorenson shows fourth-grade students a device Indians used to stretch animal skins. wuiiiwiiiiMaww mil mum n mmm y y fr fV"'"' flMMHMHMitjiiiiMNMMMi I - - -i : Kindergarten students Kelly Bettis (left) and Jennifer Manwaring share some magic stone soup. by JIM SMEDLEY N ; Record staff writer Students in all grades at Parley's Park Elementary School celebrated Thanksgiving Nov. 27. While most of the students confined their observances obser-vances to their rooms, the fourth-grade fourth-grade and kindergarten classes were a little more ostentatious in . their festivities. " ' I 1 The fourth-graders made their "" day a pioneer celebration, "while the f 'kiiiidetgartett'aioUweil'."'ttie more traditional route of the Indjns and Pilgrims. Square dancing was the first item on the agenda for , the fourth- graders. They had been learning the : dances from Debbie Aillet, the ''. physical education teacher. After the dance, they prepared a pioneer feast of antelope stew and homemade cornbread and butter. Fourth-grade teachers Betsy Bacon, Pat Horyna, Linda Crowther ; and Kim Jensen aided the children in preparation of the stew and butter. but-ter. But for the homemade cornbread, Grandpa (Ivan) and Grandma (Barbara) (Bar-bara) Buckner visited the school, as j they have for the past three years. They brought an Indian mortar and pestle that Grandma found in " 1930 in a streambed in Gilroy, Calif. Students took turns grinding the corn and shaking the cream to make butter in jars to give them more ap- i preciation of pioneer life. "The corn was one year old. We took it off the cob and kept it dry in metal jars," said Grandpa Buckner. The feast was sumptuous (firsthand (first-hand account, here) and would have made the children's pioneer forefathers proud. After dinner, the children were paid a visit by Scott "The Grizzly" Sorenson, a Utah mountain man. During a 50-minute presentation, Sorenson, dressed in Home-sewn buckskins, described in vivid detail the years when fur trappers and traders first set foot in the Rocky Mountains. He demonstrated the use of various tools, traps, weapons and other paraphernalia used by the mountain men and Indians of the 1800s. He also recounted some of the exploits of famous mountain men Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger and Joe Meek. There also was a slide presentation presenta-tion of wildlife in the Rocky Mountains Moun-tains and pictures from the annual Mountain Man Rendezvous held at Fort Bridger, Wyo. Students also were introduced to early methods of trapping, tanning, scalping and the telling of tall tales. Sorenson attended Brigham Young University, where he received receiv-ed degrees and training in Western history, outdoor survival and Indian lore. For the finale of his presentation, he fired a blank wad from his old cap and ball rifle. The shot set the children's ears ringing. On a more quiet note, the kindergarten classes of Gale Birch donned paper feathers and other Indian In-dian garb, while Nancy Stark's -students dressed as Pilgrims for an afternoon feast. , Songs were sung and blessings -given over the food, which featured "Magic Stone Soup." The idea for the soup was taken from a book in which a peddler told a hungry village that he could make soup with his magic stone. He convinced each of the villagers to contribute something . to the soup from the pot to the vegetables before adding his t-magic stone. n- Birch said the story gave the children an appreciation for sharing ft and demonstrated how the Indians and Pilgrims pitched in on that first Thanksgiving Day. |
