The kids and I left home in the morning on September 17, St. George bound. Two had so much fun observing all the yellow aspens with me.
I've driven I-70 west my whole life, but always branching off at Green River, UT to take highway 6 north to connect to I-15 and drive to American Fork or Salt Lake City. This time, I kept going west. And it was AMAZING! It was breathtaking and left me in awe and every time I thought I couldn't take any more and it couldn't possibly get more beautiful, it did.
We pulled off for a bathroom break at the junction with I-15 and saw signs for Fort Cove and drove past some old buildings, so after we got gas and went to the bathroom, I took the kids to get a tour. Turns out it's a historical site for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and I've never heard of it. It's a fort that was built by Ira Hinckley (Gordon's grandfather) in 1867 to serve as a safe stop for travelers at this critical road junction.
The Hinckley's cabin
To the fort!
Learning about the inner workings of the fort.
The courtyard
The telegraph office
In the kitchen
Apple juice maker
This room makes me exhausted and my head spin! So on the table there are bed sheets that when worn would get sewn into work pants (hanging on the rope).
When the work pants got too worn to wear any longer, they'd be cut into strips and balled up (in the window sill), then woven into rugs on the loom.
When even the rugs couldn't be of further use, they'd be burned and the ashes would be used to make soap. For hygiene and laundry, which brings us full circle to the sheets that would be washed in the basin on the washboard.
A bedroom
Cellar
Leather dominoes
There's a date woven in the bottom corner of this quilt. It says 1855.
Wood threshold and floor, stone walkway.
A bassinet that would double as a bench when not needed for a baby. Just flip it upside down!
Dresses usefulness got extended by cutting off the worn bottom inches and sewing on a new strip of fabric.
When you run out of red fabric, just fill in the rest with white.
Doll hair made with human hair.
Doll chairs
When women would shed hair, they'd collect the hair and keep it in the box on the mantle until they had enough for a doll. Or possibly to weave some wall art. I've seen that in other places before.
Sewing machine
Things got a bit long and I had to cut a bit of the end of the tour because it was past 7 and we still had 2 hours to drive to St. George. We stayed with Irene Nielson, who was a seminary teacher of mine and her husband had been my bishop. I had to get her phone number from her daughter Jenn, who I've kept in touch with for years. It's been fun texting people out of the blue and asking to stay with them and getting to reconnect. Travel is fun!
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