EDITOR’S NOTE: When Verona Stocks died in June 1993, she left a big hole in Grand County. Born on April 1, 1905, Verona watched southeast Utah transformed…from a pioneer town at the turn of the century, to a uranium mining…
Pete’s Dad and Mother and Brother Dick left for their Home in Old La Sal about a week after Little Pete was born. John stayed a few more days to work in the mine with Pete. Puge moved his family…
After Pete and his brother Jack were through shearing our sheep they went on other sheep shearing jobs. I did not see Pete again until June 1st. I was home to make preparations to move the sheep to Dry Valley…
That fall of 1931 the snow came early and it was cold at the head of the valley. I had trouble finding wood I could cut for the sheep camp. Grandma sent me a chocolate cake and some apricot jam.…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Welcome Kara Dohrenwend’ “IT’S THE SCIENCE, STUPID!” But for Conservatives and Progressives Alike, the ‘Science’ has to FIT. SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles Watching SOUTH DAKOTA GROW… A Century After Wild Bill, the Boom &Bust Continues…
For five years I lived and thought one way; now almost over night all that was changed. My husband had died, my baby was one year old, my daughter was four, and my partner in the sheep business was 56…
Part One 1926. The sheep are looking good and a few lambs are big enough to ship. Bob is going around them and once again showing them to the baby. She too is growing and feeling good. Mary and Jack…
Mary was married July 3, 1924. Jack was working for Beeson’s at that time, they had practically adopted him anyway. July 24, 1924 Jack and Mary took me to Castleton for the 24th Celebration. They had a little Model T…
The twins were born March 7, 1916. That was a night. Mary had to run up the hill a little way to get Mrs. Wheeler to come stay with Mother while Dad went after Mrs. Carrol, the Midwife. I had…
MY PERSONAL HISTORY: Life & Times in Southeast Utah by Verona Stocks The Farm in Blanding When school was out a family friend took Aunt Pearl, Mary and me to Blanding. The night before we left, a well…