1. Tell of a sound you know about from their childhood.
2. Did they have a bicycle? What was it like?
3. Did they have a favorite TV show as a child or youth? Describe it.
4. Describe their first crush (or any other romantic relationship). What was she/he like?
5. Describe a childhood Christmas for them.
"1. Sound? Not a clue.
2. Bicycle in their childhood? Mom in Canada. I never heard her talk about one so I doubt it. Dad as an adult before he was married bought a car and let his parents use it while he rode a bicycle. In fact he was hit by an automobile and ended up with a broken leg.
3. TV show? Come on I didn't have a favorite TV show in my youth. We didn't even get a TV until I was about in my teens. In their youth they hadn't been invented. Favorite radio broadcast maybe but I don't know what it may have been. I can remember as a youth listening to the Lone Ranger on the radio.
4. First crush. Dad? If he did he never spoke of it. Mom? I think she did but I don't remember hearing any particulars.
5. Childhood Christmas? I don't recall them ever telling me about what their Christmas was like. Based on their situations coming from large families and their families economic situation I can't imagine there were many frills as we know them."
-Marvin
"1. Favorite sound: I have no idea
2. Bicycle: I believe mom told me she never learned to ride one. They had a couple of horses or walked where they wanted to go.
3. Favorite TV show: None as a child, it wasn't invented. As adults dad didn't watch much tv (he couldn't hear it well enough to understand what was going on) Mom liked Maverick, and Gunsmoke. I don't know if she had a favorite.
4. Crush: Dad didn't talk about that sort of thing. Mom did like Mickey Taylor, I think that was his last name. She used to say that John Wayne reminded her of him. Mickey wasn't a member of the church and I don't believe he was really interested in the church. In Canada they had a lot of church dances. Mickey would go to those. Mom loved to dance.
5. Christmas: I don't recall dad ever talking about a Christmas as a child. Mom told me once that they used to pop popcorn and string it and put it on the tree. One day Grandma Gibson got after the kids for eating the popcorn off the tree. The kids claimed innocent of the charge. Come to find out Grandma's pet cat was the one that would bat at the strands of popcorn and eat it off the tree."
-Carla
" I remember mom telling of the sound of the chinook winds as they would come off the mountains and blow across the prairie and seem to go right through you. I also remember mom saying her dad always said, “You can call me anything you’d like, just don’t call me too late for dinner!” That’s kind of a sound. I just remember dad commenting how quiet everything went the day his brother David died. I’m sure it was because he was so focused on getting him to help that everything else was out of his consciousness, as he carried his brothers lifeless body down the hill.
As for bicycle I don’t think that mom ever learned to ride a bike. I remember her saying that she couldn’t ride one. I know dad was the one who helped us when we learn to ride, well at least me. He’d run alongside the bike and I remember when I got the balance thing and he let go and I couldn’t hear his work boots running alongside me, I lost my balance cause I knew it was solo and I got scared and stopped. He came running over wanting to know why I didn’t keep going, I was riding the bike. I told him and he said that’s how it was supposed to work. So he got me going again for the last time.
You younger ones are the only ones that this question would work with, as it has always been a part of your lives. As Marv stated, that wasn’t something we had as children. I was probably in school before we got our first TV, so I could answer for me, but there is no way mom and dad would have had a favorite TV show. They were adults and had at least 6 kids before they ever owned one.
As for crushes, moms would have to be Mickey Taylor in Canada. She said he wasn’t related to any of the Canada Taylors, but was from down in the states and had gone up there for work I believe. He was probably the first boy up there that paid her any attention and from the way she talked of him, she was smitten. In fact, being the new comer I believe all the girls were smitten, and mom was excited because he was interested in her and not her friend Laura that always got the boys up there’s attention. I remember mom telling of a girl in Sandy that really had a crush on dad. She was getting ready to go on a mission, so she asked dad if he would write to her. Mom and dad had just started dating at that point, so dad said he’d have to ask his girlfriend. She then slipped him a note saying, “If you have to ask the blonde, forget it!”
The only thing I remember mom telling of Christmas as a girl was a year that someone up there had brought them a whole load of cucumbers in the fall and so Grandma Gibson put them in a barrel in the cellar and made them into dill pickles. They all loved pickles and would just go down in the cellar and pull one out and eat it. She was so excited since she loved dill pickles, because they were able to enjoy them on Christmas that year. I remember mom telling of one year when money was really tight Grandma Gibson hadn’t been able to save a pumpkin for pie that year and so I believe she made it out of sweet potatoes, which they had on hand. I don’t think grandpa and grandma Kunz did much for Christmas, that’s another thing that has gained popularity in our time. In fact, I don’t remember grandpa and grandma Kunz hardly ever having a Christmas tree, so I’m pretty sure they didn’t do much while their children were growing up. Mom and dad I know worked hard though to provide us with a Christmas every year. Probably because it was something they didn’t get to enjoy as children. They probably only got simple gifts like clothing, socks, or something they needed."
-Eileen
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Memories Week #3
1. Do you know of a favorite ride at the amusement park they has as a child?
2. What did they do as a child that got them into the most trouble? How did their parents handle it?
3. Do you know of any childhood birthday's.
4. Did they meet or work with any famous people? Where, who, when…?
5. Tell about any pets they had as a child.
"As far as I know the only time they went to an amusement park was when they provided dinner for the old folks @ Lagoon before I was born. In that condition I doubt she would have gone on a ride. But if she did I’m sure my siblings and children would agree that could account for some of my craziness. So that’s Eileen’s/mom’s problem!!! I could see dad fixing rides, but I don’t see him going on to many of them, but I’m sure he did. I’m sure they both rode amusement park rides at sometime in their life but they wouldn’t have been high on their priority list.
I’m sure dad got in a little trouble taking the wheels off the buggy while the baby was in it, but that was one thing I always admired about dad was he was obedient and always treated his parents with respect. You could especially see it when he was willing to take so many days taking care of his folks, after grandpa Kunz had his stroke; ‘til he had his heart attack and they had to put them in the rest home. Whenever I was over their helping with grandma, he was always so patient and respectful.
I know they had a birthday every year, but other than that I don’t think much attention was paid to birthday’s for either of them. I do remember dad saying that Aunt Iris always remembered his birthday, because she had to miss out on the 4th of July celebrations that year because dad was born at house in Bern, Idaho, so no one could get her to Montpelier. In fact, it might have been Aunt Iris that said it.
The only one I can think of was I remember mom talking about going to a political meeting or something and meeting the then Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, and of course he became the President of the United States when John Kennedy was assassinated. I don’t know if dad ever meet President Hinckley, but they sure did resemble each other when you looked at them.
When they grew up it was all their families could do to feed their families and putting money out on pets would have been taking food from their children. The animals they had were for their survival, so wouldn’t have been pets. I’m sure they probably had cats and dogs around the farmyard, but I don’t recall any particular ones they talked about. Hopefully some of the others will remember hearing them talk of pets. I do remember dad talking of a dog they had that kept the rats under control and was a better mouser than any cat. The horse ‘Old Floss’ was the only animal I remember mom talking about.
Sorry, not recalling a lot on these at the moment."
-Eileen
"I don't think there were any amusements parks any place they lived.
Trouble when they were growing up?
Probably for dad it would be not getting enough work done. But trouble of a different sort reminds me of the story grandma Vilda told about dad. Dad was as I recall the story about 2 years old or less but he still had a bottle. Grandma had put him down outside and dad has wandered a ways away from her. Grandpa Ezra was moving some cattle and a feisty steer broke away from the herd and ran toward dad. It ran right up to him and stopped and put it's head down to his level and looked at him. There was nothing grandpa or grandma could do. Dad just raised his bottle and smacked the steer on the nose. The steer jumped back giving grandpa time to get between it and dad and pick dad up.
The other story was when dad was old enough that he was doing work for neighbors. But I think he was about 10 or so. Which would mean it probably happened in Wabuska Nevada. Anyway dad had done some work for a neighbor and when he finished the job the neighbor told him his pay would be one of the little piglets he had in the pen with their mother. He told dad that he was to hop in the pen and catch one and take it home with him when he left. As dad was leaving he hoped over the fence and picked out a piglet and caught it. Once he had hold of the piglet it started squealing and the mother sow charged across the pen with it's mouth open. Now for those of you who aren't aware a mad pit is a very formidable adversary and wouldn't be averse to stomping you into the mud and then eating you. Anyway dad saw the sow coming but didn't have time to get to the fence. So he just faced the sow. When she came at him with her big mouth open he would stick the piglet into her mouth. Not wanting to hurt her progeny she would back off. When she backed off dad inched his way toward the fence. Then she would come at him again. Again he would stick the piglet in her mouth. This continued to happen until dad was close enough to the fence that when she backed away the last time he hopped over the fence with the piglet and went home.
Childhood birthdays? They had them obviously but I don't believe they were celebrated like birthdays are today. For dad as soon as the first crop of hay was ready in the spring they started cutting and hauling and stacking hay. They would finish the first crop about July 3, dad's birthday. They would celebrate the 4th of July the next day and then start cutting the next crop of hay on the 5th of July and continue putting up hay until it was to cold to grow. This of course was in addition to there other chores which would be feeding the stock and milking the cows.
I don't know of them meeting any famous people but when dad worked at the temple many of other workers thought he and Gordon B. Hinckley looked a lot alike. So when dad would go to the temple people would tell him they had seen his brother in the temple the other day or last week what ever the case may have been. I don't know that dad ever did meet him face to face.
I think mom may have had some pets but I don't think dad did. But I couldn't tell you anything about them.
As I think about it I don't think I ever paid much attention to mother unless she was telling something about dad. I know very little about mother. Apparently the thing between mother and I started at a very early age and continued the rest of her life."
-Marvin
2. What did they do as a child that got them into the most trouble? How did their parents handle it?
3. Do you know of any childhood birthday's.
4. Did they meet or work with any famous people? Where, who, when…?
5. Tell about any pets they had as a child.
"As far as I know the only time they went to an amusement park was when they provided dinner for the old folks @ Lagoon before I was born. In that condition I doubt she would have gone on a ride. But if she did I’m sure my siblings and children would agree that could account for some of my craziness. So that’s Eileen’s/mom’s problem!!! I could see dad fixing rides, but I don’t see him going on to many of them, but I’m sure he did. I’m sure they both rode amusement park rides at sometime in their life but they wouldn’t have been high on their priority list.
I’m sure dad got in a little trouble taking the wheels off the buggy while the baby was in it, but that was one thing I always admired about dad was he was obedient and always treated his parents with respect. You could especially see it when he was willing to take so many days taking care of his folks, after grandpa Kunz had his stroke; ‘til he had his heart attack and they had to put them in the rest home. Whenever I was over their helping with grandma, he was always so patient and respectful.
I know they had a birthday every year, but other than that I don’t think much attention was paid to birthday’s for either of them. I do remember dad saying that Aunt Iris always remembered his birthday, because she had to miss out on the 4th of July celebrations that year because dad was born at house in Bern, Idaho, so no one could get her to Montpelier. In fact, it might have been Aunt Iris that said it.
The only one I can think of was I remember mom talking about going to a political meeting or something and meeting the then Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, and of course he became the President of the United States when John Kennedy was assassinated. I don’t know if dad ever meet President Hinckley, but they sure did resemble each other when you looked at them.
When they grew up it was all their families could do to feed their families and putting money out on pets would have been taking food from their children. The animals they had were for their survival, so wouldn’t have been pets. I’m sure they probably had cats and dogs around the farmyard, but I don’t recall any particular ones they talked about. Hopefully some of the others will remember hearing them talk of pets. I do remember dad talking of a dog they had that kept the rats under control and was a better mouser than any cat. The horse ‘Old Floss’ was the only animal I remember mom talking about.
Sorry, not recalling a lot on these at the moment."
-Eileen
"I don't think there were any amusements parks any place they lived.
Trouble when they were growing up?
Probably for dad it would be not getting enough work done. But trouble of a different sort reminds me of the story grandma Vilda told about dad. Dad was as I recall the story about 2 years old or less but he still had a bottle. Grandma had put him down outside and dad has wandered a ways away from her. Grandpa Ezra was moving some cattle and a feisty steer broke away from the herd and ran toward dad. It ran right up to him and stopped and put it's head down to his level and looked at him. There was nothing grandpa or grandma could do. Dad just raised his bottle and smacked the steer on the nose. The steer jumped back giving grandpa time to get between it and dad and pick dad up.
The other story was when dad was old enough that he was doing work for neighbors. But I think he was about 10 or so. Which would mean it probably happened in Wabuska Nevada. Anyway dad had done some work for a neighbor and when he finished the job the neighbor told him his pay would be one of the little piglets he had in the pen with their mother. He told dad that he was to hop in the pen and catch one and take it home with him when he left. As dad was leaving he hoped over the fence and picked out a piglet and caught it. Once he had hold of the piglet it started squealing and the mother sow charged across the pen with it's mouth open. Now for those of you who aren't aware a mad pit is a very formidable adversary and wouldn't be averse to stomping you into the mud and then eating you. Anyway dad saw the sow coming but didn't have time to get to the fence. So he just faced the sow. When she came at him with her big mouth open he would stick the piglet into her mouth. Not wanting to hurt her progeny she would back off. When she backed off dad inched his way toward the fence. Then she would come at him again. Again he would stick the piglet in her mouth. This continued to happen until dad was close enough to the fence that when she backed away the last time he hopped over the fence with the piglet and went home.
Childhood birthdays? They had them obviously but I don't believe they were celebrated like birthdays are today. For dad as soon as the first crop of hay was ready in the spring they started cutting and hauling and stacking hay. They would finish the first crop about July 3, dad's birthday. They would celebrate the 4th of July the next day and then start cutting the next crop of hay on the 5th of July and continue putting up hay until it was to cold to grow. This of course was in addition to there other chores which would be feeding the stock and milking the cows.
I don't know of them meeting any famous people but when dad worked at the temple many of other workers thought he and Gordon B. Hinckley looked a lot alike. So when dad would go to the temple people would tell him they had seen his brother in the temple the other day or last week what ever the case may have been. I don't know that dad ever did meet him face to face.
I think mom may have had some pets but I don't think dad did. But I couldn't tell you anything about them.
As I think about it I don't think I ever paid much attention to mother unless she was telling something about dad. I know very little about mother. Apparently the thing between mother and I started at a very early age and continued the rest of her life."
-Marvin
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