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the trappings and messiness associated with these hobbies. White mice on the loose in the house came very near to ending her toleration for all these projects, but the mice were captured, in a trap fashioned from an erector set, and Mother continued to work around us. "During the years when we children were spread through grade school, junior high and high school; when Dad was Bishop and Mother was on the Primary General Board with all our school and church activities thrown in, there was a good deal of confusion. Add to that a gubernatorial campaign and you have one busy telephone line! I don't think any of us felt neglected. We assumed everyone lived this way, and we were always stimulated by the dinner conversations concerning each of our goings and comings. When Mother left for a Primary convention, I learned to do the washing and cooking (with assistance from Mom Sweeten across the street). The boys spent the summers on the farm, with occasional visits from Mother and Mom to do a little cooking." Orpha also had some chores to do periodically at the cabin on the farm by way of housecleaning and keeping the place livable for a group of men. Vacation trips to the reservations came up so frequently that it may sometimes seem that's the only place the Boydens went for vacations. However, that was not the case. The family frequently vacationed together in a variety of places. John's meticulous nature is remembered by family members in connection with vacationing in the station wagon. As Carmen explains it: "It was a ritual to watch Dad pack the car. All of us could bring things out to him to put in, but there was no use to try to put anything permanently in place, because Dad would rearrange it in a more compact manner." John was known by his friends and family as a lover of fruit. On cross-country trips, according to Paul, "Travel was recorded in fruit stand stops rather than miles!" One of the landmarks in the memories of family members is the trip east in 1957, when the entire family spent a month traveling together in a new station wagon. Orpha includes information about the family vacation in her diary for 1957. It is obvious from Orpha's comments that such a trip required major financial planning, and careful attention was given to each expenditure. Diary entries follow:
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| Title | John S. Boyden: three score and ten in retrospect |
| Creator | Boyden, Orpha Amanda Sweeten |
| Subject | Boyden, John Sterling, 1906-1980; Democratic Party -- Utah; Coalville (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Life story of John S. Boyden, including his experiences in Coalville, Utah, law practice, participation in the Utah Democratic Party, family life, church involvement, and advocacy for Indians. |
| Source | Boyden |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | text |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College Press |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/boyden.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1144.cpd |
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