You can't go to St. George without stopping by the St. George Temple. In the morning light it was almost too bright to look at without sunglasses.
Another treat was getting to meet Allen Forsyth, my co-trainer, since they live in St. George. They took us out to a scrumptious breakfast and then gave us a tour of some of the newer parts of town. St. George has grown so much since we were here last you almost can't recognize it.
Cove Fort is a stop in central Utah where an early Mormon fort was built to protect travelers from the Indians. The Hinkley family (Gordon B Hinkley's grandparents) were sent there to build the fort and maintain it from about 1868 to 1892 or so. This is the Hinkley house that was actually built in another community of Utah and moved here to represent the kind of 2 room cabin they would have lived in while building the Fort.
So what is the big deal about this fort? Well when my great grandparents, Alexander Wilkins Jr. and Charlotte York Carter traveled to Arizona to colonize the Pima River valey they would have traveled by there and probably spent the night here. I had never realized this until we passed through here this time.
Well the car is ready and we are off at 8:20 AM - not a bad start time but with a long drive to St. George with a stop in Henderson, Nevada to Richard and Shirley, our former neighbors who just moved a month ago.
You can't go to St. George without stopping by the St. George Temple. In the morning light it was almost too bright to look at without sunglasses.
Another treat was getting to meet Allen Forsyth, my co-trainer, since they live in St. George. They took us out to a scrumptious breakfast and then gave us a tour of some of the newer parts of town. St. George has grown so much since we were here last you almost can't recognize it.
Cove Fort is a stop in central Utah where an early Mormon fort was built to protect travelers from the Indians. The Hinkley family (Gordon B Hinkley's grandparents) were sent there to build the fort and maintain it from about 1868 to 1892 or so. This is the Hinkley house that was actually built in another community of Utah and moved here to represent the kind of 2 room cabin they would have lived in while building the Fort.
