Comments on: Well hell, I reckon I ought to be baptized too

By: RickM

RickM — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:54:12 +0000

Sounds like Bill and J. Golden Kimball might have gotten along well. I love THOSE stories as well. Thanks for sharing a great memory.

By: danithew

danithew — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:36:45 +0000

Such an awesome set of stories. Thanks.

By: Bull Moose

Bull Moose — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:21:45 +0000

Well a transformer certainly would be a more exciting target!

Happy Pioneer Day, everyone! Great story about modern pioneers.

By: WVS

WVS — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:47:27 +0000

This is a great story. It made my day……

By: mondo cool

mondo cool — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:27:51 +0000

Another tidbit to the story – When Uncle Bill came to the house with his rifle, Dad told him: “Now that’s not a fair fight. You gotta gun & I don’t.” Hence, the fistfight.

By: mondo cool

mondo cool — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:23:19 +0000

Bull Moose:
I would tend to agree w/ you but the story told by Jim Ed is that Bill was shooting transformers. Transformers had a tendency to EXPLODE! Jim Ed is a doctor & Bill was a lawyer – what would they know?

By: john f.

john f. — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:10:27 +0000

Very fun — thanks for putting this up.

By: Clean Cut

Clean Cut — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:17:40 +0000

Wow, I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during that meeting with Elder Hartman Rector.

By: Bull Moose

Bull Moose — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:53:13 +0000

mondo cool, I’d wager a bet that it was probably glass insulators on phone poles. My father worked as a conductor on freight trains, and saw numerous broken glass insulators on the ground near the poles. A few were shattered by usage, many by projectile. He has built quite a collection of intact insulators.

By: Matt W.

Matt W. — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:21:25 +0000

Mondo, if that’s the only thing I got wrong in the story, it’s a small miracle indeed.