Star Valley Jamboree!

My cousin VerNon, his wife Annette, their son Gary (who is a professional photographer) and his wife Belinda, who is due with #4 in July and their little guy Toby traveled in tandem to Star Valley to take pictures of the old homesteads, relatives homes, Grandpa Clark's dry farm and Uncle Wilford's 500 acre farm.  We got "the new house" that Grampa and Grandma Clark built with their own hands and where Grandma Ida lived for about a year before she died with her two babies, Byron and Gerald!  We are putting all the pictures on a CD for the reunion so I won't spoil the surprise, but here are just a few shots of our adventure.  The girls will recognize some of this from our MFME trip! 

I can't wait for you to hear my cousin Nada yodel!  She is an extraordinary pianist...ala Grandma J. 

The barn where Grandma J milked cows a thousand times!

Jess and Belinda

Rama's Wedding Center!

The original man and wife who joined the church in Switzerland: Samuel Weber and Verena Goldenburger Weber.  They had 13 children...lost five! 

 

Here is the "new house" where Grandma died. Cots were lined up in the "parlor" and they carried them out as they died in the flu epidemic of 1920!

The "old house" has been torn down but sat right across the street here by these barns that still sit in the same spot. In fact these are the original barns remodeled!

 

These are two of the most beautiful gravestones I've ever seen. Look at this shawl drapped over the side!

Anita, do these hills above the cemetery look like Switzerland or what?  The camera really doesn't do the green justice. It is a gorgeous place to "wake up" on resurrection morning! 

Here is the place that we think the little house sat where Grandma Ida grew up with the large Weber family.  It's the house that I painted!

 

To say the least, Memorial Day was certainly MEMORABLE!