Locals attend National DUP It isn't everyone who gets the opportunity to attend a National Convention, and it isn't often a national voncention is held within driving distance either, so when the opportunity does come you don't turn it down. The DUP Organization which has members in almost every single one of the United States as well as many European Nations, held its National Convention in Salt Lake and several officers of the Hardscrabble Campe DUP group attended. Barbara Porter drove, she along with Vanna P. Carter, Sandie Carter, Emeline Florence and Janice Helms traveled to the Lafayette Ballroom in the Hotel Utah. Here they attended a program and business meeting. Several new by laws were introduced as well as an enthuastic program in honor of our noble pioneers who sacrificed so much that our great state might be. Pioneers who gave up lovely homes in the East to make the dessert blossom as a rose, and establish a new home where they might worsip their God and do honor to His name. They toiled hard, and each time just when things seemed almost more than they could bear, the Lord would uplift them and given them new hope. Their days were also filled with love and joy admist physical hardships, and they worked together in love and friendship. They looked for the good in their lives, they danced and sang, they loved dramas and plays, they developed their talents, and enjoyed pleasuer in each day. They taught their families to love home and truth, to become educated, to appreciate the blessings they had and to always strive to make their lives better. These pioneers who gave so much are still remembered, and the examples they set, even today provide an excellent set of ideals and standards for todays decendants to live by. James Erington provided guests with high¬lights from the life and times of at your lovliest for every occasion. A new addition to the Village was a shop where visitors could buy novelities to remind them a delightful day. This shop also contained Indian articles lovely jewelry and like an early Trading Post contained almost anything you could think of. There were also many lovely hand crafted items and rich antiques to be purchased if you chose to. Traveling on to the dress shop complete in detailed items for the young ladies and their moms of pioneer time. Lace trimmed, some very practicle and of course even beautiful wedding gowns for that oncein a lifetime day. Climbing the stairs one entered the Millinery Shop, where maniquines primed and primped in front of mirrors and each other showing off their lovely new bonnets trimmed with flowers or feathers in the fashion of the day. Brigham Young. Following the meetings, everyone traveled by buses or by cars to Lagoon and Pioneer Village where DUP members were treated to a delicious lunch there. Throughout the day showers fell intermitently, with enough sunshine in between to still provide a pleasant day for the convention goers. It even made the pioneer scene more realistic as the ladies dodged the puddles in the dirt streets surrounding the homes, and shops of the realistic setting. Adorning the corners of the blocks are the origional gas lantern street lights, and original buildings from throughout the state form the rest of the village. A trip to the carriage house provides visitors with a view of traveling convayances of bygone years, and a new appreciation of the family automobile. A lovely two story house, which was origionally built in the area now covered by the Wanship (Rockport) Dam, was especially enjoyed by our ladies as they reminiced about the past via carefully pieced quilts, with their tiny stitches, homespun curtains at the windows, strong hand carved furniture, polished to a beautiful sheen by strong loving hands by the master of the home so that his family might have the best he could give them. A visit to the music shop gave the group the opporunity to listen to the melodic strains from an oldfashioned nicolodian as it circled about. Here they also viewed player pianos and the oldest item in the village. This is a piano which sat directly on the floor and was opened up from a suit case type appliance to provide pleasant musical strains. The local drug store was another intersting scene, with its large assortment of homestyle rememdies, with cures for everything from tooth ache to balding hair. Of course there were also the lovely??? scented variety of perfumes and hair tonics to keep you Each shop of log home provided a new delight and the ladies were reluctant to leave this delightful reminder of the past. The bus tour stopped at several other interesting spots important to pioneer history on their way back to the convention center including the Farmington Church where reportedly the 1st primary was held, but members of the Hardscrabble Camp decided to make their way homeward. It was a wonderful day looking back to the best of the past and even greater appreciation for the pioneer heritage and the sacrifices made that we might enjoy so much today. It also makes one strive even harder to live exampliary lives so that our decendents might some day be proud of their recent anestors and that our families might enjoy a richer and more joyous daily life. By Connie Carter