raise fruit trees, vegetable gardens and flowers. Our area was laid out in full city blocks with paved sidewalks. We were located about three miles from the city center and could travel there by street car and later bus which ran about two blocks away from our house on the main street, Washington Avenue. Our neighbors were mostly LDS but there were also non-Mormons families whose friendship we enjoyed. Our main hotel was originally called the Hotel Bigelow and later called the Hotel Ben Lomond. We had adequate department stores, a variety of clothing stores, implement houses, nurseries, restaurants, drive-ins and a very good dairy and ice cream plant. There were lovely parks with play equipment for children, picnic tables, and grandstand areas for the community band to perform. We celebrated Ogden Pioneer Days every July 24th, celebrating the arrival of the Mormon Pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley in July of 1847. This event became more elaborate as the years passed with professional rodeo entertainment and the elaborate musical production "All Faces West" consisting of local and national artists. It was created by Professor Roland Parry, a musician, and his literary wife, Helen Talmage Parry. Earliest Memories My earliest recollections were little incidents like rocking in my mother's lap, being carried from an aunt's home late at night by my father, and having my shoes tied as I sat on his lap. My first day at school was a strange experience for me. My anxious, consoling mother assured me that I could staythat my sister would watch for me and take me home. All my brothers, sister and nephew and niece, (Richard Lindquist Marriott and Shirley Marriott (Murdock), whom my parents raised attended Mound Fort Elementary and North Junior-both housed in the same building. The ending day of school before summer vacation we held a maypole dance. A phonograph played music as we danced the ribbons strings around the maypole. I recall one last day of school standing on the corner of 12th Street and Washington Boulevard, where Mound Fort School was located, and being so joyful that school was out and I had my freedom to do with my time whatever I wanted. Some of our Church activities and bazaars were held in "The Barn" on 12th Street which was very close to our family home. The Barn was used until the new recreational hall was built as an addition to the 7th Ward Chapel. My brother Milton built one of the portable pulpits used in the new recreational hall. At Sunday Church Services, Sister DeLamiter played the organ as did Seth Harper and Brother Karl Posnier a German convert. Other musicians were my friends Dorothy Little Read and Dallas Porter Turner. Music directors were Arthur Nylander and Douglas Brian. Other instrumentalists were Maude Forsha, pianist, Mona Forsha violinist, Milton Yorgason, violinist, and Zesta Taylor Giesler. Vocalists were Arta Blakeley and Melba Read Jones. Madeleine's Description My sister Madeleine wrote the following about me several years ago. "As I look back, I being the first daughter, the sixth child