Lorin remembers the trains that rambled past his grandfather's home. "They were the coal-eating monsters of a bygone era. The huge 4,000s would belch a sky full of cinders as they roared past, and so thick was the smoke from their stacks that the sun would be blotted out and everyone's eyes would fill with cinders. Gradually the steam engines were retired as the new diesel units took over. Gone are the coal and water depots which serviced the giants as they made their way up Weber Canyon to Evanston, Wyoming." Living next to the blacksmith shop, Lorin watched the smithy forge and beat metal into plowshears and horseshoes. There were very few tractors then. The old blacksmith shop was also important to Lorin because his great grandfather Tonks had been the first blacksmith in Morgan County. His first shop was on the same site as the present shop. The family soon moved to South Morgan into a new home, away from the railroad tracks. That was a hard adjustment. It was so quiet that getting to sleep was a real problem. Lorin's walk to High School was only a block away. The "M" on the hill was almost completed when Lorin graduated. He was president of the senior class that year. One tradition he helped start was "Lighting the M" at graduation time. At his graduation in 1952, the "M" was lit for the first time. Following high school, Lorin attended two years of college at Utah State University, and between his first and second years, he was employed as a forest service lookout in the Salmon National Forest in Idaho. Stationed in one of those small cabins in the primitive area straight up from the middle fork ofthe Salmon River, Lorin felt the fact that it was fifty-eight miles to the nearest road. "I was alone with the creatures of nature and enjoyed a special summer." Following his second year in college, Lorin served a two year mission for the Church, as did his father before him. He left for the New York Mission on 5 January 1955, traveling by train. It took him and his companions three days and two nights to get to New York. Lorin served in three states: New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. When released, he returned home and within three months he was drafted into the Army and sent to Ft. Lewis, Washington for twenty-one months. On his first furlough, following basic training, Lorin married his sweetheart, Lillisjeppesen, who had waited patiently for him for two years in the mission field, through a summer in the forest service, and through basic training. "We must have written a zillion letters to each other," says Lorin. They were married in the Logan Temple. After their marriage they lived in Mantua, Utah, with his wife's parents and commuted to Logan for almost three years. Lorin's first job after graduation was with the United States Forest Service as their recreation planner for the Ashley and Manti-LaSal National Forests. His most exciting assignment was designing the camping facilities around