Monday, August 24, 2009

Downy Day at Lagoon and the Famous Relatives

Down Syndrome Day at Lagoon. Buy one get one Free! Master doing his Groove thing in the fountain
Kissing Cousins
This is the home of Erastus Bingham is located in Pioneer Village. His sons, Sanford and Thomas Bingham, discovered Ore in the Western Part of the Salt Lake valley now known as Bingham Canyon or Kennecot Copper Mine. After Discovering the ore Brigham Young instructed the brothers to not mine it, but for one brother to settle up in the Riverdale area and the other brother to settle in Randolph. Yesterday in the 7th of the 9th Oquirrh Mountain Temple dedications President Uchtdorf told this story from the perspective, that these good pioneers instead of following the riches of the earth chose to follow the prophet. If you ask my father-in-law the family got jipped out of their financial legacy. Both versions of the story are probably true, I guess it's all about perspective.







1 comment:

Andrea said...

Aaron and I thought that story was amazing. I love your version, though, and probably both sides of the story are true to a degree. :) How cool to have that story in your family, though!