2004—Across the Country via Price

We pulled out of the Chankly driveway Monday morning, June 7. Having decided to cross the country by way of Denver and Kansas City (Interstate 70) rather than our more usual northerly route via Interstate 80, we found ourselves in Price, Carbon County, Utah, the city of my birth, that afternoon and thought we’d try to locate the house to which I came home from the hospital in 1941. My birth certificate identifies the street address as 24 East Sixth North; no such address now exists, but the Cartesian character of Utah’s boring house-numbering system enabled us to form a reasonable guess as to the neighborhood, and we snapped several candidates.

Only in 2013, when I came into possession of Mammy’s incomplete Book of Remembrance, were we able to pick out the right house, which still stands. Chapter One includes some evocative indoor images.