Brenda’s real memories and the road-trip series revisiting the FLDS community of Colorado City and Hildale.
It is so hard to believe at one time this little gadget was on the cutting edge of technology. Before cell phones, pagers received numbers notifying the holder to call the sender. My husband had one in 2001, but I didn’t see the need to have one myself. B., however, had one that she hid…
Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona make up the area known as the Crick. Both towns are exclusively polygamous. B lived in the home pictured above during the first years she lived at the Crick. Located on the Hildale side of town, B went to a Utah school until the prophet placed her mother with…
B grew up thinking the end of the world would be any day. Here’s an example of some notes she took on march 5, 2000. Uncle Rulon, the prophet, spoke so slow, she could practically write every word. The Crickers were prepared, however, should any attacks go down. Huge warehouses of food, supplies and weapons…
This may not look like much, but the story behind it is kinda funny. Known as a hard worker, B started working with her uncle in a restaurant in Hurricane, Arizona when she was only twelve years old. That gave her the experience to eventually help open a Chester Fried Chicken at the Crick when…
This is where B. went to school. Still barred by fences at the time of our trip, students hadn’t walked the halls since it was closed over a decade before. It was a public school, but somehow the leaders were able to change much of the curriculum to reflect and support the beliefs of the…
I promised more tidbits…so here’s the deal: We’ve been eating too much…and chocolate, well, I guess that’s out too. Fresh air is good, though. and we are more likely to catch a cold during this time. How come no one ever told me this? Hmm. I no longer have my uterus, so I can’t actually…
I love, love, love that I have been able to read through this ! It’s pretty cool. Passed down to B.from her mother when she was “ready to know”, this little booklet is a sweet treasure. It was given to B.’s mother when she was “ready to know” in 1961 by B’s Grandmother. How sweet!…
Unfinished, OSB-sided houses( a cheap, pressed board), litter the land of Colorado City. This was a common sight as we drove around. At some point in time families started to build these huge homes and for some reason never finished them. This is an example of an inhabited, finished home. Notice the two doors that…
On our trip to Colorado City we stopped to take pictures of the unusual landscape. This mushroom rock is over three times my height. I felt like I was on a whole different planet. Just to my left, almost outside of the picture, was a quaint roadside market. A beautiful Native American lady was selling…
The 80’s were fun. The music. The color. The hair… B. didn’t get to enjoy any of it the first time around, so she had an 80’s-themed party for her 30th birthday. This picture was taken right around the time we really got serious about writing The Crick…