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Inflation Idyl: A Family Farm in Huntsville BY F A W N
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have written five letters in a single day, one to each of her scattered children, had she not had news as unexpected as it was memorable. With a caution born of long experience with my father's romantic business habits, she waited until the papers were signed, the deeds transferred, and the check for the first payment deposited in the bank. Then, with what must have been an unutterable feeling of release, she sat down with her pen. Y MOTHER WOULD NEVER
A Fellow of the U t a h State Historical Society, Mrs. Brodie is the author of several books as well as articles and reviews which have appeared in the Utah Historical Quarterly. Presently professor of history at the University of California in Los Angeles, she won the Society's Rosenblatt Award in September 1971 for her article, "Sir Richard F. Burton: Exceptional Observer of the Mormon Scene," which was published in the Fall 1970 issue of the Quarterly. T h e author's father was Thomas Evans M c K a y of Huntsville, U t a h . Above photograph of a Huntsville farm is from Art Work of Utah. All other photographs are courtesy of the author.
