Dian’s Journey

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union thrust the world into a new age. The success of launching the satellite Sputnik into an orbit around the earth was the start of the great space race. They followed their success just thirty days later by launching Sputnik [...]

The following summer, I was seventeen, which meant I was old enough to return to my beloved Brighton camp to work for the summer. It didn’t matter to me that I was employed as a kitchen debutante (KD), one of six responsible for ensuring the kitchen [...]

In 1957, just after I had finished sixth grade, our small world turned upside down too. My father was transferred from our paradise in Monticello to the big world of Salt Lake City. He would become the ranger in the much more populated Wasatch National Forest [...]

The second grade was extremely painful. I was emotionally wounded, and the wounds were very deep. From then on, every day in school I had a problem with reading, writing, and spelling, as I was never very good at any of them. Whenever I was placed [...]

The end of summer meant the start of school. Attending school was fun for me, but it also provided the only dark spot in my young life. The school was located on the main road through town, which was a state highway. To help make sure [...]