A Three State Day
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Day 15: June 22, 2014 A Three State Day Comment via blog |
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I spent the night in Logan, Utah, and grabbed pictures of a couple of
eye catching buildings on the way out. The first is the
Logan Tabernacle which was completed in 1891 after an
1864 start and a few delays. The second is the 1883 Cache County
courthouse.
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My drive-by photo in the
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest really do not do
the place justice. I did stop and get out of the car to get the picture of
the stream. I may or may not have hiked several miles into the hills
for the picture.
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The "Perfect Place" heading on the sign refers the Bear Lake
Valley's qualifications for growing currants and raspberries but it could
also refer to the Bear Lake photo op. It looks like there are several
opportunities to drive into the lake between the rest area & overlook
and the town of Garden City but it never quite happens. Numerous signs in
Garden City advertise "famous raspberry shakes" but only two
such places were open on this late Sunday morning. I got my shake at
Hometown Drive-In because I liked the name. I might be concerned about
eating that if I didn't know it was filled with healthy fruit.
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I'd picked up a brochure on the
Paris Tabernacle at the Bear Lake overlook and
intended to look it over if it was open. It was and it took no effort to
learn that. I'd barely parked and pointed my camera at the building when
Ron approached and offered to show me around. The tabernacle was
constructed by hand of almost all local materials and completed in 1888.
The long handmade square nails that secure the floor are the only ones in
the building. Fasteners for the rest of the wood in the structure are
pegs in drilled holes. The padded choir seats are
not original nor is the organ. The two-manual pipe organ replaced the 1893
hand pumped organ in 1928. I don't know when the choristers' seats got
softened.
The town is not, as I had assumed, named after Paris, France. It is named after a surveyor who agreed to do all the initial surveying of the town in exchange for having the town named after him. The government almost got it right. His name was Perris. |
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I apologize for this clump of common straight down the road pictures but
this was my very first time in Idaho and I think it looks pretty good.
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I spotted the arch long before I reached it. After I snapped the first
picture, I parked the car so I could get a closer look. You might notice,
in that first picture, that the sidewalks are missing. Even though almost
all businesses were closed, the town of Afton, Wyoming, doesn't really
roll up its sidewalks on Sunday as I first suspected. As the orange cones
suggest, sidewalk replacement is in progress. I took the picture of the
signs as I walked past on my way to the arch. The bar -- only -- was open
so I stopped in on the way back. There was a good selection of liquor and
canned and bottled beer plus a single tap serving Pabst Blue Ribbon. It
worked perfectly for me.
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I thought of spending the night in Afton but the one motel I checked was
full so I moved on. In Thayne, I called three motels after doing
drive-bys. All had vacancies. I picked
Snider's Rustic
Inn based on price and its cute well tended look. I believe a look at
my room shows I made a good choice.
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