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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Sunday, April 21, 2024
REMEMBER RASTUS AND PEP?
Rastus and Pep
Rastus was a little black doll who sat on the piano at the old Overland Hotel situated just north of the northwest corner of 1st South and State Street in Mt. Pleasant. Rastus was a conversation for all the guests of the hotel for many years, and the children in Mt. Pleasant enjoyed walking past the hotel window and looking at Rastus sitting on the piano. We don't know for sure just how many years Rastus occupied his place in the hotel.
Several years later, in 1913, Manti High School's basketball team came to Mt. Pleasant in a horse-drawn wagon for a game at North Sanpete High School. They stayed at the hotel that night. When they left the next morning, they stole the black doll and took it to Manti.
At the next game, when North Sanpete went to Manti to play, the Manti boyse held Rastus out over the court dangling from a fishing pole. The Sanpete boys tried to recover the doll, but to no avail. But at the end of the game, some of the Sanpete boys grabbed Rastus and ran from the gymn with him. Miss Ryan, an English teacher at NSH had a large fur muff. The boys quickly handed the doll to Miss Ryan and ran on. Miss Ryan hid Rastus in her muff and walked calmly toward her buggy as the Manti boys ran in pursuit of the doll.
As the rivalry went on, each school tried to steal Rastus from the one who had successfully got away with him. Finally to foster good sportsmanship between the schools, it was decided that at each basketball game from then on, the doll would go to the winner until the next game.
In 1938, Rastus seemed to be in jeopardy of losing his home in Mt. Pleasant. The student body officers and cheerleaders decided North Sanpete really needed some pep, so they purchased another black doll which they named "Pep". At a pep assembly they held a wedding ceremony and Rastus married Pep.
Things went on pretty well for a long time, but in 1953, North Sanpete fell into a slump. The school experienced a losing streak, so again the cheerleaders of North Sanpete and the Pep Club came to the rescue. They purchased a small, black baby doll. In the assembly they announced that Pep was dead at North Sanpete, so the student body followed the casket out to the football field where they were going to bury Pep ~~~ but they heard a loud clatter from the casket, and they decided Pep wasn't dead at all. When they opened the lid, Pep jumped out ~~ and she had a baby in her arms ~~ She and Rastus named the child "Victory". North Sanpete really needed Victory!
Together, the three dolls were a trophy for each game between the two schools.
Finally, tragedy hit the family! There were new superintend-ants in both North and South Sanpete School Districts. Before anyone knew what was happening, the dolls were gone and a new tradition was to replace the dolls that both schools had loved for so many years.
When they were discontinued, Rastus had been a trophy for 65 years (he was the original doll, and so was several years older than that), Pep for 40 years, and Victory for 25 years. It was with a great sorrow that the students and townspeople alike were told that the dolls were to be used no more. The original dolls disappeared. No one seems to know where they went. They were in Manti's trophy case at the time the decision was made, and no one saw them again.
A Victory symbol trophy was designed to replace the tradition, and supposedly ordered to be made in Salt Lake. However, it was never done. Eventually, two "cabbage patch" dolls were purchased, christened Sandy and Pete, and used in their first trophy game on January 24, 1997.
(Not surprisingly) there are other versions of this story !!!
Saturday, April 20, 2024
JAMES MONSEN'S MEMORIES OF Olive, Her Husband John Frank Pritchett and the 1930 Mine Disaster (From our archives)
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Mt. Pleasant Pyramid 1930-02-07
Friday, April 19, 2024
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Roadway connects Copenhagen Denmark to Malmo Sweden ~~~ Shared by Lynda Bench
This unique roadway connects the Danish capital of Copenhagen to the Swedish city of Malmö. The Øresund, designed by the Danish architect George K.S. Rotne, was opened on July 1, 2000. The bridge stretches about 8km before transitioning through an artificial island into a 4km tunnel under the Flint Channel.
The site is interesting both biologically and architecturally: the Lund’s Botanical Association has identified more than 500 different species of plants on the island, which was constructed from material dredged from the seabed. Most of the concrete tunnel was cast on land and towed out to the location.
More info: oresundbron.com (h/t: demilked, twistedsifter)
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ~~~ Shared by Larry Staker
Donald Trump should just televise this Bill Clinton speech from 1995 and then simply state "I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message"
Monday, April 15, 2024
APRIL FOOL'S JOKE ~~~ Shared by Myrna Trauntvein
In a stunning announcement Monday morning, The Church of England — a denomination that traces its founding to King Henry VIII — has sold the historic Westminster Abbey to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The transfer, effective Tuesday, included not just the 1000-year-old church but several important relics and artifacts related to the property, including:
A precious fragment of the shroud of Edward the Confessor.
The 14th-century Litlyngton Missal.
The Coronation Chair in St George’s Chapel.
The Stone Of Scone, captured from the Scots in 1296.
The poet Geoffrey Chaucer’s remains were not included in the sale and will reportedly be relocated to another burial site outside of London.
“The sale price of $3.14 billion USD reflects an agreement between The Anglican Church and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after an extended period of conversation and negotiation,” a statement explained. “The agreement does not detail prices for specific items but rather a price for the entire agreed-upon set of items, documents, and properties.”
Historian Ben Park, a professor at Sam Houston State University and author of the book American Zion said he received the news Monday from Justin Welby, who currently serves as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury, who was in tears.
Welby said he is in mourning because Westminster Abbey is more than just a historic building.
“Westminster Abbey has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs and a burial site for 18 English, Scottish, and British monarchs. At least 16 royal weddings have taken place at the abbey since 1100. This loss is irreplaceable.”
The sale was spurred in part due to the mounting financial troubles the Abbey’s legal owners, The British Royal Family, find themselves in. The cost of public relations crisis staff has risen exponentially since the 1980s and put severe pressure on the Royal Family’s solvency. The sale of such prime real estate was the only viable option King Charles had left.
For Justin Welby’s part, one thing that helps to ease the pain is knowing the LDS church “will preserve this treasured building with immaculate historic renovations.” For its part, the LDS church’s statement Tuesday emphasized that Westminster Abbey “will remain a historic building” and will still be open to the public for a period of 5 years, after which it will be converted into the London Central Temple.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
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