Murtaugh Idaho High School Reunion!

My wife Jeannie and I traveled from Gilbert, Arizona to Utah and picked up my sister Lynda Barney and her husband Larry in Spanish Fork and my sister Jackie Singleton in South Jordan. We had a grand time visiting the Milner Dam and the Snake River, Murtaugh, Twin Falls Cemetery and the Murtaugh High School Reunion activities. We were so bless to see Larry's wife, Myrna Goodman and her reunion siblings. Click on the each picture for better viewing.





Uncle Norris & Aunt Gen Goodman lived in a house to the left of this picture (no longer there). They had no indoor plumbing. The outhouse was located at the edge of the canyon wall and did not require digging a hole. I'll let your imagine run about how we felt using the facility as it "hung over the canyon". It was fun to play "Bombs Away! and other games. Oh, we also put to good use the Sears Catalog until there was not a page left.





Carma and I had a date for the high school "Sadie Hawkins Dance"--girl ask boy situation. Carma came and picked me up and presented me with a homemade corsage made of a carrot, lettus and celery! It was the best!



My magnificent Lionel Train was set up in the upstairs of the garage and took up two sheets of plywood so the table was 8'X8'. The garage did not have any electricity so I had to run an extension cord from the house to run the train! Jackie's Dance Studio and Fireplace were in the back on the main floor of the garage
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The Idaho Spud Candy Bar was first sold in our Murtaugh Goodman Store in the 1950's. It is now a tradition to go to that same store and purchase this candy bar every trip we make to Idaho!



Cecil Adamson is my dad's Moyes 1st Cousin. His family --Great Uncle Will & Great Aunt Robina Moyes Adamson--lived in Murtaugh all the while we lived there.






The fruit tree to the left in the picture were part of my childhood! We had many wonderful Moyes Family Reunions in this front yard. We gathered every Christmas Eve for a wonderful visit from Santa Claus.

I took many pictures of the B.A.S.E Jumpers. Probably I took so many because this is something that I'd never ever do in my lifetime! At the same time I found it inspiring that one could take on such a daring task and live through it. My photos are viewed from our boat on the water and also from the middle of the bridge with my camera hanging over the edge---now that part WAS scary for me.

























We enjoyed having Diana Jensen sitting with us on the boat. Her family lived just east of the LDS Church on US Highway 30. Their family joined the church in the 1950's helping to make my relationship to Diana more special. She was originally in my grade but because of brains was moved up one grade into my future sister-in-laws (Myrna McFarland) class.







Pillar Falls does not look so special during the lowest water level of the year (August). However it's big enough to stop all boat traffic. Canoes can be portaged around the falls and continue upstream to the famous Shoshone Falls which has no way to get around it without getting out of the canyon.