Cory Wedding pics

Here's a find I came across in my lastest trip to Heber last week. The sepia one is a scan of an original picture loaned to me by Don Hicken, Cory's bishop at the time of his (Cory's) death in 1955. Bishop Hicken's wife, Mima, obtained the picture somehow and it remained in the possession of her husband after her death a few years ago.

The black and white picture with the border is a copy of a newspaper article about their wedding as it appeared in an unidentified newspaper.

Cory and Mary Elizabeth Pettigo Shive were married in 1919. She died in 1925.

New Picture

Here is a previously unposted picture of Cory circa 1948. It accompanied a Deseret News article about him.

New Cory Picture

I received this picture from Eva Provost, a long-time history teacher in Heber who heard what we were doing and offered it. It was very small, so I enlarged, enhanced and sharpened it as much as possible. It will, of course have a prominent place in the new book.

a blasting hole?

We believe this might be a blasting hole drilled for dynamite.

View from inside the Mine.

We found the Little Eva mine opening half covered by falling rocks over the years. I didn't venture inside, but the two young 'ens with us did and found...
...an immediate spectacular view looking back out.
Deeper inside were the tracks the ore carts came out on.
It was quite an intricate layout.
Rail wheels and axles, or pulleys of some sort.

John's visit to the mine Monday, July 21, 2008

I went there guided by three mountain men from Nephi/Mona... three Nephites...and two young ones...

...on four wheelers.

Then the hike down the trail...

...to the mine!!

...then past the mine, "up the trail to the cabin."

Bedsprings at the top of a mountain? Could they belong to the cabin?

A few more feet beyond the cabin, and...a sheer drop to the valley floor...Mona and Nephi in the background!

A look to the east....

...and finally, to the South...that last look at the beautiful vista Cory would keep in his mind all the days of his life.

It was emotionally, spiritually, and physically exhausting, but oh, so worth it!

Like Cory, I was "lost in the ecstasy of it all."

Hear John's KPCW interview LIVE!!

My Park City Radio interview on KPCW-FM can be heard live on the internet 6:30 PM MT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at:

http://kpcw.org/listen