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EDITOR.S NOTE<br />
Dark and light clouds mingle over Logan Peak on a stormy summer afternoon.<br />
Under the weather<br />
Now I truly understand the meaning<br />
the phrase: &quot;Out in left field.&quot;<br />
Shortly after deciding that the pho­tographic<br />
spread in this issue of Cache<br />
Valley Magazine would be focused<br />
upon the skies above our beautiful little<br />
corner of the world, I found myself<br />
trapped in the outfield during a city<br />
league softball game. I say &quot;trapped&quot;<br />
because from my vantage point along<br />
the left-field line on a Willow Park dia­mond,<br />
I had an amazing view of what<br />
would prove to be the most majestic<br />
rainbow of the year to my right, fol­lowed<br />
shortly afterwards by the most<br />
spectacular sunset of the summer to my<br />
left. And I, of course, had failed to pack<br />
my camera in my bat bag along with<br />
my glove and cleats.<br />
Less than a couple of months later,<br />
I have no idea whether my team won<br />
or lost that game. And it doesn &#039;t really<br />
matter, because to me, that evening will<br />
always be regarded as a loss because I<br />
missed out on a great photographic op­portunity.<br />
But that&#039;s kind of the way this sum­mer<br />
went for me. Everything was a little<br />
bit off.<br />
Where I would normally crave<br />
blue skies, cloudless days and lots of<br />
sunshine, the fact is that&#039;s rather ... well<br />
... boring. To capture really compelling<br />
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images of the sky, you need things in the<br />
atmosphere to be a little bit mixed up.<br />
A rainstorm not only creates rain­bows<br />
and lightning and towering cloud<br />
formations, it also removes haze from<br />
the valley, and the water in the air<br />
makes for more vibrant sunsets. And<br />
knowing that led me on more than<br />
few occasions to complain out loud to<br />
friends and relatives when looking over<br />
a weather forecast that showed nothing<br />
but bright little orange suns.<br />
Fortunately, with that assignment<br />
now completed, I can now take both<br />
eyes off the sky and return to normal<br />
- that being primarily watching<br />
the skies to see how the sun and the<br />
clouds impact landscapes and subjects<br />
on the ground. I can also spend more<br />
time appreciating the early autumn<br />
days in Cache Valley where high , deep<br />
blue skies and lots of sunshine is the<br />
norm.<br />
But then again , a fall snowstorm is<br />
always nice. After all , nothing&#039;s more<br />
beautiful - and photogenic - than<br />
white, pristine snow nestled upon bright<br />
red , orange and yellow leaves.<br />
I wonder what this week&#039;s weather<br />
forecast is.<br />
Jeff Hunter, editor<br />
jhunter@hjnews.com<br />
SEPTEMBER 2010<br />
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 8<br />
PUBLISHER<br />
Bruce Smith<br />
EDITOR<br />
Jeff Hunter<br />
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Cache Valley Magazine is pub­lished<br />
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COVER PHOTO by Jeff Hunter<br />
The remnants of a rainstorm linger<br />
above Old Main on the campus of Utah<br />
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Ags chasing victories<br />
usu opens season with an eye on uncertain future<br />
While overseeing the scrimmage in<br />
the middle of Aggie Family Fun Day on<br />
Aug. 21 , Utah State head football coach<br />
Gary Andersen and his assistants donned<br />
blue T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase<br />
&quot;All In&quot; on the back. Although it&#039;s clear<br />
that the Aggies where using a term more<br />
commonly associated with Texas Hold<br />
&#039;Em to help inspire an all-out, team-wide<br />
effort to excel during the 2010 season,<br />
&quot;All In&quot; seemed a bit ironic following<br />
the major gamble Utah State University<br />
had taken earlier in the week.<br />
In-state rival Brigham Young, in an ef­fort<br />
to leave the Mountain West Confer­ence<br />
and go independent in football and<br />
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USU athletic director Scott Barnes answers<br />
questions from the press after the scrimmage.<br />
land elsewhere for its remaining sports,<br />
put together a plan with Western Athletic<br />
Conference commissioner Karl Benson,<br />
USU President Stan Albrecht and Ag-gie<br />
athletic director Scott Barnes that<br />
would have greatly solidified the future<br />
of the WAC and reinvigorated the ri­valry<br />
between the Aggies and Cougars.<br />
Early reports on the morning of Aug. 18,<br />
painted an extremely attractive picture<br />
of a regular football series between USU<br />
and BYU, as well as games between the<br />
Cougars and other WAC schools.<br />
The prospects were so thrilling that<br />
some people predicted that gridiron pow­erhouse<br />
Boise State might even back out<br />
of its plan to leave for the Mountain West<br />
- soon to be weakened by the loss of<br />
University of Utah to the PAC-lO - and<br />
return to a stronger WAC.<br />
Clockwise from top left: Linebacker Jerome<br />
Barbour pressures quarterback Diondre Borel.<br />
A girl reacts to a big splash at the dunk tank.<br />
Eric Moats hangs onto a touchdown pass de­spite<br />
the efforts of cornerback Chris Randle.<br />
Moats was then flagged after &quot;putting&quot; the<br />
ball underneath Randle&#039;s knees. Ryan Bennett<br />
watches as an Aggie signs his USU helmet.<br />
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But before the late summer sun had<br />
set over the Wellsville Mountains, Utah<br />
State was already in the dark, having<br />
been stunned by the announcement that<br />
WAC fixtures Nevada and Fresno State<br />
had received and accepted invitations to<br />
join the Mountain West Conference earli­er<br />
in the day. Now looking at a WAC with<br />
only six schools remaining, BYU started<br />
to rethink its best-laid plans and promptly<br />
backed off its return to the WAC.<br />
That meant that Utah State, which had<br />
also been invited to join the Mountain<br />
West but turned the offer down in order<br />
to live up to an agreement with the rest<br />
of the WAC that it would stay together<br />
for the next five years or be subject to a<br />
$5 million penalty, was suddenly facing<br />
a very bleak future.<br />
After going &quot;All In,&quot; the Aggies&#039; big<br />
gamble now had them on the outside<br />
looking in. That&#039;s why before seeking<br />
out Andersen for an interview after the<br />
Aggie Family Fun Day Scrimmage, the<br />
gathered members of the media first<br />
swarmed around Barnes on the turf at<br />
Merlin Olsen Field at Romney Stadium.<br />
&quot;We felt very confident in the align­ment<br />
we had, the security we had in WAC<br />
members and BYU, and we thought that<br />
was the very best next step for Utah<br />
State athletics,&quot; Barnes said. &quot;That has<br />
gone away obviously for reasons you&#039;ve<br />
all heard. That said, every oar is in the<br />
water; we are exploring all possibilities.<br />
Our focus is on making the WAC better,<br />
but that said, we need to look at every<br />
opportunity that is out there.&quot;<br />
A week-and-a-half later, BYU finally<br />
announced that it was still going inde­pendent<br />
in football, but rather than add<br />
it&#039;s other athletic programs to the WAC,<br />
it planned to join the West Coast Con­ference.<br />
As this issue of Cache Valley<br />
Magazine was going to press, the~future<br />
home of Utah State athletics, whether it<br />
be in a new-look WAC or another con­ference,<br />
was still unsettled. But with the<br />
2010 campaign about to begin on Sept.<br />
4, at seventh-ranked Oklahoma, Ander­sen<br />
was trying his best to keep his and his<br />
team&#039;s focus on the task at hand.<br />
&quot;We will just take it as it falls and con­tinue<br />
to fight on,&quot; declared Andersen,<br />
now in his second season at Utah State.<br />
&quot;We haven&#039;t talked about it as a team,<br />
September 2010 9<br />
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nor will we because we are talking about<br />
a thing that we have no control over, so<br />
why do it?&quot;<br />
After going 3-5 in the WAC and 4-8<br />
overall last season, most USU fans are<br />
optimistic that Andersen has the Aggies<br />
headed the right way. But while Utah<br />
State boasts 20 returning starters and a<br />
much deeper bench, two of last year&#039;s<br />
bright spots, running back Robert Turbin<br />
and wide receiver Stanley Morrison, are<br />
both going to miss the entire season with<br />
Aggie fans scramble for Rice Krispie treats<br />
thrown into the stands at Romney Stadium.<br />
injuries, and heralded new linebacker<br />
Matt Ah You, who played at BYU in<br />
2008, was recently shelved for the year<br />
by a shoulder injury.<br />
What Andersen does have is a senior<br />
quarterback in Diondre Borel who put up<br />
impressive numbers last season (23 total<br />
touchdowns vs. only four interceptions)<br />
with his arm and his legs; a stable of<br />
dangerous running backs with different<br />
skills in Michael Smith, Derrvin Speight<br />
and Kerwynn Williams; and a handful<br />
of defensive standouts like junior line­backer<br />
Bobby Wagner, cornerback Chris<br />
Randle, and local high school products<br />
Levi Koskan and Junior Keiaho, who is<br />
moving from defensive end to linebacker<br />
this year.<br />
Slated to finish fourth in the WAC this<br />
season in the preseason coaches&#039; poll, the<br />
Aggies&#039; schedule starts with the Sooners<br />
and ends at Boise State on Dec. 4. In be­tween<br />
there&#039;s home games with Idaho<br />
State (Sept. 11), Fresno State (Sept. 18),<br />
Brigham Young (Oct. 1), Hawaii (Oct.<br />
23), New Mexico State (Nov. 6) and<br />
Idaho (Nov. 20). Although Utah State<br />
hasn&#039;t finished with a winning record in<br />
a decade-and-a-half, many feel that cor­ner<br />
is about to finally be turned this sea­son,<br />
even if USU&#039;s future beyond that<br />
is extremely uncertain because of the<br />
cloudy conference situation.<br />
&quot;Expectations are high, from all of (the<br />
media) and from us,&quot; Borel said of the<br />
coming season. &quot;Probably higher from<br />
us just because we&#039;re are trying to get to<br />
a bowl game, so I think we are ready for<br />
this year.&quot;<br />
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Bryan Palmer&#039;s garden plot helps maintain green space along the U.S. Hwy. 89-91 corridor. Below, black-eyed Susans grown at the Wellsville farm.<br />
So close you can taste it<br />
Wellsville resident heads up successful community garden<br />
A couple of women walk by Bryan<br />
Palmer&#039;s produce stand at the Cache Val­ley<br />
Gardeners&#039; Market, pausing to check<br />
out the buckets of flowers he has sitting<br />
next to a table filled with vegetables.<br />
There&#039;s yellow black-eyed Susans, blue<br />
globe thistle and purple-and-white, dai­sy-<br />
like echinaceas.<br />
For five dollars, Palmer will pick<br />
out more than two dozen of the flow­ers<br />
and sell them as a giant bouquet, an<br />
item many customers can&#039;t pass up each<br />
week. Upon request, Palmer will sort<br />
through the flowers that have been cut<br />
fresh in the early morning hours, strip off<br />
the leaves, clip the ends, then tie them<br />
together for customers to take home.<br />
Meanwhile, nearby at his produce table,<br />
two of his teenage employees are help-<br />
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ing customers purchase squash, melons<br />
and egg plants.<br />
Palmer, who started selling flowers at<br />
the market 11 years ago, has been grow­ing<br />
them for more than two decades on<br />
property he leases in Wellsville. What<br />
began as a business selling dried wreaths<br />
and bouquets has grown into Palmer&#039;s<br />
Community Supported Agriculture<br />
(CSA), which employs a dozen teenag­ers<br />
in the summer and produces dozens<br />
of different types of vegetables and about<br />
a half-acre of flowers.<br />
&#039;The reason why we have the farm is<br />
for the kids. That&#039;s the biggest reason,&quot;<br />
Palmer says. &quot;A couple of them have<br />
worked for us for probably five or six<br />
years .&quot;<br />
Palmer says everything he earns from<br />
the farm stays in Cache Valley and goes<br />
toward paying his employees and buy­ing<br />
seeds and products from local gar­dening<br />
stores such as Alpine Gardens,<br />
Rudy&#039;s Greenhoouse and Anderson&#039;s<br />
Seed and Garden. He and the tee nag-<br />
ers are out in the five-and-a-half acres<br />
of land he leases every day, whether<br />
they&#039;re focused on weeding, watering,<br />
planting or picking.<br />
On Friday nights, they pick a lot of the<br />
vegetables for the market, and on Satur­day<br />
mornings they are up before the sun<br />
rises getting buckets ready to fill with<br />
peppers and flowers . Palmer says it&#039;s<br />
been a learning process throughout the<br />
years and they try to grow new things<br />
every summer. They are currently grow­ing<br />
squash, peppers, cucumbers and ar­tichokes,<br />
as well as 30 varieties of fall­harvest<br />
vegetables. Palmer expects they<br />
will be picking right up until Thanksgiv­ing<br />
this year.<br />
An Ogden native, Palmer lived in<br />
California for several years, where he<br />
says he and his family went to several<br />
farmers &#039; markets that lasted year-round.<br />
He commented on the various flowers<br />
they would sell, the seafood and differ­ent<br />
produce that was available. The mar­kets<br />
in California spurred the idea to sell<br />
flowers in Cache Valley, which did well<br />
at the market for several years until the<br />
recession.<br />
&quot;With the economy, we really got into<br />
fruit and veggies,&quot; Palmer says. &quot;The<br />
last two years have really been hard on<br />
flower growers. We used to be able to<br />
take our truck and trailer and fill it with<br />
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Now Palmer only sells a third of the<br />
flowers he used to at the market. He says<br />
his bouquets last a little longer than those<br />
that can be purchased at the store because<br />
the flowers are usually fresher. Bouquets<br />
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three or four days before they reach the<br />
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to Miami, then on to Salt Lake and<br />
Logan.<br />
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germinating seed in a greenhouse, and by<br />
the first part of April they are planting.<br />
In the future Palmer hopes to lease two<br />
more acres of land and put in an orchard<br />
to grow fruit and nuts.<br />
Retired after more than two decades<br />
in the National Guard, Palmer says the<br />
Army and his job at Alpine Gardens in<br />
Brigham City pays his bills. The CSA is<br />
Top, Palmer breaks open a small, yellow wa­termelon.<br />
Above, blue globe thistle is one of<br />
the types of flowers grown at the garden.<br />
just a side-venture, a hobby mostly, that<br />
gives back to Cache Valley.<br />
&quot;It&#039;s really their farm,&quot; he says, gestur­ing<br />
toward the two teenage boys behind<br />
the produce stand. &quot;They help us on the<br />
farm and then actually come pick on Fri­day<br />
nights and come sell on Saturdays.<br />
We try to grow a few different things ev­ery<br />
year. You learn as you go.&quot;<br />
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS<br />
September 17·18<br />
The Aggie women&#039;s volleyball team hosts<br />
the Utah State Invitational over two days at<br />
the Spectrum. The Aggies will take on Loyola<br />
Marymount at 10 a.m. and Utah Valley at<br />
7:30 p.m. on Friday, then play UC Riverside<br />
at noon on Saturday. Call 797-0305.<br />
September 18<br />
The 2010 Nordic Track Top of Utah Mar­athon<br />
begins at the Hardware Ranch in<br />
Blacksmith Fork Canyon at 7 a.m. and ends<br />
at Merlin Olsen Park in Logan. Spectators<br />
can begin viewing the race at Mile 14 just<br />
outside the mouth of the canyon, and the<br />
awards ceremony is slated for 1 :15 p.m.<br />
Visit www.topofutahmarathon.com.<br />
September 18<br />
Logan Dog Agility sponsors the Canine<br />
Carnival and Fall Fun Run from 9 a.m. to 1<br />
p.m. at the Cache County Fairgrounds. Call<br />
(801) 710-1046 or visit www.fallfunrun.<br />
blogspot.com.<br />
September 18<br />
The Utah State football team welcomes<br />
WAC rival Fresno State to Romney Stadium.<br />
Kickoff is slated for 6 p.m. Call 797-0305.<br />
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The American West Heritage Center in<br />
Wellsville presents a wide variety of autumn<br />
and Halloween-themed activities through<br />
the month of October, including a corn maze,<br />
blackout maze, train rides, pony rides, super<br />
slide, hay jump and kid&#039;s pirate hay fort. The<br />
Haunted Hollow will also be scaring visitors<br />
on Oct. 8-9, 15-16,22-23 and 29, for an ad­mission<br />
of $7. Call 245-6050 or visit www.<br />
awhc.org.<br />
September 24·25<br />
The Bear 100 ultramarathon begins Fri­day<br />
at 6 a.m. Mt. Logan Park in Logan and<br />
winds along a 100-mile course through the<br />
mountains until reaching the finish line in<br />
Fish Haven, Idaho. Call 563-3647.<br />
September 25<br />
The Utah State women&#039;s soccer team fac­es<br />
BYU at 4 p.m. at Bell Field. Call 797-0305.<br />
September 30<br />
The USU women&#039;s volleyball team plays<br />
its first home conference match of the sea­son<br />
against Fresno State beginning at 7 p.m.<br />
at the Spectrum. Call 797-0305.<br />
October 1<br />
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Left, one of the small cabins at Pine Glenn Cove<br />
in Logan Canyon as it appears today. Top, child<br />
actors present a play at the small amphitheatre<br />
that used to sit on the grounds. Above, the interior<br />
of the playhouse used as a child by L. Boyd and<br />
Anne Hatch&#039;s daugther, Sydney.<br />
Also known as<br />
Hatch&#039;s Camp,<br />
St. Anne&#039;s<br />
Retreat and<br />
&#039;The Nunnery,&#039;<br />
the history of<br />
the curious<br />
collection of<br />
buildings in<br />
Logan Canyon<br />
isn&#039;t nearly as<br />
scary as you<br />
may have heard<br />
STORY &amp; PHOTOS BY JEFF HUNTER<br />
1- -- -- - -<br />
Floyd OdIum was giving a speech<br />
in Salt Lake City in 1955 before<br />
the Conference on Intermountain<br />
Industry when the wildly successful<br />
businessman tried to playa small trick<br />
on his audience.<br />
&quot;A fellow I have known quite well for<br />
a long time took up his pen years ago<br />
and wrote a rhyme about a certain spot<br />
in Utah which was known as &#039;Hatch&#039;s<br />
Camp,&#039;&quot; OdIum stated before reciting a<br />
poem:<br />
When I&#039;m tired and sick and weary<br />
Of the din of city strife<br />
And am longing for the pleasures<br />
Of a natural open life,<br />
Ship me westward to the mountains,<br />
Put me off at &quot;Hatch&#039;s Place&quot;<br />
By the Logan in the Wasatch;<br />
There my sorrows I&#039;ll efface.<br />
There before the open fireplace<br />
Or stretched out beneath the trees<br />
I will listen to the music<br />
Of the mountains and the breeze,<br />
To the roaring of the waters,<br />
To the song of melted snow<br />
Until night has brought its shadows<br />
And the sky all aglow<br />
And then the shooting kisses<br />
Of a mountain air so sweet<br />
Will comfort me until I lapse<br />
Into a blissful sleep.<br />
&quot;The author of those lines is here<br />
with us tonight,&quot; OdIum then an­nounced<br />
before admitting, &quot;In fact,<br />
I&#039;m that fellow. As poetry, it is a very<br />
feeble attempt. But as an emotional<br />
expression concerning a state I love, I<br />
stand by it.&quot;<br />
As the head of numerous, multi-mil­lion-<br />
dollar corporations during his<br />
career, including the Atlas Corpora­tion,<br />
RKO Pictures, Northeast Airlines,<br />
Convair and Bonwit Teller, it&#039;s easy to<br />
-envision the bespectacled OdIum behind<br />
a wooden desk in a large office of a<br />
skyscraper in New York City, putting his<br />
thoughts down on paper, trying to drown<br />
out the hustle and bustle of Manhattan<br />
outside his window.<br />
All the while wishing he could<br />
abruptly replace the concrete-and-steel<br />
canyons of Wall Street with the rock<br />
cliffs and solitude of Logan Canyon.<br />
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Top, a vintage image of the living room inside<br />
the Hatch cottage. Above, a bedroom in a<br />
cabin at Pine Glenn Cove. Right, Floyd Odium<br />
poses for a photograph with his son, Bruce.<br />
Could phrases like, &quot;I will listen<br />
to the music of the mountains<br />
and the breeze,&quot; and &quot;shooting<br />
kisses of mountain air so sweet; will<br />
comfort me until I lapse into a blissful<br />
sleep&quot; actually be referring to St. Anne&#039;s<br />
Retreat? Surely generations of Cache<br />
Valley teenagers and Utah State Uni­versity<br />
students would wholeheartedly<br />
suggest otherwise.<br />
After all, &quot;The Nunnery,&quot; as it is often<br />
called, is widely considered the scari­est<br />
place in the area, primarily because<br />
of the frightening tales surrounding the<br />
small collection of cabins eight miles<br />
northeast of the mouth of Logan Can­yon.<br />
Among the many urban legends<br />
that have been propagated since the Ro­man<br />
Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City<br />
took possession of the property in 1958<br />
is that nuns who had been raped by<br />
priests then drowned their babies in the<br />
swimming pool, and visitors to the site<br />
can still hear the infants&#039; cries at night.<br />
Another story has two nuns fighting,<br />
with one sister pushing the other into<br />
the empty swimming pool. The fatal fall<br />
leads to the dead nun returning to haunt<br />
the sister who killed her, banging on her<br />
door at night and laughing with glowing<br />
red eyes when her murderer would look<br />
outside. A nun searching for her stolen<br />
golden arm, and another sister accompa­nied<br />
by vicious dogs are also among the<br />
ghost stories that have prompted many<br />
people to tempt fate - or at least fight<br />
off a little boredom - and sneak onto<br />
the property late at night.<br />
This Cache Valley tradition turned<br />
&#039;)<br />
into a real horror story for 38 teenagers<br />
in 1997, when after crossing the bridge<br />
over the Logan River and heading up the<br />
road to the retreat, they were greeted by<br />
three watchmen armed with shotguns.<br />
The trespassers were then tied up in the<br />
empty swimming pool and threatened by<br />
the guards , who were later charged with<br />
assault for their aggressive behavior.<br />
At the time, the retreat, which sits on<br />
2.85 acres of land leased from the U.S.<br />
Forest Service, was owned by a group<br />
of families who had grown weary of<br />
vandals and trespassers, and many of<br />
the buildings had fallen into disrepair.<br />
But in 2006, the site originally known as<br />
Hatch &#039;s Camp was purchased by Chad<br />
Top, the playhouse used by the Hatch daugh­ters.<br />
Above, the backdrop of the amphitheatre<br />
included an ad for Bonwit Teller. Left, Bruce<br />
Odium&#039;s wife sits on the edge of the pool.<br />
Godfrey, a River Heights native who<br />
now works in the health-care field in Salt<br />
Lake City. Godfrey, who now refers to<br />
the property by another of its old names<br />
- Pine Glenn Cove - hopes to restore<br />
as many of the structures as possible, or<br />
at least sell the site to someone else who<br />
can complete the project in the future .<br />
&quot;We&#039;re just in the very beginnings of<br />
having it restored,&quot; Godfrey says. &quot;About<br />
all we&#039;ve done so far is completely clean<br />
everything out. I think we took about<br />
28,000 pounds of junk out of there .&quot;<br />
While there are still &quot;no tresspassing&quot;<br />
signs posted at the entrance to Pine Glenn<br />
Cove, Godfrey did take down the barbed<br />
wire that used to discourage visitors from<br />
crossing the bridge. He also helped get<br />
the site put on the National Register of<br />
Historic Places in 2006, and Godfrey<br />
says his hope is to one day host an &quot;open<br />
house and invite the entire valley.&quot;<br />
&quot;Once it&#039;s restored, we&#039;ll let people<br />
come up and tour the whole thing for<br />
three days,&quot; he insisted. &quot;I think that<br />
will pretty much turn off all the tres­passing<br />
and stuff because they&#039;ll see<br />
how wonderful it is all made up.&quot;<br />
But Godfrey, who says he first briefly<br />
visited what was then St. Anne&#039;s (or St.<br />
Ann&#039;s) Retreat when he was 6 years old<br />
- &quot;before my mother and I were scared<br />
off when some dogs came running down<br />
the hill&quot; - admits he&#039;s never spent a<br />
night at Pine Glenn Cove.<br />
&quot;But I can tell you , there&#039;s no nun<br />
with a golden arm, or dead babies under<br />
the playhouse,&quot; Godfrey declares. &quot;In<br />
fact, I&#039;ve had a number of paranormal<br />
societies contact me, and they all said<br />
there was nothing up there. Although<br />
one of the groups did get the holy heck<br />
scared out of them when a sheriff&#039;s<br />
deputy came in off the road - they<br />
check it all the time and he saw lights<br />
- and slammed a door shut while they<br />
were all standing in the lodge. Other­wise,<br />
the scariest thing you&#039;ll probably<br />
see up there is a squirrel or a pack rat.&quot;<br />
The Catholic church took posses­sion<br />
of what it then renamed St.<br />
Anne&#039;s Retreat in the 1950s after<br />
the Hatch family initially tried to donate<br />
the site to the Church of Jesus Christ of<br />
Latter-day Saints and Utah State Uni­versity.<br />
The retreat served as a getaway<br />
spot for Sisters of the Holy Cross from<br />
the Salt Lake diocese for a couple of de­cades<br />
before it was turned into a summer<br />
youth camp in the 1980s. The Catholic<br />
Church eventually sold the lease to some<br />
families in 1993, and the site has been<br />
under private ownership ever since.<br />
Now close to 100 years old, the<br />
original buildings at Hatch&#039;s Camp/Pine<br />
Glenn Cove were constructed in the<br />
1910s by Hezekiah Eastman Hatch,<br />
the president of the Thatcher Banking<br />
Company in Logan, who obtained the<br />
original permit from the forest service.<br />
His son, Lorenzo Boyd Hatch, would<br />
later improve and add to the retreat,<br />
eventually sharing the site with his<br />
brother-in-law, Floyd B. OdIum.<br />
Hatch, who is best known in Cache<br />
Valley for founding the Sunshine Ter­race<br />
Foundation in 1948, and OdIum<br />
became brothers-in-law after marry-<br />
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ing sisters originally from St. George.<br />
Hatch met Anne McQuarrie in 1917<br />
while working in Salt Lake City and<br />
married her a year later, while OdIum,<br />
a Michigan native who attended law<br />
school at the University of Colorado,<br />
was employed by Utah Power &amp; Light<br />
in Salt Lake when he first encountered<br />
Hortense &quot;Tenny&quot; McQuarrie. The cou­ple<br />
was married in 1914, and the Hatch<br />
and OdIum families would become even<br />
further linked when, following the death<br />
of his wife Georgia in 1919, Hezekiah<br />
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the company grew quickly, and in 1928,<br />
it merged with another company to be­come<br />
the Atlas Utilities Company with<br />
OdIum as president, Hatch as vice-presi­dent<br />
and assets valued at $6 million.<br />
But just months before the stock<br />
market crashed in 1929, OdIum sold off<br />
half of Atlas&#039; holdings and $9 million in<br />
new securities to investors, leaving him<br />
with an estimated $14 million in cash<br />
and short-term notes as the country&#039;s fi­nancial<br />
system was falling apart. In tum,<br />
OdIum started buying up stock from<br />
other investment firms - often for 50<br />
cents on the dollar - reorganized them<br />
and sold of their assets, only to purchase<br />
more firms, and eventually, a wide<br />
variety of businesses from railroads to<br />
mines and motion-picture studios to<br />
department stores.<br />
Considered one the 10 richest people<br />
in the country by 1933, OdIum and<br />
the company now known as the Atlas<br />
Corporation, bought part of RKO Pic­tures<br />
, the studio that turned out &quot;Citizen<br />
Kane&quot; in 1941 , After taking over RKO<br />
completely in 1942 at a price of $3 mil­lion,<br />
OdIum ended up selling the studio<br />
to Howard Hughes four years later for<br />
$9 million_ The shrewd investor also<br />
ended owning all or part of the Hilton<br />
hotel chain, Greyhound buslines, Con­vair<br />
airplane manufacturing, Madison<br />
Square Garden and the Bonwit Teller<br />
department store_<br />
OdIum turned over control of Bonwit<br />
Teller, a high-fashion store in New York<br />
City, to his wife, who served as president<br />
from 1934-40 at a time when women<br />
were rarely found in such positions.<br />
Hortense OdIum, referred to as &quot;one of<br />
the 10 best-dressed women in the world,&quot;<br />
even stayed on at Bonwit Teller after she<br />
and Floyd were divorced in 1935.<br />
Following that separation, OdIum<br />
was introduced to Jacqueline &quot;Jackie&quot;<br />
Cochran, who would become arguably<br />
the second-most famous female pilot in<br />
the country behind her friend , Amelia<br />
Earhart. The first woman to break the<br />
sound barrier, Cochran married OdIum,<br />
and the couple later settled on a massive<br />
ranch in the California desert near Palm<br />
Springs in the 1950s, virtually founding<br />
the community of Indio while rarely vis­iting<br />
Utah. The OdIums often welcomed<br />
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friends like Chuck Yeager and Dwight<br />
D. Eisenhower into their home prior<br />
to Floyd&#039;s death at age 84 in 1976 and<br />
Jackie&#039;s passing four years later.<br />
Hortense OdIum, who briefly remar­ried<br />
in the later 1930s, died in Indio in<br />
1970 at the home of her son, Bruce. Her<br />
sister, Anne Hatch, passed away in New<br />
York City in 1979, more than 22 years<br />
after L. Boyd Hatch had died at his sum­mer<br />
home in Connecticut at age 60.<br />
Pine Glenn Cove is basically<br />
broken up into two parts: A<br />
lower road off of which most of<br />
the buildings constructed by the Hatches<br />
can be found, and an upper road, where<br />
the OdIums&#039; lodge and cabins stand.<br />
Currently along the Hatch lane, just<br />
above the Logan River, remain two<br />
small cabins (one of which housed the<br />
camp&#039;s maids), a larger cottage, a small<br />
generator shed, a playhouse and the<br />
main cabin, which was later used as<br />
a dining hall because of its screened-in<br />
porch. East of these structures are<br />
two guest houses, a storage shed and<br />
a magnificent lodge. Stone stairs and<br />
walkways, constructed by out-of-work<br />
masons during The Great Depression,<br />
surround many of the buildings, and<br />
the infamous swimming pool sits in<br />
between the two roads, adjacent to a<br />
two-story structure used as a pool house<br />
and laundry.<br />
While most of the buildings are now<br />
in disrepair, the stone-and-wood cottage<br />
that served as quarters for the Hatches&#039;<br />
daughters, has had extensive work done,<br />
as has the OdIums&#039; lodge. Built about<br />
1929, is boasts a screened porch on<br />
three sides, a stone fireplace imported<br />
from Europe, and a huge, vaulted ceil­ing<br />
with hand-painted iron work above<br />
the main room. Stairs lead up to two<br />
large bedrooms and a bathroom.<br />
Pine Glenn Cove (or Forest Hills ac­cording<br />
to the forest service lease) also<br />
used to be equipped with horse stables,<br />
an outdoor amphitheatre, and an indoor<br />
theater that could seat 24 people and<br />
even had its own ticket booth.<br />
Boyd and Anne Hatch&#039;s daughter,<br />
Sydney di Villarosa, returned to the re­treat<br />
in the late &#039;90s with Chad Godfrey<br />
in tow, and she shared fond memories of<br />
picnics by the river and putting on plays<br />
with her young relatives with Holly­wood<br />
movie directors, CEOs and note­worthy<br />
politicians in the audience. Now<br />
in her 80s, Villarosa recently returned to<br />
Italy, the land of her late husband, after<br />
moving to St. George for a time.<br />
&quot;Sydney has lived an amazing life,&quot;<br />
Godfrey says. &quot;She married into noth­ing<br />
short of Italian royalty and lived in<br />
Milan until she wanted to come back<br />
to her roots. Her home in St. George is<br />
reminiscent of an Italian villa .... And<br />
right when you walk in, there&#039;s a great<br />
photograph of Sydney with Shirley Tem­ple<br />
and Cary Grant, all holding arms.<br />
&quot;I think her sister, Betty, is also still<br />
alive and living in New York City, and<br />
she married into basically the equivalent<br />
of Argentine royalty. They&#039;ve lived these<br />
illustrious lives, and they think nothing<br />
of it,&quot; adds Godfrey, who says he&#039;s been<br />
told that among the celebrities who vis­ited<br />
Pine Glenn Cove are movie starlets<br />
Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe.<br />
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Hatch used to spend large portions of<br />
their summer at the camp, conducting<br />
business across the country and the<br />
world from Logan Canyon. Pine Glenn<br />
Cove is also outfitted with an unusual<br />
water system that carries water from<br />
springs almost a mile away in Preston<br />
Valley, through a series of underground<br />
pipes and eventually into a large storage<br />
tank above the retreat.<br />
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Clockwise from top left: The swim­ming<br />
pool were horrified teenage<br />
trespassers were detained in 1997.<br />
The back side of the sleeping cot­tage<br />
above the Logan River. Signs<br />
of vandalism remain inside the large<br />
Hatch cabin. The view out the upper<br />
window of the Odiums&#039; lodge. The<br />
large, screened-in porch served as a<br />
dining area when the site was used<br />
as a youth camp. The main lodge is<br />
believed to have been built around<br />
1929. The fireplace in the Odiums&#039;<br />
lodge was imported from Europe.<br />
&quot;It&#039;s an amazing system,&quot; Godfrey<br />
says. &quot;I mean the pool is huge: 20 feet­by-<br />
60 feet. And you can fill it in two-and­a-<br />
half hours. If you put a garden hose in<br />
there, it would take you until next June.&quot;<br />
Godfrey, who says he first started<br />
dreaming about purchasing Pine Glenn<br />
Cove in the late &#039;70s, clearly feels much<br />
like Floyd OdIum when it comes to the<br />
beautiful retreat up Logan Canyon. One<br />
could easily see him, confined to an<br />
office in Salt Lake City, writing a poem<br />
similar to the one that OdIum shared in<br />
his speech 55 years ago .<br />
&quot;I&#039;ve just always loved the place,<br />
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LOOK TO THE SKIES<br />
TOP Clouds gathered along the southern<br />
edge of Cache Valley soak up color from the<br />
setting sun.<br />
LEFT Cumulonimbus clouds build up<br />
above the Bear River Mountain Range on a<br />
hot summer day.<br />
BELOW Refracted light creates a unique<br />
sky above the northern end of the Wellsville<br />
Mountain Range.<br />
FACING PAGE A huge bolt of lightning<br />
strikes the valley floor near Newton.<br />
f&#039;&quot;<br />
L .<br />
TOP Lightning strikes pummel the flanks<br />
of Gunsight Peak.<br />
ABOVE A single cloud hovers over the<br />
top of the Wellsville Mountain Range.<br />
RIGHT The setting sun lights up the<br />
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BELOW Wispy clouds race through the<br />
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26 Cache Valley Magazine<br />
TOP Clouds above Providence Canyon take on an eerie hue as the sun goes down.<br />
ABOVE The skies above the Bear River Mountain Range take on a wide range of<br />
colors as the sun rises on a summer morning.<br />
LEFT The end of a rainbow brightens up a mountain ridge following a storm.<br />
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ABOVE Clouds soar above<br />
the Mt. Sterling area on a<br />
spectacular summer evening.<br />
LEFT Wind and lingering<br />
smoke from a fire create an<br />
unusual line of clouds near the<br />
western shore of Bear Lake.<br />
RIGHT A full moon gives<br />
way to the morning sun and<br />
drops behind the Wellsville<br />
Mountains.<br />
FAR RIGHT Altocumulus<br />
clouds create a stunning pat­tern<br />
in the sky above Logan<br />
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tending bees in St. George, which was then a small<br />
farming community. Henderson was eventually<br />
joined in that enterprise by his son, Marion. In 1929,<br />
Marion Cox founded the family business that would<br />
eventually become Cox Honeyland &amp; Gifts. It was<br />
Marion who relocated his family to Cache Valley<br />
after marrying his wife, Lucile, a Providence native,<br />
during the Great Depression. The first headquarters<br />
for the couple&#039;s local honey business was established<br />
in Providence.<br />
By the mid-1960s, a third generation of the Cox<br />
family, represented by Marion&#039;s son Duane and his<br />
wife Margene, had taken over the reins of the busi­ness.<br />
They moved the family enterprise to an expand­ed<br />
warehouse along U.S . Hwy. 89-91 south of Logan<br />
about 20 years later and then expanded into retail<br />
sales in 1989.<br />
Nowadays, their son Darren has assumed responsi­bility<br />
for tending the Cox family&#039;s bee colonies and<br />
the day-to-day operation of the honey and gift side of<br />
the business is handled by their daughters: Maleesa<br />
Jacobsen of College Ward, Camille Cowley of<br />
Wellsville and Michelle Spuhler of Providence. But<br />
a fifth generation of the clan is also involved in the<br />
honey business: teenaged Breanne Jacobsen is already<br />
employed in the gift shop that is collocated with the<br />
Cox warehouse, and her kid sister McKenzie is an<br />
enthusiastic part-time presence there, as well.<br />
Despite its reputation as the Beehive State, Utah<br />
ranks 24th among U.S. states in the production of<br />
honey. In 2009, the total American honey crop was<br />
144 million pounds from about 2.4 million bee Stephanie Adamson puts labels on fresh bottles of honey at Cox Honeyland.<br />
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million. Commercial beekeepers like<br />
the Cox family, who tend about half of<br />
all bee colonies in the United States,<br />
produced about 60 percent of that crop.<br />
While that may sound like a lot of<br />
honey, the National Honey Board<br />
reports that Americans are using more<br />
honey-based products - ranging from<br />
cereals to cough syrups - every year.<br />
For example, more than 200 new prod­ucts<br />
containing honey were introduced<br />
in the United States since 1998, many of<br />
them capitalizing on the all-natural and<br />
Adamson, who has worked at Cox Honeyland<br />
for just over a year, fills up a large jar of honey.<br />
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Nutritionists agree that honey is a<br />
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toms. Finally, honey is often used as an<br />
ingredient in both manufactured and<br />
homemade beauty products for skin and<br />
hair care because honey has naturally<br />
hydrating and non-irritating properties.<br />
Utah&#039;s annual honey production aver­ages<br />
about 1 million pounds and the<br />
Cox family sells as much as 20 percent<br />
of that crop in a good year. But it isn&#039;t<br />
just production volume that makes<br />
the Cox name one to conjure with in<br />
the Utah honey business. In May, Cox<br />
Honeyland &amp; Gifts was recognized by<br />
the U.S. Small Business Administration<br />
as Utah&#039;s family-owned business of the<br />
year.<br />
&quot;We were really honored to receive<br />
that award,&quot; Margene recalls, &quot;particu­larly<br />
since it signaled that state officials<br />
were paying attention to agriculture­related<br />
businesses ... In agriculture,<br />
your management has got to be just<br />
right. And, even then, the weather has<br />
also got to cooperate if you&#039;re going to<br />
produce a crop. So a successful farmer<br />
has got to be a good businessman and<br />
that&#039;s something that most people don&#039;t<br />
realize.&quot;<br />
But residents of Cache Valley and<br />
northern Utah didn&#039;t need a state award<br />
to attract them to Cox Honeyland and<br />
Gifts. Customers have been flocking to<br />
the little white-frame gift shop adjacent<br />
to the Cox warehouse for nearly two<br />
decades.<br />
&quot;We have a lot of customers who<br />
come from as far away as Ogden and<br />
34 Cache Valley Magazine<br />
Margene Cox answers a customer&#039;s questions about honey production at the gift shop.<br />
Salt Lake,&quot; Maleesa Jacobsen empha­sizes,<br />
&quot;because they say that they can&#039;t<br />
find unique gift stores like this where<br />
they live. They&#039;re also attracted because<br />
we have such a wide variety of gifts. We<br />
provide them with an opportunity to cre­ate<br />
custom gift baskets. Our customers<br />
don&#039;t have settle for whatever is in a gift<br />
box at Christmastirne. They can select<br />
exactly what they want here year-round<br />
and we&#039;ll package it beautifully just for<br />
them in a way that&#039;s appropriate for any<br />
occasion.&quot;<br />
Margene Cox attributes much of the<br />
success and longevity of their honey<br />
business to her family&#039;s work ethic and<br />
willingness to adapt to the changing<br />
business climate.<br />
&quot;My maiden name was Lindley,&quot; she<br />
explains. &quot;I was raised on the first farm<br />
that you pass coming out of Sardine<br />
Canyon heading north. It was a 750-acre<br />
dairy and cattle farm. We worked hard<br />
on that farm, but it was good experi­ence<br />
for me. If I hadn&#039;t been raised in<br />
an agricultural family, I would probably<br />
have never survived being married to a<br />
beekeeper.&quot;<br />
Margene adds that she and her hus­band<br />
Duane were both raised in families<br />
where long, hard days of work were<br />
necessary to &quot;keep food on the table and<br />
a roof over our heads.&quot; Given that back­ground,<br />
the couple naturally raised their<br />
children to have that same type of work<br />
ethic. &quot;That didn&#039;t mean that our kids<br />
didn&#039;t complain about their chores,&quot; she<br />
admits with a smile. &quot;But they under­stood<br />
why those things had to be done<br />
and that they had to work until a job was<br />
finished, not just until they were tired or<br />
bored.&quot;<br />
Honey bees are social insects with<br />
a marked division of labor within the<br />
hives they inhabit. Each colony of bees<br />
includes a queen, drones and workers.<br />
In the most simple terms, the queen bee<br />
lays eggs; the relative handful of drones<br />
mate with the queen; and the thousands<br />
of workers feed the queen and her lar­vae,<br />
collect nectar from plants, produce<br />
honey and guard the hive.<br />
According to Margene Cox, the main<br />
difference between the honey bees and<br />
the humans who tend them is that, in the<br />
family of a beekeeper, everybody is a<br />
worker.<br />
There are roughly 300 varieties of<br />
honey produced in America, running<br />
the gamut from water-white fireweed<br />
to rich, dark amber buckwheat. In<br />
general, lighter-colored honeys have a<br />
mild taste while darker-colored honeys<br />
have more bold flavors. Darker honeys<br />
also tend to have a higher mineral<br />
content and antioxidant potential.<br />
Those variations of taste and content<br />
also impact the commercial value of<br />
particular types of honey, so successful<br />
beekeepers spend a lot of time moving<br />
their hives from one location to another<br />
to take full advantage of abundant<br />
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sources of nectar in crops or flowers<br />
growing nearby.<br />
In addition to producing honey,<br />
wandering bees also help to pollinate<br />
agricultural crops, home gardens and<br />
wildlife habitat. The U.S. Department<br />
of Agriculture estimates that 80 percent<br />
of insect crop pollination is accom­plished<br />
by honey bees and that approxi­mately<br />
one-third of the total human diet<br />
is derived directly or indirectly from<br />
insect-pollinated plants and crops. So<br />
many commercial beekeepers like the<br />
Cox family also spend time transport­ing<br />
their colonies around the country to<br />
provide contract pollination services to<br />
farmers.<br />
Combined with the labor involved<br />
September 2010 35<br />
in tending their hives and harvesting<br />
honey, the aforementioned transporting<br />
chores keep commercial beekeepers<br />
- and their wives and children - almost<br />
as busy as their bees, according to<br />
Margene.<br />
The Cox family began to diversity<br />
their business in the late 1980s. Prior to<br />
that time, Duane and Margene had been<br />
selling the bulk of their annual honey<br />
crop on a wholesale basis to a farmers&#039;<br />
cooperative in Iowa. But when health<br />
problems dictated that Duane Cox take<br />
a less active role in the business, his<br />
wife realized that her life was about to<br />
change in a big way.<br />
&quot;I had worked in several different<br />
jobs over the years to help make ends<br />
meet while Duane was keeping our<br />
bees,&quot; Margene explains. &quot;But when<br />
Duane had to get an artificial hip, we<br />
realized that we had to develop a retail<br />
side of our business to support our­selves<br />
when he eventually retired ... If<br />
I was going to start my own company,<br />
I knew that I was going to have to<br />
find my own niche. Well, I knew the<br />
gift business pretty well because I had<br />
Open<br />
September 10<br />
36 Cache Valley Magazine<br />
Cox Honeyland was recognized as the state of Utah&#039;s small business of the year in May.<br />
worked in a florist shop for years; I had<br />
also done oil paintings and some inte­rior<br />
decorating. So I had to take those<br />
things that I knew and use them to our<br />
best advantage.&quot;<br />
Like many would-be entrepreneurs in<br />
Cache Valley, Margene&#039;s first stop on<br />
the road to launching a new business<br />
was Utah State University. While taking<br />
some business classes there, she also so-licited<br />
the support of USU&#039;s small-busi­ness<br />
development staff, who provided<br />
both start-up advice and testing of her<br />
initial gift product ideas.<br />
The retail gift side of the business<br />
started small, Margene recalls, because<br />
the family was determined to launch<br />
that enterprise with out-of-pocket<br />
money rather than incurring a lot of debt<br />
through business loans. They installed<br />
a pre-fabricated home adjacent to their<br />
warehouse to serve as a gift shop. All<br />
the manufacturing and bottling of Mar­gene<br />
Cox&#039; first products - honey butter,<br />
honey syrup and cream honey - was<br />
done by-hand in the tiny kitchen of that<br />
home. Despite those humble beginnings,<br />
the business took off.<br />
But Cox Honeyland &amp; Gifts is nev­ertheless<br />
expanding to meet steadily<br />
increasing demand. The Cox family<br />
now ships an average ton-and-a-half of<br />
honey products to locations around the<br />
world each week and sells about a ton<br />
of fudge annually. Their selection of<br />
gourmet food items includes creamed<br />
honeys, honey butters, honeyed pop­corn,<br />
flavored honeys, honey caramels<br />
and other types of candy. In addition<br />
to custom baskets, their available gifts<br />
include toys, candles, massage bars and<br />
many other items.<br />
&quot;I hope that our customers want<br />
to stop here and shop because we&#039;re<br />
friendly and have a family atmosphere,&quot;<br />
Margene Cox adds. &quot;Honey will al­ways<br />
be our trademark, but we&#039;ve got<br />
something for everybody here now. We<br />
try to offer seasonal items along with<br />
our unique gifts, like all the Halloween<br />
decorations we have on display now. We<br />
also try to fill an educational role; we&#039;ve<br />
even got films for children that explain<br />
how honey is made.&quot; m<br />
&quot;If I had been willing to risk more<br />
back at the beginning, I would prob­ably<br />
have a much bigger business now,&quot;<br />
Margene Cox admits, sitting in the<br />
cluttered office of Cox Honeyland &amp;<br />
Gifts. The house&#039;s small kitchen is now<br />
gone, transferred to the adjacent ware­house<br />
when more room was needed for<br />
manufacturing. A separate department<br />
devoted strictly to creating the family&#039;s<br />
trademark custom gift baskets is also<br />
located in the warehouse nowadays. As<br />
the family&#039;s product line grew by leaps<br />
and bounds over the years, the gift shop<br />
expanded to occupy every nook and<br />
cranny of that structure. &quot;But I believe<br />
that you&#039;ve got to crawl before you can<br />
walk and walk before you run. And I&#039;m<br />
still just not willing to incur a lot of debt<br />
in order to expand.&quot;<br />
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