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EDITOR.S NOTE
Dark and light clouds mingle over Logan Peak on a stormy summer afternoon.
Under the weather
Now I truly understand the meaning
the phrase: "Out in left field."
Shortly after deciding that the pho­tographic
spread in this issue of Cache
Valley Magazine would be focused
upon the skies above our beautiful little
corner of the world, I found myself
trapped in the outfield during a city
league softball game. I say "trapped"
because from my vantage point along
the left-field line on a Willow Park dia­mond,
I had an amazing view of what
would prove to be the most majestic
rainbow of the year to my right, fol­lowed
shortly afterwards by the most
spectacular sunset of the summer to my
left. And I, of course, had failed to pack
my camera in my bat bag along with
my glove and cleats.
Less than a couple of months later,
I have no idea whether my team won
or lost that game. And it doesn 't really
matter, because to me, that evening will
always be regarded as a loss because I
missed out on a great photographic op­portunity.
But that's kind of the way this sum­mer
went for me. Everything was a little
bit off.
Where I would normally crave
blue skies, cloudless days and lots of
sunshine, the fact is that's rather ... well
... boring. To capture really compelling
6 Cache Valley Magazine
images of the sky, you need things in the
atmosphere to be a little bit mixed up.
A rainstorm not only creates rain­bows
and lightning and towering cloud
formations, it also removes haze from
the valley, and the water in the air
makes for more vibrant sunsets. And
knowing that led me on more than
few occasions to complain out loud to
friends and relatives when looking over
a weather forecast that showed nothing
but bright little orange suns.
Fortunately, with that assignment
now completed, I can now take both
eyes off the sky and return to normal
- that being primarily watching
the skies to see how the sun and the
clouds impact landscapes and subjects
on the ground. I can also spend more
time appreciating the early autumn
days in Cache Valley where high , deep
blue skies and lots of sunshine is the
norm.
But then again , a fall snowstorm is
always nice. After all , nothing's more
beautiful - and photogenic - than
white, pristine snow nestled upon bright
red , orange and yellow leaves.
I wonder what this week's weather
forecast is.
Jeff Hunter, editor
jhunter@hjnews.com
SEPTEMBER 2010
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 8
PUBLISHER
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BUSINESS MANAGER
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Valley Publishing LLC and inserted
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COVER PHOTO by Jeff Hunter
The remnants of a rainstorm linger
above Old Main on the campus of Utah
State University on a summer evening.
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Six-year-old Trae Priestly of Weston chases after a balloon on the turf at Romney Stadium during Aggie Football Family Fun Day on Aug. 21.
Ags chasing victories
usu opens season with an eye on uncertain future
While overseeing the scrimmage in
the middle of Aggie Family Fun Day on
Aug. 21 , Utah State head football coach
Gary Andersen and his assistants donned
blue T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase
"All In" on the back. Although it's clear
that the Aggies where using a term more
commonly associated with Texas Hold
'Em to help inspire an all-out, team-wide
effort to excel during the 2010 season,
"All In" seemed a bit ironic following
the major gamble Utah State University
had taken earlier in the week.
In-state rival Brigham Young, in an ef­fort
to leave the Mountain West Confer­ence
and go independent in football and
8 Cache Valley Magazine
USU athletic director Scott Barnes answers
questions from the press after the scrimmage.
land elsewhere for its remaining sports,
put together a plan with Western Athletic
Conference commissioner Karl Benson,
USU President Stan Albrecht and Ag-gie
athletic director Scott Barnes that
would have greatly solidified the future
of the WAC and reinvigorated the ri­valry
between the Aggies and Cougars.
Early reports on the morning of Aug. 18,
painted an extremely attractive picture
of a regular football series between USU
and BYU, as well as games between the
Cougars and other WAC schools.
The prospects were so thrilling that
some people predicted that gridiron pow­erhouse
Boise State might even back out
of its plan to leave for the Mountain West
- soon to be weakened by the loss of
University of Utah to the PAC-lO - and
return to a stronger WAC.
Clockwise from top left: Linebacker Jerome
Barbour pressures quarterback Diondre Borel.
A girl reacts to a big splash at the dunk tank.
Eric Moats hangs onto a touchdown pass de­spite
the efforts of cornerback Chris Randle.
Moats was then flagged after "putting" the
ball underneath Randle's knees. Ryan Bennett
watches as an Aggie signs his USU helmet.
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But before the late summer sun had
set over the Wellsville Mountains, Utah
State was already in the dark, having
been stunned by the announcement that
WAC fixtures Nevada and Fresno State
had received and accepted invitations to
join the Mountain West Conference earli­er
in the day. Now looking at a WAC with
only six schools remaining, BYU started
to rethink its best-laid plans and promptly
backed off its return to the WAC.
That meant that Utah State, which had
also been invited to join the Mountain
West but turned the offer down in order
to live up to an agreement with the rest
of the WAC that it would stay together
for the next five years or be subject to a
$5 million penalty, was suddenly facing
a very bleak future.
After going "All In," the Aggies' big
gamble now had them on the outside
looking in. That's why before seeking
out Andersen for an interview after the
Aggie Family Fun Day Scrimmage, the
gathered members of the media first
swarmed around Barnes on the turf at
Merlin Olsen Field at Romney Stadium.
"We felt very confident in the align­ment
we had, the security we had in WAC
members and BYU, and we thought that
was the very best next step for Utah
State athletics," Barnes said. "That has
gone away obviously for reasons you've
all heard. That said, every oar is in the
water; we are exploring all possibilities.
Our focus is on making the WAC better,
but that said, we need to look at every
opportunity that is out there."
A week-and-a-half later, BYU finally
announced that it was still going inde­pendent
in football, but rather than add
it's other athletic programs to the WAC,
it planned to join the West Coast Con­ference.
As this issue of Cache Valley
Magazine was going to press, the~future
home of Utah State athletics, whether it
be in a new-look WAC or another con­ference,
was still unsettled. But with the
2010 campaign about to begin on Sept.
4, at seventh-ranked Oklahoma, Ander­sen
was trying his best to keep his and his
team's focus on the task at hand.
"We will just take it as it falls and con­tinue
to fight on," declared Andersen,
now in his second season at Utah State.
"We haven't talked about it as a team,
September 2010 9
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10 Cache Valley Magazine
nor will we because we are talking about
a thing that we have no control over, so
why do it?"
After going 3-5 in the WAC and 4-8
overall last season, most USU fans are
optimistic that Andersen has the Aggies
headed the right way. But while Utah
State boasts 20 returning starters and a
much deeper bench, two of last year's
bright spots, running back Robert Turbin
and wide receiver Stanley Morrison, are
both going to miss the entire season with
Aggie fans scramble for Rice Krispie treats
thrown into the stands at Romney Stadium.
injuries, and heralded new linebacker
Matt Ah You, who played at BYU in
2008, was recently shelved for the year
by a shoulder injury.
What Andersen does have is a senior
quarterback in Diondre Borel who put up
impressive numbers last season (23 total
touchdowns vs. only four interceptions)
with his arm and his legs; a stable of
dangerous running backs with different
skills in Michael Smith, Derrvin Speight
and Kerwynn Williams; and a handful
of defensive standouts like junior line­backer
Bobby Wagner, cornerback Chris
Randle, and local high school products
Levi Koskan and Junior Keiaho, who is
moving from defensive end to linebacker
this year.
Slated to finish fourth in the WAC this
season in the preseason coaches' poll, the
Aggies' schedule starts with the Sooners
and ends at Boise State on Dec. 4. In be­tween
there's home games with Idaho
State (Sept. 11), Fresno State (Sept. 18),
Brigham Young (Oct. 1), Hawaii (Oct.
23), New Mexico State (Nov. 6) and
Idaho (Nov. 20). Although Utah State
hasn't finished with a winning record in
a decade-and-a-half, many feel that cor­ner
is about to finally be turned this sea­son,
even if USU's future beyond that
is extremely uncertain because of the
cloudy conference situation.
"Expectations are high, from all of (the
media) and from us," Borel said of the
coming season. "Probably higher from
us just because we're are trying to get to
a bowl game, so I think we are ready for
this year."
leffHunter
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Bryan Palmer's garden plot helps maintain green space along the U.S. Hwy. 89-91 corridor. Below, black-eyed Susans grown at the Wellsville farm.
So close you can taste it
Wellsville resident heads up successful community garden
A couple of women walk by Bryan
Palmer's produce stand at the Cache Val­ley
Gardeners' Market, pausing to check
out the buckets of flowers he has sitting
next to a table filled with vegetables.
There's yellow black-eyed Susans, blue
globe thistle and purple-and-white, dai­sy-
like echinaceas.
For five dollars, Palmer will pick
out more than two dozen of the flow­ers
and sell them as a giant bouquet, an
item many customers can't pass up each
week. Upon request, Palmer will sort
through the flowers that have been cut
fresh in the early morning hours, strip off
the leaves, clip the ends, then tie them
together for customers to take home.
Meanwhile, nearby at his produce table,
two of his teenage employees are help-
12 Cache Valley Magazine
ing customers purchase squash, melons
and egg plants.
Palmer, who started selling flowers at
the market 11 years ago, has been grow­ing
them for more than two decades on
property he leases in Wellsville. What
began as a business selling dried wreaths
and bouquets has grown into Palmer's
Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA), which employs a dozen teenag­ers
in the summer and produces dozens
of different types of vegetables and about
a half-acre of flowers.
'The reason why we have the farm is
for the kids. That's the biggest reason,"
Palmer says. "A couple of them have
worked for us for probably five or six
years ."
Palmer says everything he earns from
the farm stays in Cache Valley and goes
toward paying his employees and buy­ing
seeds and products from local gar­dening
stores such as Alpine Gardens,
Rudy's Greenhoouse and Anderson's
Seed and Garden. He and the tee nag-
ers are out in the five-and-a-half acres
of land he leases every day, whether
they're focused on weeding, watering,
planting or picking.
On Friday nights, they pick a lot of the
vegetables for the market, and on Satur­day
mornings they are up before the sun
rises getting buckets ready to fill with
peppers and flowers . Palmer says it's
been a learning process throughout the
years and they try to grow new things
every summer. They are currently grow­ing
squash, peppers, cucumbers and ar­tichokes,
as well as 30 varieties of fall­harvest
vegetables. Palmer expects they
will be picking right up until Thanksgiv­ing
this year.
An Ogden native, Palmer lived in
California for several years, where he
says he and his family went to several
farmers ' markets that lasted year-round.
He commented on the various flowers
they would sell, the seafood and differ­ent
produce that was available. The mar­kets
in California spurred the idea to sell
flowers in Cache Valley, which did well
at the market for several years until the
recession.
"With the economy, we really got into
fruit and veggies," Palmer says. "The
last two years have really been hard on
flower growers. We used to be able to
take our truck and trailer and fill it with
60-75 buckets of flowers and sell out in
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a couple of hours. We would have a huge
line. It would be like all day long ."
Now Palmer only sells a third of the
flowers he used to at the market. He says
his bouquets last a little longer than those
that can be purchased at the store because
the flowers are usually fresher. Bouquets
of roses, for example, normally take
three or four days before they reach the
customer, as they are shipped from Ec­uador
to Miami, then on to Salt Lake and
Logan.
Currently the CSA can garden for about
eight months of the year, Palmer says,
but it's not like he can go too long before
thinking of the next garden. Catalogs
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mid-February he and his employees are
germinating seed in a greenhouse, and by
the first part of April they are planting.
In the future Palmer hopes to lease two
more acres of land and put in an orchard
to grow fruit and nuts.
Retired after more than two decades
in the National Guard, Palmer says the
Army and his job at Alpine Gardens in
Brigham City pays his bills. The CSA is
Top, Palmer breaks open a small, yellow wa­termelon.
Above, blue globe thistle is one of
the types of flowers grown at the garden.
just a side-venture, a hobby mostly, that
gives back to Cache Valley.
"It's really their farm," he says, gestur­ing
toward the two teenage boys behind
the produce stand. "They help us on the
farm and then actually come pick on Fri­day
nights and come sell on Saturdays.
We try to grow a few different things ev­ery
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
September 17·18
The Aggie women's volleyball team hosts
the Utah State Invitational over two days at
the Spectrum. The Aggies will take on Loyola
Marymount at 10 a.m. and Utah Valley at
7:30 p.m. on Friday, then play UC Riverside
at noon on Saturday. Call 797-0305.
September 18
The 2010 Nordic Track Top of Utah Mar­athon
begins at the Hardware Ranch in
Blacksmith Fork Canyon at 7 a.m. and ends
at Merlin Olsen Park in Logan. Spectators
can begin viewing the race at Mile 14 just
outside the mouth of the canyon, and the
awards ceremony is slated for 1 :15 p.m.
Visit www.topofutahmarathon.com.
September 18
Logan Dog Agility sponsors the Canine
Carnival and Fall Fun Run from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. at the Cache County Fairgrounds. Call
(801) 710-1046 or visit www.fallfunrun.
blogspot.com.
September 18
The Utah State football team welcomes
WAC rival Fresno State to Romney Stadium.
Kickoff is slated for 6 p.m. Call 797-0305.
September 18·0ctober 30
The American West Heritage Center in
Wellsville presents a wide variety of autumn
and Halloween-themed activities through
the month of October, including a corn maze,
blackout maze, train rides, pony rides, super
slide, hay jump and kid's pirate hay fort. The
Haunted Hollow will also be scaring visitors
on Oct. 8-9, 15-16,22-23 and 29, for an ad­mission
of $7. Call 245-6050 or visit www.
awhc.org.
September 24·25
The Bear 100 ultramarathon begins Fri­day
at 6 a.m. Mt. Logan Park in Logan and
winds along a 100-mile course through the
mountains until reaching the finish line in
Fish Haven, Idaho. Call 563-3647.
September 25
The Utah State women's soccer team fac­es
BYU at 4 p.m. at Bell Field. Call 797-0305.
September 30
The USU women's volleyball team plays
its first home conference match of the sea­son
against Fresno State beginning at 7 p.m.
at the Spectrum. Call 797-0305.
October 1
The Utah State football team hosts in­state
powerhouse BYU at Romney Stadium
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Left, one of the small cabins at Pine Glenn Cove
in Logan Canyon as it appears today. Top, child
actors present a play at the small amphitheatre
that used to sit on the grounds. Above, the interior
of the playhouse used as a child by L. Boyd and
Anne Hatch's daugther, Sydney.
Also known as
Hatch's Camp,
St. Anne's
Retreat and
'The Nunnery,'
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STORY & PHOTOS BY JEFF HUNTER
1- -- -- - -
Floyd OdIum was giving a speech
in Salt Lake City in 1955 before
the Conference on Intermountain
Industry when the wildly successful
businessman tried to playa small trick
on his audience.
"A fellow I have known quite well for
a long time took up his pen years ago
and wrote a rhyme about a certain spot
in Utah which was known as 'Hatch's
Camp,'" OdIum stated before reciting a
poem:
When I'm tired and sick and weary
Of the din of city strife
And am longing for the pleasures
Of a natural open life,
Ship me westward to the mountains,
Put me off at "Hatch's Place"
By the Logan in the Wasatch;
There my sorrows I'll efface.
There before the open fireplace
Or stretched out beneath the trees
I will listen to the music
Of the mountains and the breeze,
To the roaring of the waters,
To the song of melted snow
Until night has brought its shadows
And the sky all aglow
And then the shooting kisses
Of a mountain air so sweet
Will comfort me until I lapse
Into a blissful sleep.
"The author of those lines is here
with us tonight," OdIum then an­nounced
before admitting, "In fact,
I'm that fellow. As poetry, it is a very
feeble attempt. But as an emotional
expression concerning a state I love, I
stand by it."
As the head of numerous, multi-mil­lion-
dollar corporations during his
career, including the Atlas Corpora­tion,
RKO Pictures, Northeast Airlines,
Convair and Bonwit Teller, it's easy to
-envision the bespectacled OdIum behind
a wooden desk in a large office of a
skyscraper in New York City, putting his
thoughts down on paper, trying to drown
out the hustle and bustle of Manhattan
outside his window.
All the while wishing he could
abruptly replace the concrete-and-steel
canyons of Wall Street with the rock
cliffs and solitude of Logan Canyon.
18 Cache Valley Magazine
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Top, a vintage image of the living room inside
the Hatch cottage. Above, a bedroom in a
cabin at Pine Glenn Cove. Right, Floyd Odium
poses for a photograph with his son, Bruce.
Could phrases like, "I will listen
to the music of the mountains
and the breeze," and "shooting
kisses of mountain air so sweet; will
comfort me until I lapse into a blissful
sleep" actually be referring to St. Anne's
Retreat? Surely generations of Cache
Valley teenagers and Utah State Uni­versity
students would wholeheartedly
suggest otherwise.
After all, "The Nunnery," as it is often
called, is widely considered the scari­est
place in the area, primarily because
of the frightening tales surrounding the
small collection of cabins eight miles
northeast of the mouth of Logan Can­yon.
Among the many urban legends
that have been propagated since the Ro­man
Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City
took possession of the property in 1958
is that nuns who had been raped by
priests then drowned their babies in the
swimming pool, and visitors to the site
can still hear the infants' cries at night.
Another story has two nuns fighting,
with one sister pushing the other into
the empty swimming pool. The fatal fall
leads to the dead nun returning to haunt
the sister who killed her, banging on her
door at night and laughing with glowing
red eyes when her murderer would look
outside. A nun searching for her stolen
golden arm, and another sister accompa­nied
by vicious dogs are also among the
ghost stories that have prompted many
people to tempt fate - or at least fight
off a little boredom - and sneak onto
the property late at night.
This Cache Valley tradition turned
')
into a real horror story for 38 teenagers
in 1997, when after crossing the bridge
over the Logan River and heading up the
road to the retreat, they were greeted by
three watchmen armed with shotguns.
The trespassers were then tied up in the
empty swimming pool and threatened by
the guards , who were later charged with
assault for their aggressive behavior.
At the time, the retreat, which sits on
2.85 acres of land leased from the U.S.
Forest Service, was owned by a group
of families who had grown weary of
vandals and trespassers, and many of
the buildings had fallen into disrepair.
But in 2006, the site originally known as
Hatch 's Camp was purchased by Chad
Top, the playhouse used by the Hatch daugh­ters.
Above, the backdrop of the amphitheatre
included an ad for Bonwit Teller. Left, Bruce
Odium's wife sits on the edge of the pool.
Godfrey, a River Heights native who
now works in the health-care field in Salt
Lake City. Godfrey, who now refers to
the property by another of its old names
- Pine Glenn Cove - hopes to restore
as many of the structures as possible, or
at least sell the site to someone else who
can complete the project in the future .
"We're just in the very beginnings of
having it restored," Godfrey says. "About
all we've done so far is completely clean
everything out. I think we took about
28,000 pounds of junk out of there ."
While there are still "no tresspassing"
signs posted at the entrance to Pine Glenn
Cove, Godfrey did take down the barbed
wire that used to discourage visitors from
crossing the bridge. He also helped get
the site put on the National Register of
Historic Places in 2006, and Godfrey
says his hope is to one day host an "open
house and invite the entire valley."
"Once it's restored, we'll let people
come up and tour the whole thing for
three days," he insisted. "I think that
will pretty much turn off all the tres­passing
and stuff because they'll see
how wonderful it is all made up."
But Godfrey, who says he first briefly
visited what was then St. Anne's (or St.
Ann's) Retreat when he was 6 years old
- "before my mother and I were scared
off when some dogs came running down
the hill" - admits he's never spent a
night at Pine Glenn Cove.
"But I can tell you , there's no nun
with a golden arm, or dead babies under
the playhouse," Godfrey declares. "In
fact, I've had a number of paranormal
societies contact me, and they all said
there was nothing up there. Although
one of the groups did get the holy heck
scared out of them when a sheriff's
deputy came in off the road - they
check it all the time and he saw lights
- and slammed a door shut while they
were all standing in the lodge. Other­wise,
the scariest thing you'll probably
see up there is a squirrel or a pack rat."
The Catholic church took posses­sion
of what it then renamed St.
Anne's Retreat in the 1950s after
the Hatch family initially tried to donate
the site to the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and Utah State Uni­versity.
The retreat served as a getaway
spot for Sisters of the Holy Cross from
the Salt Lake diocese for a couple of de­cades
before it was turned into a summer
youth camp in the 1980s. The Catholic
Church eventually sold the lease to some
families in 1993, and the site has been
under private ownership ever since.
Now close to 100 years old, the
original buildings at Hatch's Camp/Pine
Glenn Cove were constructed in the
1910s by Hezekiah Eastman Hatch,
the president of the Thatcher Banking
Company in Logan, who obtained the
original permit from the forest service.
His son, Lorenzo Boyd Hatch, would
later improve and add to the retreat,
eventually sharing the site with his
brother-in-law, Floyd B. OdIum.
Hatch, who is best known in Cache
Valley for founding the Sunshine Ter­race
Foundation in 1948, and OdIum
became brothers-in-law after marry-
September 2010 19
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ing sisters originally from St. George.
Hatch met Anne McQuarrie in 1917
while working in Salt Lake City and
married her a year later, while OdIum,
a Michigan native who attended law
school at the University of Colorado,
was employed by Utah Power & Light
in Salt Lake when he first encountered
Hortense "Tenny" McQuarrie. The cou­ple
was married in 1914, and the Hatch
and OdIum families would become even
further linked when, following the death
of his wife Georgia in 1919, Hezekiah
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financial success almost immediately,
the company grew quickly, and in 1928,
it merged with another company to be­come
the Atlas Utilities Company with
OdIum as president, Hatch as vice-presi­dent
and assets valued at $6 million.
But just months before the stock
market crashed in 1929, OdIum sold off
half of Atlas' holdings and $9 million in
new securities to investors, leaving him
with an estimated $14 million in cash
and short-term notes as the country's fi­nancial
system was falling apart. In tum,
OdIum started buying up stock from
other investment firms - often for 50
cents on the dollar - reorganized them
and sold of their assets, only to purchase
more firms, and eventually, a wide
variety of businesses from railroads to
mines and motion-picture studios to
department stores.
Considered one the 10 richest people
in the country by 1933, OdIum and
the company now known as the Atlas
Corporation, bought part of RKO Pic­tures
, the studio that turned out "Citizen
Kane" in 1941 , After taking over RKO
completely in 1942 at a price of $3 mil­lion,
OdIum ended up selling the studio
to Howard Hughes four years later for
$9 million_ The shrewd investor also
ended owning all or part of the Hilton
hotel chain, Greyhound buslines, Con­vair
airplane manufacturing, Madison
Square Garden and the Bonwit Teller
department store_
OdIum turned over control of Bonwit
Teller, a high-fashion store in New York
City, to his wife, who served as president
from 1934-40 at a time when women
were rarely found in such positions.
Hortense OdIum, referred to as "one of
the 10 best-dressed women in the world,"
even stayed on at Bonwit Teller after she
and Floyd were divorced in 1935.
Following that separation, OdIum
was introduced to Jacqueline "Jackie"
Cochran, who would become arguably
the second-most famous female pilot in
the country behind her friend , Amelia
Earhart. The first woman to break the
sound barrier, Cochran married OdIum,
and the couple later settled on a massive
ranch in the California desert near Palm
Springs in the 1950s, virtually founding
the community of Indio while rarely vis­iting
Utah. The OdIums often welcomed
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friends like Chuck Yeager and Dwight
D. Eisenhower into their home prior
to Floyd's death at age 84 in 1976 and
Jackie's passing four years later.
Hortense OdIum, who briefly remar­ried
in the later 1930s, died in Indio in
1970 at the home of her son, Bruce. Her
sister, Anne Hatch, passed away in New
York City in 1979, more than 22 years
after L. Boyd Hatch had died at his sum­mer
home in Connecticut at age 60.
Pine Glenn Cove is basically
broken up into two parts: A
lower road off of which most of
the buildings constructed by the Hatches
can be found, and an upper road, where
the OdIums' lodge and cabins stand.
Currently along the Hatch lane, just
above the Logan River, remain two
small cabins (one of which housed the
camp's maids), a larger cottage, a small
generator shed, a playhouse and the
main cabin, which was later used as
a dining hall because of its screened-in
porch. East of these structures are
two guest houses, a storage shed and
a magnificent lodge. Stone stairs and
walkways, constructed by out-of-work
masons during The Great Depression,
surround many of the buildings, and
the infamous swimming pool sits in
between the two roads, adjacent to a
two-story structure used as a pool house
and laundry.
While most of the buildings are now
in disrepair, the stone-and-wood cottage
that served as quarters for the Hatches'
daughters, has had extensive work done,
as has the OdIums' lodge. Built about
1929, is boasts a screened porch on
three sides, a stone fireplace imported
from Europe, and a huge, vaulted ceil­ing
with hand-painted iron work above
the main room. Stairs lead up to two
large bedrooms and a bathroom.
Pine Glenn Cove (or Forest Hills ac­cording
to the forest service lease) also
used to be equipped with horse stables,
an outdoor amphitheatre, and an indoor
theater that could seat 24 people and
even had its own ticket booth.
Boyd and Anne Hatch's daughter,
Sydney di Villarosa, returned to the re­treat
in the late '90s with Chad Godfrey
in tow, and she shared fond memories of
picnics by the river and putting on plays
with her young relatives with Holly­wood
movie directors, CEOs and note­worthy
politicians in the audience. Now
in her 80s, Villarosa recently returned to
Italy, the land of her late husband, after
moving to St. George for a time.
"Sydney has lived an amazing life,"
Godfrey says. "She married into noth­ing
short of Italian royalty and lived in
Milan until she wanted to come back
to her roots. Her home in St. George is
reminiscent of an Italian villa .... And
right when you walk in, there's a great
photograph of Sydney with Shirley Tem­ple
and Cary Grant, all holding arms.
"I think her sister, Betty, is also still
alive and living in New York City, and
she married into basically the equivalent
of Argentine royalty. They've lived these
illustrious lives, and they think nothing
of it," adds Godfrey, who says he's been
told that among the celebrities who vis­ited
Pine Glenn Cove are movie starlets
Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe.
Because it has almost always had a
telephone, Godfrey says OdIum and
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Hatch used to spend large portions of
their summer at the camp, conducting
business across the country and the
world from Logan Canyon. Pine Glenn
Cove is also outfitted with an unusual
water system that carries water from
springs almost a mile away in Preston
Valley, through a series of underground
pipes and eventually into a large storage
tank above the retreat.
22 Cache Valley Magazine
Clockwise from top left: The swim­ming
pool were horrified teenage
trespassers were detained in 1997.
The back side of the sleeping cot­tage
above the Logan River. Signs
of vandalism remain inside the large
Hatch cabin. The view out the upper
window of the Odiums' lodge. The
large, screened-in porch served as a
dining area when the site was used
as a youth camp. The main lodge is
believed to have been built around
1929. The fireplace in the Odiums'
lodge was imported from Europe.
"It's an amazing system," Godfrey
says. "I mean the pool is huge: 20 feet­by-
60 feet. And you can fill it in two-and­a-
half hours. If you put a garden hose in
there, it would take you until next June."
Godfrey, who says he first started
dreaming about purchasing Pine Glenn
Cove in the late '70s, clearly feels much
like Floyd OdIum when it comes to the
beautiful retreat up Logan Canyon. One
could easily see him, confined to an
office in Salt Lake City, writing a poem
similar to the one that OdIum shared in
his speech 55 years ago .
"I've just always loved the place,
ever since I was a kid," Godfrey pro­claims
with a smile. "It has an interest­ing
story behind it, and it's just full of
history. It's a very unique property, and I
just love it." m
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LOOK TO THE SKIES
TOP Clouds gathered along the southern
edge of Cache Valley soak up color from the
setting sun.
LEFT Cumulonimbus clouds build up
above the Bear River Mountain Range on a
hot summer day.
BELOW Refracted light creates a unique
sky above the northern end of the Wellsville
Mountain Range.
FACING PAGE A huge bolt of lightning
strikes the valley floor near Newton.
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RIGHT The setting sun lights up the
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26 Cache Valley Magazine
TOP Clouds above Providence Canyon take on an eerie hue as the sun goes down.
ABOVE The skies above the Bear River Mountain Range take on a wide range of
colors as the sun rises on a summer morning.
LEFT The end of a rainbow brightens up a mountain ridge following a storm.
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ABOVE Clouds soar above
the Mt. Sterling area on a
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LEFT Wind and lingering
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But it's unlikely that many of their commercial
counterparts share the Cox family's tradition of more
than a century of association with the honey business.
That tradition began around the tum of the 19th
Century with the clan's patriarch, Henderson Cox,
tending bees in St. George, which was then a small
farming community. Henderson was eventually
joined in that enterprise by his son, Marion. In 1929,
Marion Cox founded the family business that would
eventually become Cox Honeyland & Gifts. It was
Marion who relocated his family to Cache Valley
after marrying his wife, Lucile, a Providence native,
during the Great Depression. The first headquarters
for the couple's local honey business was established
in Providence.
By the mid-1960s, a third generation of the Cox
family, represented by Marion's son Duane and his
wife Margene, had taken over the reins of the busi­ness.
They moved the family enterprise to an expand­ed
warehouse along U.S . Hwy. 89-91 south of Logan
about 20 years later and then expanded into retail
sales in 1989.
Nowadays, their son Darren has assumed responsi­bility
for tending the Cox family's bee colonies and
the day-to-day operation of the honey and gift side of
the business is handled by their daughters: Maleesa
Jacobsen of College Ward, Camille Cowley of
Wellsville and Michelle Spuhler of Providence. But
a fifth generation of the clan is also involved in the
honey business: teenaged Breanne Jacobsen is already
employed in the gift shop that is collocated with the
Cox warehouse, and her kid sister McKenzie is an
enthusiastic part-time presence there, as well.
Despite its reputation as the Beehive State, Utah
ranks 24th among U.S. states in the production of
honey. In 2009, the total American honey crop was
144 million pounds from about 2.4 million bee Stephanie Adamson puts labels on fresh bottles of honey at Cox Honeyland.
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produced about 60 percent of that crop.
While that may sound like a lot of
honey, the National Honey Board
reports that Americans are using more
honey-based products - ranging from
cereals to cough syrups - every year.
For example, more than 200 new prod­ucts
containing honey were introduced
in the United States since 1998, many of
them capitalizing on the all-natural and
Adamson, who has worked at Cox Honeyland
for just over a year, fills up a large jar of honey.
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natural source of energy because it
contains a unique mixture of glucose
and fructose. Recent research has also
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wide variety of vitamins, minerals and
antioxidants.
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fatigue and enhancing athletic
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toms. Finally, honey is often used as an
ingredient in both manufactured and
homemade beauty products for skin and
hair care because honey has naturally
hydrating and non-irritating properties.
Utah's annual honey production aver­ages
about 1 million pounds and the
Cox family sells as much as 20 percent
of that crop in a good year. But it isn't
just production volume that makes
the Cox name one to conjure with in
the Utah honey business. In May, Cox
Honeyland & Gifts was recognized by
the U.S. Small Business Administration
as Utah's family-owned business of the
year.
"We were really honored to receive
that award," Margene recalls, "particu­larly
since it signaled that state officials
were paying attention to agriculture­related
businesses ... In agriculture,
your management has got to be just
right. And, even then, the weather has
also got to cooperate if you're going to
produce a crop. So a successful farmer
has got to be a good businessman and
that's something that most people don't
realize."
But residents of Cache Valley and
northern Utah didn't need a state award
to attract them to Cox Honeyland and
Gifts. Customers have been flocking to
the little white-frame gift shop adjacent
to the Cox warehouse for nearly two
decades.
"We have a lot of customers who
come from as far away as Ogden and
34 Cache Valley Magazine
Margene Cox answers a customer's questions about honey production at the gift shop.
Salt Lake," Maleesa Jacobsen empha­sizes,
"because they say that they can't
find unique gift stores like this where
they live. They're also attracted because
we have such a wide variety of gifts. We
provide them with an opportunity to cre­ate
custom gift baskets. Our customers
don't have settle for whatever is in a gift
box at Christmastirne. They can select
exactly what they want here year-round
and we'll package it beautifully just for
them in a way that's appropriate for any
occasion."
Margene Cox attributes much of the
success and longevity of their honey
business to her family's work ethic and
willingness to adapt to the changing
business climate.
"My maiden name was Lindley," she
explains. "I was raised on the first farm
that you pass coming out of Sardine
Canyon heading north. It was a 750-acre
dairy and cattle farm. We worked hard
on that farm, but it was good experi­ence
for me. If I hadn't been raised in
an agricultural family, I would probably
have never survived being married to a
beekeeper."
Margene adds that she and her hus­band
Duane were both raised in families
where long, hard days of work were
necessary to "keep food on the table and
a roof over our heads." Given that back­ground,
the couple naturally raised their
children to have that same type of work
ethic. "That didn't mean that our kids
didn't complain about their chores," she
admits with a smile. "But they under­stood
why those things had to be done
and that they had to work until a job was
finished, not just until they were tired or
bored."
Honey bees are social insects with
a marked division of labor within the
hives they inhabit. Each colony of bees
includes a queen, drones and workers.
In the most simple terms, the queen bee
lays eggs; the relative handful of drones
mate with the queen; and the thousands
of workers feed the queen and her lar­vae,
collect nectar from plants, produce
honey and guard the hive.
According to Margene Cox, the main
difference between the honey bees and
the humans who tend them is that, in the
family of a beekeeper, everybody is a
worker.
There are roughly 300 varieties of
honey produced in America, running
the gamut from water-white fireweed
to rich, dark amber buckwheat. In
general, lighter-colored honeys have a
mild taste while darker-colored honeys
have more bold flavors. Darker honeys
also tend to have a higher mineral
content and antioxidant potential.
Those variations of taste and content
also impact the commercial value of
particular types of honey, so successful
beekeepers spend a lot of time moving
their hives from one location to another
to take full advantage of abundant
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sources of nectar in crops or flowers
growing nearby.
In addition to producing honey,
wandering bees also help to pollinate
agricultural crops, home gardens and
wildlife habitat. The U.S. Department
of Agriculture estimates that 80 percent
of insect crop pollination is accom­plished
by honey bees and that approxi­mately
one-third of the total human diet
is derived directly or indirectly from
insect-pollinated plants and crops. So
many commercial beekeepers like the
Cox family also spend time transport­ing
their colonies around the country to
provide contract pollination services to
farmers.
Combined with the labor involved
September 2010 35
in tending their hives and harvesting
honey, the aforementioned transporting
chores keep commercial beekeepers
- and their wives and children - almost
as busy as their bees, according to
Margene.
The Cox family began to diversity
their business in the late 1980s. Prior to
that time, Duane and Margene had been
selling the bulk of their annual honey
crop on a wholesale basis to a farmers'
cooperative in Iowa. But when health
problems dictated that Duane Cox take
a less active role in the business, his
wife realized that her life was about to
change in a big way.
"I had worked in several different
jobs over the years to help make ends
meet while Duane was keeping our
bees," Margene explains. "But when
Duane had to get an artificial hip, we
realized that we had to develop a retail
side of our business to support our­selves
when he eventually retired ... If
I was going to start my own company,
I knew that I was going to have to
find my own niche. Well, I knew the
gift business pretty well because I had
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Cox Honeyland was recognized as the state of Utah's small business of the year in May.
worked in a florist shop for years; I had
also done oil paintings and some inte­rior
decorating. So I had to take those
things that I knew and use them to our
best advantage."
Like many would-be entrepreneurs in
Cache Valley, Margene's first stop on
the road to launching a new business
was Utah State University. While taking
some business classes there, she also so-licited
the support of USU's small-busi­ness
development staff, who provided
both start-up advice and testing of her
initial gift product ideas.
The retail gift side of the business
started small, Margene recalls, because
the family was determined to launch
that enterprise with out-of-pocket
money rather than incurring a lot of debt
through business loans. They installed
a pre-fabricated home adjacent to their
warehouse to serve as a gift shop. All
the manufacturing and bottling of Mar­gene
Cox' first products - honey butter,
honey syrup and cream honey - was
done by-hand in the tiny kitchen of that
home. Despite those humble beginnings,
the business took off.
But Cox Honeyland & Gifts is nev­ertheless
expanding to meet steadily
increasing demand. The Cox family
now ships an average ton-and-a-half of
honey products to locations around the
world each week and sells about a ton
of fudge annually. Their selection of
gourmet food items includes creamed
honeys, honey butters, honeyed pop­corn,
flavored honeys, honey caramels
and other types of candy. In addition
to custom baskets, their available gifts
include toys, candles, massage bars and
many other items.
"I hope that our customers want
to stop here and shop because we're
friendly and have a family atmosphere,"
Margene Cox adds. "Honey will al­ways
be our trademark, but we've got
something for everybody here now. We
try to offer seasonal items along with
our unique gifts, like all the Halloween
decorations we have on display now. We
also try to fill an educational role; we've
even got films for children that explain
how honey is made." m
"If I had been willing to risk more
back at the beginning, I would prob­ably
have a much bigger business now,"
Margene Cox admits, sitting in the
cluttered office of Cox Honeyland &
Gifts. The house's small kitchen is now
gone, transferred to the adjacent ware­house
when more room was needed for
manufacturing. A separate department
devoted strictly to creating the family's
trademark custom gift baskets is also
located in the warehouse nowadays. As
the family's product line grew by leaps
and bounds over the years, the gift shop
expanded to occupy every nook and
cranny of that structure. "But I believe
that you've got to crawl before you can
walk and walk before you run. And I'm
still just not willing to incur a lot of debt
in order to expand."
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