Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Prepping the Dance Floor



 

What did the pioneers place on the dance floor to make it so feet could slide?

 

a.      Shavings

b.      Hay

c.       Pig fat

d.      Soap

 

Yesterday’s answer:

 

a.      Holiness to the Lord

 

The first all-steam company to travel to Utah’s border in 1869 made the journey from Liverpool to Ogden in twenty-four days. Yet the event that caused real celebration took place on 10 January 1870, when the last rail of the Utah Central Railroad was laid, connecting the Latter-day Saint capital with the rest of the nation. The Deseret News  reported: “The last spike was driven by President Brigham Young. A large steel mallet was used on the occasion. . . . It was elegantly chased; on the top there was engrave a beehive, surmounted by the inscription ‘Holiness to the Lord.’”

 

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Their Faces Toward Zion (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996), 164.

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