Saturday, October 24, 2009

Interesting e-mail from Jeremy Reeder Re: Grandpa Charles

While on the subject of Grandpa's schooling, it is also interesting to
note that at one point, he was taught by the legendary author and
American Historian, Bernard DeVoto. I had heard that DeVoto was raised
and had taught school briefly in Ogden and I once asked Grandpa if he
ever saw him. He replied rather nonchalantly, "Of course I did. He was
one of my teachers. Quite an angry little man." If you know anything
about DeVoto, that sums him up perfectly! Grandpa couldn't figure out
why I was laughing. Classic! Speaking of famous people, we also had an
excellent conversation once about selling shoes to Fawn Brodie. I'm
babbling on enough--but call me if you ever want the details of that
conversation.

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