From Deseret News archives:
There's no place like home
Five generations have lived in and loved the same residence
She knows who built the cupboards in that huge old closet.
Shenk's neighbor, who recently moved back to Springville after her husband retired from the military, is the granddaughter of the carpenter who made the cupboards. Shenk talks happily about this connection with her home's history. Of course when you live in a house that has been in your family for nearly 150 years, the history of place and the history of family are one in the same.
Shenk knows that Brigham Young slept in the south bedroom, next to the upstairs parlor. That bedroom was her sister's when they were girls. The upstairs parlor has long since become a bedroom, and when Shenk was a girl that was where her grandmother slept.
The sign hung on the front door, and it told visitors to come around to the side door. Shenk has kept her mother's sign. It's near the kitchen sink, where she can see it every day. "I was very close to my parents," she says.
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