I once heard as a youngin that we needed to listen to old or Aged people as that is when they attain more Wisdom. That may be with some of the smarties, but not with me. I often felt much like the Unicorn that missed the Boat. Anyway, last week or last decade we gave a history lesson about the details of the yearly Alma Jones Family Trek to Kanab. As a follow up, we wanted to show you the "Honeymoon" suite in the Josie Wales movie filmed near Kanab. We hope you find the Suite Sweet with your Sweetie! Jones Dry Wit! After your Honeymoon, we will give you the questions we asked the participants once we got back to the conference room at the Perry Hotel, where all the movie stars of yesteryear stayed. I had the answers to many of them, but you may find it fun to ask your kids the same questions. Our older brother-Airman Weston Jones was on a plane headed to the Pacific Rim during the Viet Nam war. John Wayne boarded as well, and sat next to Weston, and that Big Jake guy questioned Weston about Nephi and wanted to know if he had been to Kanab. When Wes said he didn't know, he thought John Wayne was going to Duke it out with him. John Wayne then gave him a history lesson about Utah. John Wayne was on his way to film the movie "Viet Nam" which gave a lot of True Grit to our soldiers. Oh, by they way, the word Kanab was named for a Paiute word meaning "place of willows". When the Jones Family spent time there, Kanab was still the "Old West", but now, like Nephi and other Utah rural towns, it has been taken over by money mongers and big city folks and none came from El Dorado; Fort Apache and afraid a lot of them came by way of the Rio Grande illegally.
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