Orson Clark-12/14/81 - Pg 10

acquainted with them. But now we go to church and we are perfect strangers.

Interviewer: It makes you feel odd, doesn't it, in your own town?

Orson Clark: Yes, it makes you feel a little peculiar. And yet, you know what it is all about. There are ten wards in the stake now. In our ward, the Third Ward, when the children meet in the old chapel, do you know they nearly fill that chapel, just the young children. Last night I was up there when one of the other wards came along and their youngsters were going in there. It seemed to me that they had as many as we did. Just two wards out of the ten.

Interviewer: All young families then.

Orson Clark: Young families. That's what the people are that are coming in. It is young people, there are not older people.

Interviewer: When you came back to Farmington, what did you do?

Orson Clark: The first thing, they grabbed us on the church and took us into the Temple. We officiated for nine years in the Temple. The Salt Lake Temple.

Interviewer: Did you do any farming here at all when you came back?

Orson Clark: No. The people that had it, they had it part of the time while I was in Oregon, and I just let them stay right there. No, all the farming I have done since I came back is my lot out here. Oh, I did a little improving. We had one spot with a lot of rocks and stuff and corner places that needed a little fixing up and the like. I did things like that. So I've got this place down here now, it's in good shape.

Interviewer: You still have it then?

Orson Clark: Thirty-two acres.

Ruth Knowlton: What do you do with that now? Do you rent it out?

Orson Clark: I rent it out to the fellow that had it. He raises a little hay and grain. He has raised corn on it sometimes. He doesn't raise much. It's just waiting for the time when this thing opens up and subdivides.

Interviewer: If it opens up, which I hope it will.

Orson Clark: Oh, it will open up one of these days. We are in very lovely location. It's right straight down here, just on the other side of the creek there. Anyone that wants to buy, to have