THE HERALD JOURNAL OCTOBER 5-11, 2012

Cache Magazine

getaway FOR Gunslingers

Hyrum resident re-creates an old west town in his backyard

As you’ll see over the next dozen pages or so, there are plenty of good reasons to get out the house this week-end in Cache Valley. But then again, this is one of those two weekends in the state of Utah where many of us feel justi-fied in being couch potatoes. I mean, even if you don’t watch anything else but LDS General Conference, that’s still a solid eight hours worth of televi-sion over two days. This, of course, can be a bit of a challenge for anyone’s attention span, particularly those of young children. It’s actually the only time when your 8-year-old might actually say something like: “Mom. Dad. I’m tired of watching TV. Can I please go outside and do something?”

As adults, it used to be that falling asleep was the only real temptation while watching General Conference at home. But now, with the prevalent use of DVRs, it’s easy to record a session or two while you go to the kids’ soccer games or go shopping, then watch them at your leisure. But therein lies the great temptation: the ability to fast forward. While there are no commercials to skip, there are a few minutes at the beginning and the end of each session that aren’t exactly must-see G.C. Then, you know, if you’re not really into music, it’s pretty easy to fast forward through a Tabernacle Choir song or two. I mean, a lot of people use them as a bathroom break or an opportunity to get something to eat or drink, anyway. But then the temptation gets far darker, such as it is acceptable to fast forward through an opening or clos-

ing prayer? Or even worse, an entire talk? Not by an apostle, of course, but perhaps a new member of the Seventy whom you’ve never heard of? The answer, of course, is no. Just like it would have to be considered bad to channel surf and check football scores while watching General Conference live. Which is why it’s probably also best if you’re LDS to just keep your TV remote stashed out of your reach for eight hours or so this weekend. And if you have need to record some of the sessions, just don’t wait too long to watch them. I know I start feeling bad if I leave an old episode of “M*A*S*H” on my DVR for too long. I can’t imagine how guilty I’d feel if I didn’t realize I still had four hours’ worth of General Conference from October on there until I recorded next April’s conference.

— Jeff Hunter

FROM THE EDITOR

CONTENTSCOVER STORY

ART

MOVIES

THEATER

MUSIC

CALENDAR

BOOKS

8 Step back into the Old West in Hyrum backyard

4 USU Chamber Singers deliver ‘Autumn Voices’

12 J.K. Rowling’s writing takes a very adult turn

4 Old Barn delivers Oscar Wilde’s “Earnest”

5 ‘The King and I’ ready to return to Logan

3 Cache County School District art on display

7 No need to take in new movie sequel to ‘Taken’

13 See what’s happening this week

5 Salon d’Automne gets underway at art gallery

Bruce Olsen of Hyrum has re-created a little bit of the Old West in his backyard. (Photos by Jennifer Meyers)

October 5-11, 2012

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ALL MIXED UP QUOTABLE

PET OF THE WEEK

“We’ve been going hog wild on it.”

– Bruce Olsen on the Old West town he’s built in his backyard in Hyrum

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Available for adoption

Pet: CuervoFrom: Cache Humane SocietyWhy he’s so lovable: My name is Cuervo. I was caught wandering and brought to the Cache Humane Society. What a great place. While here I have showed staff that I know some basic commands, and absolute-ly love stuffed toys. Since I can’t communicate my previous histo-ry, I have showed them promis-ing signs of being housetrained. Like any other sporting breed I want to be going all the time, and need a human with the same wants. I would do great as a sidekick for any outdoor adventure. Come in and see me. I would love to meet you. Call 792-3920 for more infor-mation.

From out of the schools

acquire works of art created by Utah artists. Although the paintings were originally located in school’s through the valley, as many of the paintings begin to suffer from years of hanging in hallways and cafeterias, the CCSD started to collect and store them for safekeeping in the 1980s. Some of the paintings were then sold to help restore oth-ers, many of which can cur-rently be seen hanging in the district office. However, Bushman thought the art was so good, that he wanted more people to have a chance to view it, and starting in Janu-ary, he started putting up art displays at the Hyrum Library. The fourth and final exhibit

Paintings from CCSD on display in Hyrum By Jeff HunterCache Magazine editor

Scott Bushman first encountered the Cache County School District’s art collection while in Salt Lake City over a decade ago. Bushman and fellow Hyrum resident Ted Kin-dred were visiting mutual friend Ted Wassmer when the renowned Utah artist asked, “So, how’s my girl doing?” Although Bushman didn’t know it at the time, Was-smer, who died in 2006 at the age of 96, was referring to a scene he painted in the 1930s of a woman seated on a swing in a garden. The woman was Wassmer’s art teacher, Florence Ware, and the painting was hanging in the office of CCSD Superin-tendent Steven Norton. Although he’s best known in Cache Valley for his decades with the U.S. Forest Service and the Logan Hot-shots fire crew, Bushman has painted since he was in high school and was an art major at the University of Utah. Curious to see what Wassmer was talking about, Bushman ended up visiting the Cache County School District office in North Logan and was stunned to discover the quantity and

the quality of the art work there. Most of the paintings were acquired in the 1930s as part of a pet project started around the state by Alice Merrill Horne. Fund drives, often involving children’s milk money, were held in order to help school districts

on display until Nov. 30 is entitled “Utah Land-scape Impressionists” and features nine paintings by George M. Ottinger, James Taylor Harwood, John H. Stansfield and Bent Frank-lin Larsen. “A lot of these paintings have been on display and open to the public at the district office, but we just wanted to try and create an opportunity for more people to see the collection,” Bush-man explains. Bushman will also address the Cache Valley Historical Society at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10. Held at the Historic Cache Coun-ty Courthouse, Bushman’s presentation is entitled

“The Cache County Art Col-lection.”

Above, James Taylor Harwood painted but apparently didn’t name this corn-stalk scene which is currently on display at the Hyrum Library. Left, “Blue Canyon” by George M. Ottinger.

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ALL MIXED UPOld Barn delivers ‘Earnest’

The Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston pres-ents Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Ear-nest” every Monday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. from Sept. 28 to Oct. 20.

“The Importance of Being Earnest” promises to over-flow with humor, elegance and romantic comedy. Since its first performance on Feb. 14, 1895, Wilde’s master-piece has become a respect-ed piece of literature and has delighted audiences with its wit and wisdom.

“The Importance of Being Earnest” tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, both young men who have taken to bending the truth to add a dash of excitement to their lives. Jack has invented an imagi-nary brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull home in the country in order to frolic in town.

Algernon has an imagi-nary friend, Bunbury, who provides a convenient and frequently used method of taking adventures in the country. However, their deceptions eventually cross paths, resulting in a series

of hilarious discoveries that threaten to spoil their romantic pursuits.

Earnest is full of insights into the flamboyant lifestyle of the fashionable British upper classes, and as Alger-non admits, “If I am occa-sionally over-dressed, I make

up for it by always being immensely over educated.”

The cast includes Josh Winkler (Jack), Jared Rounds (Algernon), Tasha Bush (Cecily) and Kassie Kidd (Gwendolyn).

Tickets for “The Impor-tance of Being Earnest” at

the Old Barn are $8 for adults and $7 for children and seniors. Tickets may be purchased online at www.oldbarn.org or by calling (435) 458-2276.

There will also be mati-nees on Oct. 6 and 13, at 2:30 p.m.

The Old Barn Community Theatre’s performance of “The Importance of Being Earnest” include cast members Josh Winkler and Jared Rounds (above left) and Tasha Bush (above right).

Fall is in the air for USU Chamber SingersCelebrate the changing

season as Utah State Uni-versity’s Chamber Singers present “Autumn Voices” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, at the USU Performance Hall.

The evening features the USU Chamber Singers, led by director of choral activi-ties Cory Evans, and the University Chorale and

Women’s Choir, led by direc-tor of special programs with the Caine College of the Arts, Michael Huff. The choral ensembles will be joined by band members from “Out of the Blue.”

“The evening will have a decidedly autumn feel, includ-ing striking décor and lighting, with tunes that celebrate the season, including “Autumn

Leaves,” Earth, Wind, and Fire’s “September” and the harvest hymn “Come, Ye Thankful People, Come,” said Evans.

The Women’s Choir will also perform Bob Chilcott’s

“Little Jazz Mass” and Karl Jenkins’s “Adiemus,” as well as an arrangement of “Jonah” by American composer Rollo Dilworth.

The USU Chamber Singers will perform the regional pre-miere of Paul Mealor’s “Ubi Caritas,” performed at the recent wedding of Prince Wil-liam and Kate Middleton, and the USU Chorale will perform hits from “Mary Poppins: The Musical” and the upbeat gospel tune “Praise His Holy Name.”

Tickets are $10 for general

admission, $8 for seniors and youth, $5 for USU faculty and staff and free for USU stu-dents with ID.

Tickets for “Autumn Voices” can be purchased at the Caine College of the Arts Box Office located in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, online at the college website (arts.usu.edu) or by calling 797-8022.

Lauren Sevian joins Utah State University’s jazz students for a memorable performance in “Big Bands” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, at the Performance Hall on USU’s Logan campus.

Sevian has performed since she was 12 years old, first on the piano and then the saxophone. She attend-ed the Manhattan School of Music, graduating in 2001. In 2003 Sevian became a member of the Mingus Big Band, winning a Grammy award in 2011 for its album “Live at the Jazz Standard.”

The concert will feature USU’s Jazz Ensemble and the Jazz Orches-tra performing pieces that include

“Moanin’” by Charles Mingus and “Walking Shoes” by Gerry Mulligan.

Tickets for “Big Band” are $10 general admission, $8 seniors and youth, $5 faculty and staff and free for USU students with valid ID. Visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or go to the college website (arts.usu.edu).

Top jazz musician coming to USU

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‘King and I’ coming up Music Theatre West will present “The King & I” at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 11-13 and 15-16, including two shows on Oct. 13 — a 1:30 p.m. matinee and an evening show — at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Jay Richards, returning to the production as the King of

Siam, and Sabrina Woodland as Anna, lead this talented cast in the beautiful Rodgers & Hammerstein classic. There are 36 delightful chil-dren in the show, including the Prince and Louis. Some of the costumes are authentic and were purchased in Thailand.

Memorable music, stunning costumes and choreography combine to make “The King & I” an evening perfect for the entire family. Ticket prices range from $14 to $19 and are available at www.cachearts.org or by call-ing the box office at 752-0026.

Music Theatre West production starts Oct. 11

Fall salon starts at art gallery In 1667, Louis XIV began a tradition in France of fall salons, in which annual dis-plays of French artists showed their works. It gave prestige to a kind of art presentation that became an annual event by 1737. The works of members of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture were exhibited in the room of the Louvre called the Salon d’Apollon, from which the word “salon” is derived. A spring salon has been offered in Spring-ville for some years, and now the Logan Fine Art Gallery is offering a salon of its own. The Salon d’Automne 2012 is open to all interested in presenting their art in Cache Valley. The Salon d’Automne reception will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at the Logan Fine Art Gallery, 60 W. 100 North. The awards presentation will take place at 7:30 p.m., with the grand-prize winner receiv-ing $1,500; three runner-ups $500 each, and eight honorable mentions $100 each. The Salon d’Automne will then continue through Jan. 2, 2013. The 2012 jurors include G. Russell Case, a native of Brigham City and a graduate of Utah State University, and James Morgan, nationally recognized artist and member of the National Academy of Western Art, the Northwest Rendezvous and the Society of Animal Artists. The Logan Fine Art Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Visit www.loganfineartgallery.com or call 753-0333 for more information.

Top, “Red, White, and Blue” by Glen Edwards is featured at the Logan Fine Art Gallery this fall. Above, “Have You Hugged Your Hen Today?” by Helen Lauritzen.

Vikings head to museum

Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology takes an in-depth look at the archeology of Vikings Oct. 6 at its next “Saturdays at the Museum” activity. The event offers visitors a chance to learn about the Viking way of life and culture.

Highlights include mythology, Viking water-craft and a presentation on Viking travel to the Ameri-cas. Young people attending the Saturday activity can make their own rune stones.

USU student Martin Welker is featured in a pre-sentation at the museum at 1 p.m. He’ll discuss his stud-ies in Viking archaeology.

“The Viking archaeologi-cal record is a fascinating look at Scandinavian cul-ture, mythology and influ-ence,” said Kevin Price, a museum assistant. “Fierce explorers, warriors, mer-chants and pirates, Vikings forever changed the course of Western civilization.”

In addition to the Satur-days at the Museum activity series, community members and USU students alike can visit the museum during its standard operating hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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It’s not too late to join fall semester classes in professional musical theatre training at the Utah Festival Conserva-tory of the Performing Arts. Students ages 6 to 18 years old can take a variety of lively classes in acting, dancing and musical theatre, all taught by experienced and highly educated theatre professionals. Adults can take a class in tap dancing.

Only youth who par-ticipate in Conservatory training will have the chance to audition for Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre’s 2013 productions of “Joseph and the Amazing Tech-nicolor Dreamcoat” and

“Fiddler on the Roof.”These classes focus on

the individual’s artistic process, while provid-ing solid fundamental techniques,” said Stefan Espinosa, Conservatory director. “We want the students to develop their artistic abilities as well as their confidence and sense of artistry.”

This semester classes include Theatre Tots, storybook theatre, cre-ative drama, voice and speech for the stage, stage combat, Broadway Babies workshop, musi-cal theatre, two ballet classes, lyrical jazz and adult tap dancing.

“Our curriculums are designed not only to maximize the students’

potentials but also to bolster confidence and create an environment dedicated to collabora-tion and mutual respect,” Espinosa said. “The skills our Conservatory students learn go far beyond the stage and will serve them all their lives.”

The Conservatory has garnered rave reviews from parents and stu-dents.”

“I love how the Con-servatory provides a safe environment for my children to try something new, share their ideas, and explore the many aspects of theater,” said Kaelin Olsen. “They look for-ward to their classes and

I have been impressed with how much they have learned and how comfortable they are on stage.”

Four-year-old student Avah Spinning agrees. “I would go every day and stay there all day!”

Classes range in price from $65 to $95 for the entire semester and will be prorated. Discounts are available for taking more than one class and

for having more than one child enrolled. The courses have just begun and continue until Dec. 21. They are held at the Dansante Building, 59 S. 100 West.

“I can’t say enough good about what the Conservatory has done for my kids,” said Logan resident Melanie Conrad.

“It really makes it pos-sible for those who don’t have a lot of money to

give their children such a wonderful experience.”

The Conservatory is part of the education wing of Utah Festival Opera and Musical The-atre.

Class space is limited. Contact Kevin Nakatani at 750-0300 or kevin@ufomt.org for more information, or visit www.utahfestival.org for details and downloadable registration forms.

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‘Taken 2’Director // Olivier MegatonStarring // Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Rade Serbedzija, Jon GriesRated // PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, and some sensuality

There are two names that strike complete and utter fear into the hearts of Eastern European mob-sters and terrorists.

The first is Jack Bauer; the second, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson). In the first “Taken” film, Liam Neeson traveled to France where his daughter had been kidnapped by a sex-slave ring and proceeded to kill everyone he pos-sibly could to retrieve his daughter. Its action was fun, its fight scenes excit-ing, and there were thank-fully very few scenes where Maggie Grace was asked to do anything more than look scared.

“Taken 2” has forgotten completely what made the first movie so much fun. Instead writer Luc Besson, together with director Oliver Megaton, have created a laughably bad action movie by any standard.

The movie starts off with two very important plotlines. One, Kim (Maggie Grace) has a new boyfriend and; two, she also can’t seem to pass her driver’s license test. These two crucial story arcs are deemed as such because the script mistakenly thinks we care if Kim gets a driver’s license or not. It goes so far as to suggest that romping around in Tur-key, and driving cars fast down crowded streets as random bearded men shoot at her, had some bearing on her passing her test with flying colors when she returned home.

“Taken 2” is much more concentrated on explain-ing how a clueless girl like Kim can be taught the finer points of defensive driving while she helps her dad save her kid-napped mom, than focus-ing on important stuff like

‘Taken’ sequel should be left behind

Liam Neeson kicking the stuffing out of people.

Rade Sherbedgia has made a living out of playing the go-to East-ern European/Russian gangster/terrorist. Here he takes on the role of Murad. He happens to be the father of the guy that Bryan strapped to a chair in the first movie and electrocuted. Needless to

say, Murad is one angry man. It seems that all those nameless swarthy sex-slave traders in the first movie actually had meaningful lives. They were husbands, fathers, and sons. Now their rela-tives want revenge.

Murad’s plan is to kid-nap Bryan and his fam-ily. Seems like an easy plan, but like all movie

terrorists he’s required to be dumber than a sack of potatoes. What does Murad do after he cap-tures Bryan? After his requisite Bad Guy Mono-logue, Murad has Bryan zip-tied to a metal bar in the basement of his hide-out, and then he leaves. He doesn’t even leave a guard in there to watch for any funny business.

So, let me get this straight, you’re going to simply zip-tie the hands of a guy who killed approximately 47 people in the first movie and not leave anyone to guard him? Bryan Mills might as well be fighting a gang 10-year-olds.

The movie’s assumption that we want to see more

of the adventures of Kim staggeringly misses the mark. Instead of watch-ing Neeson pounding gangsters into submission, we’re treated to entire stretches of the movie where all we see is Mag-gie Grace awkwardly trying to help out. In one sequence of scenes, the script calls for her to let grenades fly around in the middle of bustling Istanbul. It’s almost as irresponsible as watching Will Smith and Martin Lawrence careen down through a hillside shanty village, crunching houses and untold people under the tires of their Hummer.

Now, you may be say-ing to yourself, Well, at least if the fighting is good then I won’t mind about the other stuff. But

they’ve found a way to mess that up, too.

Beneath the hyper-active, half-second, slop-py editing are things that could be called fights, but you wouldn’t really know since it’s just a flurry of hands and feet quickly spliced together to give the illusion of movement. Add to that the fact that all the fight scenes are pretty standard fare for any action movie.

Lost is the fun, ener-getic, and oft times sur-prising, fight scenes of the first movie. They’ve been replaced by mun-danely choreographed scenes that wouldn’t even pass for action on a basic cable TV show.

“Taken 2” is a com-plete disappointment from start to finish.

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Liam Neeson takes on kidnappers again in “Taken 2.”

ruce Olsen’s backyard village in Hyrum came together as fast as a California boom town during the gold rush era.

What started as the remodeling of a shed into a bunkhouse just 2 1/2 years ago quickly became a reasonable facsimile

of an Old West town, complete with bank, jail, blacksmith’s shop and a noose for hanging trou-blemakers.

Just as many saloons and hotels of the 1800s had a false front, so do some of Olsen’s creations. Next to the Grand Hotel and Saloon are the blacksmith’s sign and the Sheriff’s Office, none of which are in use, except to store tools and lawnmowers. On the other hand, the bunkhouse is fully functional, featuring bunkbeds, toy dino-saurs from the really Old West and a television of more recent vintage. It has become the hangout for visiting grandchildren.

“Every time they come they have to go straight to the bunkhouse,” Olsen said.

With the kids camping out in the bunkhouse, there arose a need for a bathroom. An old gra-nary reclaimed from Hyrum State Park — where Olsen was the manager for many years — became the perfect outhouse, complete with a chemical toilet and a sink offering “dehydrated water.”

The rest of the town came together to meet a need or just for fun. A recycled gate became part of the “Chuckwagon,” an open kitchen of sorts with two barbecue grills, a refrigerator and a microwave. Next to that reside a post office and a Wells Fargo Bank, and on the other side Olsen’s General Store houses gardening supplies, if not flour and sugar.

Each section “takes a long time because I’m slow,” Olsen said, noting that he should have moved his tools from the shop in his garage to the back of his 1.5-acre property, where the town sits, to save walking back and forth: “I put a lot of miles between here and my shop.”

Olsen and his wife, Judy Ann, moved to Hyrum more than 50 years ago when Bruce took a position at Hyrum State Park. They thought it would be a great place to raise their three chil-dren. At one point they had a huge garden out back, but as the garden has shrunk to a more manageable size, the town has taken more of their energy.

Once neighbors and friends saw what was

A TASTE OF THE OLD WEST

going on, they pitched in with ideas and items. One of their daughters who works for a sign-making business provided many of the custom-made signs that give the town its authentic look (it even has a hitching post that Bruce said “hasn’t been used yet.”) Wanted posters of the Olsens’ children and grandchildren line the fences.

“We’ve had a lot of stuff donated from friends, or found it at the DI,” said Olsen, now 79 years old. “We’ve been going hog wild on it.”

Mostly the town is occupied only by their grandchildren, but more and more larger groups are utilizing the facility. The Olsens have hosted church groups, families and reunions, setting out tables, erecting sunshades and even rolling out a portable “stage” for performers to use.

“Just last week we had 70 people here,” Bruce said. “We like to see people come have a good time. I know I have really enjoyed it.”

At one time the Olsens had cattle, sheep and a horse on the property, which Bruce named

Quitchupah Ranch, after his father’s ranch in Emery County. The family brand, which vaguely resembles a boat anchor, is scorched into wood in several places. Multiple outbuildings hold every-thing from old oil cans to a matched pair of large paintings: A man dressed like a matador in one, a woman with black hair in the other.

“If I didn’t have a lot of buildings (to keep stuff in), you could call me a hoarder,” Olsen said with a smile. “I spend all my time now keeping things going.”

Now they are down to one creature: a red-combed rooster. “He’s pretty gentle,” Olsen said, and it soon became clear why — the rooster is stuffed.

The neighbors, however, do have live chickens to lend that rural ambiance, along with the bray-ing donkeys beyond another fence. It may not be Tombstone, but it’s not that far off.

Not long ago former neighbors Reed and Dixie Conger, who now live in North Logan, came to what Dixie called “an empty-nester Family Home Evening” at Quitchupah, and with 40 or 50 others, enjoyed a sing-along led by Bruce.

“He’s a really good entertainer,” Dixie said. “Bruce and Judy Ann are the most clean, orga-nized people. They really transformed this old property into something of beauty.”

Bruce, she added, is “very good at putting things together from nothing and making it look great.”

When asked if he has plans for further expan-sion, Olsen said, “No, I don’t. Well, I do. My wife and I talked about extending that (hotel facade) over to the fence to make it easier to set up the (shade) awnings.”

And with plenty of open space around, there is room to grow, although his stash of old lumber and roofing tin — purchased decades ago from a bank for $30, the parts once were a local dairy barn — have only recently run out. To generate ideas, Bruce relaxes in the old double-rocker near the chuckwagon. “I read the newspaper and think about things, plan it out a bit.”

Whether or not the town grows any further, Bruce will likely continue to refine it.

“I try to build stuff that people don’t see every day,” he said. “We’ve had a good time with it. You don’t anticipate the growth with something like this; it just keeps getting bigger. I’ve been down here building every day, it seems like.”

Story by Lance FrazierPhotos by Jennifer Meyers

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Bruce Olsen shows off the outhouse he added to the Old West town he built in his backyard in Hyrum.

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PHOTOS BY YOU

Blacksmith Fork Canyon scene submitted by Marcia Green.

Above and top right, 9-year-old Finnegan Brewer of Logan recently encountered some unique rock-cairn art while hiking up Dry Canyon.

‘Treat’ yourself to magicMagicians Richard

Hatch and Richard Can-non will be giving three special performances on behalf of Logan’s Harmony Lodge #21, F. & A.M. Saturday, Oct. 13, at the historic Dan-sante Recital Hall, 59 S. 100 West. Because the 13th is numerically the reverse of the date of Halloween on the 31st, they have chosen to call their show “Treat or Trick” and present an alternating series of classical deceptions.

Cannon, a member of Harmony Lodge, holds the first-place title from last year’s inaugural Cache Valley Conjurers Competition. Richard Hatch is the co-owner of the Hatch Academy of Magic and Music, housed in the Thatcher-Young Mansion.

This family friendly performance will fea-ture plenty of audience

participation and comedy born of bewilderment. Tickets are $10 for adults; $5 for students with ID and children under 12

and may be purchased online at www.harmo-nylodge21.org/tickets or by contacting George F. Winters at 757-6017.

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BOOKSRowling returns with new novel for adultsDeepti HajelaAssociated Press

So look, here’s the thing: This. Is. Not. A. Children’s. Book. If you’re look-ing for what made Harry Potter magical

— Wizards! Spells! Flying Broomsticks!

— you’re not going to find it.

If you’re looking for what makes J.K. Rowl-ing magical — emo-tion, heart — you will.

“The Casual Vacancy” is the first novel writ-ten for adults from Rowling, the suc-cessful-beyond-belief author behind the

“Harry Potter” series about the young boy who discovers he’s a wizard.

Published in the U.S. by Little, Brown and Company and in Brit-ain by Little, Brown Book Group, “The Casual Vacancy” is scheduled to come out Thursday and has been held under tight control, with media outlets required to sign non-disclosure agree-ments before being permitted to see the book. The Associated Press declined to sign such an agreement and instead purchased a copy early.

Already at No. 1 on Amazon, the book has gotten early buzz from references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest “Potter” fans.

It’s set in the small British village of Pag-

ford, and tells the story of what happens after the unexpected death of a town official leaves a vacancy on the town’s governing body. A long-simmering conflict over what the solidly middle-class village should do about the residents of a poverty-stricken, drug- and crime-infested hous-ing project on the edge of town gets heated, inter-woven with the personal lives and problems of Rowling’s characters.

This isn’t a book that’s easy to fall in love with, the way Harry Potter was with its charming, win-ning hero and his plucky

friends, saving the world from evil with the help of a powerful spell or two.

Even with its moments of humor, it’s a hard story where some people just don’t get saved, because really, they never had a chance. It’s filled with often unlikeable people, some of whom cross the line into terrible. They’re all unhappy in one way or another, even if the only people who know that are themselves, if that. They can be judg-mental, mean, petty and violent. Some are dam-aged beyond repair. Even the deceased official, in some ways the most posi-

tive, moral force in the story, is shown to have hurt his wife with his dedication to his cause that clearly came at her emotional expense.

But what could have been an unreadable story becomes something else in Rowling’s hands, thanks to her gift of being able to make her characters complex and really, just human.

Readers know these people. They’re famil-iar, with their moments of lashing out in anger or hoping against hope that this time things will be different. They’re people the reader feels

something for, even it’s just pity, because they’re struggling, because life can be hard and some-times there just aren’t any breaks, because even people who look like nothing but trouble can do something good. A number of her characters are teenagers, trying to figure out their places in the world, with all the emotional peaks and val-leys that can bring.

That ability to bring her characters to their emotional life was a hallmark of the Harry Potter series — it didn’t become a global phe-nomenon just because it

was an exciting adven-ture, but because there was a real heart to it, characters who had both strengths and weaknesses, who struggled with their choices.

That’s what makes this book worth it, despite a slow start and sometimes too much of the descrip-tions and adjectives that added life to Harry Pot-ter but at times tend to bog Rowling down here. That’s what makes the book’s ending scenes so heartbreaking — turning the page seems unbear-able, but not as much as putting down the book would be.

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The Utah Humanities Book Festival in conjunction with Holmgren Historical Farm are excited to present acclaimed indigenous poet, musician and activist Joy Harjo reading from her new memoir “Crazy Brave” in the Holmgren Historical Barn at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at the Holmgren Historical Farm, 460 N. 300 East in Tremonton Utah. Other key sponsors of this event include Weller’s Book Works, The Women and Gender Center at Utah State University and Utah State University Library’s Special Collections and Archives Division.

What explains our fascination with dinosaurs? Is it their size? Or is it our endless curiosity with how these “terrible lizards” — a rough translation of the word

“dinosaurs” coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842 — ultimately met their demise? At Utah State Uni-versity’s Science Unwrapped at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, featured speaker Ken Carpenter takes us on an exciting journey to unravel some of the mysteries of these ancient creatures. Known as Utah State’s “Indiana Jones of Bones,” Carpenter is curator of paleontol-ogy and director of USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah. He presents “The Latest and Greatest: The Science Behind Dinosaurs” in the Emert Auditori-um, Room 130, of the Eccles Sci-ence Learning Center. For more information, call 797-3517, visit www.usu.edu/science/unwrapped or view the ‘Science Unwrapped at USU’ page on Facebook.

All are invited to public night at the USU Observatory from 8:30-10:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 5. Hosted by USU’s Physics Department, guests are invited to view the night sky through the observa-tory’s 20-inch telescope on the roof of the Science Engineering Research building. Admission is free. For directions, visit www.physics.usu.edu/observatory.

The 12th annual Moondog

Ball, Four Paws Rescue’s larg-est fundraising event, will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, the Logan Golf and Country Club, 710 N. 1500 East. Ticket are $55 and go on sale Sept. 1 at Citrus & Sage, Logan’s Gardeners’ Market, Caffe Ibis, Fuhriman’s Framing and Fine Art, The Italian Place or through Buddy at 435-881-1063. There will be a silent auction, hors d’oeuvres, music and entertainment. For more information, visit www.petfinder.com/shelters/4paws.html.

The 3rd annual Run From Poverty is a 5K fun run spon-sored by the USU Sociology Graduate Student Association to help benefit the Cache Com-munity Food Pantry and provide scholarships at 9:30 a.m. Satur-day, Oct. 6. We’ve had great runs in the past and are excited to be holding this year’s event on the USU campus. Come join us in a run from poverty. Registration forms can be found on our Web site at runfrompoverty.webs.com/. If you have questions or would like to help sponsor the event please contact Andrew Burger at andrew.burger@aggiemail.usu.edu. Registration is $15-20.

The World of Puppetry Museum will be open from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Fine Arts Center, 58 S. 100 West, Brigham City. Free activities include puppet history tours and demonstrations, puppet mak-ing and puppet play, a “Punch & Judy” show at 3 p.m., and puppet story time at 4 p.m. The museum is open the first and third Saturday of each month from 2 to 5 p.m. or by appoint-ment for groups. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. Also available are private tours for scouts, school classes and other groups. Call (435) 723-0740 for appointment.

The Cache Valley Folk Danc-ers and Bridger Folk Music Society are hosting its “first Sat-urday” contra dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East. Mike Cottle will be the

caller and the band is Phoenix Rising. Both are from Salt Lake City. A $6 donation is suggested at the door; $3 for children under 12. Beginners and families are welcome and all dances are taught. For more information about contra dancing, call 753-2480 or 753-5987, or visit www.bridgerfolk.org/contra.html.

October is the month for fun scary movies at the Logan Library. On Monday, Oct. 8, we will show “The Spiderwick Chron-icles,” which is rated PG. Movies begin each Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the Jim Bridger Room. Movies are free and open to the public. Call 716-9121 or visit library.loga-nutah.org for more information.

The Greenville Elementary School Fall Festival will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8. Everyone is invited. There will be food, games, raffle and prizes.

The Little Theater at Macey’s in Providence will host a class at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9: Heart Healthy Recipes. More and more people are diabetic or having heart-related illnesses in our community, but you don’t need to sacrifice great flavor for healthy food. This class will show a few recipes that will capture your taste buds, and make you feel great. Please reserve a seat today at the Macey’s service desk or on Facebook at the Prov-idence Macey’s Little Theater Classes page.

The Cache County Elemen-tary String Program operated by Mountain West String Acad-emy will hold its Fall Benefit Gala Tuesday, Oct. 9. Emmy-award winning composer Kurt Bestor and world-renowned choral direc-tor Craig Jessop will be featured at the event. A reception with Bestor and Jessop will be held at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7:30. At 8:15 p.m., Jessop will speak, followed by a concert by Bestor with MWSA students and

fiddler Aaron Ashton. There will be dancing after the show to the music of Lightwood Duo. Tickets for the reception, dinner, show and dancing are $75; tickets are $32.50 for just the show and dancing beginning at 8 p.m. Call 770-9189 or visit supportmwsa.com for tickets and additional information.

Come and learn about eating healthy and exercising while on a budget at OPTIONS for Independence Independent Living Skills Class. We will also be discussing mobility concerns in regards to healthy living. The class will be held 6-8 p.m. Tues-day, Oct. 9, at OPTIONS, 1095 N. Main St. This group is open to people with all kinds of disabili-ties. For more information con-tact Anna at 753-5353 ext. 103.

The Utah Festival Musical Opera Guild will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Dansante Building, 59 S. 100 West. New-comers are welcome.

USU Career Services is host-ing its annual Tech Expo, involv-ing technology-based employers, from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom. Additionally, Career Service’s first-ever Fall Career Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, also in the ballroom. Students and alumni are encouraged to attend both events.

Utah State University Exten-sion is offering a research-based course, “How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk (or Jerk-ette).” Whether you are single, dating, engaged, or single again, this class offers information about how to pick a partner and develop a relationship in a healthy way. This three-session program is offered free of charge. Two series of classes will be held in October: Tuesdays, Oct. 9, 16 and 23; and Thursdays, Oct. 11, 18 and 25. Both classes are from 6 to 8:15 p.m. and will be held in the FCHD West building, 670 E. 500 North. Please call (435)

232-6022 or email k.anderson@usu.edu to register. Registration is also available at eventbrite.com.

OPTIONS for Independence Quilters Group will be held from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N. Main St. For more infor-mation contact Royella at 753-5353 ext. 105.

The Smithfield Historical Society will host this year’s Founder’s Day celebration. A sesquicentennial program will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, at the Summit Elementa-ry School auditorium. All present and former Smithfield residents are cordially invited to attend.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures, a nonprofit that provides outdoor recreational opportunities for youths and adults with disabilities is hosting their annual dinner and auction,

“Reach for the Stars” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, at the River-woods Conference Center. Tick-ets are available now at Com-mon Ground, 335 N. 100 East or online at www.cgadventures.org. For more information on becom-ing a sponsor or volunteer call 713-0288.

Bring your family to the Little Bear Bottoms Corn Maze in Wellsville on Oct. 11 for a night of fun and help support Nibley parks. When you enter the corn maze, tell them that you are there to support Nibley City, and half of your admission price will be donated to Zach Maner’s BSA Eagle Scout proj-ect to raise money for the new community park on 250 West in Nibley. Support your community and have fun with your family at the same time as you meander through the corn maze, scram-ble around in the giant straw fort, or take a trip on the spooky barn ride. For more information, go to: www.lbbcornmaze.com.

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was an exciting adven-ture, but because there was a real heart to it, characters who had both strengths and weaknesses, who struggled with their choices.

That’s what makes this book worth it, despite a slow start and sometimes too much of the descrip-tions and adjectives that added life to Harry Pot-ter but at times tend to bog Rowling down here. That’s what makes the book’s ending scenes so heartbreaking — turning the page seems unbear-able, but not as much as putting down the book would be.

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By Myles Mellor and Sally York

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ANSWERS FROM LAST WEEK

DEADLINES Cache Magazine calendar items are due Wednesday by 5 p.m. They will also run for free in The Herald Journal one to two days prior to the event. Calendar items can be submitted by email at hjhappen@hjnews.com. Any press releases or photos for events listed in the first half of Cache Magazine can be sent to jhunter@hjnews.com. Poems and photos can also be sent to jhunter@hjnews.com and run on a space-available basis if selected.

Across1. “The War of the

Worlds” base5. Tweed of politics9. Beginning to cry?13. Hire19. Two-dimensional

extent20. Looking down from21. City on the Brazos22. Skilled bowler, in

cricket23. Paper purchase24. Polymers used in

adhesives26. Jim Palmer, nota-

bly27. “Little ___”30. Macho type31. Sierra Nevada,

e.g.32. Bête noire33. Word with drum or

canal36. Proof word39. Unit for measuring

speed, in computers45. Kenneth Graham

classic49. Draped dress51. Mania starter52. Like a button?53. Does the dishes54. First Hebrew letter56. Picnic crasher58. Bag61. Verb with thou62. Classified64. Goat antelope68. Let go70. Hockey team75. Early pulpit76. Box ___77. Mottle80. Chunks84. Comptroller, for

short86. “Serial ___” (1994

John Waters film)88. Twilled fabric89. Digestive enzyme91. “___ Colors”95. Mongongo

97. It’ll grow on you98. Under complete

control103. Mount, as a horse104. Chewed stimu-

lant105. Aquarium denizen106. Palm starch108. Tongan group

dance110. Poetic feet115. 1984 slasher flick123. Toward the cen-

ter124. Shakespeare, for

one125. Severe blow126. Loath127. Leprechaun’s land128. Peak near Taormi-

na129. Kind of pricing130. Expirations131. Feudal worker132. Cut the crop133. Cavefish’s func-

tionless parts

Down1. Quagmire2. Sharp spur3. Prepare for another

fight4. Pago Pago’s place5. Kind of coat6. Mayberry sot7. ___ syllables8. Went on and on9. Roll call misser10. Canine tooth11. Caustic12. Promising13. Abstruse14. Handel opera15. Greek earth god-

dess: Var.16. In a frenzy17. Comes together, as

a plan18. “___ Time transfig-

ured me”: Yeats25. Divine28. Cap site

29. From the start34. Shock’s partner35. Baryshnikov’s birth-

place37. Wildebeest38. Six-time home run

champ40. Medicinal plants41. Hopper42. Dumptruckful43. Holds44. Furtive summons45. Sen. Lott46. Aware of47. Incessantly48. Layer49. Visited50. ___ king55. Persecuting one57. Lao-tzu principle59. Polish remover60. ___ canto (singing

style)63. DeLuise65. Babysitter’s hand-

ful66. 8 pts.67. Way to go?69. Fiction writer

Caletti71. “Marriage Ref” net-

work72. Split73. Warm, dry wind74. Violin named after

maker Antonio, for short78. Special effects:

(abbr.)79. One of L.B.J.’s

beagles80. Smooth81. ___ dance82. Ad- and co- follow-

ers83. Thai currency85. Kind of card87. Artist’s inspiration

source90. Formal letters92. “Arabian Nights”

menace93. Pie in the sky?94. ___ Epoch

96. Not just “a”99. Seth’s father100. Beneficiary, of a

kind101. More exposed102. Deplaned107. Gold braid109. Bon ton111. Lock horns112. No-goodnik113. Misrepresent114. Editorial directives115. Actress Campbell116. Brain wave117. Bind: var. sp.118. Sauteed dish119. Have coming120. Double curve121. Authority122. ___ judgment123. ___ Magazine

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