Sounds like a great party at the Lion House; would have loved to have attended. ..bruce..

My grandmother used to tell me about haunted houses done at Enos Wall’s mansion (in recent times the LDS Business College). Her uncle, Harry, was the Wall’s houseman (he lived in an apartment over the stalls in back with his wife). I believe he also worked as a caretaker for the place when it was the Jewish community center, so perhaps the haunted houses date from then?

I’ve done very little research on the Wall mansion outside of looking through the photographs of the interior at the Historical Society. My parents own some furniture and knick knacks from it passed down from Harry and I might have identified one of our tables in a photograph of the Wall library…

*sigh* again reminded of projects I’d like to have time for…

This sounded like a fun party to me, too, and I’m glad everybody is liking the idea — and is being so funny about it!

Seems like they used to have more fun activities for adults back then. Have we replaced them with even more stuff for our arguably over-scheduled youth and extra meetings for the adults?

Catherine Hurst would say that it is impossible to give an answer unless you include a stamped, self addressed envelope. Or else ask your mother.

Likely, Brigham Young would have said “I’ll loan you my extra clothes for costumes”, followed shortly thereafter with something along the lines of “Why do we adopt the gentile customs so intended to undermine our home-grown and homely amusements?”, after which he grab the “enchanted cord” and laugh his way through the various rooms with several eastern journalists who had stopped by to interview him. At least that’s my take.