Hope this note finds you doing well.
We're planning a Willard Neeley Family picnic on Monday, July 10 from 5 pm to 9 pm and would love to see you there. More details to come, but we're thinking of meeting again at Antzak Park in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. Everyone can bring their own dinner for their family and a little desert to share. I'll send out an update once we have the park reserved.
To celebrate the occasion, here's an entry from Willard's journal:
Saturday, May 13, 1905 - Carlisle - Fine day.
Elder Hazen and I came from Upperby (spelling?) arriving at the lodge about 10 am. While at the lodge Pres. Hill and wife and Elders Glen and Baird of the Leeds conference called on us, then also the Atkinson girls. We all went through the old Carlisle Castle visiting the dungeons and other historical points. Our guide explained much to us of events that had transpired within the walls of that ancient place where hundreds of prisoners had perished, the death list raising to forty in a night. He also related events accompanying the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots which lasted about eight years when she finally received her death sentence and was taken outside of Carlisle and beheaded. After leaving the castle, we went to the state to see our visitors off to Scotland. While waiting in the station seen Pres. Grant in a train that had only stopped a minute, we waived at him. After seeing our friends off, Elders Everett, Taylor, Hazen, and I went to the Carlisle Cathedral, attended services at 4 pm. After which we went to the museum, went through it. There seen many ancient relics and articles of interest, we returned from the museum to the lodge. Had supper after which we all went to hold street meetings. After holding three meetings we came to the lodge. It was quite late when Elder Hazen and I went to Sister Lightfoot’s to go to bed.
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