Golden Spike Historic Site in Promontory Summit, Utah | September 1974 & September 2015
Excerpt
from my grandmother’s travel journal on September 16th, 1974: “Walked
out on the site to look closely at the two locomotives, tent, wagons,
etc. Nobody there but us – and the warm sun. Nice Danish woman was an
employee at the counter – bought a medal, booklet, and card.”
After
viewing my grandfather’s photograph, the ranger went on to tell me how
his parents are now retired in Colorado. While golfing one day, they met
a man who was a key component in getting Golden Spike authorized as a
National Historic Site in 1957. The ranger and I imagined the
possibility of the man in the photograph and the man in Colorado being
one and the same.
By chance, I also visited Golden Spike on September 16th – exactly 41 years after my grandparents.