Balsam Hill Cabin

By Rod Morris

This is a story that may never have an ending. I started out simply trying to develop a timeline of Balsam Hill Cabin in Brighton, Utah, its construction, modifications and improvements. When the question was asked, "Who built this place, anyway?" the flood gates opened; the venture quickly opened into the arena of genealogy as well.

My cousin, Kif, for years, had been soliciting my attention toward pictures, letters and diaries stored in the deep recesses of her closets at a home our great aunts lived in for many, many years. They had kept suitcases and boxes full of windows into the past. The task was to simply filter out all that had to do with Brighton and Balsam Hill Cabin and I would have my story. ...more.