I was born in Nyssa, Oregon on the Snake River. My dad had just graduated from BYU and was preparing to leave for the National Boy Scouts of America Training Center in New Jersey before taking his first job as a Scout District Executive in Idaho Falls. So it made sense for me to be born in Nyssa where my Mom’s parents lived a few miles out of town on a dairy farm. The most prominent feature of Nyssa is the large sugar factory near the river...
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