One day when I was a young boy, while playing with other kids at our family farm in Kaysville, Utah, we found a pioneer wagon wheel lodged in the side of the creek that ran by our property. What a find! In our ignorance of its signficance, we had found a new play toy. We spent the afternoon rolling it down the hill into the creek and into the mud. Eventually it broke, and was immediately abandoned by us. It wasn't until years later that I learned that my great- grandfather, Alfred Alder, was one of the original pioneers of Kaysville, and settled close to the very fields where our farm was located. Though the wheel could have belonged to any random pioneer wagon, the fact that we were so oblivious to how significant the artifact was has always been in the back of my mind.
LESSON LEARNED: Understanding our ancestors and their past may hold some the greatest treasures life can offer us.
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