Modern-Day Girls Revisit Pioneer Times

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FAIRFIELD, Utah -- Before Saturday, Feb. 20, the 8- and 9-year- old girls in Girl Scout Troop 2104 had never shot a muzzle-loader rifle or sewn a handkerchief doll. Neither had three 10-year-old friends from Pleasant Grove or a pair of cousins from Eagle Mountain.

But after a day at the Fairfield Schoolhouse in Cedar Valley, everyone who'd come for "Camp Floyd Ladies Day" had played frontier games, done lessons on a slate, done laundry on a washboard and danced the Pattycake Polka. They learned about getting a portrait taken with a box-in-a-box camera.

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