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SPRINGVILLE -- When she was a girl, Mary Elen Shenk had a recurring nightmare. She was being chased by bears and she ran into the upstairs closet in her family home. She slammed the closet door. Then she was safe.
Today, she lives in that same home, the oldest house in Springville. It was built in 1856 by her great-great-grandparents, William and Ann (Dilworth) Bringhurst.See the full content of this document
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There's No Place Like Home
The upstairs closet is still there. The family always called it "the long closet." When Shenk was a child, the top cupboards in the long closet were for stuff no one looked at any more and the lower cupboards were where the family games were kept.
She knows who built the cupboards in that huge old closet.Shenk's neighbor, who recently moved back to Springville after her husband retired from the military, is the grandd...See the full content of this document
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