The Christmas Pocketknife

Virgin Utah – a couple of days after Christmas, 1953. Many people who lived in Virgin in 1953 were, by any standard, poverty stricken. They had little money, grew gardens for food, and struggled every day to keep their families fed and a roof over their heads. Outhouses were the norm, and running water might have been a well if you were lucky, if not it was the Virgin River. Christmas was not the same to them as it is to us.