This letter is regarding Paul Zaenger’s essay about ashes (HCN, 9/5/05: The meeting of heaven and earth). My mother and grandmother were both strong advocates of women’s rights and the Democratic Party in Utah. It was fitting that we broadcast their ashes into the stream up Emigration Canyon in Salt Lake City, allowing their liberal spirits to flow down through town, maintaining vigilance as they had in life.

Ed S. Kleiner
Gardnerville, Nevada

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Spirits in the stream

by Ed S. Kleiner, High Country News
October 17, 2005

<h1>Spirits in the stream</h1> <p class="byline">by Ed S. Kleiner, High Country News <br />October 17, 2005</p> <p>This letter is regarding Paul Zaenger’s essay<br /> about ashes (HCN, 9/5/05: The meeting of heaven and earth). My<br /> mother and grandmother were both strong advocates of women’s<br /> rights and the Democratic Party in Utah. It was fitting that we<br /> broadcast their ashes into the stream up Emigration Canyon in Salt<br /> Lake City, allowing their liberal spirits to flow down through<br /> town, maintaining vigilance as they had in life. </p> <p><b>Ed S. Kleiner</b><br /> Gardnerville, Nevada</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=189038">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Spirits in the stream</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-308/spirits-in-the-stream/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=111616&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-308/spirits-in-the-stream/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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