Please note that this content is no longer being updated. As a result, you may encounter broken links or information that may not be up-to-date. For more information contact us. Bethine Church grew up in Idaho Falls and moved to Boise when she was in high school.
Jim : Tell what that was like growing up there, because that's really where you grew up, you didn't grow up in Boise? For Idaho Falls in those days, I was 17, it was the middle of my senior year in high school, and suddenly my father was elected governor.
Idaho Falls was a potato place, a quiet little farm community. It didn't have the INEL, it didn't have any of the big push from anywhere outside of the state, and so coming to Boise was just like uh well maybe like years later going from Boise to Washington, D. It seemed to me I was always uprooted. Jim : How would you describe to people what Idaho Falls was like back in those days before you came here?
Bethine : It was really a wonderful place to live. It, we marched over by the. I was in the marching band for the Idaho Falls High School. So that's how I first met Frank. I came over here with the people who were elected in school, and my best friend was the student body president and she still to this day I talk to her in Idaho Falls and she's still one of my best friends.
So it was a very personal life I was leading, and suddenly, boom. Jim : You grew up sort of on the, on the edge of the depression. I wasn't around back then, but I read history and you read the books and it talks about how hard it was, how horrible it was, how awful it was for everyone; I've gotten a completely different view when I talk to people.
