Into the Wild
The DNews had a small story with big holes about the Spanish Fork kid who disappeared only to be found by his father in Salt Lake City, playing his violin for handouts and sleeping in the homeless shelter. Wednesday, Porter Bowcut, 17, hopped a UTA bus for adventure in the north country. He wound up at Gateway Mall playing his violin for handouts. His dad Carl says the boy made enough to go to movies, "And to buy some church pants to go to church the next day."
Maybe Jon Krakauer can get a book out of Porter's Big Adventure. Especially, the eerie, faith-building part when dad Carl felt he should look for his son up north."I just felt the impression that I should go look for him in Salt Lake. So I went there and found him."Porter is the adventurous one in the family, Carl says with a laugh, "None of my other children would have done this."
Haha. Tell it to the Spanish Fork cops who were inundated phone calls.
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Speaking about our "up north" big city:
Back in 1996, soon after moving to Utah to shoot for the Provo Daily Herald (talk about culture shock), I covered a Boy Scout Jamboree in Fillmore. At one point, a scout leader of some sort gave a speech in front of a few thousand scouts and family members. I can't remember everything about it, but at one point he must have been talking about the need to maintain virtue or some similar thing, because he referred to Salt Lake City as a den of iniquity and/or the devil's playground. If those weren't his exact words, they are close enough. He seemed genuinely concerned, even fearful.
Talk about eerie, though I am not sure about faith-building.
Which makes me recall the time Rage Against the Machine came to Spanish Fork. But that's another story.
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