Oral Histories
Deone Skewes
b.1920

A: I don’t know. I have no idea.
Q: It seems that the Literary Club, supposedly, helped found the Museum.
A: They probably did. But I have never been a club person or a joiner.
Q: You were just a free soul?
A: Yes. I don’t like regulations and I don’t like to be at a certain place at a certain time. And feel that I have to do this, you know. I guess you can call it laziness.
Q: Oh, I don’t think so. It sounds like a free spirit. So you must have evolved some philosophy of life.
A: Well, I don’t know whether I have or you just try to live and let live.
Q: Well, maybe that’s it. Live and let live and you go your own way. But your way led back to Moab.
A: Yes. Oh, I wouldn’t want to live anywhere but here. I really wouldn’t.
Q: So why is that?
A: I just don’t know. I think because I have had such good memories here and a lot of friends and, few of them are still hanging around.
Q: Yeah. I think it is really great. People talk about resale value and I say, “I don’t want to sell. Somebody else’s problem.”