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Legend-Tripping At St. Anne's Retreat And Hecate In Logan Canyon: Origin, Belief, And Contemporary Oral Tradition, Anna-María Snæbjörnsdóttir Arnljóts

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

What is now referred to as St. Anne's Retreat was initially a summer home eight miles up Logan Canyon, east of Logan, Utah. It was built in the 1930s by the Boyd Hatch family from New York, and Mrs. Hortense Odlum. The property was donated in the 1950s to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, and it was used occasionally as a retreat and a vacation place for Sisters of the Holy Cross. Because it was not in continuous use, there was ample opportunity for vandals to visit, even on nights when the sisters were present. This prompted …