Loving Grantsville
As she tosses her bag into the back of the car and watch her parents
slowly start to drive away, she cant help smiling back at her town.
Born and raised in Grantsville, Lindsey Langford loves her hometown.
Her dad talks about growing up here,
and now she and her brother are considered locals too.
But she’s proud of being called a local.
Because it means she lives where the mountains are ‘just right there.’
And where the best sunsets blend into the sky each night.
Then she sits on her porch and gets to look at the whole valley below her.
Where she can only describe the view as breathtaking.
The drive up to Yellowstone isn’t bad,
and she loves visiting it each year with her family.
But she already knows she doesn’t want
to leave Grantsville for the rest of her life.
There’s already been so much joy and even heartbreak for her to ever want to leave.
In the summer she lost her dog who she had known since she was four.
That morning she remembers telling her dog Missy
“see you in a little bit,” without even knowing it would be goodbye.
But that doesn’t stop her from still enjoying life here.
Because despite the loss of her dog,
there’s still so much that gives her reason to love this town.
More than all the memories or even the view,
It’s the people. The people who are so kind and real.
She loves to be with friends, whether it’s casting a rod into a lake,
or being lifted and spun around well swing dancing.
Her family’s only going to be gone for half a week
for their yearly trip to Yellowstone.
But then they’ll come back home to Grantsville.
Back to the home she loves.
