Gay Taylor

GAY TAYLOR was born and grew up in Idaho, a state with sensible names for their towns like Bliss, Chili, Fish Haven, Potlatch, Lava Hot Springs. Traveling around she knew immediately what to expect. Then she worked one summer, in her student days at BYU, in the registrar's office mailing out catalogues to towns in Utah called Tooele — pronounced Two Will Uh — or Panguich, and only the Panguiches know how to say that. It was unsettling. Being married—is it only fifty-six years?— to S. W. Taylor hasn't helped.