Before Teton Valley had pools, it had the Teton River and one real hot spring on the other side of the Big Holes. Community historian Joyce Driggs Edlefsen follows Pincock Hot Springs from an old man named Butler, who sold the water rights to limestone prospectors John E. and James H. Pincock, to a hole in the side of the hill with steps cut down into the water. A shack and dressing rooms came next, then a road, then John Pincock's 1912 concrete pool and a dance hall that drew big crowds and, by one old account, a fair share of rowdies.
The column moves through Frank and Susie Pincock, the 1942 house fire, Robert Thueson piping the water down the hill in 1944, and the Neibaur family taking over. It closes on a personal note: the author nearly drowned in the deep end as a kid, showing off for her parents, until a stranger pulled her out. Her ask to readers is the best part: everyone who grew up here has a Green Canyon story, so tell it.