The Circus Comes to Town
This article previousy ran back on July 1, 2015. One day in late April 1916, a circus…
Posts by Author: Courtney Titus
Housing Reform in 1901: NYC v. Park City
The Park City Museum is currently hosting the traveling exhibit, Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half…
The Legacy of Lagoon
Utah’s Lagoon Park is one of the ten oldest amusement parks in the country.[1] The earliest version…
Pitch ‘Em, and Have Some Fun!
Park City loves to play. In fact, Park City was reborn after the collapse of the mining…
Park City’s First Playground
For many of us, it’s impossible to remember our childhoods without recalling time spent at a playground,…
Paving the Way to a Modern City
While mining put Park City on the map, it took plenty of work over the years to…
Poison is Unregulated
We might imagine the “Roaring ‘20s” and Prohibition as a time of excess and excitement. However, the…
The Strange Disappearance of Richard Cordell
Unsettling stories of mysterious disappearances like those of Amelia Earhart or the lost colony of Roanoke have…
“Let the Beauty of Your Adornment Be the Workmanship of Your Own Hands”
The Industrial Revolution produced new technologies that rapidly changed everyday lives in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Inventions…
The Bullet Complex
Marie Arthur, our “woman slayer” from last week, was back in the headlines in 1916, just over…
Murder and All That Jazz
Ten years before Chicago’s Murderess Row inspired the play, and later musical, Chicago, Park City had its…
The Circus Is Comin’ to Town, Yes Siree!
One day in late April 1916, a circus agent rolled into Park City, and thus began the…
Snow Patrol
“‘Oceans of snow’ and no place to move it presents a very ‘tough’ problem… the past winter…
Bison: American Imagery, National Identity
As the Park City Museum is currently hosting The Bison: American Icon exhibit, this week’s Way We…