Rossie or Rossi: Who’s to Blame for Butchering the Name?
On August 25, 1983, the Park Record published a terse one-sentence letter-to-the-editor scolding the paper for calling…
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The Life of Mary Rasmussen
Much of Park City’s population was made up of immigrants when it was a silver mining town. …
My story: Mary Harney Judge
(Ninth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine). I’m the successful Salt…
A Runaway Train and Escaping Visions
Last week’s Way We Were told the story of a 1970s plan to redevelop the area around…
The Great Train Fantasy
“Big Plans for Main Street,” The (Park City) Newspaper’s lead headline blared on March 2, 1977. Five…
Empty Promises
Next Wednesday, September 16, Park City Museum members will visit the site of the Nelson Queen Mine…
My story: John Judge
(Eighth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine). My life was tough…
Eleanor Bennett
More than 30 years ago I got a phone call from Eleanor Bennett. She befriended me because,…
The Grim Reaper at the Hamilton-Sprague
It was just after four o’clock in the afternoon of August 18, 1923 when James Healey and…
Exaggerated Claims: The Golden King Mine
In Mark Twain’s “Roughing It,” the former Virginia City news reporter sheds light on the journalistic integrity…
A Local Voice
KPCW's broadcasting of news, weather, and music is thanks to many different voices. Randy Barton, current host…
The Times They Are a Changin’
This is the third article in a four-part series. The first serious discussions of building a local…
Staff Change
The Board of Trustees of the Park City Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of long…
Funding the Local Radio
This is the second article in a four-part series. In 1978 Blair Feulner, the future General Manager…
The Era of Explosive Volcanoes
Hot solutions rich in silver, lead, and zinc infiltrated the Park City underground. These minerals are the…
Field Trip to the Silver King
During August of 1914, the 108th meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers was held in…
The Three Homes of KPCW
This is the first article in a four-part series. On July 2, 1980, KPCW went live with…
Along the High Line
Park City was a mining town for over 100 years. The industry and town flourished together with…
Too Close to Home: Keetley’s Japanese Relocation Farm
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt uprooted the lives of 110,000…
My story: Jennie Judge Kearns
(Seventh in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) What a lucky thing…
The Big Merger at Park City
In late May 1907, The Silver King Mining Company was no more. Born was the Silver King…
My story: Thomas Kearns
(Sixth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) Hard work and a…
The Wasatch “Super-Tunnel”
Nearly four decades after it was first proposed the Park City—Alta tunnel idea was resurrected by United…
A Tunnel to Free the Ore
In 1939, the Bureau of Reclamation (BoR) proposed delivery of one million acre-feet of water annually from…
The Park City Miners’ Strike of 1919
On May 4, 1919 approximately one thousand Park City miners joined forces with organized labor to embark…
Labor Unrest Grows after WWI
Mormons arrived in Utah 21 years prior to ore discovery in Park City and there was inadequate…
Dizziness and Shortness of Breath
Entry into World War II left Park City’s mines shorthanded. By early 1942, a total of 346…
My story: Windsor Volney Rice
(Fifth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) I was born in…
Edward LeCompte, Pioneer Doctor to All
When the 1918 flu epidemic reached Park City, the town went under quarantine at the insistence of…
Coal Mining is a Different Game
The following article by Donovan Symonds is the first of two on the shared history of Coal…
Echoes of the 1918 Spanish Flu Appear Today
School closed, public gatherings banned, restaurants and businesses shuttered, people sick in our community from a new…
The Girls Have Game
Despite March Madness being canceled this year, we can still talk about basketball. Basketball’s invention is credited…
Bonus Way We Were: The Champs!
Bill Tatomer, Dick Olsen, Jeff Smith, Marty Cowin, Scott Evans, Les Gurski, Trent Leavitt, Barney Murnin, David…
COVID-19 Response
We’re Open! We’ve Missed You! The Park City Museum is currently open Wednesday through Sunday from 11…
Behind Closed Doors
Sex work was an active business in Park City from the 1880s until 1955. The most well-known…
California Dreamin’
Welcome back to our second article discussing the impact of the first Transcontinental Railroad on the development…
We Get Things Done
The Keetley Depot in its original state before being moved to Park City. The Parkite seniors were…
It’s a Road You’ll Have to Walk Someday
In November of 1946, “two ski lovers and sportsmen,” Otto Carpenter and Bob Burns, approached Mel Fletcher,…
How We Understand the Settlement of the American West
Few historical figures have been as revered in the collective American imagination as Meriwether Lewis and William…
Million Dollar Mistake
It is likely that anyone who owns a piece of property is familiar with its legal description.…