Making A Difference
Meeche White grew up with three cousins who are deaf. Her experiences with them in school gave…
Way We Were
The Way We Were is a weekly article published in the Park Record written by Museum staff, volunteers, and interns. Articles date back as early as the 1980s and have proven to be a valuable research tool. The images in the Way We Were articles are copyrighted by the Park City Museum (unless otherwise noted and used by permission). If you would like more information, or should you wish to use an image, please contact Research Coordinator Dalton Gackle at research@parkcityhistory.org.
A Tale of Two (Ski) Cities – part 4
The following is the fourth article in a series on Park City and Ketchum, Idaho.In 1936 Averell…
A Tale of Two (Ski) Cities – part 3
The following is the third article in a series on Park City and Ketchum, Idaho. The last…
A Tale of Two (Ski) Cities – part 2
The following is the second article in a series on Park City and Ketchum, Idaho. Welcome back…
Craig Badami’s Impact
Park City has seen its share of world class skiers and snowboarders over the years – we…
A Tale of Two (Ski) Cities
The following is the first article in a series on Park City and Ketchum, Idaho. Park City…
The Mines Still Among Us
The Park City mining industry had its beginnings in the early 1870s with the development of the…
The Ghost of Easy Street
Above Shoe Tree Park, just east of the Poison Creek Trail, an electrical box clings to a…
The Mystery of Park City’s First Ore Discovery
Park City was known, of course, for our rich silver deposits long before we could co-lay claim…
The Growth of the Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival got its start as the Utah/US Film Festival in September 1978 at Trolley…
A Dream Secured
The following is first-person oral history from Jim Hewitson as told to David Nicholas. It is the…
Balancing School, Life, and Work
The following is first-person oral history from Jim Hewitson as told to David Nicholas. It is the…
Park City Museum: A Year in Review
Two-thousand twenty-two was an excellent year for the Park City Museum in all aspects of our organization.For…
A Workingmen’s Party: Socialists in Park City
In the 20th century, unionized Park City miners sometimes became involved with radical left-wing politics, much to…
A Hundred-year Home
December 2022 marks the 100th birthday of the Elks Building at 550 Main Street. The Benevolent and…
Stationed at Pearl Harbor
The first peacetime draft in the history of the United States commenced on September 16, 1940 in…
Vigilante Justice: “Necktie Socials” in Utah
The term “lynching” arises from the American Revolution, when Charles Lynch, a Virginia planter, held irregular courts…
Jim Hewitson’s Unique Education, part two
The following is first-person oral history from Jim Hewitson as told to David Nicholas. It is the…
Jim Hewitson’s Unique Education, part one
The following is first-person oral history from Jim Hewitson as told to David Nicholas. It is the…
A Decade of Transformation
Park City underwent significant economic and social changes in the 1960s as it started evolving from a…
More than Peanuts and Crackerjacks
In their book accompanying the Smithsonian traveling exhibit ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues /…
A Party in the Dungeon
Each year, the Park City Museum hosts an annual membership party and fundraiser for all its members.…
Howard M. Berry Recalls Stores About Town in the 30s and 40s
The following is an excerpt from an oral history conducted by Dalton Gackle with interviewee Howard M.…
The Hewitson Family Tradition
The following is first-person oral history from Jim Hewitson as told to David Nicholas. It is the…
A Modern Mystery at the Glenwood
When the Glenwood was established in 1885, the five acres were divided into blocks that were assigned…
Park City’s Fragile Mining History
Mining in Park City began in earnest in the 1870s, and by 1903 the terrain around Park…
Lucky to Live
On September 15, 1916, members of the Summit County Democrats were on their way from Park City…
A Flight to Remember
December 17, 2022 represents the 119th anniversary of man’s first flight of a heavier than air aircraft.…
Fascination with Early Aviation
“Aviation, the word that charms the multitude – that thrills the heart – that crowds the grandstand.…
A Window to the West: Photography and Exploration
Images of lands traversed and things encountered have long been important findings of explorations. The Lewis and…
Jail Break
In May, we put out an article on Alex Hamlin, who was a barber in Park City…
Park City’s D.C. McLaughlin Family
David Chase McLaughlin’s parents had grown up in Scotland and met on the same ship coming to…
A Look At Ephraim Hanks
The fascinating Ephraim Hanks caught my attention many years ago as I researched the early mining pioneers…
A Scale of Death in Park City
In 2005, Park City historian Gary Kimball published a seminal work: “Death & Dying in Old Park…
Enlivening the Glenwood Cemetery
Established in 1885, the Glenwood Cemetery’s five acres were purchased by Park City’s fraternal organizations to provide…
Mining Blues (and Purples and Reds)
Tucked between the miles of single-track trails and picturesque aspens stand the remnants of Park City’s mining…
The Drunken Doctor
This is the ninth and final article in a series on Prohibition in Park City. Many Parkites…
Mayors’ Daughter Nearly Kidnapped
This is the eighth article in a series on Prohibition in Park City. By 1926, Prohibition was…
Ski Era Just As Important
Recreation and tourism, most notably skiing, are incredibly significant and relevant to the history and development of…
What England Knew
The Park City Museum is hosting a traveling exhibit called “Viewed From Afar: European Prints of the…