The Home Front: Park City and Rationing during WWII
After the United States entered World War II in December 1947, the federal government implemented a national…
Way We Were
Piecing Together A Home
The following is an excerpt from an oral history with three of the Sundstrom children (Doris, Patricia,…
Political Violence
Politics are not often polite. And that phenomenon is not unique to today (or just the U.S.).…
A Neighborhood of Tragedy
Content warning for description of injuries. The Park City Museum’s Annual Historic Home Tour returns on June…
One Small Town, Two Newspapers
On May 26, 1983, forty years ago this week, The Newspaper, a brash upstart weekly that gave…
Recycling Revisited
The simplified version of Recycle Utah is that Scott Becker launched Park City recycling in 1989. But…
Preservation of the McPolin Farm, Part 2
This is the second article covering preservation of the historic McPolin Farm on Highway 224. There had…
Preservation of the McPolin Farm, part 1
One of the places that everyone passes while driving into Park City is the McPolin Farm. Considered…
Investing in the Ontario Mine
The Park City Museum is hosting a lecture called “Marcus Daly’s Utah Years” given by attorney and…
Webb: The Town Photographer
Kendall Webb, born in West Virginia, moved to Park City in 1946. Prior to that, he worked…
Recreational Allure of the Great Salt Lake
Most stories written today about the Great Salt Lake have to do with its fragile ecosystem. Without…
Two Worlds Coming Together
One of Park City’s most unique buildings sits at the southeast corner of Park Avenue and Heber…
A Tale of Two (Ski) Cities – part 5
The following is the fifth and final article in a series on Park City and Ketchum, Idaho.…
Making A Difference
Meeche White grew up with three cousins who are deaf. Her experiences with them in school gave…
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…