In Mark Twain’s “Roughing It,” the former Virginia City news reporter sheds light on the journalistic integrity…
KPCW's broadcasting of news, weather, and music is thanks to many different voices. Randy Barton, current host…
This is the third article in a four-part series. The first serious discussions of building a local…
This is the second article in a four-part series. In 1978 Blair Feulner, the future General Manager…
Hot solutions rich in silver, lead, and zinc infiltrated the Park City underground. These minerals are the…
During August of 1914, the 108th meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers was held in…
This is the first article in a four-part series. On July 2, 1980, KPCW went live with…
Park City was a mining town for over 100 years. The industry and town flourished together with…
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt uprooted the lives of 110,000…
(Seventh in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) What a lucky thing…
In late May 1907, The Silver King Mining Company was no more. Born was the Silver King…
(Sixth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) Hard work and a…
Nearly four decades after it was first proposed the Park City—Alta tunnel idea was resurrected by United…
In 1939, the Bureau of Reclamation (BoR) proposed delivery of one million acre-feet of water annually from…
On May 4, 1919 approximately one thousand Park City miners joined forces with organized labor to embark…
Mormons arrived in Utah 21 years prior to ore discovery in Park City and there was inadequate…
Entry into World War II left Park City’s mines shorthanded. By early 1942, a total of 346…
(Fifth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) I was born in…
When the 1918 flu epidemic reached Park City, the town went under quarantine at the insistence of…
The following article by Donovan Symonds is the first of two on the shared history of Coal…
School closed, public gatherings banned, restaurants and businesses shuttered, people sick in our community from a new…
Despite March Madness being canceled this year, we can still talk about basketball. Basketball’s invention is credited…
Bill Tatomer, Dick Olsen, Jeff Smith, Marty Cowin, Scott Evans, Les Gurski, Trent Leavitt, Barney Murnin, David…
Sex work was an active business in Park City from the 1880s until 1955. The most well-known…
Welcome back to our second article discussing the impact of the first Transcontinental Railroad on the development…
The Keetley Depot in its original state before being moved to Park City. The Parkite seniors were…
In November of 1946, “two ski lovers and sportsmen,” Otto Carpenter and Bob Burns, approached Mel Fletcher,…
Few historical figures have been as revered in the collective American imagination as Meriwether Lewis and William…
It is likely that anyone who owns a piece of property is familiar with its legal description.…
The title of this article may remind readers of the movie “Field of Dreams” - a magical…
Forty-two years as a film festival, thirty-nine years in Park City, twenty-nine years as The Sundance Film…
Many of Utah’s residents are unaware of the people who have lived in Northern Utah since before…
On Friday, May 8, 1953 the two largest mining firms in the Park City district, the Silver…
The Park City Museum has had a wonderful year (and decade)! Along with celebrating our 35th birthday,…
While it’s great to receive gifts for the holidays, especially from loved ones, most would argue that…
The Ontario Mine, prospected in 1872, was an incredibly successful silver mine in Park City thanks to…
Park City Woman’s Athenaeum member Margaret Jennings, far left, with her sister Winnie, far right, and others.…
The United States has a major milestone to celebrate in 2020: the ratification of the 19th Amendment.…
Many people throughout the country get together with family or friends on Thanksgiving. They sit around a…
We have now been open in our expanded museum space for a full ten years! We would…