Olympic History of Park City lecture given by Tom Kelly

Park City Museum will host a lecture called Olympic History of Park City given by Tom Kelly on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 from 5-6 p.m. held at the Park City Museum Education and Collections Center located at 2079 Sidewinder Drive. More information can be found at www.parkcityhistory.org.

Over the past decades, Park City has become one of the most noted mountain towns in the world — a true Olympic community where you rub shoulders with gold medalists over coffee and kids grow up in a culture of sport. With the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games returning to Utah in 2034, historian Tom Kelly will reflect on Utah’s Olympic origins and the role Park City continues to play.

Tom Kelly discovered his passion for skiing as a young boy in Wisconsin. He built a career in the ski industry from the small resort of Telemark in northern Wisconsin onto the U.S. Ski Team. He spent 32 years as head of communications for U.S. Ski Team. Tom moved to Park City in 1988. His career took him to ten Olympics and he was at the finish line supporting athletes for seventy-five Olympic medals. Today he is a noted ski historian and he is on the Board of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame and was a past President of the Alf Engen Ski Museum Foundation.