Silver or Poison?: Naming a Creek
The U.S. Geological Survey maps of Park City refer to the perennial stream originating in lower Deer…
Health
Tallies of Woe: Glenwood Cemetery
The Park City Museum is advertising its annual Glenwood Cemetery event, taking place Oct. 7, as “Scandals…
A Kittie At Miners’ Hospital
In 1897, the year after Utah achieved statehood, the state legislature approved funds to build a “State…
School Vaccination Programs
At the start of the school year few things are less pleasing to students than receiving vaccinations.…
Making A Difference
Meeche White grew up with three cousins who are deaf. Her experiences with them in school gave…
A Scale of Death in Park City
In 2005, Park City historian Gary Kimball published a seminal work: “Death & Dying in Old Park…
A Brief History of Cannabis in Park City
Situated mostly at altitudes surpassing 7,000 feet – as the t-shirts in the window displays exclaim –…
Thanksgiving 1918 and Thanksgiving 2020
Perhaps no year is more relevant than this one to take a look back at Thanksgiving 1918,…
My story: John Judge
(Eighth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine). My life was tough…
Edward LeCompte, Pioneer Doctor to All
When the 1918 flu epidemic reached Park City, the town went under quarantine at the insistence of…
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…
Watch Out for the Strawberries
The McFalls’ home at 501 Woodside will be featured on this year’s Historic Home Tour, put on…
Park City’s First (Short-lived) Hospital
Last week’s article explored the efforts of businessman E.H. Howard and Doctor Thomas Monahan to found and…
Opening the First Hospital in Park City
Many of you are familiar with the story of the Miners Hospital. You know that as Park…
Changing Standards for Milk
Public health became an increasingly prevalent concern in the United States in the late nineteenth century. As…
803 Norfolk and the History of Quarantine in Park City
Quarantine as we understand it was first implemented in Venice in the mid-14th century. In an effort…
Live with One Leg or Die with Two
It’s no secret that mining was a dangerous occupation. Risk factors included “miner’s consumption” (silicosis), lung damage…
Riding a Bucket in a Blizzard
Imagine this scene: it is winter 1916 and a heavy storm is dumping snow and ice onto…
See Truths! Learn Facts!
“Not a Hollywood fantasy!” This poster from 1949, eye-catching with bright reds, yellows, and blues and big,…
Poison is Unregulated
We might imagine the “Roaring ‘20s” and Prohibition as a time of excess and excitement. However, the…
The King Mandates Insurance
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act nicknamed Obamacare.…
But for a Box of Apples…
We know next to nothing about Armendio Novario outside of the few details in the Park Record…
Park City’s First Hospital
In 1893, laborers in Park City joined together to form the Western Federation of Miners Union #144.…
Meet the Gregors
Park City has seen plenty of doctors throughout its history. Regular readers of this column, visitors to…
Fighting to be Flu-free
As you read here last week, Park City did not escape the “Spanish flu” pandemic that ravaged…
Pandemic arrives in the Park
For those unfamiliar with details of the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic here are some statistics: it affected…
Murder (?) on the Utah Central
When it comes to the story of Edward Rowan’s life and death, we have only the barest…
Home Remedies
We’ve all come across bizarre home remedies for treating various ailments, most of them popular a century…
The Upper End of Town
When silver was first discovered in Summit County in the late 1860s, miners lived near the original…
Hospital Day
Thank you for joining us for the last installment in a series of articles about the names…
Pleasing Manner and Exceptional Ability
Last week looked at Isabel Grant and her time at the Miner’s Hospital. Born in Nova Scotia,…
The Miners Hospital’s First Matrons
The story of the Miners Hospital has been told many times. Founded in 1904 with money contributed…
Prescription for an Addiction
On a chilly evening in early November, 1906, Dr. LeCompte received a desperate call from Deer Valley.…