Welcome back to our second and concluding article regarding the history of square dancing in Park City.…
In 1949 Judd and Beth Flinders purchased a 900-acre dairy farm in the Kimball Junction area of…
Carrie Vivian Hodgson arrived in Park City in 1904 and ran a jewelry store at 363 Main…
During the years of national Prohibition (1920 to 1933), the entrepreneurial spirit to make spirits gripped Park…
Alcohol was a famous component of daily life in the old American West, and the West’s miners…
The first chapter of our story (from May 1) discussed John Edward “Jack” Inman’s immigration to the…
You probably didn’t know Tina Lewis, who passed away recently. While you may not have known Tina,…
This article is continued from last week. “In all the years I worked at the Claimjumper, I…
It wasn’t a tourist magnet like, say, the Alamo (now the No Name Saloon). Most visitors walked…
This article previousy ran back on July 1, 2015. One day in late April 1916, a circus…
Memorial Day, originally declared Decoration Day, was first observed as a national holiday on May 30, 1868,…
In Park City, Edward Payson (E.P.) Ferry is known for successful investments in local mines and an…
John Edward “Jack” Inman, who was born in Great Britain, wanted an opportunity to be judged based…
Another Olympics is on the horizon for Park City, and while it may seem like yesterday, our…
The next time you ride the Jordanelle Gondola at Deer Valley Resort, take a quick look to…
Otto Carpenter is best known as one of the founders of Snow Park, the old mom-and-pop ski…
In 1946 Otto Carpenter and Bob Burns opened Snow Park, Park City’s first alpine ski area. In…
Park City has a long and fabled history of prostitution. For 75 years, the brothels that operated…
This is the second article covering Park City’s earliest skiers. The first ran on January 24. The…
(This first-person style article first ran in August 2019.) I was born in Missouri in 1859 to…
Saturday February 27, 1971 provided a rare opportunity to experience a historic event: riding the final passenger…
This is the first article in an occasional series covering the history of the Flinders Ranch, the…
Twenty-three ski instructors – eight of them female – formed the inaugural department when Deer Valley Resort…
Mining is a challenging business, starting with finding valuable minerals to develop and even just getting to…
Often, we attribute the title of Park City’s first skier to Emmett “Bud” Wright, who used skis…
It’s that time of year again: The 2024 Sundance Film Festival will take place from January 18…
This is the third Way We Were article covering the 60th Anniversary of Park City Mountain Resort.…
On February 20, 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes sent the name of New Yorker Michael Shaughnessy to…
On December 27, 1950, happy faces of Park City High School (PCHS) band members emerged from bus…
This is the second Way We Were article covering the 60th Anniversary of Park City Mountain Resort.…
In an essay called “The Hidden Life of a Miner,” Park City historian Gary Kimball recalled overhearing…
“What tragic, criminal, treacherous, appalling changes have come to this great country of ours since we went…
On Wednesday October 11, 2023 Keith Droste joined his fellow hard-rock brethren in the “great beyond.” No…
This is the second of two articles about Parkite Jim Santy, continued from last week. Above all…
This is the first of two articles about Parkite Jim Santy. “I’ll be a resident of this…
Solon Spiro is best known in Park City for his development of the Silver King Consolidated Mine…
The many open spaces around Park City provide shelter and food for a wide variety of wildlife.…
Improvise, adapt, overcome is a mindset, a philosophy embodied in the culture of the U.S. Marine Corps…
The Park City Museum is advertising its annual Glenwood Cemetery event, taking place Oct. 7, as “Scandals…
Over the years, Park City has had many people of Spanish descent make their home here –…