The Last Living Expert
On Wednesday October 11, 2023 Keith Droste joined his fellow hard-rock brethren in the “great beyond.” No…
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Park City’s Music Man, part 2
This is the second of two articles about Parkite Jim Santy, continued from last week. Above all…
Park City’s Music Man, part 1
This is the first of two articles about Parkite Jim Santy. “I’ll be a resident of this…
Solon Spiro Gets Married
Solon Spiro is best known in Park City for his development of the Silver King Consolidated Mine…
Cousin Jack: Cornish Workers in Park City
Cornwall lies at the southwestern tip of Great Britain. Though it’s administered as a county of England…
Mentions of Mexicans in Park City
Over the years, Park City has had many people of Spanish descent make their home here –…
A High School for Park City
Starting out as a boomtown meant that Parkites had to create and build many of the necessary…
A Park City High School Experience in the 1940s
The following is an excerpt from an oral history the author conducted with Howard Berry, Jr., who…
A Kittie At Miners’ Hospital
In 1897, the year after Utah achieved statehood, the state legislature approved funds to build a “State…
Thaynes Canyon Through the Years
Anyone who has recreated in Thaynes Canyon knows it is an active, well-traveled place. Turns out that’s…
Happy Birthday, Thelma!
On August 10, 1923, this item appeared in the Park Record: “At the L.D.S hospital, Salt Lake,…
History Lived
Many people can reminisce about the history through which they have lived. This writer, for example, has…
A Vision of the Future, part 3
The following is the third article in a series on the idea to build a ski resort…
A Vision of the Future, part 2
The following is the second article in a series on the idea to build a ski resort…
A Vision of the Future
The following is the first article in a series on the idea to build a ski resort…
Ernie’s Spur-of-the-moment Rodeos
Every July the Oakley Rodeo attracts hundreds of professional contestants and thousands of spectators to a four-day…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Stationed at Pearl Harbor
The first peacetime draft in the history of the United States commenced on September 16, 1940 in…
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…
More than Peanuts and Crackerjacks
In their book accompanying the Smithsonian traveling exhibit ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues /…
The Hewitson Family Tradition
The following is first-person oral history from Jim Hewitson as told to David Nicholas. It is the…
Lucky to Live
On September 15, 1916, members of the Summit County Democrats were on their way from Park City…
A Window to the West: Photography and Exploration
Images of lands traversed and things encountered have long been important findings of explorations. The Lewis and…
Jail Break
In May, we put out an article on Alex Hamlin, who was a barber in Park City…
Park City’s D.C. McLaughlin Family
David Chase McLaughlin’s parents had grown up in Scotland and met on the same ship coming to…