Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Back when marathon swimming races flourished in the Great Salt Lake

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“FLOATING like a cork” in the Great Salt Lake was a very popular pastime in Northern Utah, from when the first pioneers arrived unt...
Monday, April 22, 2019

1913: Salt Lake City’s first-ever ‘marathon’ race, only 5 miles and more of an obstacle course

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                                A slice of the crowd at the 2012 Salt Lake City Marathon race. SOME 57 years before the first Des...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

The Mormon Pioneers encountered the first major east wind event in 1848

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            The view out of Farmington Canyon.                                  Photo by Roger Arave HORRIFIC, gusting east canyon w...
Saturday, March 9, 2019

The beginnings of golf in Utah: More social than athletic and a pricey endeavor at first

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                             A Salt Lake Tribune illustration from April 22, 1900  THE beginnings of the sport of golf in Utah...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Alta was a synonym for avalanche in late 19th Century Utah; Plus, humor from many decades ago

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                    The lower end of Little Cottonwood Canyon.   THE most dangerous place to live in Utah during the late 19...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Misspellings are a 'bear' for Davis County's Bair Canyon

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DAVIS County has one bear of a spelling problem in one of its larger canyons. Signs, histories, newspaper articles - just about everything...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Before Lagoon there was 'Eden Park' in Bountiful

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                                       Lagoon's first swimming pool. BEFORE Lagoon Park moved east to its current location in 1896, the...