Wednesday, June 24, 2020

A pair of never built roads in Bryce Canyon National Park: One in the bottom and the other a loop road

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BRYCE Canyon National Park had somewhat of a lackluster beginning, being in the shadows of the more highly esteemed sister park, Zion. Fro...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

When dynamite could have destroyed Lone Peak ...

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COULD Lone Peak have been destroyed by a dynamite blast in 1937?   “Will dynamite crash hilltop(?)” was the headline of an As...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

A look at early ship wrecks on the briny and unpredictable Great Salt Lake

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                                   The Great Salt Lake southwest of Antelope Island.  THERE seems to have been plenty of boate...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

A pair of antique advertisements: One from Ogden in 1959; And one from Parowan in 1933

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HERE are 2 classic ads from past decades in Utah: A KLO radio ad from the Ogden Standard-Examiner of Oct. 2, 1959. -------------------...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Confrontations with ‘monster’ rattlesnakes in early Utah

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                           A snake warning sign, just off the road, north of Boise, Id. RATTLESNAKES are a critical part of Utah’s...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

1856: When Salt Lake City was reported to have been sunk by an earthquake

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                      Elementary students wading in the Great Salt Lake. THE Deseret News of May 21, 1856 reported that some eastern U...
Monday, February 3, 2020

1907: When Davis County farmers had too much water

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A rain storm in 2015 left deep puddles of water in Layton City, near Hill Field Road and Main Street. "Farmers in Davis face hard ...