Pioneer Day, 24 July, a holiday only recognized in Utah and a few heavily Mormon towns in Idaho and Arizona and celebrated by LDS faithful the world over. It is a holiday to celebrate the day Brigham Young and the … Continued
Stunning architecture and an exquisite collection make the Natural History Museum of Utah a worthy contender for your time. The new building in University of Utah’s Research Park called the Rio Tinto Center, which opened in 2011, is an amazing … Continued
Las Vegas has lots of ways to get your adrenaline pumping from roller coasters to zip lines and I did both while there. Since my first real visit to Sin City ten years ago with Michael McLean’s The Forgotten Carols … Continued
The few times I had been to Las Vegas before our family reunion took me to the Cashman Center as a stage manager or production assistant. Just as you pull into this big municipal convention center complex there is a … Continued
Some people will tell you Las Vegas isn’t family friendly. In many ways they are correct, but Sin City offers so much to visitors beyond the love of lucre, the lust and the adult themed everything. There is also fun … Continued
Our dam guide was Kris for the hour-long dam tour that took us into the dam bowels to walk through dam tunnels seeing dam stairs, looking out dam vents and riding on dam elevators. Enough dam jokes? I’ve been over … Continued
There is a relatively small number of living things in this world that have watched as civilizations have grown, prospered and fallen around them, and they all seem to be trees. A collection of these ancient organisms known as bristlecone … Continued
Absalom Lehman, rancher on the Snake Range in Nevada, was enjoying a sandwich one warm afternoon when a pack rat made off with it. The sandwich was too good to let the varmint make off with it, so Absalom hopped … Continued
In 2007, I placed second in the Utah PR Student of the Year competition. Our client was Tracy Aviary, a small menagerie of birds in Salt Lake City’s Liberty Park. To prepare for the competition and my proposal I visited … Continued
Hailed as the greatest engineering feat of the 19th century and a bandage on a broken nation, the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, is one of the more important events in U.S. history. The story of … Continued