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The Utah Shakespeare Festival: A Player’s Oasis in Cedar City

By Marc Jonathan Wein, Brigham Young University
Cedar City, settled by Mormon pioneers in 1851, is located in the southeast Great Basin, a place that one traveler called “a spot of mange,” and affirmed that “no portion of the earth is more lacquered with paltry, unimportant ugliness.” Despite its…

The Sundance Film Festival: Where Skis Meets Cinema

By Marc Jonathan Wein, Brigham Young University
America’s largest independent film festival, originally known as the U.S. Film Festival, brought more than $150 million in economic impact to Utah in 2017. In the same year, the Sundance Film Festival supported almost 3,000 jobs and attracted…

Timpanogos Cave National Monument

By Ellis Benson, Brigham Young University
Settlers in Utah Valley discovered three separate caves in American Fork Canyon, seemingly undisturbed. Each cave is filled with exceptional varieties of stalactites, stalagmites, frostwork, flowstone, and other unique cave structures. The first of…

The CCC & the Painted Desert Inn

By Sarah Birt, Northern Arizona University and Hull University
A building known as ‘The Stone Treehouse’ stood in 1924 on the site where today the Painted Desert Inn stands. This building, in the style known architecturally as ‘National Park Rustic,’ looked strikingly different from what visitors to the…

Rainbow Bridge, Native Peoples, and Tourism

By George Mumford, Northern Arizona University
Rainbow Bridge sits at the southern edge of Lake Powell at the tip of Forbidding Canyon, which extends out from Glen Canyon. It stands at 290 feet tall and 275 wide, making it one of the largest natural bridges in the world. In 1909 Byron Cummings…

The Glen Canyon Dam, Environmentalists, and Recreation

By George Mumford, Northern Arizona University
Successful in his fight against Echo Park Dam David Brower came to regret his strategy of supporting a dam at Glen Canyon. In the late 1950s, the Sierra Club took trips to the canyon. In was only then that its members understood the natural beauty…
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