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Show WASATCH MOUNTAIN TIMES |_westenn woman Radial Keratotomy Could Author Raye Ringholz Chronicles Changing West Improve Your Raye Ringholz is a sharp-eyed Radial Keratotomy chronicler of the degradation of the West’s environment, ” writes Stewart Udall on the front leaf of her book, Little Town Blues. procedure Park : Many City. Diggings G Doings was as a sputtering mining town. She’s got a passel-full of books to her credit now. But she’d written dozens of free-lance magazine articles before her first tome was published. The truth is, Raye Ringholz did many things in the ‘60s and ‘70s in Park City to make a living. She wrote menus for local restaurants, she remembers. And even put together a mailing directory for Park City, three years paying Ringholz dues in Park City worked and for a and hung good ten such a small town, we then it has grown and grown Sedona, course, its being developed by entrepreneurs with hordes of tourists were involved with everything,” she recalls. In all her books about small western towns, Ringholz says she tries to give background on what each one was like before modern — day tourist and real estate booms changed them. She was driven to write her first book when Park City got its first stop light. correct astigmatism. people have discovered s Eyesight Make an is a Precious Educated Gitt. Decision. Arizona to Jackson out years before moving here from Salt Lake. After 20 years, she and husband Joe moved back to Salt Lake City in 1994. She says its easier to travel from Salt Lake because she doesn’t have to arrange to have her roof shoveled, like she did in Park City. Raye says she’s not really in love with all the changes that keep occurring in Park City but “T still love Park City very much. “I compare it to a baby,” she said. “When you love a child, who is beautiful and engaging as a toddler, you don’t stop loving them when they grow up into something else.” Ringholz remembers organizing the Miners Day Parade (Labor Day) the year the Park City mines closed. She remembers helping out with the first Park City Art Festival — a tiny affair. The mines stayed closed but the Art Festival has become successful beyond its wildest dreams. “It was since for economic reasons and all sorts of reasons.” From then running. That’s and “What triggered me was when we got that first traffic light in 1984. That was Park City’s centennial, and Hole Ringholz has chronicled the quickly changing American West. As she writes in the introduction to Little Town Blues; “If there’s a mountain to hike or ski, redrock backcountry to explore, a waterway to play on, ora desert oasis to green into a golf some. active to the benefits of RK, which may reduce or eliminate the need for glasses and contact lenses. hd “Ge her first book about Park City’s early (RK) is a surgica designed nearsightedness harp-eyed as well as engaging, Ringholz got her start writing in days View. Call 585-EYES EYE CENTER to schedule j a FREE SCREENING or to register for our weekly educational seminar. THE UNIVERSITY oF UTAH and recreationers hard on their heels.” ne of the problems with this as. growth, Ringholz said in Wasatch Mountain Times interview, is that once-unique towns like Moab and Jackson are beginning to look the same. “There are so many similarities . everywhere I went there was the same kind of dialogue . . . IfI had told the story at each town, it would have been the same story, over and over again.” Unlike Park City, however, some western towns, turned tourist boomtowns, think their days of boosterism are over. “There are a lot of little towns and other places I’ve been, where they say, ‘We don’t need to advertise for people to come here, anymore. We have enough people coming already.” As the west fills up with people heading out from urban centers, Ringholz writes that care must be taken to preserve, at least some of what it was: “We are faced with the fact that Americans are departing big cities in droves, each seeking a piece of paradise in the rapidly shrinking frontiers. We must proceed with caution to conserve the unique geography and character of all of rural America, especially the mountain West.” @ You Deserve This Kind oe a ent A dovianaes LOD ANE RON © DEVOTED TO Ya ENS SMUSCLES, SKIN | yourself AND'SPIRIT ITRONHORSE OPPOSITE DR. PAYLESS PARK CITY * 649-6363 Retreat massage! |
