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Show Bea's walking tour is now a book -4 - Ji 1 A- J I Walking Through Historic Park City by Kaye Ringholz and Bea Kummer. Softbound. 62 pages. $8.'(l. by Nan Chalat Bea Kummer's walking tours used to be a common sight on Main Street. But as Park City's historic buildings became engulfed by newer structures, Bea curtailed her schedule. sche-dule. This fall, however, she shared her wealth of anecdotes and historic photographs with author Raye Ringholz and together they have published a book entitled Walking Through Historic Park City. The book has been released just in time for Christmas and is a valuable reference book for any tourist or local who wants to learn more about Park City. Ringholz, currently the president of the Park City Historical Society, has authored several books on the history of Park City including Diggings and Doings. The book profiles 56 historic sites on Main Street and Park Avenue. Some are now just memories, but many others have been restored. The sites are described along a route beginning at the Kimball Art Center at the bottom of Main Street and leading up the east side of the street to the Centennial apartment building, formerly the site of a boarding house for bachelor miners. Pedestrians following the guide are then directed across Main Street to the Alaskan House and then down the west side of the street where they can walk past the sites of the old Welsh, Driscoll and Buck general store, the old offices of the Silver King Mining Company and the Smith and Brim butcher shop and market. At the Timberhouse Ski Shop, once the home of federal judge Willis Ritter, the tour turns the corner and leads southward back up Park i Avenue. There visitors will find the former home of the Park Record's legendary editor Sam Raddon and Utah's oldest Catholic Church. St. Mary's. Each landmark is peppered with anecdotes such as the time Butch Cassidy held up the Oak Saloon, and the grand opening of the Egyptian Theatre with a premiere of Zane Grey's box office hit, "Man in the Forest." The book is dedicated, appropriately, appropri-ately, to a building rather than a person. It opens with a tribute to the Silver King Coalition Mine Building which burned to the ground in 1981. Ringholz said she hopes the book will help visitors "see the trees of Old Town through the forest of development." Walking Through Historic Park City is available at Dolly's Bookstore and several other locations in Park City. The softbound volume costs $6.50. I "The thriving business was interrupted only a short time by the Great Fire and was going strong in the present structure when the Park Record reported a raid on the 'hootchie-kootchie' show in the new Dudler Hall' |