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Show Amis w ILensaan0 The Park Record D Section B For the week of May 26-June 1 B1 D Thursday, May 26, 1994 by UtCER ucr EC Record staff writer HAT 6o you see when you walk up has preserved a sizeable chunk of its history. Nearly 50 buildings bear plaques which present them as Museum celebrates birthday w and down Main Street? A bunch of T-shirt shops with tourists 1 darting In and out of the doors? Or perhaps a super highway with delivery truck obstacles? When Park City Museum Director Marianne Cone walks up and down Main Street she sees faded time and whispered hints of mining history and she's helping others to see it too. Every summer, the Historical Society and Museum sponsor walking tours of historic Main Street, showing groups of people, many of them visitors, pieces of Park City's past memorialized in the building facades. Unlike many old caught his wife in mining towns, Park City flagrante delicto with a The Park City Museum, 528 Main, is celebrating its 1 0th birthday Thursday, May 26 from t to 5 p.m. Parkites and visitors alike are invited to join in the decennial celebration. The Silver Queen will be there and so will Judge James Don and his firetruckhearse. Dress Western to have your photo taken in the stage coach, then listen to the real-life miner in a yellow slicker tell tales from down below. Learn how to make your own skis or call back in time when your phone number might have been "9. But most important of all, be sure to be on, your best behavior in jail. Everybody's invited! historic sites. With a little advance notice, a Historical Society guide will conduct a group up the street and back down again to see the buildings trimmed with diamond-shaped windows (a Masonic symbol) or to hear about the ghost in Room 8 of the Imperial Hotel, 221 Main. "The story is that a miner man from the saloon across the street. He shot the Casanova dead on the spot," according to the Historical Society pamphlet. Guides, who range from Cone herself to Historical Society President Hal Compton to former City Council member Sally Elliott to Deputy Chief of Police Lloyd Evans, may or may not wear period costumes depending on their own style. Compton, for instance, dresses and ' acts the part of former Park City Judge James Don, Cone said. She plays an Irish immigrant named Mary Margaret O'Donnell. "I try to do a character and tell the group, This is where I lived,' and This is where I worked,'" Cone said. That gives the history a personal perspective. The society is asked to give tours approximately every other week during the summer, she added. They typically start in front of the Wasatch Brew Pub, in part because there are chairs there as well as a Main Street Trolley stop. (Many visitors to Park City are unaccustomed to the steep grades.) Tours are $2 per person (with a 1 0-personor$20 0-personor$20 minimum) and can be arranged by calling the museum office at 645-5135. 645-5135. The office hours are Tuesday and Thursday 1 to 5 p.m. Or call the museum itself at 649-6104. 649-6104. For those who prefer to take the tour alone, the Historical Society and Museum publishes "Park City Main Street Historic Walking Tour," for self-guided self-guided jaunts. The pamphlet, which can be purchased for $1 at the museum, 528 Main, contains a variety For instance, did you of information regarding know the Claimjumper, Park City's checkered mining history: from its boarding houses for single miners (176 Main) to its dens of prohibition bootleggers (227 tcur (I mansicn highlights event "Sunday in the Park" is the theme of the Park City Historical Society s May 29 special event in celebration of Preservation Month. The highlight of the aftempon will be guided tours of the historic Ferry-Kearns mansion at 1835 Monitor Drive. The interior of the grand old Victorian house is scheduled for restoration soon by its current owners, Hank and Mary Baker. The home was built by Col. William M. Ferry in 1890 on 160 acres of land at the mouth of Thaynes Canyon. Ferry was a member of the "Michigan Bunch" who were instrumental In the development of Park City. After the house was acquired by the Silver King Mining Company, it was used by the Thomas F. Kearns family as a summer home. The house was moved to its present location in 1973. Tours will begin at 2 p.m. At 3 p.m., there will be a short program that will include personal recollections by people connected with the home, followed by presentation of the 1994 Preservation Awards. A Sunday tea will be served on the large northwest veranda, and tours will continue. Cost of the event is $3 for Historical Society members and $5 for non-members. Reservations are mandatory, and can be made by calling 645-5135 or 649-5619. 573 Main, was used as a temporary quarantine and hospital during the 1918 influenza epidemic? Citizens at the time were required to wear gauze masks when outside. The pamphlet is full of colorful historical information on 35 Main Street sites. In addition to the pamphlet, Cone is in the process of-putting of-putting together a "Treasure Hunt; for kids and r adults which will utilize some of the old details on the buildings. (For instance, one of the clues will Since parking space is limited, those planning to attend are encouraged to walk, bicycle or ride the bus Main, 354 Main, 586 Main). lead to the Roman-style brickwork on the facade of the Meyer Gallery, 305 Main.) That will be available "some time this week," Cone said. Cinema Review: Take three charming actors and MIX it with a little humor ala William Goldman and what do II I o L in this year's you get? The B3 summer blockbusters: Maverick. Book Review: Author Marion Zimmer Bradley takes the no 0 of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and makes it into a humanly compelling story about a prieSteSS and her brother the king in The Mists of Avalon. B4 Park City Profile Bea tivmmer-historian, mother, miner, grandmother, tour guide, great-grandmother, Girl Scout leader, Cookis being honored. To find out when, read Dick Griffin's profile of Park City's Grand B1 7 Dame. Street Beat: Wanna know how H 0 T is h0t? It's Pur Hoi! sauce, among other things...just ask any of the 21 competitors at the 5th annual Spring Burn e Off at Ichiban Sushi on Main Street. |