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Show Entertainment Calendar Arts The Park Record SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 200 1 Events Calendar C-2 Crossword C-4 TV Listings C-7 Classifieds C-9 Auto Pages C-14 SCENE EDITOR: Patrick Connors 649-9014 ext. 104 artsparkrecord.com Clip French drama at Film Series The Park City Film Series presents "Under the Sand," a French drama about love and loss. The movie starts at 8 p.m. on Oct. 20 at the Jim Santy Auditorium in the Park City Library building. For more information, 615-8291. Winter is coming The 21st Jans Winter Welcome will be held at the Silver Lake Lodge on Oct. 20. The event, which is presented pre-sented by Deer Valley, features dinner, din-ner, entertainment, silent and live auctions. For more information or to purchase tickets, 649-1020. Divas to sing for rivers The Park City Divas will perform at the Egyptian Theatre at 7 p.m. on Oct. 20 to benefit the Utah Rivers Council. "Rock the River" is a celebration cele-bration of "wild women, wild music and wild rivers." Tickets are available avail-able at Orion's Music. For more information, (801) 486-4776. A wriggling, slithering evening at the Eccles "FrogZ," a whimsical family performance per-formance will be held at the Eccles Center, showing at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 20. The performance is part of the Park City Performing Arts Foundation season. For more information, 655-3114. Fly fishing fundraiser The Henry's Fork Foundation's fall fly fishing dinner will be held at Snow Park Lodge in Deer Valley from 5 to 9 p.m. on Oct 27. The event includes dinner, music, lectures lec-tures and a fly fishing demonstration demonstra-tion from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Deer Valley ponds. For more information contact John Champion at 649-9142. Apprentices study to become theatre techies by Patrick "The booth" in the balcony of the Eccles Center is where sound and light are controlled for performances. It's where the 35-millimeter camera used for Sundance films is kept it's also a classroom. The Eccles Center, like several theaters the-aters and venues in the area, is home to an apprenticeship program for stagehands stage-hands eager to move up in the ranks. The program takes three years to complete com-plete and is an essential step for people in the business who want to graduate from "hand" to "journeyman." For stagehands, the titles are much more than words. The jump to journeyman journey-man means more work, more money and a bit of security in a profession where employment is often fickle. Getting there isnt easy. The apprenticeship program is overseen over-seen by Local 99, the UtahSouthern Idaho chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). For apprentices, places like the Eccles Center provide practical experience experi-ence in addition to classroom work that the program demands. Before becoming a journeyman, stagehands must spend 3,000 hours in theaters, concert halls or movie sets it's where they learn to apply the required reading. Students must spend 486 hours in class over the three years. "It's one thing to talk about stage craft," says Eric Christensen, director of the program, "it's another to do it in real time." - - Genealogy center uncovers Park City's new Family History Center provides service for history buffs and sleuths by Patrick Connors OF THE RECORD STAFF The walls inside the Family History Center are covered with photographs that are brown around the edges where time has worn them. They are the only traces, though, of the past inside the building. In the center's main research room, shiny new office chairs surround a large table divided into eight cubicles, which are equipped with computers. The computers are all online and loaded with state-of-the-art genealogical genealogi-cal software. The center, which is located locat-ed next to the Church of Latter Day Saints stake center on Monitor Drive, has been open for around a year, but hasn't been used regularly. Now, however, howev-er, with a full staff and the finishing touches complete, the Family History Center is eager for visitors. The center is open every day except Monday from 6 to 9 p.m. and is free to the public. The LDS church oversees the service, but Family History Center director, Stan Merrill, stresses that it is a nondenominational facility. "We are more for curious people bfri : i i rTT h -", v nrnr if; I Nils Thyrring and Eric Christensen in an apprenticeship program that According to Christensen, apprentices appren-tices who come to the Eccles to work on performances are put in real-life situations, situa-tions, with real deadlines. "If the show is supposed to start at 3:30 p.m: it has to start at 7:30 p.m.," who really want to dig into their families' fami-lies' history," says Merrill. The church asked him to run the center cen-ter because of his interest in genealogy. Merrill has no formal training in the field, but says his family was always intrigued about their past. Merrill compares genealogy to detective detec-tive work. His eyes light up at the mention men-tion of a great grandfather's name - any clue to a family's history. He says research into family lines always begins with the knowledge a person has in the their head or what their extended family fami-ly might know. From there, a number of computer programs and Internet tools help to trace family roots further back in time. Merrill says, that for most people, especially espe-cially descendants of Europeans, it is easy to find relatives as far back as the 1700s. He says he has traced his own family to 60 B.C. The 18th and 17th centuries, according accord-ing to Merrill, are when records started to be kept for everybody around Europe. Before that, nobility and landowners - people who could be Please see Genealogy, C-6 BRING SOMEONE SPECIAL TO DINNER ON US... iauisi street ?j3(t lr reservations talk shop in "the booth" in the balcony teaches people the intricacies of stage he says. "It's not like handing in a late homework assignment." Preparation for an Eccles' event begins a day before the performance. .Unlike a show that is created from scratch, the Eccles technical staff usual the past with . ... i -. - i, - i STEPHEN ZUSYR4HK RECORD Stan Merrill pours over a reference book inside the Family History Center. Merrill is the director of the center, which Is equipped with around 10 computers, com-puters, stacks of books and bundles of microfilm. F 'I 'I J y STEPHEN ZUSYR4RK RECORD of the Eccles Center. The pair is involved work. ly adapt plays or concerts to fit Eccles' specifications. 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