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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday, July 5, 2007 Page 4 KM? notes i A . - - - summer notes Orem Macey's NEWS AND IDEAS ..i in i. nimwpMini III ll II l niiiiliBiil Mppw wwi m i mi ni m mi Mili um in. I muni nu im minimi Louis Crandall is the owner of the Crandall Historical Printing Museum in Provo. South county museums offer fun This is the second in a two-part two-part series about activities at local museums. SOUTH COUNTY MUSEUMS I Chieftain Museum 100 West KM) South, San-taquin San-taquin I Hours: by appointment. Contact Annette Bott, 754-3910; 754-3910; I)nna Bott. 754-3957; or kionnaCrxk, 754-3958 Admission: free I This museum is a delightful place for families. Housed in a school that was built in 1903, the two stories of this building are filled with fascinating artifacts. arti-facts. Visitors can see an early Utah school room, a mining claim, early Utah dining room and bedroom, blacksmith's shop, frontier cabin, "Indian R(xm," and Veteran's Memorial Memori-al Room. A highlight of the museum mu-seum is a town's main street with a variety of shops candy store, hat shop, saloon, barber shop, jail, trapper's cabin, and doctor's office. Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center I 10 S. Peteetneet Blvd. (600 Ilast), Pay son I Hours: Monday-Friday 10 a m to 4 p.m. I Admission: free t For museum and event information, in-formation, phone 465-9427. I The museum is housed in the old Peteetneet School, which was built in 1901. The museum's largest exhibit is the Victorian home. Each room is furnished to show life in the 1800's to early 19()0's. The rooms include kitchen, dining room, bedroom, and parlor. There is also a school room and blacksmith shop from the Victorian era. I Also of interest is the "History "His-tory of Writing" exhibit, which features antique pens, typewriters, type-writers, cameras, telephones, and record players. The "Freedom "Free-dom Rmm" honors local veterans, veter-ans, and the museum also has a large WWII exhibit. I With its flowers and fountains, a walk through the Peteetneet grounds is also a pleasure. Payson DUP Museum 439 W. Utah Ave., Payson I Hours: Mondays 2- 5 p.m. & by appointment For group tours or appointment appoint-ment call Jeane Lundholm, 465-3537 I Admission: free This museum at the City Center features pioneer photos and artifacts. See how pioneers lived in a completely furnished log cabin. The Historic Utah County Courthouse 1 51 S. University Ave., Provo I Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m to 5 p.m. i This stately building is, in itself, a work of art. Taking over six years to build, it features fea-tures some of the West's finest craftsmanship. Its neoclassic design Ls patterned after the ancient Acropolis at Athens. Built from native limestone and granite, it was completed in 1926. The building currently houses offices and is open during dur-ing business hours. In addition to viewing the magnificent architecture, the first floor contains a many oaintines and photography by Utah artists featuring Utah FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS I V v I v v. landscapes The courthouse grounds and gardens make a refreshing walk. To the west of the courthouse, court-house, stands a beautiful and unique tree the tablet op elm or Weeping American Llm. This tree, a gift to the city of Provo, has spread over 100 feet across. Many of the spreading spread-ing branches are supported by steel posts. This is a lovely and cool spot to enjoy a picnic. Eyring Science Center I BYU Campus (center of campus) I Hours: Building is open from 6 a.m. -11 p.m. I Admission: free. I There's plenty of self-guided self-guided hands on science fun here. See the Foucault Pendulum, Pendu-lum, see optical illusions, make music on the PVC Sewer Pipe Synthesizer, shoot air with the Vortex Cannon, play with the magnetic sandbox, and listen to little sounds on the "big ears" satellite dish. Crandall Historical Printing Museum 1275 E. Center St., Provo I Phone: 377-7777 I Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission: $3, children 12 and under are free I Lovers of the printed word will find this museum a fascinating place to visit. The 90-minute tour includes seeing pages being printed on a replica rep-lica of the Gutenberg printing press. Visitors will also see a replica of Benjamin Franklin's press that was used to print "Poor Richard's Almanac," and will view a replica of the Peter Smith Acorn Press that printed the BK)k of Mormon. Brigham Young University Museum of Art t North Campus Drive, Provo Hours: Monday and Friday 10 a.m. -9 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Satur-day, noon to 5 p.m. Phone: 422-8287 I Admission: free The Museum of Art is one of the largest art museums in the mountain west. Displays include in-clude works in the permanent collection and traveling shows. Current exhibits include "American Dream," the museum's muse-um's permanent collection of landscapes and portraits by American artists, and "Splendor "Splen-dor and Spectacle," a collection of lithographs and etchings featuring dance from court ballet to Broadway. Opening July 27 will be an exhibit of Minerva Mi-nerva Tichert's paintings. There Ls more art outside the museum. Children will especially espe-cially enjoy the small sculpture garden on the south side of the museum. It's a good spot for children to get a few wiggles out as well as explore the various vari-ous sculptures. Monte L Bean Life Science Museum I645E. 1430 N., Provo (Near Marriott Center) I Hours: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. I Phone: 422-5051 I Admission: free I Children (and adults) who love animals will enjoy visiting the Monte L: Bean Life Science museum. Filled with displays on birds, fish, mammals, arthropods, ar-thropods, reptiles, insects & arachnids, and plants, this museum Is a wonderful place to explore. The museum collections include approximately 2 million mil-lion insects, 3600 crustaceans, 32,000 shells, 10,900 birds. 30,000 fish, 22,000 mammals, and nearly a half -million plants. A free half -hour animal show is presented weeknights at 7:30 p.m. with an additional show on Mondays at 6:30 p.m., and on Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. Shows feature various animals, including reptiles, birds, snakes, and sheep. The museum Web site at http:ml-bean.byu.eduevents.asp http:ml-bean.byu.eduevents.asp gives specific shows and times. BYU Earth Science Museum 1683 N. Canyon Road, Provo (directly across street from the football stadium) I Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone: 422-3680 I Admission: free I This museum showcases many fossils from the Jurassic period 210-140 million years ago. The "Touch Table" invites children to explore bones and fossils. Visitors can watch paleontology students at work as they clean, identify, and prepare pre-pare specimens. Museum of Peoples and Cultures 1 700 North 100 East, Provo (Allen HaU) I Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone: 422-0020 I Admission: free I The Museum of Peoples and Cultures is just the right size for children. The two exhibit ex-hibit rooms are filled with artifacts arti-facts that depict life in ancient America. Two hands-on exhibits exhib-its allow children to create a stencil drawing and coil a pot. Boy and Girl Scouts can fill in a three-page worksheet, available avail-able at the museum, to earn a colorful museum patch. The current exhibits include "Seeking the Divine" which celebrates cel-ebrates the variety of prayer, celebration, and traditional way of life in cultures throughout through-out the world. Learn how we are similar and different in our belief, faith, and religion. "Touching the Past" shows the traditions of the Casas Grandes culture of Northern Mexico. It is a good look at a culture of people who lived in America before Columbus. Legacy Hall BYU's athletic hall of fame and sports memorabilia museum Student Athletic Center, BYU campus, west side Hours: Monday-Saturday 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Phone: 422-2118 Admission: free I BYU sports fans will love the displays of Cougar memorabilia. memo-rabilia. Over 100 BYU athletes, representing 21 sports, have donated to this museum. Here visitors can see Ty Detmer's Heisman Trophy. In addition to the wall displays and cases, thirteen video kiosks show some of BYU's great sports moments, Cougar Trivia, player play-er biographies, and interactive games. Springville Museum of Art 1 126 East 400 South, Springville Spring-ville I Hours: Tuesday - Saturday : 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.. I Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 9 MATT SMITHDaily Herald p.m. I Sunday: 3-6 p.m. I Closed Mondays and holidays holi-days I Admission: free, though donations are welcome I Phone: 489-2727 I The Springville Museum of Art is Utah's oldest museum for visual arts. Works from the museum's permanent collection col-lection of art are displayed on the second floor. These include works from Utah artists, chronicling the development of Utah art. A Russian Room features large paintings by Soviet artists. Opening July 21, the main floor will feature the museum's annual Quilt Show. The museum grounds feature a number of sculptures, and many more statues by Utah artists art-ists can be found within walking walk-ing distance of the museum. A handout listing the location of these "Statues to Live By" can be obtained at no charge from the museum's front desk. Provo DUP Museum 1 500 North 500 West (Provo North Park), Provo I Hours: Wednesday, Friday, Fri-day, Saturday 14 p.m. or by appointment I Admission: free Phone: 852-6609 I This museum features furniture, clothing, tools, guns, household items, and decorations decora-tions used by Utah pioneers prior to 1900. Most of these artifacts have been donated by Utah County families. The museum also features a quilt display and art prints by Samuel Sam-uel Jepperson, and prints of Brigham Young Academy. Plan to visit the adjacent Pioneer Village cabins (see below.) Sons of Utah Pioneers Village 500 North 500 West (Provo North Park), Provo I Hours: Wednesday, Friday, Fri-day, Saturday 14 p.m. or by appointment Phone: 377-8294 I Admission: free I Visiting this pioneer village vil-lage will give guests a sense of pioneer community as they explore the group of cabins and buildings. The village features, fea-tures, cabins, blacksmith shop, buildings, furnishings, tools, farm implements, and wagons. One unique tool is an ox shoer one of two in existence, and a Conestoga wagon. North Park also provides many shady areas for picnicking picnick-ing and a playground. Springville DUP Museum 1 175 S. Main St., Springville I Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Wednes-day, Saturday 14 p.m. I Phone: For group tours contact Afton Alleman 489-3969 489-3969 I Admission: free I This museum tells the story, through photographs and artifacts, ar-tifacts, of the first settlers of Springville. The museum features fea-tures a model of the old Springville Spring-ville Fort, clothing, furniture, household items, guns, and tools of pioneers. A furnished bedroom and kitchen help visitors visi-tors understand the pioneers' lifestyle. Musical instruments built by pioneer Frederick Weight are on display. A unique feature of this museum is a display on midwives women who were trained to assist women give birth. A free "treasure hunt" sheet helps children discover other unique artifacts in this museum. Not only do city recreation centers, libraries, small businesses busi-nesses and civic organizations organiza-tions have activities for children chil-dren to do during the summer months, but several large businesses in north Utah County have free or low-cost community programs and activities. Check out www. thanksgivingpoint.com, www.cabelas.com and www. Class reunion The Lehi High School Class of 1957 will have its 50th year class reunion Sept. 8 at Lehi High School, If anyone has an address for the following, follow-ing, please contact Chairman Rex Scott at 801484-1880: Keith Nelson, Donna Turner, Richard Bullock, Janice Sorn-son Sorn-son Jorgensen, Lance Gud-mundsen, Gud-mundsen, David Busker and George College. Cabela's Located in north Lehi east of 1-15, the 150,000 sq. ft. retail store has educational and entertainment attractions with animal displays in their natural habitat and a huge fresh water aquarium. There is a target game room and a restaurant in the store. July 21 Free fishing day for the family begins at 8 a.m. with an on site fishing pond stocked with fish. Prizes are given away for those who catch a tagged fish. Children will receive a free goody bag when they register. Celebrities Ce-lebrities will be on hand for autographs and fishing demonstrations. dem-onstrations. There will be kid games and face painting as well as prize drawings during the event until it ends at noon. Macey's Macey's Little Theatre offers cooking classes for kids and adults through the summer. Weekday activities are at 7 p.m. and Saturday classes are at 10:30 a.m. Macey's Mac-ey's Food Market is located in Pleasant Grove at the intersection inter-section of State Road and the Pleasant Grove Boulevard or in Orem at 880 N. State St. Pleasant Grove Macey's July 12 Cooking without fuel. Taught by Reg McDan-iel, McDan-iel, the class shows how to prepare cheese bread, lima beans with rice and white bean turkey chili using a reflector re-flector oven. July 17 The wonderful world of zucchini with recipes from cookies to muffins. July 18 Black Forest desserts des-serts taught by Erika Whit-mer. Whit-mer. July 19 Hogwarts Forever. Join Headmaster Dumb-ledore, Dumb-ledore, Professors McGona-gall McGona-gall and Snape, along with other Hogwart faculty, as we celebrate the release of the last Harry Potter book. Arrive Ar-rive promptly at King's Cross Station in your best wizardry attire. July 25 Kid's Kookies demonstrated dem-onstrated by Dallin Johansen with some of his favorite kid-friendly kid-friendly cookies. July 26 Erica Miller presents pres-ents sugar-free dishes including includ-ing a layered meringue sorbet cake. July 31 Lovin' from the oven - Jeannie Dayton and her daughters show 50 different dif-ferent ways to use a simple bread recipe that takes just one hour from start to finish. Thanksgiving Gardens Each Monday is a different activity at the Thanksgiving Gardens. Regular admission applies with no charge for Thanksgiving Point members. July 16 Harry, Hagrid and Hogwarts, enroll at Hogwarts Hog-warts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. July 23 Around the World in 60 Minutes with six countries coun-tries on six continents in one world. July 30 Stranded and how to survive in forest, island, desert terrain. Aug. 6 Asteroids and Astronauts As-tronauts with 5,4,3,2,1 Blast off into space! Aug. 13 Got Water? Experience Experi-ence an explosion of H20. Aug. 20 Miniature Monsters Mon-sters and Predators, small in the garden, big in the wild Aug. 27 Superheroes. Calling Call-ing all superheroes, ready for some action? July 14 Kids can cook - A junior chef will show fun, delicious and easy recipes for children with no bake dinner and desserts. July 17 Harry Potter Night - Wear your wizarding costumes cos-tumes and learn how to make those special "Witches & Wizard" Wiz-ard" foods you've read about and always wanted to taste. Participants must register. July 19 When the lights go out - cooking without electricity. Reg McDaniel will teach how to cook with a reflector oven and a volcano stove. Barbecue ribs, Texas Ranch Beans and homemade bread are on the menu. Reservations Reser-vations required. July 25 Keep your kitchen cool with slow cooker meals. Family main dishes will be demonstrated. Thanksgiving Point Institute Thanksgiving Point in north Lehi offers tours of the Children's Discovery Garden, Farm Country, The Museum of Ancient Life. There are day camps and also a Scout series. Additionally there are several events and activities that cater to young children and families. Day Camps The institute's day camps fill quickly and preregistra-tion preregistra-tion is required. Most registration reg-istration can be done online or by calling the Institute at 801-7684971 or toll-free 1-888-672-6040. July 23 Dino Detective for ages 9-11 will investigate the crime scene as you follow the clues to solve two mysteries, "Death of an Edmontosaurus" and "The Case of the Stolen T-Rex Fossil" from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost is $35 and includes lunch, snack an materials. Registration required by July 16. July 25 and July 31 Bugs! A Creepy, Crawly Adventure for ages 6-8 will teach about insects including butterflies, crickets, and even prehistoric bugs. Camp goes from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and meets at the Water Tower of The Village at Thanksgiving Point. Cost is $35 and includes lunch, snack and materials. Registration closes on July 18. One opening open-ing left for the July 25 camp and eight openings left for the July 31 camp. July 30 "FWdamentals of Science for ages 9-11 is full of fun, hands on science experiments that teach basic ba-sic science ideas. Activities include crazy chemical reactions, reac-tions, rocket launches, animal ani-mal investigations and more. Meet at the Water Tower in The Village at 10 a.m. Cost is $35 and includes lunch, snack and materials. Camp ends at 3 p.m. and there are five openings left. Family Farm Evening Mondays Special rates apply with $3.50 for adults and $2.50 for each child. No charge for Thanksgiving Point members. July 16 1 want to be a Cowboy Cow-boy - Howdy, partner! Grab your hat and little cowpokes and join us as we make stick ponies and learn what it takes to be a western rider. July 23 Three cheers for the Pioneers - What did children chil-dren do before X-box? Bring your family over to find out as we honor our pioneer heritage and play games like they did. July 30 Owls, Spells, and Potions - Practice potion-making and spell-casting and learn all about owls in this fanciful class for the whole family. Aug. 6 Cowboy Kareoke - Get yer boots, spurs and all your kinfolk and mosey on down to the farm for some good ol' western fun, singin' and dancin' . Y'all are sure to have great time! Aug. 13 Pigs in Pajamas -Don't forget to wear your pajamas pa-jamas as we learn about pigs and make a fun pig treat and meet our little oinkers. Aug. 20 Hawaiian Adventure Adven-ture - Aloha! Join our Tropical Paradise adventure on the Island Is-land of Hawaii. Come learn to hula and make a beautiful lei. August 27 Horsing Around - Horses play, and so do you! Learn some cool Horse Trivia, play with their shoes and of course ride the wagon or the ponies! Giddy up! Contact Corinne Mayberry 801.768.4944 for more Family Farm Evening information. |