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Show 1 V I yI I I I I m 1 i J , -- J j J .y I J L L J I J I 2008 SUNDAY, APRIL 13, I J EDITOR Etyssa Andrus I eandrusheraldextra.com 344-255- 3 if 'r"- - in i f m c ' . r. v f life o 7. Mr-- ' Chris Dunker What was once Geneva steel's blast furnace above and the mbtegbuMing i display at the Erigham Young University Museum of Art. Mb ' v . - s.-j- k.r4-,- b - befoyJj.lThese photos are parj of an exhibit by photographer Chris Dunker on $2..y L-ir- -- Cody Clark ' j." tr f I raJhuV-'.- ' !. Dunker, 39 and a married father of two,. access to Geneva ;; i Jiad Steel it disappeared, a piece at a time, V : location. Plant supervi- from its 1,700-acr- e sors kept him away from active deinolaion Jiites, Dunker said, but "for the jnosf part, I DAILY HERALD - ' r n-- fargety-unrestricte- d here s nothing there. if I W yu drve west dtiWtktter" :; Street or 400 North WOrehL':pass beneath Intefstat'fe 15, andv turn onto CJeneVa Koad;therir was allowed to go where I wanted-''- ; .i"toward Utah Lake is enigmatically ejnpjty. .. vi (The speed of the removal, begun i 2005, l nere are cnain Link iences mat enclose surprised some Utah Valley residents, m- Ronald Walked, who chiding mainly asphalt and weeds, with hert altd. there a concrete slab. Almost nothing else1' worked as n,weMer at Geneva Steel,for 32 is left of the formerly imposing Geneva years, "Over there in the rollef mill,they had cement six feet thik with rebar in it," Steel the mill that opened at the end of 1944 and operated until 2001. Walker said. "I thought it would take years If you'd like to take a last look, however, and years to tear that place dowa" The notion of displaying the photos , at the federally constructed steelworks wasn't an instant grabber for the Museum that, for decades, provided jobs to thouof Art, but photography curator Diana sands of local residents, then a frq) to the Brigham Young University Museum of Art Turnbow said that the history of the mill is in order. Through Nov. 1, the museum is and its economic and social impact on Utah displaying "Dismantling Geneva Steel," an Valley were too intriguing to pas's up. Also of interest were the photos themexhibition of 60 prints created by photogselves, which came as a bit of a surprise. rapher Chris Dunker during the removal After speaking with Dunker via phone, of buildings and equipment from the site where developers nope to eventually build See STEEL, C6 homes, stores, businesses and a commuter IV - I . ' . hi . ' - " . Newseum puts adulation, edification above the fold are ered on the Western side of that. Even without the proof ' ' ..) '.t .tfy in- accompanying exhibit, which der Tlie new scribes how a Reuters corresponWASHINGTON dent named Adam Kellett-Lon- g carnation of the Newseum IS dazthe story of the border's broke and a absorbing, zling, innovative s addition to the capital's closing in 1961, it is.a f cultural institutions.' ' discovery. ' It is also, in some respects, an History also oozes from the and videos that recall to monument photos journaloverpriced disasters from the Hindenburg Not that istic there's anything wrong with that. explosion to the JFK assassination to 911. But none of these images d A stroll around its six as the is quite as levels on Pennsylvania spire of mangled, twisted steel , Avenue, with spectacular views that had been the communications of the Capitol and other majestic tower atop the World Trade Cenneighbors, reveals that it is actuter, or a huge limestone chunk of ally a history museum disguised the Pentagon from the day of the as a media retrospective. Eight attacks. giant, forbidding sections of the Berlin Wall stark concrete on See NEWSEUM, C2 the Communist side, graffiti-cov- Howard Kurtz ' THE WASHINGTON ' Kit POST 7- - :' See all about it i A r t mangled piece of wreckage head-turnin- g first-clas- light-fille- heart-stoppin- g 1 North Tower K t of the World Trade Center . is just one of the artifacts on display at the Newseum, which opened Friday in Washington JONATHAN NEWTON Washington Pott ' - and then Desson Thomson THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON Watching movies at the new the Newseuni, our first reaction is a defensive posture. incoming! As in, information overload. So many offerings, so few mental e gigabytes. Here's a film about media bias. Another short about media errors. Yet another caljed "45 Words: A Story of the First Amendment." A heartbreaker about the darkest September day in America's hisreel tory. A seven-minut- some of sports coverage since Red Barinto the radio ber mike. And holy Sensurround! a " movie that spritzes our faces and rocks our seats as it takes us through the earliest days of American journalism., And on and on, 27 hours of movies, most of them fewer than 15 minutes in length, booming out of the museum's 15 theaters, kiosks and LCD monitors. All of it intended to make us understand the All, the It, the tive tyranny of data. Can we be "4-D- ever-regener- See MOVIES, C4 |