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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.113 PARK CITY BRIDGE CLUB MEETS WEDNESDAYS Park City Bridge Club offers weekly social bridge sessions from 7-9 p.m. every Wednesday at the Park City Senior Center, 1361 Woodside Ave. Visit www.parkcitybridge.com, email shirleywright16@gmail.com or call 435-640-4782 “THE HISTORY OF WORK IN AMERICA” LECTURE AT THE PARK CITY MUSEUM Matt Basso, director of graduate studies at the University of Utah’s Department of History, will give a lecture called “The History of Work in America — Where Park City and Utah Fit In” from 5-6 p.m. on Wednesday Nov. 15, at the Park City Museum, 528 Main St. The lecture is part of the events that surround “The Way We Worked” exhibit that is on display at the museum through Jan. 10, 2018. For information, visit www.parkcityhistory.org. ‘MUST THE DREAMERS BE EXPELLED?’ PUBLIC FORUM AT ST. LUKE’S CHURCH The Project for Deeper Understanding will present a community discussion “Must the Dreamers Be Expelled?” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 4595 N. Silver Springs Drive. The public forum will discuss whether or not Congress should pass legislation that will allow permanent U.S. residency for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.. The discussion will be followed by a Q & A. English to Spanish translation will be available. For information, call 435-901-2131. STORY TIME ART FOR TOTS AT THE KIMBALL ART CENTER A story time for tots will be held from 3:30-4:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd. The free event will feature a book reading and a craft. This is programmed for ages three to five years old, but kids of all ages are welcome to participate. All tots need adult supervision during this reading and art project. For information, visit www.kimballartcenter.org PARK CITY FILM SERIES: ‘ANGELS IN AMERICA PART ONE’ SCREENING The Park City Film Series will present an airing of National Theatre Live’s production of “Angels in America Part One,” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18, at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave. Tickets are $20 for general admission, and $15 for Friends of the Park City Library and Park City Films Series members. Tickets are $10 for students. “Angels in America Part One,” directed by Marianne Elliott, is a new staging of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play, “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” It stars Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough, Nathan Lane, James McArdle and Russell Tovey and takes place during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. For information, visit www.parkcityfilmseries.com. MUSICALS WILL OPEN TWISTED FERN TO HOST THIS WEEK IN TOWN, C-2 AUTHOR EVENT, C-3 www.parkrecord.com C-1 WED/THURS/FRI, NOVEMBER 15-17, 2017 Museum hopes to collect a warm reception Public invited to the open house scheduled for Friday, Nov. 17 SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record The wait is over. After 16 months of construction, the Park City Museum’s Education and Collection Center, located at 2079 Sidewinder Drive, is complete, and executive director Sandra Morrison wants to party. Morrison, along with the nonprofit’s board of directors, is inviting the public to the grand opening that will be held from 5-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 17, at the new building. The party will be catered by Fuego Restaurant, Morrison said during an interview with The Park Record. “We’ll have a ribbon cutting and toast ourselves for all the hard work,” she said. “We’ll also thank the community for their support, because this facility was paid for in whole by private donations. We didn’t use city or county funding.” The structure, which measures about 5,500 square feet, features a two-story, 3,000 square-foot collections space, a large classroom and a work area. “We decided to keep the two stories open, which saved us from having to put in a second floor and installing an elevator,” Morrison said. “The idea behind the collections space is that we have one big room that we can keep at a fairly low temperature.” The building, which was built by Ramco Construction and owned by Parkite Joe Rametta, will be kept at a level 45 degrees, with 25 percent humidity. “This is designed to prolong the preservation of our artifacts,” Morrison said. “You get an extra 10 years for every 10 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City Museum Executive Director Sandra Morrison cranks a handle on the mobile storage shelves at the Park City Museum’s new Education and Collection Center. The center will open on Friday with an open house. degrees you go cooler.” “One of the first things we did in the planning stages was bring in someone who works with the Smithsonian Institute,” she said. “He surveyed our entire collection and said 3,000 square feet would be enough to keep usset for at least 50 years.” The museum’s current collection, which includes nearly 140 years of The Park Record, is stored on movable shelving units. “We visited the Marriott Library at the University of Utah to see how they stored things,” Morrison said. “Their building is three stories tall, and they utilize robotics to file things away.” Morrison said the museum’s board also learned that the Utah State Archives were stored with the same type of system. “They have basically a forklift that is controlled by a computer,” she said. “That would have tacked on another $3,000, so we decided not to do that just yet.” As it stands now, the cost for the Park City Museum’s Education and Collection center is just under $2 million. Some of that money went into a water- less fire suppression system. “It uses a chemical called FM 200, which fights fires by bringing the temperature down,” Morrison said. “That way, the system doesn’t affect paper and photographs like water does.” The museum’s collection includes more than 50,000 historic photographs, documents, journals and log books from Park City’s history. “We have a box that is filled with the correspondence that was used to bring the U.S. Ski Team to Park City MounPlease see Museum, C-4 Local photographer reconnects with his roots Rick Pieros will unveil his new collection taken on Greek trip SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Park City photographer Rick Pieros’ new collection of work, which will be exhibited and sold during an casual showing on Saturday in the Salt Lake Valley, was culled from a special trip to Greece in 2015 to meet his long, lost extended family. The exhibit, which will be held from 5-10 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 2589 E. Promenade Dr. in Cottonwood Heights, will feature photographs of Trikorfon, Athens, the Acropolis and scenes from various islands including Santorini and Mykonos. “I had a chance encounter on Facebook when a cousin of mine named Vasilis (William) Kaoulas messaged me and sent me a picture of my grandfather and his brothers that was taken on the Trans-Continental Railroad in Denver in the 1920s,” Pieros told The Park Record. “He asked if we were related.” There was no doubt, because Pieros had the same photograph. “My grandfather emigrated from Greece with his three brothers,” Pieros said. “They were all 15, but they lied and said they were 16.” The four went through Ellis Island and ended up in Green River, Wyoming, where they worked for the railroad. “They eventually moved to Ogden and Salt Lake and Please see Photo, C-4 PHOTO BY RICK PIEROS Photographer Rick Pieros will showcase a new collection of photographs during an exhibit on Friday in the Salt Lake Valley. Many of the photographs will be of the village Trikorfon, above, which was once the home of his grandfather. |