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Show Page 14 - Pyramid Recreation Guide Mav 12. 1993 - The museum has helpful and gracious guides to welcome visitors and explain the exhibits. The museum was founded in 1967 by Golden Sanderson and Lyndon Graham. 000 for the $800,000 building Carl E. Swensen is the current project. director. The museum board is in the process of finding grant money and other funds to complete the master plan. Visitors to the museum will enjoy the miniature carvings bv the late Golf is one of the most popular "museum participant sports, and Sanpete You will marLyndon Graham. e golf vel at the minute detail of the County has a State Palisade course Park east by Graham exhibit which includes of Sterling. miniature scenes from folklore Palisade Golf course has low from Cinderella to the fees and golfers seldom green This coach Fairview scene. stage artist gained wide recognition for have to wait to tee off. Because the golf course is his work. a state park, visitors can near The Fairbanks sculptures include the National Shrine to bring their campers and spend a few days. A club house with a Love and Devotion which fean snack bar is available. Kirk tures Peter and Celeste Peterson is the who were the nations oldest golf pro. Golf lessons are taught and married couple, 82 years, when he died. Both lived to be more the Mens and Ladies Golf Association also sponsors various than 100 years old. tournaments throughout the sumThe museum has a fine Native American collection of pottery mer. Tournament schedules are as and basketry, reminiscent of a follows: on May 22, June 26, long-ag- o era when ancient peoples survived in the mountain July 17, Aug. 7 and Aug. 28, Golf Association Tourneys will valley. After viewing the collection of be held; June 19, is the Snow College Turkey Putt; on Aug. 13, more than 2,000 pioneer artithe Palisade Junior Open is planfacts, including agriculture machines and early implements, tools, ned, and the Golf Association Club Championship will be Sept. spinning wheels, rock and mineral collections, and other items, For more information call visitors can enjoy the solarium Palisade Golf Course, which provides a nice, quiet Art, pioneer artifacts found in Fairview Museum by Koleen Peterson Travel back the view as time you through of rich, historical collection pioneer artifacts exhibited in the FAIRVIE- W- Fairview Museum of History and Art. Located at 85 North 100 East in Fairview, the museum will open on May 15 and be open daily until Sept. 30. Hours will be between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 1 to 8 p.m. Sundays. The museum is opened at visitors special request almost any time of the day and any day of the year. Call 427-921The Fairview Museum is housed in a' beautiful, two-stor- y, quarried stone building constructed as a grade school in 1900. 6. The old. school building was designed by Richard Watkins, an architect. important early-Uta- h As a resource for history and art, the museums collection, although drawn mainly from Sanpete County, is eclectic (even .strangely bizarre in a sense) and a exhibits juxfascinating taposition of images. Most of the art holdings are traditional; sculptures by the noted Utah artist Avard Fairlandscapes, banks, and folk arts and crafts. The historical genre object and specimen assemblage numbers in the thousands of pieces. There is not another museum comparable to the Fairview Museum of History and Art located area. within its The museum board will be breaking ground this summer for a new building designed to house a replica of an ancient Columbian mammoth discovered in 1988 under the Huntington Reservoir Dam which was being excavated to provide a more stable base. Designed by Wayne Balle, the new facility will be compatible old rock with the nearby 40-pl- us pre-196- 0s 93-ye- yg X-- VT V ar Jg-XX- Browing With anpete County building which has been used as a museum for 26 years. The new addition will include a main floor, balcony and basement. In addition to the mammoth exhibit, the Fairbanks collection and other art works will be moved to the facility. The new building will also contain new rest rooms, gift shop and storage space. It will also be a tourist center for the county and the U.S. Forest Service. The museum is located near the which Canyon Road, (U-3has been officially recognized as a Scenic Byway. The future museum master plan will include an attractive entry node linking the two buildings and the complete restoration of the north building. The museum board wants to restore the north building to its original design that included the roof, chimneys and tower. After only 16 years in use much of the building was destroyed by fire. Strapped for finances in 1916, the school board opted for the flat roof and eliminated the tower. When the building is eventually remodeled every effort will be made to retain the original atmosphere while upgrading it to meet building codes, handicapped d requirements and repairs. The Utah Museum of Natural setting. History has completed the molds of the huge skeleton that belonged to a male mammoth which lived in the Sanpete mountains about 11,300 years ago. The museum has already purchased the replica of the skeleton which is one of the most complete ever found. The bones, found buried in the mud under the dam, were in superb condition. The find has captured the interest of both the scientific community and the public at large for a variety of reasons: the age and preservation of the specimen, the elevatioh of the discovery, and presence of a projectile point. Researchers have been studying the specimen, searching for clues to life during the Great Ice Age. Technicians at the Utah Museum of Natural History did the molding of the bones so that a skeletal replica can be display- Tournaments set at Palisade . Fair-vie- w 1) , high-pitch- ed much-nekle- nine-hol- old-we- st Abe-ggle- 11-1- 2. . . Mt. Pleasant Bank Officers ed. Fairview Bank Officers HOOKS: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. , . M FAR WEST BANK F1Q1C LENDER 73 The replica and new museum exhibit building are being made possible by contributions from i the George S. Eccles Foundation. The contributions helped pay" for the replica and also provided defeasance funds which made it possible for the museum board to acquire a $400,000 loan from the Community Impact Board. .Fairview voters supported the 1 project in a bond election which will provide the remaining $400.- - FAIRVIEW OF HISTORY ' - MUSEUM AND ANT HOME LaE and devotion The Fairview Museum of History and Art, 85 Nprth 100 East in Fairview is open from May 15 to Sept. 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday through Saturday and from- 1 - to 8 p.m. Sundays. |