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Show Panguitch • Panguitch Lake • Hatch • Bryce • Tropic • Antimony • Henrieville • Cannonville • Escalante • Boulder • Duck Creek Thursday, August 27, 2009 • Issue # 230 Everett Ruess Days - HERE AGAIN! The Sixth Annual Escalante Canyons Art Festival/Everett Ruess Days, September 25-26,2009 in Escalante,UT, is proud to present a varied, entertaining and educational schedule of speakers. Fund-ing from The Utah Humanities Council, Envision Escalante, and Speaker Volunteers have combined to bring this array of professional and local historians, authors, scientists and artisans to this year’s festival. As outlined in the following schedule, most talks will be presented in the auditorium at the Escalante Interagency Visitor Center. However,the Friday morning Chautauqau will be in the Plaza Area for the Festival at the Escalante City Center. Friday evening’s keynote speakers will address a larger audience at the Escalante High School Auditorium. Preceding the Friday-Saturday Festival, on Thursday, Jerry Roundy, local resident-historian, will focus on the “Death Hollow Trail” at 7:00 p.m. at the EIVCA. The Death Hollow Trail was the shortest distance between Escalante and Boulder, but it was only a horse-back or foot trail. It was probably named “Death Hollow” because of its dangerous descent into the canyon. Mail was carried by horse or mule over the trail as one of the Escalante-Boulder routes. Historically this was a wellused connection between the two communities, but, today, only the hardy traverse its ups and downs. Friday morning’s Chautauqau, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on stage at the Festival Plaza, will provide personal anecdotes and insights on the disappear- ance, discovery of remains and impact of Everett Ruess by local older residents who were acquainted with him as a young wanderer through this area in the 1930’s, by the author and scientists who documented recent events of the location and verification of his remains as published in National Geographic Explorer, and historians and family representatives who will lead a roundtable on his impacts to society. Everett Ruess typified the spirit that drives so many to seek and discover whatever lies beyond known perameters and traverse the hinterland in pursuit of the mysteries beyond the norm. This forum will try to present the essence of this desire that has driven mankind forever to seek new worlds and realms, and self-discovery. At 2:00 p.m. at the EIVCA, former park manager at the Anasazi State Park in Boulder, archeologist and area resident for many years, Larry Davis will discuss “The Ancient Inhabitants of this Area in the 12th Century”. Although the habitation has not been continuous, the Ancient Puebloans have been verified in this difficult environment for 10,000 years. Larry will explain how the ancients adapted, survived, and increased in population as a sedentary people. He will have his audience regress in time to learn if they would be able to adapt and survive. “Wallace Stegner at 100” will be Steven Trimble’s topic following Larry at 3:30 p.m. Trimble is spending his time as a Stegner Fellow at the University of Utah’s Tanner Humanities Center to address audiences weather thursday Sunny high: 86 low: 50 friday PARTLy CLOUDY high: 86 low: 51 saturday PARTLy CLOUDY high: 85 low: 51 sunday PARTLy CLOUDY high: 82 low: 49 monday ISOLATED T-STORMS high: 80 low: 47 tuesday Sunny T-STORMS ISOLATED high: 80 low: 48 wednesday Sunny high: 79 low: 47 during the 100th anniversary of Stegner’s birth. His intent is to reintroduce the multitude of Utah-based writings of Stegner to the people who live in the locations which he insightfully immortalized in print. Trimble will also seek to involve his audience in a community dialogue. On Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. at the EHS auditroium, well-respected authors and art historians Donna Poulton and Vern Swanson who have combined their substantial knowledge and expertise to create “Painters of Utah’s Canyons and Deserts” will be the Festival’s Keynote Speakers. Their book traces the artistic history and visual drama of the wild places in Utah’s landscape. Their subject will strike a responsive chord with anyone whose hearts are tied to the broiling blue skies and red rock mesas of Utah’s canyon country, in other words, to those lucky local inhabitants, artists who come from far and away to be in this Festival as those who portray these surroundings, and to visitors who briefly experince the lure of Utah’s Canyons and Deserts. Donna and Vern will elaborate on the contents of their book which includes many paintings and information about area and transient artists whose focus has been on the wonders encompassing this area. They will also bring books and will sign before and after their talk, as well as at the Festival’s downtown Venue. Saturday’s speakers will all be at the EIVCA and will begin at 11:00 a.m. when Paula McNeill, Art Professor from Valdosta University, Georgia, will present “The Scupltured Furniture of Utah Artist David Delthony”. Annually, Paula researches and interviews the Featured Artist during her summer break when she temporarily relocates to Escalante. For 2009, David Delthony has been chosen to be representative of the artistic talent in the Escalante Canyons area. David and his wife, noted potter, Brigitte moved to Escalante in 1996 where they built their home and studio. An award-winning artist, David has exhibited his unique sculpted exotic furniture in Europe and the US where his works are in numerous collections. He is the 2002 recipient of the Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship Award and a 2005 rewardee for the UAC Individual Artist Grant. The Delthonys have open- studio when they are present at their location west of Escalante. Frederick H. Swanson, noted Utah author, will speak at 2:00 p.m. on “Exploring the Canyon Country in the Early Twentieth Century”. He will relate the adventures of “The Cowboy and the Lawyer”, two men who witnessed the scenic and geological marvels of the Escalante region before the era of highways and tourist facilities. The program includes historic photographs from the travels of Dave Rust, a backcountry guide from Kanab, UT who, beginning in 1915, made extensive explorations of the Aquarius Plateau and the Escalante Canyons with his friend, George Fraser, a Wall Street attorney. These adventurers shared a deep appreciation for the amazing landscapes of the Colorado Plateau. Swanson’s talk will transport attendees to a time when few people experienced the wonders that this region holds. Concluding the 2009 Festival Speakers will be astronomical artist-author, Michael Carroll. Michael and his associates portray real desert landscapes of the Southwest in a surreal association with photographs of the realms of discoveries by modern technology of worlds beyond Earth. His presentation, “Mars in Escalante: How the Deserts of Utah Show Us What Future Travellers Will Find in the Cosmos”, will enthrall the audience with his depictions of Space-Age Art grounded in our real landscapes. Michael has visited this area from his home in Denver with his family and has been tantalized by the allures here. He will expand upon his personal connection to earth and space in his talk. For more specific information and a complete schedule of the 2009 Escalante Canyons Art Festival, check the website at: www.escalantecanyonsartfestival.org It’s New! It’s New What is new you ask? The new Garfield County 4-H Mentoring Program! Do you want to make a difference in the youth in Garfield County and in your community? Then come and join our advisory council. If you are interested, please join us for dinner at the Flying M Restaurant in Panguitch on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. PLEASE RSVP to USU Extension Office 435-6761113. PETERSON rECEIVES FALLEN HERO’S SCHOLARSHIP Briant Stringham with Premier Fire System, an authorized distributor of Master Guard Fire Safety Equipment presents Trevor Peterson, son of Justin and Gina with The Fallen Hero’s Sholarship. This is the sixth year this scholarship has been offered to firefighters and their families. 1st Recipeant Trevor Peterson, 2nd Briant Stringham, 3rd Assistant Fire Chief Russell Bulkley and 4th Volunteer Fire Fighter Justin Peterson. Insights from the Heights Escalante Valley through 170 Million Years Saturday, September 5th • 9 to 11 a.m. Escalante Petrified Forest State Park 710 North Reservoir Road, Escalante Join geologist Jens Munthe for a ramble through local geologic and cultural history. We will walk up the Petrified Forest Trail (moderate hike!) looking at rocks laid down between 170 and 25 million years ago. At the top we will see how these rocks have been tilted and eroded to become the valley people first occupied ten thousand years ago. Jens will sketch the human history of this place—how we adapted to the land and it adapted to us—outlining lifeways of the Anasazi, Fremont, Southern Paiute, Mormon pioneers, and today’s diverse inhabitants. For more information please call the park at 435-8264466. ENDS OF THE EARTH Gallery of Fine Art Photography William R. Chapman, Owner/Photographer P. O. Box 364 • 7140 Hwy. 89 Hatch, UT 84735 435-616-0414 or 2353 Open 9 AM to 6 PM www.endsoftheearthphoto.com www.raveler14.smugmug.com chapmanwr@hotmail.com Thanks Garfield County Fair Volunteers! We’d like to thank the 2009 Garfield County Fair Volunteers for their hard work in putting on the Fair! 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