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Show fl'i -r . lows, to quote, "If Park City was ever a ghost town we sure as the devil are some of the liveliest ghosts around explained Bea Kummer, the resort's officiaMiostess. ' A wohder.'ully jovial warm hearted1 woman with 12 children, chil-dren, "Mama Bea's" knowledge know-ledge of the 103-year-old mining town, dates to her arrival in tie town when she wasi 7 years of age. '.t one t me there were over 100 mines beingworked in Park City," she told us in the living room jof her lodge. At $6 a nigit, it is a haven for young people whose love for Bea's credit and compassion com-passion have made her a legend as widespread as her own ample magnitude. To date she says, "I've never not been paid by a lodger, even though it did take one young man three years to send me all he owed me." All smiles, a devoted member of the Mormon church, president of the local chapter of Daughters 'of the Pioneers and president of the county HistoricalSoc-iety, HistoricalSoc-iety, Park City's best known living land mark understand as much whatgoes on below the ground as what is happening above. I "My father worked in a mind, my husband Ken is dowq in the Ontario shaft right now after silver,, ; "A,lot of old timers 'round here complain at the changes taking place in Park City today to-day with the ski boom. I don'tj now there are jobs arouqd here again. There was once, more than 8,000 people living in the town,' she went on. "But slowly the mines petered out and they left. Still, even today, there are only about 1500 year-round residents." Bea Kummer Featured In Travel Magazine The above picture of Bea Kummer, and a feature story of her was published in the International Travel magazine mag-azine of November 1974. The interview was as fol- |