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Show Heritage Day Here May 22 On May 22 and 23, those interested in-terested in learning more about local history will be able to participate in walking tours through Park City, with stops and talks by guides at such sights as St. Mary's Church, City Hall, and fine old Park Avenue homes. Heritage Day(s) are being sponsored by the Park City Heritage Committee which is hard at work collecting interesting in-teresting tidbits about old structures struc-tures andplottingthe comprehensive comprehen-sive tours. The Park City-Heber-Midway tours are one of ten planned historical tour areas in the state which will occur this May, National Preservation month. Many of the Park City sites on the tour are listed in the prestigious State Historical Society So-ciety Register in Salt Lake. To qualify, a building must have been erected prior to a certain cer-tain date or have some strong historical significance (such as the site of an important event.) A review committee studies a potential register building and determines its historical worth before it may be listed. As part of the tour, the covered wagon now situated on lower Park Avenue will be greased up and hitched up and will carry history buffs around, giving rides probably prob-ably to the city cemetery. Guides will be posted at both the city and Glenwood cemeteries to dispense historical information. The committee is also hopeful that Jim Santy will open the mine train by May 22 to take visitors underground. Tickets for the tour will be sold at the Memorial Building, the starting location. Tours will start from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Margaret Kingman is chairman of the Heritage Committee, and Connie Andrus is co-chairman. John Elwell will serve as the official host for the event. Other tours which will attempt to make people familiar with some of Utah's best old architecture arch-itecture will be happening May 8 in Utah County and Promontory, May 15 in Davis County, May 15 and 16 in Salt Lake City, May 22 in Logan, and May 23 inSalt Lake. |