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Show I Utah State Historical Society to meet ! The 32nd Annual Meeting of the ' Utah State Historical Society will be held August 16-18, 1984, at the Denver & Rio Grande Depot in Salt ; City, announced Milton C. ; Abrams, chairman of the Board of : State History. J ; Open to the general public, the ; meeting will feature scholarly presentations, workshops, awards ceremony, banquet, and the annual president's report. An additional feature of this year's Annual Meeting will be an open house at the Society's headquarters in the renovated Denver 4 Rio Grande Depot on Friday, Aug. 17, from 5:15 to 6:45 p.m. : The proceedings will open on Thursday, Aug. 16, with meetings of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission Advisory Board and the Utah Geographic . Names Committee. A workshop on ; the care and conservation of museum collections will round out - the first day's activities. The morning of Friday, Aug. 17, will be devoted to discussions of historic preservation - particularly tax benefits, building inspections, limestone conservation, Park City's residential development, and the history of WPA buildings in Utah. The labor history session on Friday afternoon will feature lectures lec-tures on the Castle Gate mine disaster and on the railroading community of Bridge. The women's history session will focus on Utah women in World War II war industries. in-dustries. An open house on Friday evening will be hosted by the Board of State History. A light buffet will be served. The antiquities session, with three presentations on Clear Creek archeology and a roundtable for local historical societies will cap the evening's activities. Saturday morning, Aug. 18, the Annual Meeting will continue with the Utah Folklore Society session where presentations will deal with Mormon humor and Danish traditions in Utah. The history session will follow with papers on the prison experience of Abraham H. Cannon and on law and order in frontier Tocquerville. Following a luncheon buffet in the Grand Lobby of the D&RG Depot, Dr. Thomas G. Alexander, member of the Board of State History and professor of history at BYU, will present the main address, "Public Resource Policy and the Forest Service in the Intermountain West: The Struggle for Multiple Use." Milton C. Abrams will then deliver the president's report and preside over the presentation of awards. The 1984 Governor's Folk Art Award will be presented to Glen D. Thompson of Hunts ville. This special award, initiated in 1982 to honor individuals whose art makes a significant contribution to Utah folk tradition in craft or performance, per-formance, is sponsored by the Utah Folklife Center in conjunction with the Utah Arts Council. Mr. Thompson was born in Ogden in 1933 and began learning saddle-making saddle-making from an uncle when he was 17. His work enjoys a fine reputation throughout the Intermountain In-termountain area. He made the famous "beehive" saddle in 1981 for the Grand Beehive Exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution. There will be a display of Mr. Thompson's art at the Depot during the Annual Meeting. The Association of Utah Historians and the Utah Centennial Foundation will hold business meetings at the depot Saturday afternoon in conjunction with the Historical Society program. Advance registration is encouraged en-couraged for all Annual Meeting attendees. Cost is $3 per person ($1.50 for Historical Society members), which does not cover the luncheon buffet. Contact the Historical Society at 533-5755 for additional information. |