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Lagoon: How the Freed Family Kept Utah’s Favorite Amusement Park Spinning for Three Generations
Read the story: Lagoon: How the Freed Family Kept Utah’s Favorite Amusement Park Spinning for Three GenerationsLagoon started as a lakeside railroad resort in the 1880s and survived a receding lake, a world war and a devastating fire.…
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Milt’s Stop & Eat: Moab’s Oldest Restaurant Has Been Flipping Burgers Since the Uranium Boom
Read the story: Milt’s Stop & Eat: Moab’s Oldest Restaurant Has Been Flipping Burgers Since the Uranium BoomMilt and Audrey Galbraith opened a little burger stand in Moab on Labor Day 1954, at the height of the uranium boom.…
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Sweet Candy Company: Five Generations of Taffy, Cinnamon Bears and Orange Sticks in Salt Lake City
Read the story: Sweet Candy Company: Five Generations of Taffy, Cinnamon Bears and Orange Sticks in Salt Lake CityLeon Sweet started selling candy from a horse-drawn wagon in 1892. Today the Sweet family is in its fifth generation of candy…
People and history
The stories that shaped Utah
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Hell’s Backbone Grill: Two River Cooks, One Remote Town and a Farm-to-Table Legend on Highway 12
Read the story: Hell’s Backbone Grill: Two River Cooks, One Remote Town and a Farm-to-Table Legend on Highway 12Blake Spalding and Jen Castle learned to cook on river trips, then opened a restaurant in one of the most…
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Last Call at the Top of Main: How Utah’s First Brewpub Changed Park City and Utah Beer
Read the story: Last Call at the Top of Main: How Utah’s First Brewpub Changed Park City and Utah BeerGreg Schirf moved from Milwaukee, couldn’t find a decent beer, and ended up changing Utah law to open the state’s…
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