By Holly George On a normal afternoon in April 2017, Daniel Jones, a friend from the bus who worked at the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, sent me an intriguing email. He had just finished up an interactive chat with a man from Spain’s Teruel province who needed to …
Great Things in Store
By Taya Wallace Taya did such a great job during her internship that we hired her for the summer. In the fall she will begin an internship at the Office of Public Records in Washington, D.C. I love stories. Getting into the minds of other people who are put in …
How Did I Get Here? – Follow the Historical Markers
By Christina Epperson, GIS Analyst, Utah Division of State History It’s mid-July as I write this blog post and the temperature forecast for the next seven days is near or at 100 degrees. With the foothill grasses a golden brown and the plentiful snowpack on our highest mountains fading to …
Remembering One of Salt Lake City’s Forgotten: Louis A. Bertrand
By Laurie J. Bryant, Independent Historian [On July 2nd, at the Salt Lake City Cemetery, we unveiled a monument for 55 individuals who died at the “insane asylum” in the 1870s and 1880s. We asked the researcher, Laurie J. Bryant, to tell us more about one of the individuals.] Louis …
Kick-Off “Utah History Happenings” for Utahns of All Ages
By Kevin Fayles, Assistant Director of Operations, Utah Division of State History I am not a professional historian, but I have loved history for most of my life. I recall as a teenager meeting with a high school counselor. She said I could go into a history class or an …