Park City/Summit County Arts Council profiles Brides of 1941. Read the entire article here. Founded in 1986, the Park City Summit County Arts Council is one of the oldest arts and culture organizations in Park City.
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Picking up the thread of my last blog, think about that cash box moment in January 1981. Was it catastrophic? No. It was akin to being caught with your pants down without an audience. Why? No one clamored outside the festival box office at the Egyptian Theatre that day. In a Band-Aid solution, I retrieved
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It was 1977 or thereabouts when I enrolled in a Media Studies class to fulfill a general education requirement at the University of Utah. One choice subject? The “Dollars Trilogy,” Spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood; A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) The Good, the Bad and
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Bonnie sat down with Randy in early December on the Local View radio show. Here’s the transcript of their lively discussion.
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Brides of 1941 is now available from Cahoots gifts and cards near the Park City Market.
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When Bonnie Bedford Park discovered a box of letters that her parents and grandparents sent to each other back in the 1930s and 1940s, she had no idea the correspondences would inspire her new book, “Brides of 1941.” Read the entire interview at The Park Record.
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Park City’s local public radio station, KPCW, talks with Bonnie Bedford Park about her book, Brides of 1941, a family history covering three generations of women woven together from letters discovered in the back of a closet. Listen now
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Welcome to my blog. May I ask if you like museums? If so, you will like it here. My older brother once remarked, “Your house is like a taking a stroll through time.” Point taken. As newlyweds on a shoestring budget, my husband, Pete, and I piece mealed our home décor with distressed mid-twentieth century
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In February 1934, T. Wayne and Dr. Lelia Skinner leave their three children behind in North America. Lelia’s hand-wringing letters from “Campamento Americano,” the residential section of a Chilean mining camp, describe an over-worked existence. The Skinners commit to keep up with the expense of three college educations. It is through her candid correspondence Lelia
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