From Arts Council | Park City & Summit County Six Weeks for Boat Mail is the second in the WWII era trilogy, written by local author Bonnie Park and based on years of correspondence between her parents. “To me,” says Park, “these letters are their most significant legacy. I am grateful for the opportunity to […]
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Been spending some time in the sun this summer? Sigh. The perfection of exposed golden skin in one’s youth is one of nature’s richest gifts. Evil as it may be. In Brides of 1941, it surprised me to learn my twenty-year-old aunt, Dorothy, freely abandoned herself to worship in the Chilean summer sun of 1941.
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I am no stranger to WWII collections and memorabilia, but I won’t pull your leg. I’ve had to adjust. “Cause for divorce,” was one woman’s candid opinion when she shook her head in disbelief at the sight of a World War II Dodge half-ton truck and a bunch of spare parts that fully occupied our
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Book groups! I love the discussion. Especially when readers ask good questions. It proves they have put their imaginations to work. Brides of 1941 raises this puzzler: Just how did born and bred North American characters from the Northeast (namely T. Wayne and Lelia McLatchey Skinner) land in a “company town” in the Andes Mountains
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SUNDANCE never disappoints when it comes to documentary premieres. If laughter is the best medicine, Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins nailed it. Director Janice Engel resurrected the larger than life spirit of Molly at the right political place and time in 2019. It documents the kick-ass journalistic career of a woman
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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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Brides of 1941 is now available from Cahoots gifts and cards near the Park City Market.
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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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