Utah Heritage Foundation

Camp Floyd State Park is hosting Camp Floyd Days on Labor Day Weekend, September 3 and 5, 2011.  The event will allow visitors to experience camp life and participate in several activities performed by soldiers of Johnston’s Army.  Events include reenactments, encampments, stagecoach rides (Monday 12pm - 2pm), firearm and cannon demonstrations, marches, drills, 1861 period games, and photos in period uniform.  The events will be conducted 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both days.

A Utah Furniture Lecture and Antiques Workshop is also scheduled on Saturday, September 3rd from 1pm - 3pm.  The lecture details the recently placed furnishings in the Stagecoach Inn which accurately portray and interpret how the settlers of Fairfield lived during the 1860’s.  The Antiques Workshop provides an opportunity for visitors to bring in an antique to receive an informal appraisal from representatives of the Utah Antique Dealers Association.  The cost for each appraisal is $5.  This event was funded in part by a grant from the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Preservation Initiatives Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Standard museum entrance fees are $2 per person or $6 per family.  Food concession and stagecoach rides will be available to purchase at the event.

UHF members, trustees, and staff will be headed to Cedar City and beyond this year to experience preservation in Iron County on our 2011 Road Trip on Saturday, June 25.  We hope you'll consider joining us for this one-of-a-kind, behind-the-scenes guided tour of some of the renowned and lesser known historic sites.  We've got a full day lined up along with some fun surprises and special guests.

It's also a BIG weekend in "Festival City USA" (Cedar City's moniker) with the opening of the Utah Shakespeare Festival on Friday, June 24, and a weekend-long music festival, Groovefest. 

So if you're a fan of live music, live theater, and preservation, this trip is for you.  "To be or not to be" on our Road Trip?  That is the question.  If you want to be, check out the full line-up on our website and register today.  For the first time, we are offering a children's rate so we hope you'll make it a family outing!

Historic Yalecrest National Register District Up For $25,000 Prize

With Enough Votes Neighborhood Can Win Money for Education and Marketing

Salt Lake’s Yalecrest neighborhood, with one of the finest collections of Period Revival homes in the state, has an opportunity to win a $25,000 prize from the National Trust for Historic Preservation as part of the annual “This Place Matters” national competition.

SB 243 Substitute – Historic Areas or Sites Amendments

If you’ve been keeping up with our advocacy alerts, you may already realize that Senate Bill 243 has morphed several times during the session, leading preservationists across the state from one confusing proposal to another.  Each time it changed though, similar questions arose time and time again:  Isn’t this only about Yalecrest?  Does the bill only affect Yalecrest?  Can you get it only to affect Yalecrest?

At the end of the day, the bill was narrowed such that it directly affected the Yalecrest Neighborhood during a one-year moratorium period.  From the wide ranging scope that SB 243 started with, the result that was arrived at by sponsor Sen. Niederhauser (R-Sandy) is likely the least impactful possible.

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Heritage Resources Manager, Utah State Parks, Salt Lake City, UT.  The incumbent in this position manages and oversees the statewide museum, interpretation and heritage programs for the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation. The incumbent is responsible for artifact collections management program oversight; creation and coordination of exhibits, waysides and interpretation plans; development of planning documents for the section and for parks; representing the division at meetings; writing and enforcing agency guidelines; budget accountability and tracking; agency compliance with state and federal cultural resource laws; coordination of the interpretation and museum statewide staff by arranging meetings, training, and other projects; writing and reviewing construction documents related to interpretation and museum building projects; writing position statements and correspondence; supervision of staff; and writing and administering grants of funding from outside the agency.  For more information about this position and to apply please go to https://statejobs.utah.gov

Information about the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation can be found at: http://www.stateparks.utah.gov/