Archives Month: Opening Zion author to speak

Gina Strack News and Events

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
12 – 1 p.m.
Utah State Archives
Courtyard Meeting Room
346 S. Rio Grande St.
Salt Lake City, Utah

Opening Zion: A Scrapbook of the National Parks First Official Tourists

When Melissa Clark purchased a box of old scrapbooks online, she knew only that she had bought something relating to the University of Utah and Zion Park. What came in the mail was much more than she had expected. Instead of random mementos, two albums arrived full of photographs and newspaper clippings dating to 1920 that document a trip made by six young women from the University of Utah into the newly formed Zion National Park. With text by John Clark, the scrapbooks are now the basis of a one-of-a-kind publication. John Clark will speak on finding the collection, its value, and its publication. John Clark is author of the Motor Tales series and an avid scholar of Utah automobile history.