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2015 - Completed Ghost Town Projects

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Alta-Salt Lake County, Utah
Alta - by Gretchen Reynolds
Two puppets, sewing and reading the newspaper, discuss what they know about Alta.
Bingham Canyon-Salt Lake County, Utah
Bingham Canyon - by Elizabeth Miklavcic
This project depicts, through a series of abstract digital paintings, the extraction and melting of ore from the mine that buried Bingham Canyon.
Bullion Canyon-Sevier County, Utah
Bullion Canyon - by Barbara Chamberlain
Jacob Davidson increased his speed on the highway into Bullion canyon, Utah. This promised to be a great day trip into one of the historic gold mining areas of Utah...
Callao-Juab County, Utah
Callao - by Sheri Sturdevant
After visiting this area, I was impressed with the areas many historic homes, wildlife and scenery. I would like to preserve Callao's beautiful scenery through the visual arts.
Capitol Reef-Wayne County, Utah
Capitol Reef - by Elizabeth Miklavcic
A 1984 hike in Capitol Reef National Park sparks reflection about looking at the ghosts of our past selves.
Cisco-Grand County, Utah
Cisco - by Callous Physical Theatre - Joséphine Garibaldi, Paul Zmolek, Julie Leir-VanSickle and Bridget Close
This movie of Cisco focuses on found sounds including the ever present wind. It is part of a multimedia piece titled Pareidolia, that involves audio/music, dance, film/video, interdisciplinary, poetry, and performance art.
Clarion-San Pete County, Utah
Clarion - by Marden Pond and Brent Haddock
As many Jews immigrated from Europe in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, fleeing the persecution and pogroms, a significant number of émigrés settled in the urban areas of New York and Philadelphia. However, the times were difficult, and many of the Jewish residents of these cities felt that their children were being "urbanized," losing their important Jewish heritage and suffering from the ill-effects of sweatshops, slums, and crowded cities...
Corinne-Box Elder County, Utah
Corinne - by Sheryl Gillilan
I created my Corinne wall quilt in the folk art style to conjure an older, more "naive" time — though the irony inherent in this choice is that no respectable quilt maker in the 1800's would have made a quilt for anything but a bed...
Deer Creek-Utah County, Utah
Deer Creek - by Jimmy Miklavcic
...I’m not talking about the Deer Creek area up Provo Canyon. The phantom I’m referring to lived an extremely ephemeral life. It began in 1872 and grew to the ripe old age of 6 in 1878 when the railroad that gave it sustenance, closed down. That wasn’t enough time to even begin to create memories, let alone try and jumpstart the next generation...
Echo-Summit County, Utah
Echo - by Sarah Morton
I have produced a series of pen and ink drawings that represent what the town was and what it's become.
Eureka-Utah County, Utah
Eureka - by Alexis Levitt
As Felix (my boyfriend) and I pulled into a gravel parking lot on Main Street of Eureka, I felt a sense of relief, which could have been attributed to the fact that our car had made the journey despite some questionable moments along the way. But it was more than that; I felt alive...
Fish Springs-Juab County, Utah
Fish Springs - by Sheri Sturdevant
I have explored this Wildlife Refuge and will draw and paint the area. I will visually share the wildlife and scenery in this relatively wild land.
Forest City-Utah County, Utah
Forest City - by Jimmy Miklavcic
I have created a series of digital paintings, built upon photographs taken with my iPad.
Georgetown-Garfield County, Utah
Georgetown - by Brian Thayne
One cannot go to this place without being awestruck, by the grandeur of the place, near 2 National Parks, Bryce and Capitol Reef and at the entrance of the Grand Staircase National Monument, but also awestruck by what the people that lived here must have been made of...
Gold Hill-Tooele County, Utah
Gold Hill - by Patti Thomas
I will create some carpenter pencil drawings and oil paintings of this old ghost town and it's wonderful tale of existence.
Gunnison Island-Box Elder County, Utah
Gunnison Island - by Dr. Marden Pond
...Dr. Pond was introduced to the writings and artwork of Alfred Lambourne by a fellow musician and relative of Alfred Lambourne, Bruce Fowler. Lambourne’s book, Our Inland Sea, provided a creative springboard for Pond, who composed a musical suite and audio album (on the Music Enterprises label) based on Lambourne’s colorful descriptions in his Great Salt Lake memoirs...
Gunnison Island-Box Elder County, Utah
Gunnison Island - by Dr. Marden Pond
...Dr. Pond was introduced to the writings and artwork of Alfred Lambourne by a fellow musician and relative of Alfred Lambourne, Bruce Fowler. Lambourne’s book, Our Inland Sea, provided a creative springboard for Pond, who composed a musical suite and audio album (on the Music Enterprises label) based on Lambourne’s colorful descriptions in his Great Salt Lake memoirs...
Joy-Juab County, Utah
Joy - by Barry Carver
Racing out the dusty road
Or arcing 'cross my sky
You don't slow up, or look down, or in
Or hear my long, slow sigh,
But I've seen you...
Mercur-Tooele County, Utah
Mercur - by Babs Delay and Bella Hall
Just south of Tooele, then Stockton, watch for the one sign that points east to Mercur and turn right. There is a stunning view west to the Rush Valley from the parking lot at the bottom of the hill in Mercur...
Miners Basin-Grand County, Utah
Miners Basin - by Callous Physical Theatre - Joséphine Garibaldi, Paul Zmolek, Julie Leir-VanSickle and Bridget Close
Though it was late Spring after a very mild and dry winter the road to the trailhead to Miners Basin was impassable by vehicle due to snow. We hiked up the hillside but were turned back by several avalanches of melting snow along the steep ravine above the trail...
Ophir-Tooele County, Utah
Ophir - by Alyssa Kay and Students from Sego Lily School
I took a group of students from Sego Lily School to the Ophir Historic District. Each of them explored the site through the medium of their choice. I photographically documented their explorations.
Osiris-Garfield County, Utah
Osiris - by Brian Thayne
Photographs of the Old Mill at Osiris.
Park City-Summit County, Utah
Park City - by Dave Hogan
A short documentary, mixed with historical photos, that explores the elements of Park City's past that are visibly mixed in with the present day shops, restaurants, and homes.
Sego-Grand County, Utah
Sego - by Callous Physical Theatre - Joséphine Garibaldi, Paul Zmolek, Julie Leir-VanSickle and Bridget Close
The road to Sego goes past the many abandoned buildings in Thompson Springs, an old graveyard and ancient petroglyphs. The abandoned coal mines, wreckage of a wooden school and the impressive company store provided much inspiration...
Silver Reef-Washington County, Utah
Silver Reef - by Karen Knudsen
I have visited Utah ghost towns since I was able to drive and was moved to write a poem about ghost towns...
Terrace-Box Elder County, Utah
Terrace - by Roz Newmark
During our spring break this year, my sweetie and I headed south out of Salt Lake City in search of an interesting site for the Ghost Town Project...Finally, we stopped at the last ghost town on our list, Terrace, Utah. Prowling the grounds there, we found hundreds of pieces of colored glass, rusted metal, bricks and railroad ties. A cryptic hint of a once active community. Almost immediately I felt this was the site for my project...
US-Salt Lake County, Utah
US - by Jan Abramson and Victoria Mansell
The mining town of US was once to the south of Salt Lake City; today, the mine has been subsumed by the Rio Tinto/Kennecott Utah copper mine. Tori Mansell has created a CAD drawing of what a town might look like rising from the roots of US, now all gone. Jan Abramson conducted research to see if there are any public domain photos of US, as well as, contributing the project description.