Tuesday, April 29, 2008

A List of Cool Stuff to Embrace

  • Romeo and Juliet, 1968 Franco Zeffirelli version, minus the bedroom scene
  • Persuasion, BBC Canadian version
  • Minerva Teichert paintings at the BYU Museum of Art ending soon!
  • A River Runs Through It, Maclean, University of Chicago
  • Film by the same name, Robert Redford directing
  • Dorothea Lange photographs from the Great Depression
  • The Springville Arts Museum - a sanctuary for the weary, full of regional art
  • Pride and Prejudice, the modern version, Irish director from BYU - charming in the extreme
  • The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument - Calf Creek, Spooky Gulch, Peek-a-Boo Canyon
  • Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City
  • Any hiking trail long the Wasatch Front
  • Main Street in Park City
  • Sitting in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, especially at Christmas time listening to youthful choirs singing carols
  • The lights on Temple Square from Thankgiving to New Year's Eve
  • Running along Eleventh Avenue in Salt Lake City,
  • Through the SLC Cemetery,
  • Past the Frank Lloyd Wright home between "E" and "B" Streets - north side of the road, (You figure it out!)
  • Then, up City Creek Canyon and countless adjoining running paths.
  • Temple Square and the Christus in the Visitor's Center
  • The 20,000 seat Conference Center and its beautiful interiors, original paintings and furniture - not to mention cordial tour guides and the ever-endearing sister missionaries there from all over the world, who will field your questions in whatever language you choose.
  • The University of Utah's Museum of Fine Art
  • The Santa Fe train depot in Salt Lake
  • The Alpine Loop, up Provo Canyon, to Sundance Ski Resort, down into Timpanogos Cave Ranger Station
  • Bear Lake, from Logan city, up Logan Canyon and into the Riviera of the Rockies.
  • Lava Hot Springs on the way to Pocatello, Idaho
  • Zions Canyon, the hike back - way back, the daring Angel's Landing hike, the WPA tunnel joining Zions with Utah Highway 89, Kanab, Bryce Canyon - O, the marvel of Bryce Canyon
  • Bumbleberry Pie in Zions village
  • St. George
  • The plays - the Shakespeare plays!

All this and infinitely more - enjoy!

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