Calendar of Events - Utah

Salt Lake City (May - September)

May     Moving Waters traveling exhibit hosted at the Utah State Historical Society, 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake through September 2002. For more information call 801-533-3500 or see http//history.utah.org

5/6       Helen Fairley, "Archaeology & the Colorado River."  Also held in conjunction with Utah Prehistory and Heritage Week.  USHS West Meeting Room, 7:00 p.m. Utah State Historical Society (USHS), 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake.  For more information call  801 533-3500 or see http//history.utah.org

5/8       Historic Film Series: Harry Aleson Collection "Glen Canyon Country Surveys, No. 1" Narrated by Gary Topping, Associate Professor of History, Salt Lake Community College and author of  Glen Canyon and the San Juan country (University of Idaho Press, c1997). Description: This 1952 trip had a special goal.  Through the study of aerial photographs Dick Sprang discovered a nine mile canyon which appeared as a half mile gorge and Mile 132 on the 1921 USGS river maps. On this trip they explored this canyon which was later renamed  Forgotten Canyon,  and discovered  Defiance House  an Anasazi ruin that had never before been seen by white men.  This event was recorded in this 16mm movie.  On this trip they also gathered information on inscriptions, prehistoric sites, and geography which was recorded on  Canyon Surveys forms  and in Aleson s ninety-eight page journal.  This movie important as it documents an area now under Lake Powell. This film was preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Program funded with a grant from the Charles Redd Center.  USHS West Meeting Room, 7:00 pm.  Utah State Historical Society (USHS), 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake.  For more information call  801 533-3500 or see http//history.utah.org

6/8       Water War Lecture: "The Law of the Colorado." By Owen Oplin. Lecture at the USHS, West Meeting Room, 12:00 Noon. Utah State Historical Society (USHS), 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake.  For more information call  801 533-3500 or see http//history.utah.org

6/12     Historic Film Series: Harry Aleson Collection "Grand Gulch Surveys" Narrated by Gary Topping, Associate Professor of History, Salt Lake Community College and author of  Glen Canyon and the San Juan country (University of Idaho Press, c1997). Description: In 1953 Aleson and the Sprangs explored the vastly unknown area between the San Juan and Colorado Rivers--known as the Red Rock Plateau.  During the fall of 1953 they explored the Grand Gulch area driving through the Clay Hills Pass and out to the Hermit Lake area on the Hole-in-the-Rock road.  Once again they documented inscriptions--such as the Mormon inscription  Make Peace with God --prehistoric sites, and geography of the area.  This film documents an area before the invasion of four wheel drive vehicles and mountain bikes.  This film was preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Program funded with a grant from the Charles Redd Center. USHS West Meeting Room, 7:00 p.m. Utah State Historical Society, 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake,  7:00 pm. For more information see http//history.utah.org

6/20     Brown Bag Lecture: Roy Webb, "The River Told Me:  History of River Running on the Green and Colorado Rivers." USHS West Meeting Room, 12:00 Noon. Utah State Historical Society (USHS), 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake.  For more information call  801 533-3500 or see http//history.utah.org

6/22     Gary Topping, historian and author, introduced and signed his book, Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country.  USHS West Meeting Room, 12:00 Noon. Utah State Historical Society (USHS), 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake.  For more information call  801 533-3500 or see http//history.utah.org

7/6       Eleanor Inskip, author of The Colorado River through Glen Canyon before Lake Powell:  Historic Photo Journal, 1872 to 1964.  Lecture and book signing at the USHS, West Meeting Room, 12:00 Noon. Utah State Historical Society (USHS), 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake.  For more information call  801 533-3500 or see http//history.utah.org

7/10     Historic Film Series: Russell Frazer Collection Glen Canyon Narrated by Gary Topping, Associate Professor of History, Salt Lake Community College and author of Glen Canyon and the San Juan country (University of Idaho Press, c1997).  Subject Matter: Two movies spliced together; the first, of the movies is  the 1938 expedition with Julius Stone and Charles Kelly, shows placing of the plaque on the  Crossing of the Fathers.   The second movie was shot in 1955 when they revisited the same stretches of the Colorado River.  This movie is significant in that the portions of  the Colorado River highlighted have since been flooded by the waters of Lake Powell, which was created by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. This film was preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Program funded with a grant from the Charles Redd Center. USHS West Meeting Room, 7:00 p.m.  Utah State Historical Society (USHS), 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake.  For more information call  801 533-3500 or see http//history.utah.org

7/18     Brown Bag Lecture:"First River Runners of the Colorado: John Wesley Powell and His Daring Expedition of 1869." By W. L. Rusho.  USHS West Meeting Room, 12:00 Noon. Utah State Historical Society (USHS), 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake.  For more information call  801 533-3500 or see http//history.utah.org

7/20     Gary Topping, historian and author, introduced and signed his book, Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country.  USHS West Meeting Room, 12:00 Noon.  USHS West Meeting Room, 12:00 Noon. Utah State Historical Society (USHS), 300 Rio Grande Ave, Salt Lake.  For more information call  801 533-3500 or see http//history.utah.org

Moab (May - June)

Now     The River: Lifeblood or Barrier. This new edition of the Canyon Legacy, a publication of Moab's Dan O'Laurie Museum, explored many elements of the Colorado River and its tributaries. Edited by Rusty Salmon this issue also included essays by Richard Westwood, Roy Webb, Brad Dimock and Lloyd Pierson.

5/11     Moving Waters traveling exhibit opening hosted at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center (MARC) combined with Art Gallery Stroll, Moab Poets and Writers Presentation.  111 E 100 N, Moab.  Through June 22. For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.net or see www.moabriverfestival.org

5/11     River Book Exhibit of John Weisheit's personal collection at Moab Public Library, 20 S 100 E, Moab. Through June 22. For more information please call 435-259-5421 or see www.moabriverfestival.org

5/11     Local River History Exhibit, Dan O'Laurie Canyon Country Museum, 118 E Center, Moab.  Through June 22.  For more information please call 435-259-7985 or see www.moabriverfestival.org

5/11     Migratory Bird Day at Matheson Wetlands Preserve (focus on river ecology)

5/13, 20 & 27
6/3, 10 & 17   

This Week in Moab features Moving Waters radio documentary at 6: 15 pm on KZMU

5/13     Moving Waters Radio, 5:30-7 PM on KZMU

                  Host H.L. Weber with Live guests Bruce Hucko, Ken Sleight, John Weisheit,

                  HMK Student Poets, a local poet, and the first Moving Waters radio program.

5/14     River Rescue Open House at NPS Headquarters Hwy 191 Tues. 2-4 PM

5/16     Moving Waters Lecture: "The Traditional Dinehs Relationship with Sacred Water" with Philmer Bluehouse. Hosteen Bluehouse is a traditional Navajo healer, peacemaker and current secretary of the Navajo Nation Medicine Man Association. His talk highlighted the Navajo cultural connection to water, including the Navajo Creation story, ceremony and current concerns regarding the San Juan River, the Colorado River and other sacred streams and springs.  Moab Arts and Recreations Center (MARC), 7:00 pm, 111 E 100 N, Moab.  For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.net or see www.moabriverfestival.org

5/18     River Walk at Matheson Wetlands Preserve 8-9 AM

5/18     Moving Water Art Class for Kids at/on the River, 9 AM - 1 PM with Art Coach Bruce Hucko, sponsored by the Moab Arts and Recreations Center (MARC).   For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.net or see www.moabriverfestival.org

5/18     River Music/Spoken Word Concert at the Moab Arts and Recreations Center (MARC), 7:30 pm, 111 E 100 N, Moab.  D-Squared (Don Charles and Deb Gessner) with Moab Poets and Writers.  For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.net or see www.moabriverfestival.org

5/23     Moving Waters Lecture: "Danger River." Discussion and historic film with Roy Webb. Roy Webb, C. A., is multimedia archivist for Special Collections at the J. Willard Marriott Library on the University of Utah campus. Roy Webb was born on the banks of the San Juan River in New Mexico, and his interest in the Colorado River has lasted from that day to this. He is the author of three books and numerous articles on river running, has served as consultant for documentaries on the river, and accompanies as many river trips as he can get away with to act as historical interpreter. He is currently editing the journals of Norman Nevills for future publication, and will use quotes from those journals and other accounts by trip participants to tell the story of the creation of "Danger River." "Danger River" documents a 1942 Grand Canyon river trip led by Norman Nevills. One of the participants, Ed Olsen, took along a movie camera and later turned some of the footage into an Academy Award-winning short subject, "Facing Your Danger." Olsen later used the out takes to create "Danger River," which was shown to clients of Nevills Expeditions and its successor, Mexican Hat Expeditions. This short (7 minute) film is in color, with dramatic narration and music, and depicts a typical Nevills Expeditions river trip, with scenes of camping, hiking, and of course, running dangerous rapids.  Moab Arts and Recreations Center (MARC), 7:00 pm, 111 E 100 N, Moab.  For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.net or see www.moabriverfestival.org

5/24     Water Wars lecture by Owen Olpin, Moab Arts and Recreations Center (MARC), 7:30 pm, 111 E 100 N, Moab.  For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.net or see www.moabriverfestival.org

5/30     Moving Waters Lecture: "Rock Art and Water Ways" with Sally Cole   Sally Cole has documented rock art in the Four Corners area for over 20 years. She has completed major research in Grand Gulch and along Millcreek for Earth Watch. Sally showed and discussed the styles and forms found along primary waterways in this area. Moab Arts and Recreations Center (MARC), 7:00 pm, 111 E 100 N, Moab.  For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.net or see www.moabriverfestival.org

6/4       Moving Waters Media Madness at the MARC,  8 PM is a festive night of home video and slides.  Friend of the River Eleanor Inskip will present the Harry Aleson Film Collection (1952, 1953) and the Russell Frazer Glen Canyon Film Collection (1938, 1955). Lady of the River Serena Supplee presented a slide/sound/synch program of her Colorado River paintings.  Following the features, settle in for an evening of home movies.  The MARC will provide VCR/TV, 2 projectors with dissolve and blank trays, and if needed we'll track down a 16mm projector. For more information please call 435-259-6272.

6/5, 12, 19       Colorado River Reader Book Discussion at the MARC with Janet Lowe, 5 PM

6/6       Moving Waters Lecture: "The River - Then and Now" slide lecture (matches across 130 years) with Dr. Bob Webb, Dr. Jayne Belnap and John Weisheit. Dr. Bob Webb is hydrologist with the USGS Desert Lab in Tucson. John Weisheit is a Moab-based river historian and the conservation director for Living Rivers. Their presentation featured photos taken on the Green and Colorado River as they approach Canyonlands National Park taken between 1871 (on the Powell expedition) and 2001. They discussed environmental changes seen along the river and what those changes mean for river ecology.  Moab Arts and Recreations Center (MARC), 7:00 pm, 111 E 100 N, Moab.  For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.netor see www.moabriverfestival.org

6/13     Moab Geomorphology via Satellite by Dr. John Dohrenwend.  Moab Arts and Recreations Center (MARC), 7:00 pm, 111 E 100 N, Moab.  For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.netor see www.moabriverfestival.org

6/20     Moving Waters Anecdotes from Source to Delta by William DeBuys and Jack Loeffler.  Moab Arts and Recreations Center (MARC), 7:00 pm, 111 E 100 N, Moab.  For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.netor see www.moabriverfestival.org

6/21,22, 28, 29 Moab Repertory Theater "Experimental" Production in Cooperation with Moab Music Festival Artist-in-Residence Eric Thomas. For more information please call 435-259-6272, email moabarc@lasal.netor see www.moabriverfestival.org

Vernal (July)

Now Publication, The Rivers We Know, an anthology of stories written by local authors and a soft-cover book produced by the Uintah County Library. For more information call 435-789-0091.

Moving Waters traveling exhibit hosted at the Uintah County Library. Includes display of "water art" and an exhibit about endangered fish with an aquarium. 155 E Main. For more information call 435-789-0091.

7/1     River Celebration, Uintah County Library, 155 E Main. Noon - 7:00 pm. Booths, displays and demonstrations. For more information call 435-789-0091.

7/2, 16, 30     Colorado River Reader (ed. Richard Fleck) book discussion with Alan Blackstock at Uintah County Library, 155 E Main. 7:00 pm For more information call 435-789-0091.

7/3     Green and Yampa River slide show by Mark Fuller, Uintah County Building Cafeteria, 7:00 pm. For more information call 435-789-0091.

7/8     A Look at a Lost World: Rediscovering the Vanished Communities of Glen Canyon slide lecture by Roy Webb at the Uintah County Library, 155 E Main. 7:00 pm. For more information call 435-789-0091.

7/9     Eleanor Inskip will present the Harry Aleson Film Collection (1952, 1953) and the Russell Frazer Glen Canyon Film Collection (1938, 1955). These films were preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Programs funded with a grant from the Charles Redd Center. Uintah County Building Cafeteria, 7 pm, For more information call 435-789-0091.

7/17     Water Wars lecture by Owen Olpin, Scout House Park, 240 E 100 N, Vernal, 7:00 pm. Included a dutch oven demonstration and refreshments. For more information call 435-789-0091.

7/18     Green and Yampa River slide show by Mark Fuller. Uintah County Library, 155 E Main. 7:00 pm. For more information call 435-789-0091.

7/30     Colorado River Reader (ed. Richard Fleck) book discussion with Alan Blackstock at Uintah County Library, 155 E Main. 7:00 pm For more information call 435-789-0091.

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