Sitka, Cromwell, Redi-Whip, Phalanges and Trig: A Look Back
Published: August 11, 2009
Recently, our esteemed editor posted about apocalypse harbinger, lipstick-smeared syntaxulatrix, and Machiavellian outrage merchandiser Sarah Palin, who seems at the moment to be sliding from public prominence into some sort of shadowy PAC-rat purgatory, her Google-enabled grimace relegated to haunting the margins of any website who happens to mention her.
The state I call home, Utah, has a violent and bizarre history. Salt Lake City has, for many years, been a stopover–no one’s destination, not even for the people who live here. This is the best description of the city I’ve been able to come up with. Anyway, in this column I teach you an interesting little tidbit of Utah history. Today we’ll be learning about Saltair.
