Pioneer Day at Heritage Park

August 15, 2015 by shelley

This is the Place Heritage Park Pioneer Day 2015 Salt Lake City Utah

What better way to celebrate Pioneer Day than to be at Heritage Park.

This is the Place Heritage Park Pioneer Day 2015 Salt Lake City Utah

Fun Things to do in Salt Lake City

July 5, 2015 by shelley

And then we enjoyed a week of fun activities in Salt Lake City after the wedding:

Hogle Zoo

Everyone at Hogle Zoo

Henry, Becca and Jack

Jack and Caroline

B.J. and Jack

Becca and Henry

Hogle Zoo, Salt Lake City

Collins and Becca

Becca, Caroline, Jack and Henry

Collins

And the Museum of Natural Curiosity

Museum of Natural Curiosity

Becca

Henry

Collins and Becca

Collins and Henry

Collins and Becca

Henry and Caroline

Caroline

Caroline and Becca

Emily and Jennifer

Jack

Emily at Museum of Natural Curiosity in Salt Lake City

Fishing at Cold Springs Trout Farm

Our catch of the day

Collins

Collins and Becca

Caroline, Becca and Henry

Grandpa, BJ, Jack and Jenn

Henry, Jenn and Jack

Becca, Jen, Emily and Caroline

Caroline, Emily, Jen, Jack, Henry, B.J. and grandpa

Becca, Jen, Caroline, Grandpa, Henry, Jack and BJ

Becca

Jennifer

Caroline and Henry

Jack

Cold Springs Trout Farm

This is the Place Heritage Park

Caroline and Jack

Caroline, Becca, Grandpa and Henry

Emily

Becca

Henry

Grandpa and BJ

Caroline, BJ, Jack, Becca and Henry

Becca

Caroline

Jack, Becca and Caroline

Becca and Caroline

Prospector Pit

Caroline and Jack

Becca

Jack and Caroline

Henry

Jack, Becca and Henry

Caroline and Becca

BJ and Jenn

Jack and Henry eating Brigham doughnuts

This is the Place Heritage Park

The Utah Museum Fine Arts has a special program for children every third Saturday which is a phenomenal program! It is free and this month had Mayan art for its inspiration. Every child got to decorative clay pot after being inspired with the Mayan pottery collection searching for specific objects like the rectangular polychrome vase

Rectangular Polychrome Mayan Vase Utah Museum of Fine Arts

or the polychrome vase.

Polychrome Mayan Vase Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Example of the clay plate Mayan inspired project for children at Utah Museum of Fine Art’s third Saturday for children (free admission!);

Example art clay plate art project Mayan inspired third Saturday activity for children Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Becca and Caroline working on their clay plate Mayan art project

Henry working on his Mayan clay plate art project Utah Museum of Fine arts third Saturday activity for children

Henry with clay plate art project

Caroline with clay plate art project

Becca with her Mayan inspired clay plate art project at the Utah Museum of Fine Art

Becca (helped Grandma) with her Mayan inspired clay plate art project at the Utah Museum of Fine Art

Emily

Grandma and Grandpa working on their projects

Working on clay art project at Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Caroline cleaning up after project

The Leonardo Museum Salt Lake City

We had to visit the Leonardo Museum to see Becca’s award winning Reflections project on display. It was park of the SPARK exhibit.

Spark ignite your imagination

SPARK!

What is “spark?” Is it that feeling you get when you know you’re on to something big? Is it that irresistible flow of an idea that’s just about to burst into reality? What happens when your creativity is ignited? What becomes possible?

They get it– the Leonardo created this brand new (and really big) exhibition.

Imagine, explore and interact with over 700 pieces of original 2D and 3D art, live performances, original writings, and more. And many of the featured works were created by artists who are just like YOU! (Becca was one of the artists with her award winning project!)

Everyone at the Leonardo Museum with Becca’s project

Caroline and green screen

Becca and Henry and green screen

Fun with green screen

Henry, Caroline and Becca

Henry the drummer

Caroline and Becca

Henry

Projects at the Leonardo in Salt Lake City

Becca’s award winning project for Reflections-state award winner

Making the World a Better Place with a Mean Word Chomper

Leonardo Museum Salt Lake City

Visit to Heritage Park (This is The Place Monument) Salt Lake City, Utah! (Mormon)

August 23, 2012 by shelley

This is the Place Monument, Heritage Park, Salt Lake City, Utah

The West…just as it was! Step back in time with a visit to This Is The Place Heritage Park. The non-profit This Is The Place Foundation manages Utah’s premier living history attraction, a historic 450-acre Utah state Park. The mission is to preserve and promote the heritage and history of Utah. You’ll find it alive in storied accounts of the settlement of the West, told by knowledgeable interpreters in a setting of original and replica historic homes. You’ll also see artisans and interpreters demonstrate 19th Century frontier life in a working environment. While you look on, the blacksmith explains his trade while he creates items used elsewhere in the Village and the furniture-maker turns ordinary wood into a masterpiece!

A lively variety of domestic skills are demonstrated in Village homes. You can watch wool being carded and spun into yarn that will be colored with a kaleidoscope of dyes made from native plants, many grown right here at the Park. At another historic building, candles are being dipped layer-by-layer over a small open fire in the back yard and quilting demonstrations are sure to leave you warm at heart!A visit to the Park is not a tour of historic artifacts behind velvet ropes and glass, but a true experience of life as it was in the early days of the West. The Native American Village offers a window to a world long since gone, where members of Utah’s indigenous tribes interpret the history of their native people. You can also enjoy the Park from the comfort of one of three replica trains and see and hear the history of the settlement, or simply spend the day walking the quiet streets on your own.

One of the highlights of our visit, or at least Henry and Becca thought, was to the Brigham’s Doughnut shop.

Brigham’s Doughnut Shop

I found a recipe for Brigham’s Doughnut in the Friend Magazine, July 1975:
Pioneer Recipes

Buttermilk Doughnuts
2 cups buttermilk
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
3 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
flour
Combine ingredients, kneading in enough flour to make a soft dough that’s not too sticky. Roll out and cut into doughnuts. Fry in deep, hot lard. President Brigham Young enjoyed this pastry.

We also enjoyed the pony rides and train rides!!

: Brigham’s Doughnut Shop

: This is the Place Monument, Heritage Park, Salt Lake City, Utah

Riding the ponies at Heritage Park in Salt Lake City, Utah!!

August 9, 2011 by shelley

I posted a picture of Becca and Henry riding the ponies at Heritage Park in Salt Lake City, but I wanted to add this movie. Nothing is as endearing as a child’s first pony ride and Henry’s absolute delight is contagious and absolutely warmed my heart!