salt lake city

Reading Time: 4 minutes Wandering through the Salt Lake City cemetery one day I came upon the headstone of Lester F. Wire. It’s not unusually ornate or otherwise eye-catching, except for the epitaph. Lester…

Reading Time: 9 minutes It’s All In The Epitaph… The Salt Lake City Cemetery, located in downtown Salt Lake is a 120-acre cemetery with over 9 1/2 miles of old, narrow roads. The cemetery…

Reading Time: 10 minutes A 97-Year-Old Mystery It had all the makings of a made for TV movie. On a stormy October night in 1920, Francis Korous, a 40-year old nurse from Salt Lake City boarded…

Reading Time: 8 minutes I find it interesting how tragic events become forgotten as time passes. Usually, the more tragic the event, the longer the story seems to stick around in the collective memory.…

Reading Time: 3 minutes I stumbled upon this grave in the Salt Lake City Cemetery over the weekend while looking for someone else’s final resting place. One of my favorite things when wandering around…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Vincenzo Conte, or Jim as he seemed to be more commonly referred to was a goat rancher who lived near Butterfield Canyon. Originally from Italy, Jim and his wife Anna…