The Dizzy Six was a group of friends that formed a type of club in high school in Huntington. L-R Morell Wakefield, Eva Westover, Maudie Johnson, Cecilia Leonard, Hilma Grange, Adeline Leonard. They kept their club going the rest of their lives.
The families who settled along the Muddy Creek eventually needed more land in which to build a community. They planned to move the town a few miles to the south. First they had to divert water from Muddy Creek to the new townsite. It took them...
Emery County (Uath); Emery (Utah); Jensen, Venice; Johnson, Rasmus; Muddy Creek; Emery Canal; Building Canals
Venice Jensen's grandfather Rasmus Johnson helped build the Emery Canal from the Muddy Creek. When the settlers along the Muddy Creek decided to build the town of Emery, they began to build a canal diverting the water from the Muddy Creek to the...
Emery County (Uath); Emery (Utah); Quilts; Relief Society;
A group of women quilting and showing quilts in Emery Town. This is the Relief Society who had been quilting and making quilts for a compassionate service project.
Drew Richards and friends traveling to the San Rafael Swell for Easter weekend. Although many people had cars in 1928, horses and wagons fared better in the muddy areas of the Swell. Spending Easter weekend on the Swell or the desert, as locals...
Allosaurus is from the Jurrasic Period. It is similar to the T-Rex which came later. It is the most common dinosaur found at the Cleveland Lloyd Quarry. However, many other dinosaur species have been found there as well.
William Lee Sokes, professor of geology at the University of Utah, is working with a student assembling a dinosaur skeleton. Stokes grew up in Cleveland, Utah and reportedly discovered the fossil cache that became the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur...
Plate IV, Orangeville Firsts. Figures 1,2,3 in A Study of Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925, a dissertation by Elmo Geary, 1953. Top photograph: John K. Reid, Actor Director. "Heading the list of early dramatic leaders in Orangeville was John...
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Castle Valley (Utah); Huntington (Utah); Geary, Elmo
Plate II, Castle Valley in the book Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925 by Elmo Geary, 1953. Fig. 1 Castle Valley Map showing location of communities studied. Fig. 2 Front page of an early issue of "The Emery County Progress" Saturday, April...
Plate XXXVI, Academy Play Casts 1917-1921 from the book Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925 by Elmo Geary, 1953. Fig. 1 Seven Versus Seven; Fig. 2 The Rector; Fig 3. (covered).
Plate VI, Actors and Actresses of Orangeville. Figures 1-6 in A Study of Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925, a history by Elmo Geary, 1953. Fig. 1 Alma G. Jewkes, architect for the Orangeville Social Hall; actor; stock holder in Orangeville...
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Geary, Elmo; Huntington (Utah); Huntington; College of Eastern Utah
Elmo Geary was a teacher at Huntington High School (Utah). He graduated from BYU and had participated in many plays. He was asked to teach Drama at College of Eastern Utah, and was responsible for creating the drama department there. The Geary...
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Geary, Elmo; Smith, Joseph; Young, Brigham; Emery, George W.
Plate I, Influential PreColonization Personalities in the book Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925 by Elmo G. Geary, 1953. Fig. 1 Joseph Smith; Fig. 2 Brigham Young; Fig. 3 Governor Emery.
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Huntington (Uath); Drama; Geary, Elmo; College of Eastern Utah; Johnson, Peter E.
Plate XII, Huntington Dramatic Association in the book Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925 by Elmo Geary 1953. Fig. 1 Treasurer's Report of Expenses; Fig.2 Peter E. Johnson.