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“The sound of parenthood is the sigh.” So begins Gravity Hill, written from the perspective of a new father seeking hope, beauty, and meaning in an uncertain world. Many memoirs recount the author’s experiences of growing up and struggling with demons; Werner’s shows how old demons sometimes return on the heels of something as beautiful as children. Werner’s memoir is about growing up, getting older, looking back, and wondering what lies ahead—a process that becomes all the more complicated and intense when parenting is involved. Moving backward and forward between past, present, and future, Gravity Hill does not delineate time so much as collapse it. Werner narrates his struggle growing up in suburban Utah as anon-Mormon and what it took for him, his siblings, and his friends to feel like they belonged. Bonding in separation, they indulged in each other, in natural and urban landscapes, and sometimes in the destructive behaviors that are the native resort of outsidersincluding promiscuous and occasionally violent sexual behavior—and for some, paths to death and suicide. Gravity Hill is the story of the author’s descent into and eventual emergence from his dysfunction and into a newfound life. Infused with humor, honesty, and reflection, this literary memoir will resonate with readers young and old.

This carefully researched and illuminating biography recounts a pivotal period in Utah’s history as revealed by the life of businessman, community activist, and statesman Joe Rosenblatt. After successfully building Eimco Corporation, his manufacturing and construction business, into an industry leader—and, by the 1950s, Utah’s largest privately owned company—Rosenblatt spent the better part of his time following his retirement in 1963 as a devoted public servant. He served as chairman of the “Little Hoover Commission,” charged by Utah governor Calvin Rampton in 1965 to investigate the operation of the executive branch of the state’s government. He would go on to serve on more than fifty boards and commissions. The “Little Hoover Commission” was modeled after the 1947 initiative of President Harry Truman, who created the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government to recommend administrative changes and appointed former president Herbert Hoover to chair it. Rosenblatt, a perceptive and outspoken figure, brought a much-needed dose of urgency and pragmatism to the Utah process and formulated a number of far-reaching suggestions to the legislature—many of which were adopted and still exist to this day. His work with the commission coupled with his later role on the San Francisco Federal Reserve Board did much to modernize Utah. Rosenblatt’s legacy as a perpetual champion of the community is further exemplified by his role as cultural conduit between Salt Lake’s Jewish community and the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This readable work will serve as an integral addition to Utah business and political history, enriching the library of anyone looking for an engaging story of a remarkable and transformative figure.

Salt Lake City’s oldest residential historic district is a neighborhood known as the Avenues. During the late nineteenth century this area was home to many of the most influential citizens of Salt Lake City. Built from 1860 until 1930, it contains a mix of middle and upper middle class homes of varying architectural styles. This architectural diversity makes the Avenues unique among Utah's historic districts. For the past thirty years, as citizens have rediscovered the value of living in historic properties near downtown and the University of Utah, preservation efforts have soared in the area. In 1980, the Avenues was established as a historic district and the Utah Historical Society published The Avenues of Salt Lake City. That book’s authors, Karl T. Haglund and Philip F. Notarianni, gleaned much about the area’s history by using information found on the historic district applications. This newly revised edition of The Avenues of Salt Lake City by Cevan J. LeSieur updates the original with a greatly expanded section on the historic homes in the neighborhood, including more than 600 new photos, and additional material covering the history of the Avenues since 1980. The book is designed so that readers can take it along as a guide when exploring the neighborhoods. All the pictures of Avenues homes are accompanied with architectural information and brief histories of the properties. This volume makes a valuable resource for those interested in the history of the Avenues and its diverse architecture, and for anyone interested in Utah history, Utah architecture, and historic preservation.  

Mary Lois Walker Morris was a Mormon woman who challenged both American ideas about marriage and the U.S. legal system. Before the Manifesto provides a glimpse into her world as the polygamous wife of a prominent Salt Lake City businessman, during a time of great transition in Utah. This account of her life as a convert, milliner, active community member, mother, and wife begins in England, where her family joined the Mormon church, details her journey across the plains, and describes life in Utah in the 1880s. Her experiences were unusual as, following her first husband's deathbed request, she married his brother, as a plural wife, in the Old Testament tradition of levirate marriage.Mary Morris's memoir frames her 1879 to 1887 diary with both reflections on earlier years and passages that parallel entries in the day book, giving readers a better understanding of how she retrospectively saw her life. The thoroughly annotated diary offers the daily experience of a woman who kept a largely self-sufficient household, had a wide social network, ran her own business, wrote poetry, and was intellectually curious. The years of \"the Raid\" (federal prosecution of polygamists) led Mary and Elias Morris to hide their marriage on \"the underground,\" and her to perjury in court during Elias's trial for unlawful cohabitation. The book ends with Mary Lois's arrival at the Salt Lake Depot after three years in exile in Mexico with a polygamist colony.

From the earliest days of settlement, South Temple was Salt Lake's most prestigious street.In 1857, William Staines built the Devereaux House, Salt Lake's first of many mansions.The once-bustling Union Pacific Depot eventually found itself increasingly isolated.

Although surface water and groundwater are increasingly referred to as one resource, there remain environmental and ecosystem needs to study the 10 m to 1 km reach scale as one hydrologic system. Streams gain and lose water over a range of spatial and temporal scales. Large spatial scales (kilometers) have traditionally been recognized and studied as river‐aquifer connections. Over the last 25 years hyporheic exchange flows (1–10 m) have been studied extensively. Often a transient storage model has been used to quantify the physical solute transport setting in which biogeochemical processes occur. At the longer 10 m to 1 km scale of stream reaches it is now clear that streams which gain water overall can coincidentally lose water to the subsurface. At this scale, the amounts of water transferred are not necessarily significant but the exchanges can, however, influence solute transport. The interpretation of seemingly straightforward questions about water, contaminant, and nutrient fluxes into and along a stream can be confounded by flow losses which are too small to be apparent in stream gauging and along flow paths too long to be detected in tracer experiments. We suggest basic hydrologic approaches, e.g., measurement of flow along the channel, surface and subsurface solute sampling, and routine measurements of the water table that, in our opinion, can be used to extend simple exchange concepts from the hyporheic exchange scale to a scale of stream‐catchment connection. Key Points There is a need for study of 10 m to 1 km stream reach scale Streams gain and lose water over a range of scales Basic hydrologic approaches for study are suggested

Metrics are presented to describe aspects of stream hydrologic conditions that are important in stream ecosystem processes and that can be calculated using either continuous stream discharge or stage data. The metrics are calculated for three urban and three nonurban sites in North Carolina that have relatively long-term discharge and stage records. The stage-based metrics, which represent overall variability, frequency of change, and duration of high flow and low flow or stage conditions, are then evaluated in terms of whether they can be used to describe the association between hydrologic conditions and urbanization. Comparisons of flow-based and stage-based metrics suggest the greatest comparability for metrics measuring the frequency of stream stage changes of different magnitudes and the median duration of high stage conditions. The findings suggest that increased urbanization has a positive effect on overall stream stage variability and stream flashiness and a negative correlation with the duration of high stage conditions.

Sediments deposited from the Permian–Triassic boundary (~252 Ma) until the end-Smithian (Early Triassic; c. 250.7 Ma) in the Sonoma Foreland Basin show marked thickness variations between its southern (up to c. 250 m thick) and northern (up to c. 550 m thick) parts. This basin formed as a flexural response to the emplacement of the Golconda Allochthon during the Sonoma orogeny. Using a high-resolution backstripping approach, a numerical model and sediment thickness to obtain a quantitative subsidence analysis, we discuss the controlling factor(s) responsible for spatial variations in thickness. We show that sedimentary overload is not sufficient to explain the significant discrepancy observed in the sedimentary record of the basin. We argue that the inherited rheological properties of the basement terranes and spatial heterogeneity of the allochthon are of paramount importance in controlling the subsidence and thickness spatial distribution across the Sonoma Foreland Basin.

Making sure animals stay healthy is a top priority at Utah's Hogle Zoo. Sometimes, that can be a real challenge.

\"9 Indeed, for Isaacson, the Church appeared to lift the ban on missionizing Jews that had been levied by Church-founder Joseph Smith himself.10 And yet, the significance of Isaacson's role in the late-nineteenth-century LDS Church in Utah has been unexplored.11 Based on a close reading of writings by and about Isaacson, including some previously closed to researchers, and an analysis of his activities in Utah, I argue that the key to Isaacson's ascent was his German-Jewishness, in particular his combination of access to both contemporary German and ancient Jewish languages and cultures, which fit an established template of Mormon conceptions of Jewishness. A number of other factors allowed Isaacson to gain the trust of Church officials, among them his appearance during a leadership vacuum between the Church presidencies of John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff, when the Church was undergoing significant changes, especially in its relationship to the federal government and its position on polygamy. Charles William Carter, \"Dr. Edward Isaacson Translating the Book of Mormon into Hebrew,\" 1888, PH 1809, LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City. one of the most iconic portraits of later Church leader Brigham Young (figure 1).12 After one sermon, an attendee reported, \"We behold the Jew on his back, and his high silk hat frolicking amongst the grass\" in the company of church members, one of whom he lifts off his feet. THE BOOK OF MORMON, THE JEWS, AND JEWISH LANGUAGES In mannered English that borrows heavily from the King James Bible, the Book of Mormon describes an epic battle between various descendants of the biblical Israelites who migrated to pre-contact North America and whose descendants in turn become the American Indians.