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During separate visits to Salt Lake City recently, Jeff R. and Sam each took their families to a museum exhibit called “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition,” located inside a downtown mall. The traveling exhibit features dozens of artifacts from the famous ocean liner Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. Since the ship’s wreckage was first discovered on the ocean floor in 1985, numerous artifacts have been recovered. Items on display in Salt Lake included a megaphone, a pair of binoculars, clothing, coins, paper money, papers, jewelry, bottles, dishes, silverware, leather bags, tools, and even one of the ship’s large steam whistles. In the first photo above, Jeff’s daughter Brooklyn poses by a sign outside the exhibit in front of a re-creation of the ship’s dining room. The second photo shows Sam holding a reprinted version of a 1912 newspaper. Other souvenirs included books, posters, toys, and a replica of a coffee cup like those used on board.
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DHC U.S. Office staff member Yoko spent Thanksgiving at a remote cave hideaway called “The Peaceful Place” on public land about an hour south of Moab. About 15 people camped overnight in their own tents, vehicles, or in sleeping bags on the concrete floor of the cave, which is believed to have been converted into a dwelling decades ago by cowboys or sheepherders. Thanksgiving dinner was “potluck” style, which means that everyone brought something to add to the mix. The place has no electricity or running water, so the campers cooked the food on portable propane stoves outside the cave and then brought it inside.
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Last week, Sam visited the museum at the Edge of the Cedars State Park in Blanding, Utah (about 75 miles south of Moab). He’s shown here emerging from a ladder leading to a reconstructed kiva (a type of underground dwelling). The ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) culture thrived in this area for hundreds of years until around 1300 A.D., when the inhabitants finally left amid a prolonged drought. Today, over 700 years later, many Puebloan dwelling sites and other structures can still be seen, as can numerous pictographs and petroglyphs (drawings and etchings made on rock walls). It’s also possible to find arrowheads and pottery shards buried in the ground. Because of their archaeological significance, all such sites and artifacts are protected by federal law.
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