A free STEM camp sponsored by Stanford University's SPOKES starts tomorrow (Monday) at the Christa McAuliffe Space Center in Pleasant Grove. You can sign up for at spacecenter.alpineschools.org/camps/. The camp is open to students ages 12-16. Several Renaissance Academy Space Academy students attended the Stanford camp last year and enjoyed it very much. Here are a few pictures of them at work.
The Troubadour From Wits End Too Cottage on Williams Street in Beautiful Deadwood, South Dakota
The Troubadour coming to you again from Wits End Too Cottage in Deadwood, South Dakota. One thing is for sure, there are no starship simulators in this neck of the wild west.
I watch a glaze of confusion sweep across the good faces of the local folks here when I try explaining to them what I do for a living back in "Mormon Country".
We enjoyed the Independence Day Parade down Main Street. There was one band from a Lutheran school in Minnesota along with a good collection of local dignitaries and businesses. The amount of candy gathered by kids during a Deadwood parade is only eclipsed by a night on the doors at Halloween. A day of storms made even better with strong lightening, thunder and hail made the day even better.
My favorite "float" was from Danny's Plumbing Service. It was called the "Game of Thrones"............ Get it? He sat on his plunger bedecked throne issuing orders while winning the favor of his subjects by tossing copious amounts of DumDums.
The horn on the Hawk Extreme Firefighters truck was loud enough to nearly part my spirit from my body.
Our motoring through the mystic Black Hills included several good restful hours at the Rouges Gallery in Hulett, Wyoming owned by my sister and brother in law. I enjoy sitting in the small lobby and swapping stories with the odd assortment of local characters who drop by. Hulett has a population of 467 on the days when they're not bringing in the harvests. The population swells by a couple hundred or so tourists during the summers who drive by on their way to and from Devil's Tower just down the highway.
Last year the Williamson's gathered to have a picture taken in the Photo Emporium near Saloon #10.
Just the other day the weather took another turn to nasty (but exciting) with golf ball sized hail, tornado sirens, and flooding throughout the Hills. We found partial shelter with the locals under a gas station awning just off the highway. How often do you get that kind of excitement in Utah?
It makes for a good summer to keep company with family and friends on lazy Deadwood afternoons. Soon enough it will be time to return to Utah, but not yet.
Just the other day the weather took another turn to nasty (but exciting) with golf ball sized hail, tornado sirens, and flooding throughout the Hills. We found partial shelter with the locals under a gas station awning just off the highway. How often do you get that kind of excitement in Utah?
It makes for a good summer to keep company with family and friends on lazy Deadwood afternoons. Soon enough it will be time to return to Utah, but not yet.
Imaginarium Theater
The Best Videoettes of the Week Edited for a Gentler Audience. Today, From Wits End Too Cottage in beautiful Deadwood, South Dakota.
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