ITD Schedule for Utah 2008

Saturday, July 12 Sunday, July 13 Monday, July 14
Morning
Travel to SLC

3:00 Meet Kathryn MacKay in Hotel Lobby to receive packets of materials. Bus tours will leave from the lobby then and at 4:30.

Walking Tours:


A selection of Salt Lake City Restaurants

TRAX and Frontrunner schedules

  • There are some good restaurants on 25th street in Ogden--which is 1 hour north of SLC -- you can ride Frontrunner there ant back
  • The major shopping district in SLC is the Gateway

 

 

8:00 AM
Meet in hotel lobby to walk over to line up for Mormon Tabernacle Choir Broadcast at 9:30 (Conference Center)

All bags will need to be checked -- so travel light!

10:30 AM
Guided tours of
LDS Church Museum

Lunch
On your own.

1:30 PM
"Religion in the American West"
---Kathryn MacKay, Weber State University

3:00 PM
Bus trip to Antelope Island and Great Salt Lake

Sunset
Return to hotel

Presentations in
Aspen Rooms 1 & 2

8:30 AM "Everybody's Moving Here--Demographics of the West" --Pam Perlich, University of Utah

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM "The West and the Federal Presence" --Jeff Nichols, Westminster College

Lunch
On your own.

  • Garden Tours of the Grounds around the LDS Office Building start at noon from that location
  • The 26th floor observation deck of the LDS church Office Building is open M-F 9AM to 5 PM
  • Join Kathryn MacKay who is eating lunch at the historic Lion House

2:00 PM "Writing the West"--Jean Cheney, Utah Humanities Council

3:30 PM Break

4:00 PM
Bus trip to Millcreek Canyon

8:00 PM
Return to hotel

 Tuesday, July 14

 AM Travel to Yellowstone National Park

"Cowboys and the Images of the West" David Stanley, Westminster College (on the bus)