SALT LAKE CITY — The 61st annual Utah State History Conference will take place Sept. 5-8. The conference is free and open to the public with no registration required — with the exception of the Sept. 8 field trip to the site of the Bear River Massacre.
On Sept. 5, there will be workshops for historical preservation consultants, authors and prospective authors for the Utah Historical Quarterly, and organizations desiring to digitize records. The workshops will be from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. at the Rio Grande Depot.
Also that day, at 7 p.m. at the Salt Lake Main Library, there will be an illustrated presentation, “The Making and Unmaking of Utah,” by Jared Farmer, historian, geo-humanist and award-winning author of "On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians and the American Landscape." The annual Utah history awards will follow.
Sessions and papers on Utah history will be presented Sept. 6 at the Rio Grande Depot and Sept. 7 at Fort Douglas, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. both days.
The field trip to the site of the Bear River Massacre will then be 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 8. There is a $65 fee, and those interested can register at fortdouglas.org.