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Lynn Arave

Columnist

Lynn Arave worked as a newspaper reporter for more than 40 years. He is a retired Deseret News reporter/editor, from 1979-2011. His email is lra503777@gmail.com His Mystery of Utah History blog is at mysteryofutahhistory.blogspot.com.

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Entertainment
Is Antelope Island misnamed? Back when transplanted antelope refused to stay there
By Lynn Arave, Columnist
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Entertainment
When a possible ski resort was studied in Davis County; plus, Davis County ‘Avengers’ and a wild balloon ride
In the 1950s, a study was done to see if there was spot in Davis County for a ski resort and Alf Engen checked it out
By Lynn Arave, Columnist
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Entertainment
Back when raw sewage was dumped into the Great Salt Lake
Until the 1960s, dumping raw sewage into the Great Salt Lake was a continual and normal practice along the Wasatch Front
By Lynn Arave, Columnist
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Entertainment
How about Dern Air Force Base instead of Hill Air Force Base?
By Lynn Arave, Columnist
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Entertainment
An actual Howard Stark — not the fictional father of Iron Man Tony Stark — and a real plane crash in Utah
There actually existed a real Howard Stark who was both a legendary pilot and an inventor
By Lynn Arave, Columnist
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Entertainment
When Hollywood disliked Southern Utah’s brightly colored terrain — and even got stranded
The red rocks were too bright for using Technicolor in 1940 for ‘Western Union’
By Lynn Arave, Columnist
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Entertainment
A pair of never built roads in Bryce Canyon National Park
By Lynn Arave, Columnist
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Entertainment
Lynn Arave: When dynamite could have ‘destroyed’ Lone Peak
Crashes into Utah’s Lone Peak and other documented hikers who have made it to the top
By Lynn Arave, Columnist
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Utah
Early shipwrecks on the briny and unpredictable Great Salt Lake
A look at early shipwrecks on the briny and unpredictable Great Salt Lake
By Lynn Arave, Columnist
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Family
Lynn Arave: When the Snake River was proposed as the shrinking Great Salt Lake’s lasting salvation
By Lynn Arave, Columnist