9/30 Field Trip - Grafton
Field Trip/Hike | Available (Membership Required)
This field trip is only for those students registered for Ghost Towns of Southern Utah. Attendance will be taken the morning of the trip and if you are not on the class roster, you will not be allowed to attend.
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Tuesday, Sept. 30, Field trip to Grafton. Participants meet at 7:45 a.m. at the far east side of the Udvar Hazy parking lot. Carpooling is required because there is limited parking at the site. We will leave at 8 a.m. to carpool on I-15 north 26 miles* to the Toquerville (Anderson Junction) exit, then drive about 9 miles south on SR 17 to the Zion National Park junction in LaVerkin, then drive another 15 miles* to Rockville and take the Rockville Bridge road south and drive south and southwest 5-6 miles* to Grafton. We will tour the Grafton School house, the Alonzo Russell home and the Grafton Cemetery. Arrive back in St. George by 1 p.m.
Loren Webb
- Master of Arts Degree in Communications, December 1981, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
- Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism Education and a minor in History, December 1979, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
- History/Geography 7 Instructor, Saville Middle School, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2004 to May 2020
- State of Nevada Professional License and endorsements in Speech, History of the U.S. and the World, Journalism and Communication
- Utah Professional Educator License, Level 2, endorsements in Journalism, Speech and History
- English/Journalism instructor, Uintah High School, Vernal, Utah, August 2001 to August 2004
- President, Washington County Historical Society, St. George, Utah, January 2021 to March 2023
- Served on a volunteer basis from 1992 to 1996 as chairman, Washington County Centennial History Committee, which worked with two authors (Doug Alder and Karl Brooks) to update the history of Washington County, Utah as part of a Utah State Historical Society project to update the county histories of all 29 counties of Utah
- Co-taught History of Utah's Dixie (evening course) with local historian Bart Anderson from January to March 1991 under direction of Dixie College History Professor Robert Slack