10/27 Field Trip - Silver Reef
Field Trip/Hike | Available (Membership Required)
This field trip is only for those students registered for the Southern Utah Ghost Towns class. You must sign up to attend. All participants should plan to arrive at the far east side of the Udvar Hazy parking lot at 7:45 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. time of departure for instructions and directions, as well as to consolidate cars for carpooling.
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Tuesday, Oct. 27, Field trip to Silver Reef. Participants meet at 7:45 a.m. at the far east side of the Udvar Hazy parking lot. We will leave at 8 a.m., to carpool north on I-15, 19 miles* to Leeds, then drive northeast through Leeds about 2-3 miles before turning left under the I-15 underpass and drive 2 miles to the Silver Reef Museum. Note: All participants will be required to pay a $4 entrance fee to enter the museum and listen to the history of Silver Reef from a docent. Arrive back in St. George by 11 a.m. (approximately).
*Distances approximate
Loren Webb
Loren is a native of St. George. He serves as a Washington County Historical Society board member and teaches three classes for ICL. He is a retired Clark County (NV) School District 7th grade U.S. History/World Geography teacher. Loren has been a reporter in community journalism in Southern Nevada, Southern and Southcentral Utah for 14 years.
- 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