Awkward news out of Park City, Utah: this year’s annual Dungeon Party can’t be held in the dungeon. It’s closed for repairs. The good news is that the dungeon will be back, uncomfortable as ever, in the spring of 2009, once the Park City Historical Museum finishes fixing up the place. The dungeon is what […]
The US Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today from a religious group named Summum, which worships in a pyramid, practices mummification, and wants to erect a monument of its Seven Aphorisms in a public park. This has caused considerable teeth-gnashing among those who see themselves as the gatekeepers of public monuments. One group has […]
People have stared at bones in pits ever since there have been bone pits old enough for detached viewing. Yet in recent years it has become an uncertain, even discouraged, activity. Indian burial pits that had been attractions in places such as Salina, Kansas, and at the Fountain of Youth in Florida were reburied under […]
