Fall is in the air up here in Park City and that means skiing is right around the corner! Yeah! Snow storms are coming and the ski’s are coming out of storage.
I’m cleaning my goggles and dusting off my bindings. Getting ready to buy passes and adding skiing to my budget. I know that within the next few weeks I’ll see snow and I’m totally rad about this! It’s sad, but I’m actually looking forward to the windshield wipers brushing the snow off the window. White everywhere and the snow plows coming out.
Snow. Snow.. Snow…
In Remembrance of those victims on nine-eleven, we here at The Prospector pause from our Sunday to remember those lost and the tragedy we will never forget. They will always be in our hearts.
Come stay at The Prospector this weekend while attending the EarthWell Festival! A village created to bring out people’s awareness of “wellness” in a “green” way. The festival village has shop-lined streets with bookstores and little cafés on the corners. Something for all the family, children have arts and crafts opportunities and will be able to watch street entertainers. There will be workshops and classes as well as speakers to learn from.
The Prospector is a great place to stay while visiting Park City for the weekend. Sitting on 10-acres, its serene landscape and unique style of rooms only enhances the weekend.
Contact the Prospector today for low seasonal rates.
Labor Day Weekend at our house means good food out on the back patio. The grill has hot dogs, ribs, chicken, and hamburgers cooking and in the house we always have corn boiling and salads chillin’ in the fridge.
The badminton game seems to keep on going all afternoon with the younger generations and the grandparents looking over Photo Albums and talking about trips taken in the last year.
Our family is in charge of the grill while everyone gets involved with setting up the buffet in the kitchen. It’s always the same in a good way. The last big friend and family get together of the summer. And that’s our family tradition for Labor Day.
The feel of fall is coming and The Prospector Summer Hotel Rates are going away for the season. Low rates as low as $97 a night in Park City, Utah! Excellent prices, especially with such a great selection of room types and tranquil grounds. Quietly nestled in ten acres just of Main Street and different rooms to choose from. The Prospector even has a kitchenette in every room for meals of your own making.
And there’s more! Click here for direct booking of your elegant room and you will receive 2 complimentary day passes to the Silver Mountain Sports Club and Spa or contact one our friendly reservation agents to book at 888-283-3030 or 435-658-3030.
Before Labor Day shows up (which is next weekend by the way), it’s always fun to think about family plans for that day. A lot of families get together for barbecues and time together. The end of fall and a sense of the barbecue sitting idle for the winter is always a part of the conversations around the country.
But do you know the rest of the story?According to history, Labor Day is “
Dedicated to the Social and Economic Achievements of American Workers.”According to
History.com (you know, the History Channel), in US history, the late 1850′s was an economy based more on manufacturing than agriculture from the past. This brought on Unions organizing strikes and rallies protesting the age limitations, low wages, and long hours. On September 5, 1882, 10,000 workers marched up to the New York City Hall looking for better working conditions. This turned into the first Labor Day Parade. Many states followed their lead and parades were expanding from town to town. Unfortunately violence erupted as in the Haymarket Riots of 1886 in Chicago and lives were lost. Again in 1894, the workers in the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago went on strike due to wages being cut and their Union Representatives getting fired. Then a few weeks later on June 26th, Eugene V. Debs from the American Railroad Union asked for a boycott of the Pullman Railroad cars to support the company’s employees concerns. This basically stopped transportation across the nation and hardly any product was being moved.
The Federal Government had to do something, so they tried to break the strike by dispatching their military troops to Chicago which brought on several riots in the city and more deaths. The President at the time, President Grover Cleveland, wanted reconciliation with the Unions. Congress had no choice but to pass a Labor Day Holiday act quickly that was voted in unanimously and signed into law just 6 days after the 1894 strike.
And there you have it. Interesting, don’t you think?
