Examine the terrain on Google Maps and you see almost nothing but dirt and salt and a few dusty roads. Do people live here? If so how do they earn a living? It turns out that even north of Willard, even past the turn-off for Bear Lake, east along the shore of the Great Salt Lake – there is some incredible beauty to behold. There are also some amazingly innovative people with … [Read more...]
Po-junk: Podunk in Utah, Part I
Podunk: denotes an insignificant, out-of-the-way town, often used to dismiss significance or importance. Podunk is placid dullness and lacks contact with progress in the rest of the world. I’ve found we city folk have a lot we can learn from Podunk, Utah. Sadly, Utah’s podunk towns are in decline, places where people really “think different.” (Which is Apple’s slogan used to … [Read more...]