When Volant businessman John Geidner asked to speak to borough council for apparently violating an ordinance prohibiting the use of portable toilets for more than 24 hours, that request was
When Volant businessman John Geidner asked to speak to borough council for apparently violating an ordinance prohibiting the use of portable toilets for more than 24 hours, that request was
A historian of Utah, Latter-day Saints and the American West who knows his roots
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Colter Peterson, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY When he was writing his dissertation for his doctorate in history, Paul Reeve sat down with a faculty member to go over his first draft. This was the conversation:
Faculty member: “This sentence sounds like a hick from Hurricane wrote it.”
Reeve: “But I am a hick from Hurricane.”
Faculty member: “Well, you better not write like one.”
Reeve laughs at the memory, partly because he can afford to he got his doctorate. And partly because, ever the historian, he’s a stickler for accuracy.