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Show viii The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey Foreword Historic preservation is an important aspect of our work at the Department of the Interior. The bureaus within the department manage the National Parks and other land, regulate the use of public lands and resources by nongovernment organizations, assist Indian tribes, and are responsible for the protection of the nation's historic resources. We seek to carry out these responsibilities in partnership with other federal agencies, state and local governments, the academic community, and the private sector. We strive to be creative in our endeavors, and to support innovative approaches that can enrich our understanding of how best to preserve our nation's heritage. With this in mind, it is a particular pleasure to introduce this report in which two preservation-minded disciplines-architectural history and folklife-are joined to provide us with an unusually rich picture of the cultural history of Grouse Creek, Utah. What sets this study apart is that our understanding of the community's cultural heritage is based upon both its architecture and its folklife. Grouse Creek's cultural resources include a wide range of traditional knowledge, customs, skills, and artifacts as well as a number of significant buildings, structures, and sites. One of the lessons of the Grouse Creek Cultural Survey is that America's heritage lives on in people's activities as well as in their material objects. Although modified by changing circumstances-just as a historic building may be adapted for a new use-community traditions can continue from the past to the present and contain the promise of a vital future. Folklife specialists can identify and evaluate these community traditions. By combining a folklife survey and an architectural survey, this study takes us one step further toward understanding how our historical and cultural foundations are living parts of community life. Historic preservation in the Grouse Creek Cultural Survey becomes a broader, richer field; it moves toward cultural preservation-a union of past and present, of architecture and community life. The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey was a cooperative effort by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, the Utah State Historic Preservation Office, the Utah Arts Council, the Western Folklife Center, and Utah State University. In another setting, another combination of disciplines or organizations might be effectively used to produce a similarly integrated result. Like the folklife specialists in Grouse Creek, anthropologists, sociologists, landscape architects, and planners can contribute concepts, methods, and ideas that illuminate the complexity of a community's |