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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process, Be sure to crop the top ,25" off after the ocr process, Phone 328-8678 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 (Nve THE OLD GLORY (~F GRAFTON . Neighbors Unite to . Restore a Ghost Town ,'$;", " • • • ;::_ 1.- . ' "_ • 0\ ' " , "' By'ALYSSA HICKMAN.: -,;\,',·\., Remember tlie 100J film BiitcJI 'Cassid' arid ;, :• .') , - the SuntianceKJdl -i " " " / , ' J . , - ~~, ; , :: ·i:--{ ··l'~ " " f Remember:' Etta; ~'s cavoi';tedon house, where Paul Newman a bicy- ' cle with Katharine ROss? TheJdyDic sc,enewas filmed in Grafton, Utah, a toWn about 25 miles northeast of St. George near Zion National Park. , ,' <~>~<' : ' Grafton hasn't played host to ltoDywood lately, ,but the dilapidated ghost' town has become the fOcus,of preservation effortS by a . group of concerned JJtalins. . . " ," ' The drive to save the 'picturesque town is centered ' iIi ' ' , .," < ' ., ;: ,. , ",-' Rockville, a town two miles east of Grafton. David Hatfield, mayor of Rockville and president of · the Grafton He rita g e. Partnership Project, and his wife, Sharon, G",,"ON SCHOOLHOUSE secretary of the Rocltvi1le Historic Preservation Commission, said the m~ent to restore the ghost town started in June of 1997. •A number of citizens became alarmed when the adobe·walla .of the church/schoolhouse began deteriorating and the ben tower ! and chimney lost a lot of bricks and the f0undation was shaky; it would have been a matter of just a few short years before we lost (the build• ing)," said Mr. Hatfield. Thus the Grafton Heritage Partnership Project was born, a nonprofit organization set up to receive donations to help restore the church/school building: Members include Zion ,National Park, Grand Canyon Trust, Virgin River Land Preservation Association and the Bureau of Land Management, as wen as private landowners. "We need about $80,000 to restore the old church/schoolhouse," said GHPP project director Jack Burns. Even though the March for Grafton, a rainy, 3.5-mi1e fund-raising trek held last April, raised only $1,200, Mr. Burns is optimistic. ; ':"':'C~NTINUID ON P'AOI II :. : 11' G, \~x y'1VW1 .") |
