Way We Were: The man who put Parkites on skis
Park City Historical Society & Museum, Emmett Wright Collection You no doubt have stopped between the front of the Park City Museum and Dolly’s Bookstore to admire the statue of Emmett Wright, with his mismatched skis — one 2 feet shorter than the other. It was just another day at the office 100 years ago when “Bud” Wright fell and broke one of his handmade skis and had to ski home with the odd pair. Wright was an early Parkite, born in 1887, just three years after the new mining town incorporated. He was in just the third graduating class of Park City High School, after which he stud...
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