A sea turtle carved into Story Rock in the vicinity of the Iosepa ghost town site (photo by Clint Thomsen)
Last Thursday I went hiking on Salt Mountain with Jeff Barrus, editor of the Tooele Transcript Bulletin. He was planning an article about Iosepa, so I led him to Story Rock, which I wrote about last month. Having spent many years in the islands (why he ever left them I’ll never know) and the South Pacific, Jeff has a unique perspective on the story of Hawaiian pioneers in Utah. Click over to the Transcript Bulletin to read his article, “At Iosepa, a few pictures are worth thousands of words.”
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Kristine Shreve
September 9, 2008 at 9:15 pm
That’s a nice piece. He’s a very good writer. I’d like to see those rocks someday too. It sounds like that is a powerful place.
Kim Lachapelle
May 13, 2011 at 7:52 pm
I understand that Story Rock is a beautiful place, and the petrographs are something you would want to take a picture of and share with the world- I’ve been there. I understand. However, it is rather disrespectful to take these pictures and display them. It encourages people to go there and puts them in danger of being vandalized.