Today marked the 100th Anniversary Celebration of Zion National Park. In 1909, U.S. President William Howard Taft named the area a National Monument to protect the canyon, under the name of Mukuntuweap National Monument.

Zion Park Rangers listen during the 100th Anniversary Celebration ‘A Century of Sanctuary’ at the Grotto at Zion Nation Park Friday July 31, 2009.

J.L. Crawford was born in 1914 and his father William Crawford was a farmer and a photographer who raised his family in a home just two hundred yards south of the present-day Human History Museum in Zion National Park. J.L. Crawford spent many years working in and around Zion Canyon as a park ranger, naturalist, and supervisor.

Staff Sergeant Randy Cox plays the tuba with the 23th Army Brass Band Quintet