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

Don Lind poses for a portrait at his home in Smithfield Saturday July 18, 2009. Lind is a retired astronaut who was working at Mission Control during Apollo 11 moon landing 40 years ago Monday.

Don Lind, 3rd from left. on board STS-51B, the Spacelab-3 science mission, in 1985.

L. Carl Andreason checks one of his bee hives in Bluffdale Friday, July 10, 2009. Andreason, who has been working with bees for the past 36 years, tends to thirteen bee hives in Bluffdale because he is not allowed to keep them at his home in Midvale.

The 2009 twilight concert series kicked off tonight with sets featuring Bon Iver and Jenny Lewis. This was my view from floor 7E in a parking garage across the street.