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A Utah Mountain Town Brings Back an Old Idea: The One-Room Schoolhouse
As a throwback ski destination, Alta, thinks small, with a one-room public school to match.
WHY WE’RE HERE
As long as it has had a ski resort, Alta, Utah, has been a place where young people come to work for a season before starting life in the real world, then end up staying for two or 10 or 20 years — even a lifetime.
They come for the powder snow, which regularly tops lists of the deepest and lightest in the country. They discover the simplicity and warmth of life in a town at the dead end of a box canyon with a year-round population of roughly 300.
But a little more than 20 years ago, town officials realized that as much as Alta prided itself on…
