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For Giving Tuesday this year, Thanksgiving Point is offering a free venue ticket to individuals who donate $20 or more. Individuals who donate $100 or more are entered in a drawing for a chance to win the Ultimate Curiosity Prize Package.

It’s almost Thanksgiving and turkeys are the stars of the show! Here are 20 turkey facts to gobble up.

We’ve all heard the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” We’ve probably answered it dozens of times. While the question gets children thinking about the future and encourages them to dream up multitudes of possibilities, there are also a few downsides to this inquiry.

Liz Anderson is the Collections Manager at the Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life, and she explains the process the Collections Team goes through to take care of thousands of specimens in the Museum.

In The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry personifies the rose, giving her the human characteristics of vanity, insecurity, pridefulness, sensitivity, naivety, and entitlement. Though the roses here at the Ashton Gardens do not talk as Antoine’s does, they may have some similar characteristics.

In 2020, a new subspecies of Allosaurus was announced - Allosaurus jimmadseni. The first discovery of this new subspecies was found in 1990, but in 2002, Thanksgiving Point Paleontologist Rick Hunter discovered his own juvenile Allosaurus jimmadseni.

On September 17, Farm County will be celebrating Harvest Day, the age-old tradition of expressing gratitude for plentiful crops and a successful harvest.

Day of Caring is United Way’s biggest event of the year, with hundreds of volunteers from several different companies coming together to serve their community. This year, Thanksgiving Point educators brought science learning and engineering to life for kids at Lehi Elementary.

Banjo is Farm Country's Miniature Sicilian Donkey who loves sweets, snuggles and being the star of the show!

If you want to find fun events, buy your tickets, order food, do some light reading, and play games…. there’s an app for that.