A Utah Mountain Town Brings Back an Old Idea: The One-Room Schoolhouse

We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. In Utah, a one-room schoolhouse has helped preserve the family atmosphere of a cult-favorite ski town. 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...