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Jonathan Thompson: The West’s population grows and churns

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Helper First Fridays draws people to historic Main Street on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, for their monthly gallery stroll where the small town has been discovered by a variety of artists and dreamers seeking to escape the hustle of the Wasatch Front, lured by cheap real estate prices. Helper today resembles Park City in the late 1960s. Some aging, empty buildings remain, but newcomers joining natives are slowly reinventing the little town of just over 2,000 residents as an artist colony and tourist destination.