(Deseret News) As the heart of downtown Salt Lake City rushes to its future, David Epperson is clutching hard to its past.
Epperson isn't exactly old. He turned 60 the other day and celebrated by scuba diving in Honduras. He looks closer to 40.
But he reveres stuff that is old, and through fate, happenstance and maybe a little old-fashioned karma, he finds himself sitting, almost literally, on the dividing line between Salt Lake's old and Salt Lake's new.