By Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune; May 2, 2019
Rick Harper is happy to retell how, while he was lugging debris from a home renovation, he came face to face with Abraham Lincoln.
He will reunite with Abe this weekend, as a pair of paintings — depicting moments in the history of the transcontinental railroad — goes on display at an art gallery in Helper, Utah. Helper is also where Harper, 71, moved last October after retiring as a supermarket bakery manager and operator of his own landscape company.