A part of the beginning: Remembering the pioneers
Jeanine VanderBruggen and Teresa Orton are cousins, and gathered in St. George to tell their story of Pioneer heritage. Teresa took on the presidency of the St. George chapter of the Daughters of the...
View ArticleComing West: Work In The National Park Service
Greer Chesher and Barb Graves talk about their time as Park Rangers in Zion National Park. Barb and Greer first met as park rangers in 1981. Barb Graves came from being a fire fighter from the forest...
View ArticleSurviving An Unexpected Flash Flood In The Narrows
Former Zion National Park Ranger Greer Chesher talks with Barb Graves. Chesher recalls her experience surviving a flash flood in the Zion Narrows. We hiked from Russell Gulch down into the [Narrows]....
View ArticleRemembering The Short Creek Raid Of 1953
Marlyne Hammon and her sister Priscilla, polygamist wives from Centennial Park, Arizona, talk about the Short Creek raid of 1953 which, at the time, was described as the largest mass-arrest of men and...
View ArticleZion National Park Superintendent Jock Whitworth: 36 Years Of Federal Service
Retired Zion National Park Superintendent Jock Whitworth talks with Amnesty Kochanowski, National Park Service Safety Manager, about the role that our National Parks parks have played in his life and...
View ArticleFolklorist Gets His Comeuppance From The Pioneer Past
Hal Cannon, former state folklorist and founder of The Western Folklife Center, visited the StoryCorps booth with his wife Teresa Jordan. He recalls his experience working with the Daughters of the...
View ArticleAmbassadors Of Goodwill: The Mesquite-Toes Tap Team
UPR's Kerry Bringhurst talks with her mom, Kathy Lyne Jones about being a dance ambassador for the city of Mesquite, Nevada. Kathy: I belong to a senior dance team called The Mesquite-Toes. Our average...
View Article"Grounded In The Earth" - The Realities Of Farm Life
73 year-old Laura Stratten Friel talks with her husband Don Freil about the harsh realities of growing up on a farm and living off the land. Laura: All my life I've had to live...been forced to live in...
View ArticleRoy Nisson: Dentist To The Stars
From astronauts and test pilots to Hollywood celebrities, retired dentist, 93 year-old Roy Nisson talks with his wife Janice about his brushes with the stars. Roy Nisson: After I left Edwards Air Force...
View ArticleExit Polls: What's The Big Deal?
Morgan Williams, a senior majoring in Political Science at Brigham Young University, talks about the importance of exit polls.
View Article40 Years After His Death Two Brothers Discover The Truth About Their Father
Brothers Rich and Cory Etchberger discuss the mystery surrounding the death of their father, a national Vietnam War hero.
View ArticleThe Joy Of Participating in Humanitarian Aid As A Dental Hygienist
Listen to Debbie Cook's life changing experiences as a dental hygienist in Africa. An inspiring story of how giving of herself brought so many good things into her own life.
View ArticleFamily Makes A Place A Home
The Christensen family talks about loving Vernal and Logan as places that helped them become who they are today.
View ArticleFamily’s Father Bridges Gap on Utah StoryCorps
Telsa Mittlemeir tells us about her father who was an American born son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Belarus. He was born in 1921 and became the bridge to his older brothers families.
View ArticleFriends Rally After Bike Race Accident
Husband and wife, Ryan McKnab and Jessi Brunson, are competitive bike racers. During this Uintah Basin StoryCorps conversation they talk together about how their lives were changed forever because of a...
View ArticleBread and Butter with Lael Gilbert
A culinary chronicle about our distinctive approach to food, cooking and eating in the West.
View ArticleEncore Of S.U. StoryCorps 'Fallout City': A Downwinder Story
The documentary, The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, gives a history of one of the architects of the atomic bomb. The film will be screened in Southern Utah Friday, June...
View ArticleYoung Love Lingers In Her Forever Young Heart
The spry 93 year-old Clara Price of Vernal recalls her elopement at the age of 16 to her husband, Dan Price.
View ArticleCousins Raised On Ute Cattle Ranch Share Memories
Cousins Charlene Duncan and Kathleen Chegup, both in their early 60’s,grew up together on a Utah Cattle Ranch. The cousins got together at the Ute Education Center at Fort Duchesne, Utah and talked...
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