Download or read book Provo City Library Oral History Project written by Karl A. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten and bound transcript of an interview conducted by Carla Morris as part of the Provo City Library Oral History Project sponsored by the Provo City Library and a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. Miller (84 years old) discusses his memories of Provo, Utah; the old Provo Library; early libraries on the Brigham Young University campus; the Provo City Railroad Company; Temple Hill; Reed Smoot and President Howard Taft; water wagons; the Provo Tabernacle; the "Y" bell; and the Heber Creeper and Orem Train collision.
Download or read book Provo City Library Oral History Project written by Verl Grant Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten and bound transcript of an interview conducted by Karen Griggs as part of the Provo City Library Oral History Project sponsored by the Provo City Library and a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. Dixon describes his earliest memories of Provo, Utah -- its schools and university, businesses, the old Provo Library, Main Street, the Provo Third Ward, the Provo Tabernacle, Fourth of July festivities, sports activities, and the Provona Beach and Salt Air resorts. He also discusses his accomplishments as city mayor.
Download or read book Provo City Library Oral History Project written by William Ratcliff and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten and bound transcript of an interview conducted by Carla Morris as part of the Provo City Library Oral History Project sponsored by the Provo City Library and a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. Ratcliff (96 years old) discusses his early family life and growing up in Provo, Utah.
Download or read book Provo City Library Oral History Project written by Geneve Roberts Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten and bound transcript of an interview conducted by Karen Griggs as part of the Provo City Library Oral History Project sponsored by the Provo City Library and a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. Manton discusses her family life and early years in Provo, Utah; the Sutton Cafe; Orem Station; the Maeser School; the old Bonneville Ward; May Day; the Maeser, Farrer Junior High, and Central Junior High schools; the Great Depression; the Sutton Slaughterhouse; Geneva and Castella Resorts; Springdale; the Strand, Princess, and Columbia theaters; baseball; the Utahna dance hall; and Provo Academy Square.
Download or read book Provo City Library Oral History Project written by Wyman Berg and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten and bound transcript of an interview conducted by Karen Griggs as part of the Provo City Library Oral History Project sponsored by the Provo City Library and a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. Berg describes his early family life and growing up in Provo, Utah.
Download or read book Provo City Library Memories of Provo Oral History Project written by Margaret Williams Torkelson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten and bound transcript of an interview conducted by Karen Griggs as part of the Provo City Library Oral History Project sponsored by the Provo City Library and a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. Torkelson describes her early family life; her father, James Thomas Williams, sheriff of Provo; early homes and the old Maeser School in Provo, Utah; teaching with Camilla Eyring and Florence Jepperson Madsen; and growing up in Provo, Utah.
Download or read book Provo City Library Oral History Project written by Geneve Roberts Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten and bound transcript of an interview conducted by Karen Griggs as part of the Provo City Library Oral History Project sponsored by the Provo City Library and a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. Dunn describes growing up in Provo, Utah; her family life ; meeting Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan; the Hotel Roberts ; the Maeser School; the Provo Woolen Mills; her relatives; her years at Brigham Young University; typical sports activities; Provo theaters, hotels, resorts and businesses.
Download or read book Provo City Library Oral History Project written by Michele Davies Wright and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten transcript of an interview conducted by Carla Morris as part of the Provo City Library Oral History Project sponsored by the Provo City Library and a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. Wright describes her earliest memories of Provo with her aunts and uncles; her family life ; Brigham Young University and its lower campus on University Avenue; the first woman doctor in the area, Dr. Dorothy Melissa Riggs Stewart, and her success rate for treating cancer; coal-burning furnaces and curbside canals; Isaac Bullock's brick hotel and the Stewart mansion.
Download or read book Provo City Library Oral History Project written by Samuel Pyne Snow and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten and bound transcript of an interview conducted by Carla Morris as part of the Provo City Library Oral History Project sponsored by the Provo City Library and a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. Snow discusses the Utah State Hospital where he worked from 1934 to 1949. He also reminisces about downtown Provo.
Download or read book Provo City Library Oral History Project written by Lois Sutton Manton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten and bound transcript of an interview conducted by Karen Griggs as part of the Provo City Library Oral History Project sponsored by the Provo City Library and a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. Manton discusses her family life and early years in Provo, Utah; the Sutton Cafe; Orem Station; the Maeser School; the old Bonneville Ward; May Day; the Maeser, Farrer Junior High, and Central Junior High schools; the Great Depression; the Sutton Slaughterhouse; Geneva and Castella Resorts; Springdale; the Strand, Princess, and Columbia theaters; baseball; the Utahna dance hall; and Provo Academy Square.
Download or read book Doing Oral History written by Donald A. Ritchie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains chapters on the discipline of oral history, especially as it relates to public history; starting an oral history project, including funding, staffing, equipment, processing, and legal concerns; conducting interviews; using oral history in research and writing, including publishing; videotaping oral history; and more.
Download or read book Mormon Wards as Community written by Jessie L. Embry and published by Global Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines congregations in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and asks if they provide communities for their members. Using sociological definitions of communities and wards, the author concludes that Mormon congregations, wards and branches, proved a place where Mormons can meet, worship, share experience, and feel at home. Embry shows how those attitudes vary and how history and members' life cycles affect Mormons' views of their congregations.
Download or read book When Hollywood Came to Town written by James D'Arc and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a hundred years, the state of Utah has played host to scores of Hollywood films, from potboilers on lean budgets to some of the most memorable films ever made, including The Searchers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Footloose, and Thelma & Louise. This book gives readers the inside scoop, telling how these films were made, what happened on and off set, and more. As one Utah rancher memorably said to Hollywood moviemakers "don't take anything but pictures and don't leave anything but money."
Download or read book Life in a Corner written by Robert S. McPherson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community building in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah required specialized knowledge and a good bit of determination on the part of settlers who wrested a livelihood from the Colorado Plateau. Robert S. McPherson, the region’s leading historian, draws on oral history and personal archives to write about cowboys and homesteaders, loggers and sawmill operators, law enforcement officers and bootleggers, miners and midwives, trappers and builders. In Life in a Corner, he shapes their stories into a fascinating mosaic of cultural and environmental history unique to this region. McPherson demonstrates that, above all, settlers worked hard in order to succeed in this often forbidding land. A first-person account of erecting a Latter-day Saint tabernacle tells of volunteers using only what was under their feet or came from a nearby mountain. Other chapters give an insider’s perspective on cowboying in canyon country, bringing law and order to a virtually lawless land, waging war against wolves and coyotes, and homesteading on some of the last large desert tracts in the continental United States. But the most gripping stories center on the ingenuity of those who lived these personal experiences. Only a veteran trapper would think of burying an alarm clock to attract a coyote. Only a determined bootlegger would devise a saddle made of leather-covered copper equipped with a spigot to dispense moonshine by the cup. Only committed, or desperate, miners would sail with a one-way “ticket” to a gold field in a hidden desert chasm. What were midwives being taught at the turn of the century, and how did their practice involve equal parts religious doctrine and medical procedure? What was a qualifying examination like for the first forest rangers? And how did small close-knit communities handle “slackers” during World War I? Life in a Corner answers these and many other questions while offering fresh perspectives on past events and current controversies.
Download or read book Second Class Saints written by Matthew L. Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 9, 1978, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) president Spencer W. Kimball announced a revelation lifting the church's 126-year-old ban barring Black people from the priesthood and Mormon temples. It was the most significant change in LDS doctrine since the end of polygamy almost 100 years earlier. Drawing on never-before-seen private papers of LDS apostles and church presidents, including Spencer W. Kimball, Matthew L. Harris probes the plot twists and turns, the near-misses and paths not taken, of this incredible story.
Download or read book Utah in the Twentieth Century written by Brian Q. Cannon and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth could easily be Utah’s most interesting, complex century, yet popular ideas of what is history seem mired in the nineteenth. One reason may be the lack of readily available writing on more recent Utah history. This collection of essays shifts historical focus forward to the twentieth, which began and ended with questions of Utah’s fit with the rest of the nation. In between was an extended period of getting acquainted in an uneasy but necessary marriage, which was complicated by the push of economic development and pull of traditional culture, demand for natural resources from a fragile and scenic environment, and questions of who governs and how, who gets a vote, and who controls what is done on and to the contested public lands. Outside trade and a tourist economy increasingly challenged and fed an insular society. Activists left and right declaimed constitutional liberties while Utah’s Native Americans become the last enfranchised in the nation. Proud contributions to national wars contrasted with denial of deep dependence on federal money; the skepticism of provocative writers, with boosters eager for growth; and reflexive patriotism somehow bonded to ingrained distrust of federal government.
Download or read book Both Sides of the Bullpen written by Robert S. McPherson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural knowledge also changed hands. In Both Sides of the Bullpen, Robert S. McPherson reveals the ways that Navajo tradition fundamentally reshaped and defined trading practices in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. Drawing on oral histories of Native peoples and traders collected over thirty years of research, McPherson explores these interactions from both perspectives, as wool, blankets, and silver crossed the counter in exchange for flour, coffee, and hardware. To succeed, traders had to meet the needs and expectations of their customers, often interpreted through Navajo cultural standards. From the organization of the post building to gift giving, health care and burial services, and a credit system tailored to the Navajo calendar, every feature of the trading post served trader and customer alike. Over time, these posts evolved from ad hoc business ventures or profitable cooperative stores into institutions with a clearly defined set of expectations that followed Navajo traditional practices. Traders spent their days evaluating craft work, learning the financial circumstances of each Native family, following economic trends in the wool and livestock industry back east, and avoiding conflict. In detail and depth, the many voices woven throughout Both Sides of the Bullpen restore an underappreciated era to the history of the American Southwest. They show us that for American Indians and white traders alike in the Four Corners region during the late 1800s and early 1900s, barter was as much a cultural expression as it was an economic necessity.
