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Mary Heers
Volunteer ProducerMary got hooked on oral histories while visiting Ellis Island and hearing the recorded voices of immigrants that had passed through. StoryCorps drew her to UPR. After she retired from teaching at Preston High, she walked into the station and said she wanted to help. Kerry put her to work taking the best 3 minutes out of the 30 minute interviews recorded in Vernal. Passion kicked in. Mary went on to collect more and more stories and return them to the community on UPR's radio waves. Major credits to date: Utah Works, One Small Step, and the award winning documentary Ride the Rails.
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In 1928, Elmer Cook, a rancher in Hagerman, Idaho, found fossilized bones belonging to ancestors of the modern horse. They were 3 ½ million years old.
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These geese are very adaptable. Where they see open space with a good supply of grass and water, they will move in. Some geese opt out of migration entirely, like the ones who spent last winter at Logan’s First Dam.
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David Simmons tells his friend Jason Kimber about growing up in Cache Valley with his family, whom Jason dubs "Cache Valley Royalty."
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Jeanne O'Connor tells her son Jim DeRito about growing up with 13 siblings.
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A dentist, an artist, a seamstress, a pianist, and spy. Together, Rosemary and Anne Hatch recount a bit of Hatch family magic.
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Two sisters share the biggest gifts of growing up in a close family and remaining close through challenges and triumphs.
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Early this spring, a semi-truck with a long flat bed pulled into the USU parking lot next to the cemetery and parked. Lashed down firmly on the flat bed was a giant railroad spike, covered in gold leaf and very impressive to see from a distance.
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Eric LaMalfa and his daughter Aria share their growth and love in musical theater.
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If you like drinking carbonated water as much as I do, you’ll be happy to hear you can drink as much as you’d like, -absolutely for free- just north of the Utah border in Soda Springs, Idaho.
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Dakota Mair discussed his family's long history in rural Utah, and expressed concern about the community's changing identity due to development and outmigration.