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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Dorie Thorpe tells her friend Ginger Payant about her name, her ingenious way of getting more time with an electric sewing machine, and the glasses she used to become a sports champion.
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Conversations bring out stories, not only our own, but those of previous generations. Alice MacAllister reveals the story of one of the lesser known victims of the Red Scare: her own father.
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Once I started thinking about water seeping through this limestone, I signed up to take a tour of the Minnetonka Caves located above St Charles towards the northern side of the lake.
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Ordinary people often have big unrecognized stories. We are lucky that a friend and coworker heard this story and insisted her friend come into the booth with her.
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Chiq Spencer brought her husband John into the StoryCorps booth to tell us how his military career began unexpectedly — with pingpong balls.
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Stephanie Sorenson and Lila Geddes came into the StoryCorps booth with a tale of an under-aged Cache Valley joyride made uniquely possible by rural life.
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For A.J. Anderson, participating in StoryCorps was a chance to hear stories from his grandpa John Waters.
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This is a true story. It took place in early pioneer days in Mendon about 130 years ago. And now introducing: the biggest and baddest bear in Cache Valley at the time, The Big Slough Grizzly!
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StoryCorps participant Mark Baldwin spins his tale of an earlier generation of boys growing up and playing softball in Wellsville, Utah.
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Two Cache Valley farm girls Debbie Andrew and her sister-in-law Jaylene Anderson give us two stories of everyday heroism on the farm.