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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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. -
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. -
Mar Fenix Nauta and Julianne Larsen talk about how they met and some of the good times in their 15 years together. -
Right on schedule thousands of snow geese fly in from as far south as Mexico to fatten up on the spilled grain in the local farmer’s fields, and rest a bit before continuing their migration to the far north. -
Tim Nielsen talks with his mother Mary Jean about their shared faith and the experiences that enliven it. -
The most famous sled dogs are the freight teams that carried anti-toxin from Anchorage to Nome during an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925. The dog teams ran a thousand miles and are credited with saving hundreds of lives. -
Best friends David Simmons and Jason Kimber get together in the StoryCorps trailer to share a particularly pungent story of growing up in Grouse Creek, Utah. -
The very first Pony Express rider galloped into Utah in April 1860. Every rider rode between 75-100 miles, switching horses every 10 miles. It was expensive but it was fast. -
Michelle Bonner and Sharron Larsen look back on Sharron's long career in the insurance business in Cache Valley. -
Mary Heers cames face to face with local reindeer and shares the fascinating facts she learned.
