Utah StoryCorps - Vernal
It’s time again for Utah StoryCorps!
The StoryCorps mobile recording booth and Utah Public Radio visited the Uintah Basin to gather local stories. Each week, we'll bring you a new episode of StoryCorps. Tune in during All Things Considered every Wednesday and Morning Edition every Thursday.
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Retired Vernal dentist, Dr. Dan Price, is 95 years old and a veteran of WWII. During a recording session with his wife, Clara, Dr. Price spoke about his… -
Marilyn Manwaring shares stories with her daughter Pauline about life in Carbon County, Utah during the depression. She begins with the story of her… -
Vernie Heeney retired from teaching school in Vernal eight years ago. While at the Uintah Basin StoryCorps booth she spoke with her friend Danielle… -
In an attempt to help his sister Tamra Ratieta deal with bouts of depression, Chad Hamblin invites her, his niece Sienna and his cousin Gwenna to take up… -
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… -
While digging up fossils millions of years old, paleontologists Benjamin Burger and LeaAnn Jones discovered they wanted a future together. During an… -
The loss of his father at the age of 13 left Steven "Ted" Prettyman confused. He remembers his father hitting him and felt guilty about being relieved… -
The spry 93 year-old Clara Price of Vernal recalls her elopement at the age of 16 to her husband, Dan Price. -
Kim Zuniga shares stories with her mother Judy Kraft, an admittedly extraordinary grandma. Kraft was born in 1939 and was the seventh of nine children. -
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…
