Utah StoryCorps - Vernal
It’s time again for Utah StoryCorps!
TheStoryCorpsmobile 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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Husband and wife, Ryan McKnab and Jessi Brunson, are competitive bike racers. During this Uintah Basin StoryCorps conversation they talk together about…
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Dennis Stevens spent the better part of 1971 in the jungles of Vietnam. He sat down with his wife Michelle at the StoryCorps booth in Vernal where they…
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Cody Calder was drafted to the Vietnam war in 1966. Today he shares one of his darkest memories in battle, and reflects on his service for his country.
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Irvin Haws was born and raised in the Vernal area, leaving the Uintah Basin only three times before departing for an LDS mission at 19-years-old. He…
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Two friends, Sara Jane Eaton and Joanna Aceves, take us to their world of comic characters and conventions beginning with the definition of Cosplay
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Telsa Mittlemeir tells us about her father who was an American born son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Belarus. He was born in 1921 and became the…
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Anne Collier shares with her daughter, Bonnie, the story of how she met her husband Jack in London, England.
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Vini Coffin describes how her mother Barbara joins her two best friends, piles into a station wagon with trunks of costumes and a huge set on top and…
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89 year-old Dorothy Caldwell Luck reminisces with close friend Colleen Bagley about a three day, 136 mile horse race where she bested 60 other riders on…
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Vernal residents Johanna and Aaron Fyffe reminisce about how they became “a couple” after meeting at an LDS Singles Ward.