Family

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USU Extension Education Highlight-Helping kids succeed at school

The first few weeks of school set the tone for the rest of the year, and there are things parents can do, starting from day one, to help their kids succeed. Dr. David Schramm, USU Extension family life specialist, shares several tips for parents.

Co-directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton stand next to each other in front of a purple backdrop at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Awards press line.

Arts and Culture

This Sundance documentary about a prison daddy-daughter dance is now on Netflix

Katie White

"Daughters" (2024) released on Netflix Aug. 14. Co-directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton discussed their unconventional filmmaking approach and what the daughters had to say after viewing the film.

Jeanne O'Connor and her son Jim DeRito at their Logan StoryCorps appointment in May 2023. Jeanne has chin length light blonde hair and her blue eyes deliver a piercing gaze as she looks pleasantly into the camera. She has on a tan wrap styled top with four brown buttons across the left side, embroidered with flower stems coming up from the right hemline. Jim DeRito has eyes like his mother's, though they look a little darker. His hair is dark brown with streaks of white in his trim beard. He wears a green and white plaid button-up shirt with a pen in the pocket. His arm is around his mother.

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Logan StoryCorps: I want people to laugh

Mary Heers

Jeanne O'Connor tells her son Jim DeRito about growing up with 13 siblings.

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Logan StoryCorps: I love watching you be you

Mary Heers

Eric LaMalfa and his daughter Aria share their growth and love in musical theater.

An envelope from the war and navy departments is stamped and sitting beside a letter from Roderick Red Elk to his family.

Programs

Bringing War Home: A Code Talker's letters home led to something bigger

Katie White

Indigenous populations in the U.S. were systematically being stripped of their cultures. Then in WWII, the government discovered the tactical advantages of the Comanche language.

A parent and children kneel on the ground drawing on blank pieces of paper.

Programs

Ask an Expert: Establishing smooth post-divorce transitions for children

Tips include setting a specific pick-up and return time, as well as getting to know your children's friends.

Dixee Miskin stands somewhat woodenly posing and looking into the camera. She has graying brown hair softly curled about her face. She wears tatted lace earrings in the shape of autumn leavesmade by her daughter Corretta. Around her neck is a silver choker necklace, and reading glasses on a neckband. She wears an orange floral patterned dress with a white cardigan. Audrey Swanson stands slightly taller than her grandmother, turned toward her mother, but facing the camera and smiling with long, lightly auburn hair spilling romantically over her shoulder, and wears dark framed glasses, a mottled green colored tee shirt with loopy purple writing across the bottom, and brown sweatpants. Kirsten Swanson stands casually toward her daughter, hands in pockets, about half a head taller. She has dark brown hair parted asymetrically and pulled back. She smiles softly into the camera and wears a brown and orange necklace beaded with wood and stones, a floral patterned blue blouse, and a silver StoryCorps pin on the right side of chest.

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Logan StoryCorps: The ups and downs of Miss Miskin's first year of teaching

Kirsten Swanson

Dixee Neugebauer brought her daughter and granddaughter into the StoryCorps booth in May and told them of the joys and challenges she experienced as a young woman in her first teaching job.

Michelle Bonner and Sharron Larsen stand for a photo inside the StoryCorps Airstream trailer. Michelle smiles into the camera with her arm around Sharron. She has shoulder length lightly wavy brown hair and brown eyes. She wears golden dangling earrings, an orange and black scarf loosely tied, a grey tee shirt and a red wine colored cardigan. Sharron Larsen stand half a head shorter than her daughter Michelle. Sharron's eyes appear to focus slightly downward. She has short, styled gray hair and wears dangling blue and white pearl earrings and a matching gold chain necklace. Her blouse is dark blue with white buttons and details, and she wears a black and white patterned jacket over it.

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Logan StoryCorps: 50 years of looking out for Cache Valley

Mary Heers

Michelle Bonner and Sharron Larsen look back on Sharron's long career in the insurance business in Cache Valley.

Kristan Fjelsted and her brother Mark stand side by side smiling toward the camera. Kristan has light shoulder length straight hair and wears a light v-neck shirt. Mark has dark greying receding hair and wears an orange North Face hoodie with "Never Stop Exploring" across the front.

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Logan StoryCorps: The Sportsman's small business survival story

Shalayne Smith Needham

Siblings Kristan Fjeldsted and Mark Fjeldsted talk about the challenges and rewards of operating a small family business in downtown Logan.

David Zook stands beside his daughter Sarah Zook. David is half a head taller than Sarah and smiles with laugh lines in the corners of his brown eyes. His hair is light colored and full. He has a trim beard with gray sections. He wears a tan jacket and button-up shirt with a collared tee. Sarah smiles. Her green eyes are set off by long dark lashes. Her air is Auburn and she wears a black jacket and top.

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Logan StoryCorps: A faith journey

Tom Williams

David Zook joins his daughter Sarah Soledad to recount his faith journey from atheism back to his roots in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.