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When the last tap pounded the Golden Spike into place, the telegraph operators standing alongside tapped out the word DONE. Whistles blew and hats flew through the air – the Transcontinental was done but railroading in Utah had really just begun.
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As part of UPR’s Project Resilience series, producer Mary Heers introduces us to a young husband and wife who are familiar with the challenges of adapting…
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One year ago, Tim savage walked into the UPR recording booth at Promontory Summit and told us how he and his father-in-law, a lifetime steam engineer, had…
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As part of the Utah Public Radio series, Project Resilience, we hear from retired Northern Utah teacher Barbara Abbott, who remembers times she would take…
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As we bring our One Small Step series to a close, we would like to say thank you to everyone who took this journey with us. Listening is an act of love,…
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A Logan art studio says, "Art is for everyone", and invites people of all abilities to jump in. Mary Heers and Kirsten Swanson bring you the story as part…
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As university students have headed home for the winter break, graduate student Thuy-Tien Thi Lindsay sits down with her Buddhist-Vietnamese extended…
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As part of UPR’s Women 20/20 series, we applaud the women of Utah who have chipped away at barriers to jobs previously done only by men. We look back at a…
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As winds of World War One raged through Europe, Utah began to feel its chill. Adjunct Professor at Utah State University, Emily Wheeler shares the…
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In 1950 Byron Snyder, a young embassy consul general agreed to include his wife's new-fangled ironing board in their hand luggage on their return trip to…