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UTAH HUMANITIES
Utah Humanities. Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search.THINK WATER UTAH
Think Water Utah is a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. Join us throughout 2020 and 2021 for Smithsonian exhibitions, along with local exhibitions and events that explore how water is essential to Utah communities. Learn more about Utah Water Ways in thisORAL HISTORY GRANTS
E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Description. Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. In 1935, in the small town of Hyrum, in Utah’s rural Cache Valley, Ernest and Florence Miller started a business. They bought a piece of land and built a slaughterhouse THE CROSSING OF THE FATHERS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The date was November 7th, 1776. The perilous ford became known as the “Crossing of the Fathers” and the steps carved into the canyon wall were a popular historic site, until the construction of the Glen Canyon dam flooded the spot with 550 feet of water in what is now Lake Powell’s Padre Bay. THE ESCALANTE-DOMINGUEZ EXPEDITION · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Description. In 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed, a group of Spanish explorers entered present-day Utah Valley. Led by two Franciscan friars named Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Dominguez, the expedition was launched to find a northern path from New Mexico to one of Spain's newest colonies,California.
LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
THE THISTLE MUDSLIDE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE A giant landslide in April 1983 obliterated the tiny town of Thistle in Utah County. In 1983, the most costly landslide in US history swept down on the tiny town of Thistle, damming up the Spanish Fork River, and severing the rail line that connects Salt Lake City with Denver. Winter and spring had been extraordinarily wet along the Wasatch HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, ClarkeUTAH HUMANITIES
Utah Humanities. Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search.THINK WATER UTAH
Think Water Utah is a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. Join us throughout 2020 and 2021 for Smithsonian exhibitions, along with local exhibitions and events that explore how water is essential to Utah communities. Learn more about Utah Water Ways in thisORAL HISTORY GRANTS
E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Description. Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. In 1935, in the small town of Hyrum, in Utah’s rural Cache Valley, Ernest and Florence Miller started a business. They bought a piece of land and built a slaughterhouse THE CROSSING OF THE FATHERS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The date was November 7th, 1776. The perilous ford became known as the “Crossing of the Fathers” and the steps carved into the canyon wall were a popular historic site, until the construction of the Glen Canyon dam flooded the spot with 550 feet of water in what is now Lake Powell’s Padre Bay. THE ESCALANTE-DOMINGUEZ EXPEDITION · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Description. In 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed, a group of Spanish explorers entered present-day Utah Valley. Led by two Franciscan friars named Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Dominguez, the expedition was launched to find a northern path from New Mexico to one of Spain's newest colonies,California.
LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
THE THISTLE MUDSLIDE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE A giant landslide in April 1983 obliterated the tiny town of Thistle in Utah County. In 1983, the most costly landslide in US history swept down on the tiny town of Thistle, damming up the Spanish Fork River, and severing the rail line that connects Salt Lake City with Denver. Winter and spring had been extraordinarily wet along the Wasatch HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke WHAT WE DO | WHAT WE DO What We Do. Offered through our Center for Community Heritage, visitors to the Journey Stories traveling Smithsonian exhibtion in Ephraim created and shared their own journey stories. Image courtesy of Megan van Frank and the Granary Art Center.BOOK FESTIVAL
Many thanks to the Book Festival’s sponsors: the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, the R. Harold Burton Foundation, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks Fund, the Summit County RAP, Weber County RAMP, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, The King’s English Bookshop, Weller Book Works, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National SMITHSONIAN TRAVELING EXHIBITION Smithsonian MoMS exhibitions are toured in Utah exclusively through Utah Humanities. As the tour coordinator, our goal for each statewide tour is to engage diverse audiences in meaningful ways, convey under-told stories, and help local hosts leverage the experience in ways that benefit their own organization over the long term. FAMILY WASH DAY THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY · UTAH STORIES FROM Image: Doing laundry was intense work often performed by women with the help of their families. If laundering without a gasoline-powered machine, using a washboard like so was even more work. THE CROSSING OF THE FATHERS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The date was November 7th, 1776. The perilous ford became known as the “Crossing of the Fathers” and the steps carved into the canyon wall were a popular historic site, until the construction of the Glen Canyon dam flooded the spot with 550 feet of water in what is now Lake Powell’s Padre Bay. SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon THE TOWN THAT DROWNED: KEETLEY · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Keetley, the town that drowned in the reservoir's waters, was home to cattle ranchers, miners, bootleggers, and Japanese-Americans forcibly removed from their homes during World War II. After silver was discovered in Park City, prospectors opened the Ontario claim to the east of town in 1872 and named the area after Pony Express rider Jack THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-dayPreston, Idaho.
LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
THE SHOSHONE COLONY OF WASHAKIE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The founding and eventual demise of the Shoshoni settlement known as Washakie. In 1880, a handful of Shoshoni families and a few Mormon missionaries settled on a plot of land near the Utah-Idaho border and called the settlement Washakie in honor of an esteemed Shoshonileader.
UTAH HUMANITIES
Utah Humanities. Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search.ORAL HISTORY GRANTS
E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Description. Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. In 1935, in the small town of Hyrum, in Utah’s rural Cache Valley, Ernest and Florence Miller started a business. They bought a piece of land and built a slaughterhouse THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-day Preston, Idaho. This was the largest number of victims in any Indianmassacre
LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke UTAH NURSES IN WORLD WAR I · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE As the United States entered the fray in 1917, the War Department aimed to enlist 25,000 nurses. There were 450 trained nurses in Utah that year and 80 of them volunteered to leave for Europe to serve the war effort. One of these women was Myrtle Butler of Centerville, Utah. She graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in 1917, and was THE THISTLE MUDSLIDE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE A giant landslide in April 1983 obliterated the tiny town of Thistle in Utah County. In 1983, the most costly landslide in US history swept down on the tiny town of Thistle, damming up the Spanish Fork River, and severing the rail line that connects Salt Lake City with Denver. Winter and spring had been extraordinarily wet along the Wasatch MASASHI GOTO · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Masashi Goto and his friend Takeo Watanabe saved money to design and build the biplane. Goto earned extra money for the plane by cutting lawns. The duo spent three years and $4,500 to construct the fourteen foot long, twenty-two foot wingspan biplane powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine in Watanabe’s garage.UTAH HUMANITIES
Utah Humanities. Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search.ORAL HISTORY GRANTS
E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Description. Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. In 1935, in the small town of Hyrum, in Utah’s rural Cache Valley, Ernest and Florence Miller started a business. They bought a piece of land and built a slaughterhouse THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-day Preston, Idaho. This was the largest number of victims in any Indianmassacre
LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke UTAH NURSES IN WORLD WAR I · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE As the United States entered the fray in 1917, the War Department aimed to enlist 25,000 nurses. There were 450 trained nurses in Utah that year and 80 of them volunteered to leave for Europe to serve the war effort. One of these women was Myrtle Butler of Centerville, Utah. She graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in 1917, and was THE THISTLE MUDSLIDE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE A giant landslide in April 1983 obliterated the tiny town of Thistle in Utah County. In 1983, the most costly landslide in US history swept down on the tiny town of Thistle, damming up the Spanish Fork River, and severing the rail line that connects Salt Lake City with Denver. Winter and spring had been extraordinarily wet along the Wasatch MASASHI GOTO · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Masashi Goto and his friend Takeo Watanabe saved money to design and build the biplane. Goto earned extra money for the plane by cutting lawns. The duo spent three years and $4,500 to construct the fourteen foot long, twenty-two foot wingspan biplane powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine in Watanabe’s garage. THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-dayPreston, Idaho.
SMITHSONIAN TRAVELING EXHIBITION Smithsonian MoMS exhibitions are toured in Utah exclusively through Utah Humanities. As the tour coordinator, our goal for each statewide tour is to engage diverse audiences in meaningful ways, convey under-told stories, and help local hosts leverage the experience in ways that benefit their own organization over the long term. THE CROSSING OF THE FATHERS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The date was November 7th, 1776. The perilous ford became known as the “Crossing of the Fathers” and the steps carved into the canyon wall were a popular historic site, until the construction of the Glen Canyon dam flooded the spot with 550 feet of water in what is now Lake Powell’s Padre Bay. SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon THE ESCALANTE-DOMINGUEZ EXPEDITION · UTAH STORIES FROM THE In 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed, a group of Spanish explorers entered present-day Utah Valley. Led by two Franciscan friars named Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Dominguez, the expedition was launched to find a northern path from New Mexico to one of Spain's newest colonies, California. MIRACLE OF THE CRICKETS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE In the summer of 1848, clouds of crickets swarmed into the Salt Lake Valley and threatened to destroy Mormon crops and fields. Just as the crickets were about to devour everything in sight, seagulls miraculously appeared, eating the crickets and saving the Mormons from sure disaster. The seagull has been revered in Utah ever since. GERMAN AND ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN UTAH · UTAH STORIES German and Italian prisoners of war worked five to six days a week for eight to ten hours near their site of imprisonment. In areas like Salina, where prisoners worked the sugar beet fields, they bolstered the local labor force bereft of young men and women serving in the war. POWs were typically paid $.80 (cents) a day for their labor. THE GHOST TOWN OF OLD LA SAL · UTAH STORIES FROM THE By the late 1920s, La Sal residents went looking for a safer, less isolated, site. They packed up everything and moved some miles west to Coyote. The town was stripped of its houses, stores, barns, and corrals. They even took its name, and the town of Coyote was renamed La Sal. Today, old La Sal is a ghost town lacking even ghosts. MASSACRE IN NEPHI: ARCHAEOLOGY OF A MASS GRAVE · UTAH A mass grave was found in Nephi, Utah, proving how archaeology can provide a voice for the dead. In 2006, while digging the foundation for a new house in the central Utah town of Nephi, construction workers uncovered human bones. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC CRAYON PORTRAIT The thesis presented by DiAnne Iverglynne entitled The Photographic Crayon Portrait: Nineteenth-Century Icons of Absent Family Members and Present-day Relics of Latter-day Saints is hereby approved: Dr. BartonBarbour Date
UTAH HUMANITIES
Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search.ORAL HISTORY GRANTS
THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-dayPreston, Idaho.
THE THISTLE MUDSLIDE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Image: Landslide destruction that buried the town of Thistle, Utah, April 17, 1983 by Jim Ozment.Courtesy Utah Division of State History. _____ See Genevieve Atwood’s entry on Thistle in the online Utah History Encyclopedia.. Also see Oneita Burnside Sumsion, Thistle–Focus on Disaster (Springville: Art City Publishing, 1983); and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, A History of Utah County (Salt UTAH NURSES IN WORLD WAR I · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE Image: Red Cross War Fund Parade during World War I. Nurses were incredibly important to the war effort, both at home and abroad.Utah saw many of its nurses volunteer to serve in Europe during the war. May 20, 1918. Image courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. MASASHI GOTO · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Image: Masashi Goto. Pilot Masashi Goto landed in the Salt Lake City Airport.It was after this that his plane would crash in the Uinta Mountains. Image courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ See Harold Schindler’s Salt Lake Tribune article, dated October 31, 1993, at the Utah History to Go website. Reports of the accident may be found in the following editions of the Salt Lake LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Every summer, thousands of people flee to the cool waters of Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah’s northeast corner. But few of them would know about the littleUTAH HUMANITIES
Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search.ORAL HISTORY GRANTS
THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-dayPreston, Idaho.
THE THISTLE MUDSLIDE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Image: Landslide destruction that buried the town of Thistle, Utah, April 17, 1983 by Jim Ozment.Courtesy Utah Division of State History. _____ See Genevieve Atwood’s entry on Thistle in the online Utah History Encyclopedia.. Also see Oneita Burnside Sumsion, Thistle–Focus on Disaster (Springville: Art City Publishing, 1983); and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, A History of Utah County (Salt UTAH NURSES IN WORLD WAR I · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE Image: Red Cross War Fund Parade during World War I. Nurses were incredibly important to the war effort, both at home and abroad.Utah saw many of its nurses volunteer to serve in Europe during the war. May 20, 1918. Image courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. MASASHI GOTO · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Image: Masashi Goto. Pilot Masashi Goto landed in the Salt Lake City Airport.It was after this that his plane would crash in the Uinta Mountains. Image courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ See Harold Schindler’s Salt Lake Tribune article, dated October 31, 1993, at the Utah History to Go website. Reports of the accident may be found in the following editions of the Salt Lake LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Every summer, thousands of people flee to the cool waters of Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah’s northeast corner. But few of them would know about the little THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-dayPreston, Idaho.
SMITHSONIAN TRAVELING EXHIBITION Smithsonian MoMS exhibitions are toured in Utah exclusively through Utah Humanities. As the tour coordinator, our goal for each statewide tour is to engage diverse audiences in meaningful ways, convey under-told stories, and help local hosts leverage the experience in ways that benefit their own organization over the long term. THE CROSSING OF THE FATHERS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: The Colorado River, Crossing of the Fathers. c.1870s. "Crossing of the Fathers" from Wheeler's Survey. Drawing by Mulhausen. Escalante Expedition. Tall rock formations tower over the Colorado River in this drawing. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. THE ESCALANTE-DOMINGUEZ EXPEDITION · UTAH STORIES FROM THE In 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed, a group of Spanish explorers entered present-day Utah Valley. Led by two Franciscan friars named Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Dominguez, the expedition was launched to find a northern path from New Mexico to one of Spain's newest colonies, California. SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. MIRACLE OF THE CRICKETS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE Image: Pest Control. Rocky Mountain Crickets almost destroyed the agriculture that was planted the first summer of 1847. With a different perspective, the crickets might have been seen as a blessing. Used in the Utah Historical Quaterly Vol. 41-1 1973. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. GERMAN AND ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN UTAH · UTAH STORIES Image: Prisoners of War, c. 1939-1945.Prisoners of War working at Camp Ogden Army Service Forces. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ See Ralph A. Busco and Douglas D. Alder, “German and Italian Prisoners of War in Utah and Idaho,” Utah Historical Quarterly 39 (Winter 1971): 55-72. Also see Ralph A. Busco’s Research on German and Italian POWs in Utah and Idaho, MSS 134 THE GHOST TOWN OF OLD LA SAL · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Ghost Towns of the old west are generally relics of the mining industry, but Old La Sal in San Juan County is a now-deserted cow town. Situated in the northeast corner of San Juan County at the foot of the La Sal Mountains, old La Sal was once a thriving cow town. MASSACRE IN NEPHI: ARCHAEOLOGY OF A MASS GRAVE · UTAH A mass grave was found in Nephi, Utah, proving how archaeology can provide a voice for the dead. In 2006, while digging the foundation for a new house in the central Utah town of Nephi, construction workers uncovered human bones. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC CRAYON PORTRAIT The thesis presented by DiAnne Iverglynne entitled The Photographic Crayon Portrait: Nineteenth-Century Icons of Absent Family Members and Present-day Relics of Latter-day Saints is hereby approved: Dr. BartonBarbour Date
UTAH HUMANITIES
Utah Humanities. Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search. THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-day Preston, Idaho. This was the largest number of victims in any Indianmassacre
SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
THE SHOSHONE COLONY OF WASHAKIE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The founding and eventual demise of the Shoshoni settlement known as Washakie. In 1880, a handful of Shoshoni families and a few Mormon missionaries settled on a plot of land near the Utah-Idaho border and called the settlement Washakie in honor of an esteemed Shoshonileader.
HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Description. Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. In 1935, in the small town of Hyrum, in Utah’s rural Cache Valley, Ernest and Florence Miller started a business. They bought a piece of land and built a slaughterhouse UTAH NURSES IN WORLD WAR I · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE As the United States entered the fray in 1917, the War Department aimed to enlist 25,000 nurses. There were 450 trained nurses in Utah that year and 80 of them volunteered to leave for Europe to serve the war effort. One of these women was Myrtle Butler of Centerville, Utah. She graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in 1917, and was MASASHI GOTO · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Masashi Goto and his friend Takeo Watanabe saved money to design and build the biplane. Goto earned extra money for the plane by cutting lawns. The duo spent three years and $4,500 to construct the fourteen foot long, twenty-two foot wingspan biplane powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine in Watanabe’s garage.UTAH HUMANITIES
Utah Humanities. Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search. THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-day Preston, Idaho. This was the largest number of victims in any Indianmassacre
SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
THE SHOSHONE COLONY OF WASHAKIE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The founding and eventual demise of the Shoshoni settlement known as Washakie. In 1880, a handful of Shoshoni families and a few Mormon missionaries settled on a plot of land near the Utah-Idaho border and called the settlement Washakie in honor of an esteemed Shoshonileader.
HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Description. Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. In 1935, in the small town of Hyrum, in Utah’s rural Cache Valley, Ernest and Florence Miller started a business. They bought a piece of land and built a slaughterhouse UTAH NURSES IN WORLD WAR I · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE As the United States entered the fray in 1917, the War Department aimed to enlist 25,000 nurses. There were 450 trained nurses in Utah that year and 80 of them volunteered to leave for Europe to serve the war effort. One of these women was Myrtle Butler of Centerville, Utah. She graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in 1917, and was MASASHI GOTO · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Masashi Goto and his friend Takeo Watanabe saved money to design and build the biplane. Goto earned extra money for the plane by cutting lawns. The duo spent three years and $4,500 to construct the fourteen foot long, twenty-two foot wingspan biplane powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine in Watanabe’s garage.ORAL HISTORY GRANTS
Oral History Grants ($3,000) are awarded for the collection and transcription of oral histories in Utah. Transcripts and recordings are deposited at the Utah State Historical Society Library and other deposition sites (such as local libraries), and the content of the collected oral histories is made available to the general publicthrough a
BROWSE ITEMS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE A mass grave was found in Nephi, Utah, proving how archaeology can provide a voice for the dead.In 2006, while digging the foundation for a new house in the central Utah town of Nephi, construction workers uncovered human bones. SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon SMITHSONIAN TRAVELING EXHIBITION Smithsonian MoMS exhibitions are toured in Utah exclusively through Utah Humanities. As the tour coordinator, our goal for each statewide tour is to engage diverse audiences in meaningful ways, convey under-told stories, and help local hosts leverage the experience in ways that benefit their own organization over the long term. THE CROSSING OF THE FATHERS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The date was November 7th, 1776. The perilous ford became known as the “Crossing of the Fathers” and the steps carved into the canyon wall were a popular historic site, until the construction of the Glen Canyon dam flooded the spot with 550 feet of water in what is now Lake Powell’s Padre Bay. THE ESCALANTE-DOMINGUEZ EXPEDITION · UTAH STORIES FROM THE In 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed, a group of Spanish explorers entered present-day Utah Valley. Led by two Franciscan friars named Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Dominguez, the expedition was launched to find a northern path from New Mexico to one of Spain's newest colonies, California. THE GHOST TOWN OF OLD LA SAL · UTAH STORIES FROM THE By the late 1920s, La Sal residents went looking for a safer, less isolated, site. They packed up everything and moved some miles west to Coyote. The town was stripped of its houses, stores, barns, and corrals. They even took its name, and the town of Coyote was renamed La Sal. Today, old La Sal is a ghost town lacking even ghosts. MIRACLE OF THE CRICKETS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE In the summer of 1848, clouds of crickets swarmed into the Salt Lake Valley and threatened to destroy Mormon crops and fields. Just as the crickets were about to devour everything in sight, seagulls miraculously appeared, eating the crickets and saving the Mormons from sure disaster. The seagull has been revered in Utah ever since. GERMAN AND ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN UTAH · UTAH STORIES German and Italian prisoners of war worked five to six days a week for eight to ten hours near their site of imprisonment. In areas like Salina, where prisoners worked the sugar beet fields, they bolstered the local labor force bereft of young men and women serving in the war. POWs were typically paid $.80 (cents) a day for their labor. MASSACRE IN NEPHI: ARCHAEOLOGY OF A MASS GRAVE · UTAH A mass grave was found in Nephi, Utah, proving how archaeology can provide a voice for the dead. In 2006, while digging the foundation for a new house in the central Utah town of Nephi, construction workers uncovered human bones.UTAH HUMANITIES
Utah Humanities. Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search. THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-day Preston, Idaho. This was the largest number of victims in any Indianmassacre
SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
THE SHOSHONE COLONY OF WASHAKIE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The founding and eventual demise of the Shoshoni settlement known as Washakie. In 1880, a handful of Shoshoni families and a few Mormon missionaries settled on a plot of land near the Utah-Idaho border and called the settlement Washakie in honor of an esteemed Shoshonileader.
HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Description. Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. In 1935, in the small town of Hyrum, in Utah’s rural Cache Valley, Ernest and Florence Miller started a business. They bought a piece of land and built a slaughterhouse UTAH NURSES IN WORLD WAR I · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE As the United States entered the fray in 1917, the War Department aimed to enlist 25,000 nurses. There were 450 trained nurses in Utah that year and 80 of them volunteered to leave for Europe to serve the war effort. One of these women was Myrtle Butler of Centerville, Utah. She graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in 1917, and was MASASHI GOTO · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Masashi Goto and his friend Takeo Watanabe saved money to design and build the biplane. Goto earned extra money for the plane by cutting lawns. The duo spent three years and $4,500 to construct the fourteen foot long, twenty-two foot wingspan biplane powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine in Watanabe’s garage.UTAH HUMANITIES
Utah Humanities. Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search. THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-day Preston, Idaho. This was the largest number of victims in any Indianmassacre
SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
THE SHOSHONE COLONY OF WASHAKIE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The founding and eventual demise of the Shoshoni settlement known as Washakie. In 1880, a handful of Shoshoni families and a few Mormon missionaries settled on a plot of land near the Utah-Idaho border and called the settlement Washakie in honor of an esteemed Shoshonileader.
HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Description. Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. In 1935, in the small town of Hyrum, in Utah’s rural Cache Valley, Ernest and Florence Miller started a business. They bought a piece of land and built a slaughterhouse UTAH NURSES IN WORLD WAR I · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE As the United States entered the fray in 1917, the War Department aimed to enlist 25,000 nurses. There were 450 trained nurses in Utah that year and 80 of them volunteered to leave for Europe to serve the war effort. One of these women was Myrtle Butler of Centerville, Utah. She graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in 1917, and was MASASHI GOTO · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Masashi Goto and his friend Takeo Watanabe saved money to design and build the biplane. Goto earned extra money for the plane by cutting lawns. The duo spent three years and $4,500 to construct the fourteen foot long, twenty-two foot wingspan biplane powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine in Watanabe’s garage.ORAL HISTORY GRANTS
Oral History Grants ($3,000) are awarded for the collection and transcription of oral histories in Utah. Transcripts and recordings are deposited at the Utah State Historical Society Library and other deposition sites (such as local libraries), and the content of the collected oral histories is made available to the general publicthrough a
BROWSE ITEMS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE A mass grave was found in Nephi, Utah, proving how archaeology can provide a voice for the dead.In 2006, while digging the foundation for a new house in the central Utah town of Nephi, construction workers uncovered human bones. SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon SMITHSONIAN TRAVELING EXHIBITION Smithsonian MoMS exhibitions are toured in Utah exclusively through Utah Humanities. As the tour coordinator, our goal for each statewide tour is to engage diverse audiences in meaningful ways, convey under-told stories, and help local hosts leverage the experience in ways that benefit their own organization over the long term. THE CROSSING OF THE FATHERS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The date was November 7th, 1776. The perilous ford became known as the “Crossing of the Fathers” and the steps carved into the canyon wall were a popular historic site, until the construction of the Glen Canyon dam flooded the spot with 550 feet of water in what is now Lake Powell’s Padre Bay. THE ESCALANTE-DOMINGUEZ EXPEDITION · UTAH STORIES FROM THE In 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed, a group of Spanish explorers entered present-day Utah Valley. Led by two Franciscan friars named Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Dominguez, the expedition was launched to find a northern path from New Mexico to one of Spain's newest colonies, California. THE GHOST TOWN OF OLD LA SAL · UTAH STORIES FROM THE By the late 1920s, La Sal residents went looking for a safer, less isolated, site. They packed up everything and moved some miles west to Coyote. The town was stripped of its houses, stores, barns, and corrals. They even took its name, and the town of Coyote was renamed La Sal. Today, old La Sal is a ghost town lacking even ghosts. MIRACLE OF THE CRICKETS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE In the summer of 1848, clouds of crickets swarmed into the Salt Lake Valley and threatened to destroy Mormon crops and fields. Just as the crickets were about to devour everything in sight, seagulls miraculously appeared, eating the crickets and saving the Mormons from sure disaster. The seagull has been revered in Utah ever since. GERMAN AND ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN UTAH · UTAH STORIES German and Italian prisoners of war worked five to six days a week for eight to ten hours near their site of imprisonment. In areas like Salina, where prisoners worked the sugar beet fields, they bolstered the local labor force bereft of young men and women serving in the war. POWs were typically paid $.80 (cents) a day for their labor. MASSACRE IN NEPHI: ARCHAEOLOGY OF A MASS GRAVE · UTAH A mass grave was found in Nephi, Utah, proving how archaeology can provide a voice for the dead. In 2006, while digging the foundation for a new house in the central Utah town of Nephi, construction workers uncovered human bones.UTAH HUMANITIES
Utah Humanities. Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search.THINK WATER UTAH
Think Water Utah is a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. Join us throughout 2020 and 2021 for Smithsonian exhibitions, along with local exhibitions and events that explore how water is essential to Utah communities. Learn more about Utah Water Ways in this SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
THE CROSSING OF THE FATHERS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The date was November 7th, 1776. The perilous ford became known as the “Crossing of the Fathers” and the steps carved into the canyon wall were a popular historic site, until the construction of the Glen Canyon dam flooded the spot with 550 feet of water in what is now Lake Powell’s Padre Bay. UTAH NURSES IN WORLD WAR I · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE As the United States entered the fray in 1917, the War Department aimed to enlist 25,000 nurses. There were 450 trained nurses in Utah that year and 80 of them volunteered to leave for Europe to serve the war effort. One of these women was Myrtle Butler of Centerville, Utah. She graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in 1917, and was HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke MASASHI GOTO · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Masashi Goto and his friend Takeo Watanabe saved money to design and build the biplane. Goto earned extra money for the plane by cutting lawns. The duo spent three years and $4,500 to construct the fourteen foot long, twenty-two foot wingspan biplane powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine in Watanabe’s garage. E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Description. Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. In 1935, in the small town of Hyrum, in Utah’s rural Cache Valley, Ernest and Florence Miller started a business. They bought a piece of land and built a slaughterhouseUTAH HUMANITIES
Utah Humanities. Empowering Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Tune in each week for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal — and peculiar — events in Utah history! With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. For a complete list of episodes, click the "View All Stories" button below, then browse or search.THINK WATER UTAH
Think Water Utah is a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. Join us throughout 2020 and 2021 for Smithsonian exhibitions, along with local exhibitions and events that explore how water is essential to Utah communities. Learn more about Utah Water Ways in this SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon LINWOOD: THE TOWN THAT DROWNED · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Linwood grew near the confluence of Henry’s Fork and the Green River, right on the Utah-Wyoming border. The mouth of Henry’s Fork was long a gathering place for trappers, traders, and explorers, but it wasn’t until the 1890s that a man named George Solomon surveyed the spot for a town site. He named it “Linwood” for all thecottonwood
THE CROSSING OF THE FATHERS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The date was November 7th, 1776. The perilous ford became known as the “Crossing of the Fathers” and the steps carved into the canyon wall were a popular historic site, until the construction of the Glen Canyon dam flooded the spot with 550 feet of water in what is now Lake Powell’s Padre Bay. UTAH NURSES IN WORLD WAR I · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE As the United States entered the fray in 1917, the War Department aimed to enlist 25,000 nurses. There were 450 trained nurses in Utah that year and 80 of them volunteered to leave for Europe to serve the war effort. One of these women was Myrtle Butler of Centerville, Utah. She graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in 1917, and was HOW ANTELOPE ISLAND GOT ITS NAME · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Image: Great Salt Lake, 1906. Sunset on Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island in distance. Gift of Bill Brown, Nat'l Park Service. Shipler photo. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. _____ John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1852), 198-208; John C. Fremont, Memoirs of My Life (Chicago: Belford, Clarke MASASHI GOTO · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE ARCHIVE Masashi Goto and his friend Takeo Watanabe saved money to design and build the biplane. Goto earned extra money for the plane by cutting lawns. The duo spent three years and $4,500 to construct the fourteen foot long, twenty-two foot wingspan biplane powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine in Watanabe’s garage. E.A. MILLER & SONS: BIG COMPANY IN A SMALL TOWN · UTAH Description. Learn about E.A. Miller & Sons, a small family business started during the Great Depression, and how it grew to be part of the world’s largest beef producer. In 1935, in the small town of Hyrum, in Utah’s rural Cache Valley, Ernest and Florence Miller started a business. They bought a piece of land and built a slaughterhouse WHAT WE DO | WHAT WE DO What We Do. Offered through our Center for Community Heritage, visitors to the Journey Stories traveling Smithsonian exhibtion in Ephraim created and shared their own journey stories. Image courtesy of Megan van Frank and the Granary Art Center. GRANTS | CENTER FOR LOCAL INITIATIVES | WHAT WE DO Funding for Projects Designed to Improve Communities Through Active Engagement in the Humanities. Competitive Grants ($2,001-$8,000) are accepted annually in the spring for public humanities projects around the state. These projects should demonstrate a wide variety of humanities disciplines and formats and address important communityissues.
THE CROSSING OF THE FATHERS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE The date was November 7th, 1776. The perilous ford became known as the “Crossing of the Fathers” and the steps carved into the canyon wall were a popular historic site, until the construction of the Glen Canyon dam flooded the spot with 550 feet of water in what is now Lake Powell’s Padre Bay. SLAVERY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EARLY UTAH · UTAH STORIES Slavery of African-Americans in Utah began with the settlement of Mormon pioneers in 1847 and lasted for 15 years until the practice was made illegal in 1862. Three slaves, named Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with the first Mormon pioneer company in 1847. According to some reports, it was Green Flake who drove the wagon SMITHSONIAN TRAVELING EXHIBITION Smithsonian MoMS exhibitions are toured in Utah exclusively through Utah Humanities. As the tour coordinator, our goal for each statewide tour is to engage diverse audiences in meaningful ways, convey under-told stories, and help local hosts leverage the experience in ways that benefit their own organization over the long term. THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE The Bear River Massacre was an event that changed the landscape of northern Utah and the fate of the Shoshone people. In the early morning cold of January 29, 1863, between 270 and 400 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. Army near present-day Preston, Idaho. This was the largest number of victims in any Indianmassacre
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As always, participants will engage with authors in new, creative, and meaningul ways that are designed to connect readers, authors, and communities. For more information on the entire book festival, contact Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org or 801.359.9670 x103. The images below are from last year's highly successful virtual bookfestival.
MIRACLE OF THE CRICKETS · UTAH STORIES FROM THE BEEHIVE In the summer of 1848, clouds of crickets swarmed into the Salt Lake Valley and threatened to destroy Mormon crops and fields. Just as the crickets were about to devour everything in sight, seagulls miraculously appeared, eating the crickets and saving the Mormons from sure disaster. The seagull has been revered in Utah ever since. THE TOWN THAT DROWNED: KEETLEY · UTAH STORIES FROM THE Keetley, the town that drowned in the reservoir's waters, was home to cattle ranchers, miners, bootleggers, and Japanese-Americans forcibly removed from their homes during World War II. After silver was discovered in Park City, prospectors opened the Ontario claim to the east of town in 1872 and named the area after Pony Express rider Jack GERMAN AND ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN UTAH · UTAH STORIES German and Italian prisoners of war worked five to six days a week for eight to ten hours near their site of imprisonment. In areas like Salina, where prisoners worked the sugar beet fields, they bolstered the local labor force bereft of young men and women serving in the war. POWs were typically paid $.80 (cents) a day for their labor. Visit our Events Calendar for humanities activities near you! The Smithsonian's Water|Ways is Coming! We're Continuing to Improve Communities Through the Humanities in 2020...We Look Forward to Partnering With You! See How We are Meeting our Mission! Read our latest Annual Report.Contact Us
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