Fife Folklore Archives oral histories: community-driven collections, 1970-2018

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Fife Folklore Archives
Title
Fife Folklore Archives oral histories: community-driven collections
Dates
1970-2018 (inclusive)
Quantity
20 boxes, (6 linear feet)
Collection Number
UUS_FOLK COLL 37
Summary
This collection includes community-driven oral histories and oral history projects that are donated to the Fife Folklore Archives oral histories: community-driven collections scholars and USU students. Collection products include oral history audio and/or transcripts, which may have release forms; some collections have associated correspondence and theses or project papers.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions
Restrictions

Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, series number, sub-series number, if applicable, box number and folder number (or image number).

Languages
English.
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Fife Folklore Archives oral histories: community-driven collections consists of oral histories donated to the FFA by patrons. Each donation is named for the informant (if it consists of only their interview) or the collector (if there is more than one informant or if the collection is thematic). All discrete collections are housed in a separate archival box. The collection is organized by date and continues to grow.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Copyright

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Permission to publish material from the Fife Folklore Archives oral histories: community-driven collections must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

Fife Folklore Archives oral histories: community-driven collections, 1975-2018. (FOLK COLL 37). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Collection organized by donor or collector and date.

Acquisition Information

The materials in this collection are donated by various patrons to the Fife Folklore Archives .

Processing Note

Collection processed by Randy Williams, 2005. Finding aid created by Randy Williams in 2005; updated by Randy Williams, March 2012. Finding aid updated by Erin Sorensen, July 2014.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Violet Lunt Urie Collection (Collectors: Audrey Godfrey & Mrs. Iantha Harper)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 1

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
Letter and envelope addressed to Mrs. Audrey M. Godfrey from Mrs. Alva (Zella) Matheson, Cedar City, UT
Regarding "round" Mrs. Godfrey was searching for from Iantha Harper. Included poem "By-Gone Days," (see folder 2).
1975 February 19
1 2
Copy of poem: By-Gone Days," by Violet L. Urie, aunt of Mrs. Iantha Harper
Undated
1 3
Letter and envelope from Iantha M. Harper to Mrs. Audrey M. Godfrey
Lunt family (Cedar City, Utah) history: (grandparents) Henry Lunt and Maryann Wilson Lunt, who owned the first hotel in Cedar City and ran the telegraph; (mother) Maude Lunt, who ran the telegram in Cedar City until the Western Union took it over in about 1910; (aunt) Violet Lunt Urie (see folder 4).
1975 March 1
1 4
Recording by Mrs. Iantha Harper, singing pioneer songs and reading life history of Mrs. Violet Lunt Urie (written by Mrs. Urie)
Songs: (1) "Ring, Ring the Bell, Ring Ring the Bell, Let's have Dinner . . ."; (2) "Since Fifty Years Ago," (Grandma Maryann Lunt used to sing this song); (3) "Homemade Soap," written by a DUP member in St. George, about 1938 for the celebration of Southern Utah DUP. Oral history of Violet Lunt Urie: written when she was 89 years old and read by Mrs. Iantha Harper (niece). Mrs. Urie was the daughter of Henry and MaryAnn Wilson Lunt, from Cedar City, UT. Mr. & Mrs. Lunt operated the first hotel in Cedar City and that housed the Deseret Telegraph, which they also ran. Also includes information on family history, first Primary in Cedar City (which Violet Lunt attended),silk growing, weather, cooking, mother teaching school for $3 a term, and married life to John Urie, m. 14 June 1892.
1974 February 16

Burke Vernal Bastian Collection (Collector: Bonnie Bastian Moore)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 2

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1
Transcripts of oral history interview of Burke Vernal Bastian by Bonnie Bastian Moore, Sigurd, Utah
Includes original and edited transcripts.
2008 February 16
2 2
One-120 minute cassette tape
Undated

Adam Luke Oral History Collection with Land Use ManagersReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 3

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 1
Collector & Informant Release forms
2005 November 18-2006 July 29
3 2
Dick Carter oral history interview transcript, Logan, Utah
Topics: Carter's thoughts on creation of the Utah Wilderness Association; the events surrounding the creation of the Utah Wilderness Act; the events surrounding conservation following the passage of the Act. (Interview tapes included in Box 4
2006 January 11
3 3
Dick Carter oral history interview transcript
Topics: Wilderness and Utah, the Utah Wilderness Association, etc. (Interview tapes included in Box 4)
2006 January 11
3 4
Dick Carter oral history interview transcript.
Topics: Thoughts on Project 2000; the Coalition for Utah's Wilderness; the Bureau of Land Management's wilderness process. (Interview tapes included in Box 4)
2006 March 14
3 5
Wayne McCormack oral history interview transcript
Topics: Includes involvement in the Utah Wilderness Association, role in the litigation, etc. (Interview tape included in Box 4)
2006 July 18
3 6
Mark McKeough oral history interview transcript, Salt Lake City, Utah
Topics: Background information; involvement in the Utah Wilderness Association, thoughts on events during UWA. (Interview tape included in Box 4)
2006 July 29

Adam Luke Oral History Collection with Land Use Managers--Cassette TapesReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 4

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
4 1
Interview with Dick Carter, Logan, Utah Tape 1 of 2
Topics: Utah Wilderness Association, public lands, wilderness
2006 January 11
4 2
Interview with Dick Carter, Logan, Utah Tape 2 of 2
Topics: Utah Wilderness Association, public lands, wilderness
2006 January 11
4 3
Interview with Dick Carter, Logan, Utah Tape 1 of 2
Topics: Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 March 14
4 4
Interview with Dick Carter, Logan, Utah Tape 2 of 2
Topics: Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 March 14
4 5
Interview with Wayne McCormack, Salt Lake City, Utah Tape 1 of 1
Topics: Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 July 18
4 6
Interview with Mark McKeough, Salt Lake City, Utah Tape 1 of 1
Topics: Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 July 29
4 7
Interview with Steve Flint, Logan, Utah Tape 1 of 1
Topics: Utah Wilderness Association, wilderness in Utah
2005 December 2
4 8
Interview with Jim Pissot, Canmore, Alberta, Canada Tape 1 of 2
Topics:Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 July 4
4 9
Interview with Jim Pissot, Canmore, Alberta, Canada Tape 2 of 2
Topics:Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 July 4
4 10
Interview with Rick Van Wagenen, Logan, Utah, Tape 1 of 1
Topics:Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 July 28
4 11
Interview with Richard Warnick, Salt Lake City, Utah, Tape 1 of 1
Topics:Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 July 29
4 12
Interview with George Nickas, Logan, Utah, Tape 1 of 1
Topics:Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 August 4
4 13
Interview with Margaret Pettis, Hyrum, Utah, Tape 1 of 2
Topics:Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 August 15
4 14
Interview with Margaret Pettis, Hyrum, Utah, Tape 2 of 2
Topics:Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 August 15
4 15
Interview with David Jorgensen, Salt Lake City, Utah, Tape 1 of 2
Topics:Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 August 24
4 16
Interview with David Jorgensen, Salt Lake City, Utah, Tape 2 of 2
Topics:Information on the Utah Wilderness Association
2006 August 24

Michele A. Welch Collection: "The Utah Women's Walk"Return to Top

Container(s): Box 5

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
5 1
Michele A. Welch Papers
(4 items)
2008 June 18
Item 1: Letter from Michele A. Welch to Randy Williams concerning interview donation
Undated
Item 2: Letter from Randy Williams to Michele A. Welch accepting donation
Undated
Item 3: Collector Release Form
Undated
Item 4: Michele A. Welch's Thesis: (a) transcript & (b) CD
Undated
5 2
Informant Release Forms
Undated
5 3
Interview with Ruby Chacon
Topics: Chacon's growing up years in Salt Lake City, Utah; interest in art; Chicano culture (Includes 2 tapes)
2006 March 21
5 4
Interviews with Maxine Conder
Topics: Conder's growing up years in American Fork and Tooele, Utah; service in United States Navy Nurse Corps. (Includes 2 tapes)
2006 March 14-2007 August 6
5 5
Interview with Patricia "Trix" Cosgriff Dahl
Topics: Dahl gives a life sketch of her mother, Enid Barr Cosgriff; work with the Junior League, Ballet West, Bees Baseball team and the Catholic Church (Includes 1 tape)
2006 July 11
5 6
Interviews with Rose Ann Gunther
Topics: Gunther's growing up years with her blind mother; humanitarian work as LDS Stake Young Women and Relief Society President, involvement in humanitarian shipments to Chad, Africa; involvement in the American Fork Literacy Center; experiences raising thirteen foster children.
2005 November 9 & 30
5 7
Interview with Ardeth G. Kapp
Topics: Kapp's life sketch, including growing up years in Canada, marriage to Heber, her teaching career, and leadership roles in the General Young Women Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Includes 1 tape)
2006 April 18
5 8
Interview with Zeese Papanikolas
Topics:Papanikolas gives a life sketch of his mother, ethnic historian Helen Zeese Papanikolas, including her writing career as well as her role as a mentor to young historians (Includes 1 tape)
2006 October 17
5 9
Interview with Mae Timbimboo Parry
Topics:Parry's life sketch, including growing up years in Washakie, Utah, and being first Indian to graduate from Bear River High School. Parry relates memories of her grandfather, Yeager Timbimboo, and her appointment as story keeper of the Shoshone massacre at Bear River. She also talks about her husband, Grant, beadworking, and being named Utah's Honorary Mother of the Year. (Includes 2 tapes)
2006-05-02

Rula Bell Smart Collection (Collector: Jay Wilde & Lisa Duskin-Goede)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 6

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
6 1
The Good Ol' Days: In the Words of Rula Bell Smart
Rula Bell Smart interview transcript, includes images; dedication; letter to Jay Wilde from Ms. Smart; names and places lists (2 copies)
2008
6 2
Collection paperwork
2007-2009
Item 1 : Collector release form: Lisa Duskin-Goede
Undated
Item 2: Editor's Note: Lisa Duskin-Goede
Undated
Item 3: Interview questions
Undated
Item 4: Release forms
Undated

Rula Bell Smart Collection Media Return to Top

Container(s): Box 7

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
7
Tapes
Item 1: Interview cassette tape: 1 side a & b
2007 November 12
Item 2: Interview cassette tape: 2 side a & b
2007 November 19
Item 3: CD copy of cassette tape 1 side a
(2 copies)
2007 November 12
Item 4: CD copy of cassette tape 1 side b
(2 copies)
2007 November 12
Item 5: CD copy of cassette tape 2 side a
(2 copies)
2007 November 19
Item 6: CD copy of cassette tape 2 side b
(2 copies)
2007 November 19
Item 7: CD of Rula Bell Smart Collection documents
(2 copies)
2007-2008

Rula Bell Smart Collection (Collector: Jay Wilde & Lisa Duskin-Goede)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 6

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
6 1
The Good Ol' Days: In the Words of Rula Bell Smart
Rula Bell Smart interview transcript, includes images; dedication; letter to Jay Wilde from Ms. Smart; names and places lists (2 copies)
2008

Glenn Wilde Collection (Collector: Nora Zambreno)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 8

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
8 1
Interview CD: "Paving the way for highter educaiton in rural Utah," Glenn Wilde StoryCorps interview (Nora Zambreno, interviewer)
Nora Zambreno (Utah Public Radio) interviews Glenn Wilde (former dean of the Learning Resources Program at Utah State University) about his early days at USU and being part of the University’s Extension education faculty who commuted to USU Centers in rural Utah to teach classes starting with Vernal. Glenn became assistant dean of Extension for the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: there are no longer such appointments, however, in earlier years, each college had an Extension assistant dean. The interivew is part of the StoryCorps; an excerpt of the interview can be heard on Utah Pubilc Radio. Glenn Wilde's papers are in University Archives: 15.1:26, Utah State University Library's Special Collection and Archives.
2008 May 15
8 2
"Rural Utah's Support for Freedom of Inquiry and Expression: Recollections of Glenn Wilde
Brief history on the Uintah Basin (Vernal, Roosevelt and Duchesne) and USU Extension classes, by Glenn Wilde: 4 pages.
2013

Oral Histories from Daggett County CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 9

Container(s) Description Dates
Box tape
9 1
Cassette Tape: Daggett County Historical Society
Red Tape Side: "Jim Lamb" by Kerry Ross Boren. Green Tape Side: McKinnon area history by Norma Gamble, Alta Gamble, Jessie Youngberg, and Beatrice Beck
1972
9 2
Cassette Tape: McKinnon History
Side 1: History of schools in Burnt Fork and McKinnon by Norma Gamble, History of Burnt Fork told by Alta Gamble, History of McKinnon and Beach Homestead by Jessie Youngberg, and History of her Grandparents by Beatrice Beck (Difficult to hear in some spots). Side 2: Daggett County Historical Society Forest with Foresters Walkup, Lissonbee, Johnson, and Glenn.
Undated
9 3
Cassette Tape: Interview with Minnie Rasmussen in Brown's Park, UT (Tape in 3 parts)
First Part: 20 June, Daggett County Historical Society visited the Campbell residence in Brown's Park. Second Part: 3 July, Tour with Mrs. Rasmussen through the park. Third Part: Early September at the home of Paul Williams.
1970
9 4
Cassette Tape: Interview with Minnie Rasmussen continued
Tour of Brown's Park with Minnie Rasmussen continued, Brown's Park Dutch John Linwood Early Dam Plans, and George Walkup interview.
1970
9 5
Cassette Tape: Tape 1
Side 1: Conversation over telephone with Frank Mann of Couer D'Alene, ID, 15 March 1969 (Difficult to hear). Side 2: Kerry Boren's tape of stories about Cleophus J. Dowd as recorded by his son, Charles Dowd, 26 February 1970 (Difficult to hear) (Kerry Boren and Dowd family own rights to the tape and ask that the information not be used in publications because he is working on a book with this story).
1969-1970
9 6
Cassette Tape: Tape 2
Side 1: Ashley National Forest presentation and Pat & Victoria performing ballads from the 19th Century. Side 2: Ballads continued, Ashley National Forest presentation continued, and Boren interview about Dowd continued (Difficult to hear).
1970

Grant Simmonds Collection (Collector: Mike Johnson)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 10

Container(s) Description Dates
Box tape
10 1
Original Interview Tape: Interview with Grant Simmonds about the RV Jensen Farm (Mike Johnson interviewer)
Topics: Threshing season, what grains were grown, dry and immigrated farms, how dairy farms replaced the sugar beet farms, and other agricultural information.
1972
10 2
Interview CD Condensed File: Copy of the Interview with Grant Simmonds about the RV Jensen Farm (Mike Johnson interviewer)
Data/Library Copy
1972
10 3
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of the Interview with Grant Simmonds about the RV Jensen Farm (Mike Johnson interviewer)
Audio, Side 1
1972
10 4
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of the Interview with Grant Simmonds about the RV Jensen Farm (Mike Johnson interviewer)
Audio, Side 2
1972

Alice C. Smith Collection (Collector: Shirley Cazier)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 11

Alice was a member of the General Relief Society board of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the wife of W. Whitney Smith, professor and mission president.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
11 1
Alice C. Smith oral history interview transcript for Tape 16 (no tapes)
Topics in this interview include: Thoughts on her father's life, life in Brooklyn, NY, her experiences studying at Columbia and teaching, her marriage to Whitney Smith, and worldwide Mormonism.
1972
11 2
Alice C. Smith oral history interview transcript for Tape 17 (no tapes)
Topics: Thoughts on the death of her husband Whitney Smith who passed away 29 July 1994.
1994 September 15
11 3
Alice C. Smith oral history interview transcript for Tape 18 (no tapes)
Topics: On the births of her children, living with her parents in the Mission Home, and life in Wisconson and Los Angeles.
1994 September 22
11 4
Alice C. Smith oral history interview transcript for Tape 19 (no tapes)
Topics: More about life in Wisconson and Los Angeles.
1994 September 29

E. A. Miller Company Interviews Return to Top

Container(s): Box 12

(Collector: Kenneth W. Godfrey)

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
12 1
Interview transcript with Clair Lundberg
(no tapes) Topics: Information about the E. A. Miller Company and family.
2002 September 3
12 2
Interview transcript with Jan Mussic
(no tapes) Topics: Memories of her parents, Junior and Norma Miller.
2002 October 22
12 3
Interview transcript with John Miller (no tapes)
Topics: Memories of his father Lynn Miller, his Uncle Junior and Aunt Norma, and the E. A. Miller Company.
2003 January 10
12 4
Interview transcript with Brent Hogan
(no tapes) Topics: Memories of Lynn Miller and the E. A. Miller Company.
2002 November 12
12 5
Interview transcript with Ivan Miller
(no tapes) Topics: Information about the origins of the Miller family (where they are from and when they joined the Mormon church) and the E. A. Miller Company.
2002 October 18
12 6
Interview transcript with Debbie Hammond
(no tapes) Topics: Memories of her parents, Junior and Norma Miller.
2002 October 3
12 7
Interview transcript with John and Carol Clay
(no tapes) Topics: Information about the E. A. Miller Company and family.
2002 September 13

Mark Hofmann Collection (Collector: Roommate)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 13

Container(s) Description Dates
Box tape
13 1
Original Interview Tape: Interview with Mark Hofmann about the Charles Anthon transcript
Interview after the discovery of the Charles Anthon original transcript (pre-bombing) while Mark was a student at USU.
1980
13 2
Interview CD Condensed File: Copy of the interview with Mark Hofmann about the Charles Anthon transcript
Library/Data Copy
1980
13 3
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of the interview with Mark Hofmann about the Charles Anthon transcript
Audio CD
1980

William "Bill" Swallow Collection (Collector: Manny Collister)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 14

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
14 1
Corrospondence between Milton C. Abrams, University Librarian at Utah State University, and William Swallow
Includes copies of letters sent to organize an interview with William Swallow and notes on William Swallow.
1976
14 2
Interview Cassette Tape
Topics: Life in Fillmore, UT, marriage to Blanche, and owning and operating the confectionery store.
1976 April 24

Wendel Godfrey Collection (Collector: Kenneth Godfrey)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 15

Kenneth Godfrey interviewed his father, Wendel Godfrey, and Asael Buttars as part of a history of Cornish, UT. Wendel and Asael had been friends for many years and they talked about Cornish, their memories, and other experiences.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box tape
15 1
Original Interview Cassette Tape (both sides)
Interview with Wendel Godfrey (collected by Kenneth Godfrey) about his life in Cornish, UT. He was 91 years old.
2000 August 5
15 2
Original Interview Cassette Tape continued (only one side)
Interview with Wendel Godfrey (collected by Kenneth Godfrey) about his life in Cornish, UT. He was 91 years old.
2000 August 5
15 3
Interview CD Condensed File: Copy of the interview with Wendel Godfrey (collected by Kenneth Godfrey)
Library Copy
2000 August 5
15 4
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of the interview with Wendel Godfrey (collected by Kenneth Godfrey)
2000 August 5
Folder
15 1
Interview Transcript
Interview with Wendel Godfrey (collected by Kenneth Godfrey) about his life in Cornish, UT. He was 91 years old.
2000 August 5
15 2
Floppy Disc
Wendel Godfrey
Undated

Getaway Special Oral History CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 16

30 Years of USU in Space: In October 1976, then USU faculty member, R. Gilbert Moore attended a conference where NASA administrators announced the development of a new opportunity for space research aboard the newly-designed space shuttle. Moore was so enthused with the educational possibilities of the program that he stood up in the middle of the presenter’s speech and wrote a check for the first Get Away Special (GAS) payload reservation. He donated it to Utah State University, and the GAS program was born. Through the program, Utah State has sent 11 payloads into space. Since the first GAS payload, members of the team have also participated in other microgravity research projects involving NASA’s “Vomit Comet” and the International Space Station. For more information on the Get Away Special: http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gas_educ/13/

Container(s) Description Dates
Box tape
16 1
Original Interview Cassette Tape: GAS Banquet Interviews
Interview with Oscar Monje
2011 April 9
16 2
Original Interview Cassette Tape: GAS Banquet Interviews
Side A: GAS Interviews with Vaughn Walden and Jeff Humphries. Side B: GAS Interview with Rex Ridenoure.
2011 April
16 3
Original Interview Cassette Tape: GAS Banquet Interviews
Side A: GAS Interviews with Kristen Wilkensen and Scott Thomas. Side B: GAS Interviews with Scott Thomas and David Hansen.
2011 April
16 4
Original Interview Cassette Tape: GAS Banquet Interviews
Side A: GAS Interviews with Kelly Persky, Mel Torrie, and Matt Droter
2011 April
16 5
Original Interview Cassette Tape: GAS Banquet Interviews
Side A: GAS Interviews with Mark Wilkensen and Dave Yoel
2011 April
16 6
Original Interview Cassette Tape: GAS Banquet Interviews
Side A: GAS Interview with Casey Hatch. Side B: GAS Interview with Kent Miller.
2011 April
16 7
Original Interview Cassette Tape: GAS Banquet Interviews
Side A: GAS Interview with Mike Wilkinson and Bill Decker. Side B: GAS Interview with Morgan Davidson, Jeffrey Brady, Jason Sanders, and Terry Thomas.
2011 April
16 8
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of GAS Interviews
Interviews with Casey Hatch, David Yoel, Kent Miller, Mark Wilkinson, Michael Wilkinson, and William Decker.
2011 April
16 9
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of GAS Interviews
(copy of CD 8) Interviews with Casey Hatch, David Yoel, Kent Miller, Mark Wilkinson, Michael Wilkinson, and William Decker.
2011 April
16 10
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of GAS Interviews
Interviews with Morgan Davidson, Jeffrey Brady, Jason Sanders, and Terry Thomas.
2011 April
16 11
Digital Copies of Transcribed Interviews
Transcribed GAS Interviews
2011 April
Folder
16 1
GAS Interview Release Forms
2011 April
16 2
Transcribed GAS Interviews
2011 April

Rulon C. Allred CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 17

Container(s) Description Dates
Box tape
17 1
Original Interview Cassette Tape
(both sides)Rulon C. Allred Funeral Service
Undated
17 2
Original Interview Cassette Tape
(one side)Rulon C. Allred Funeral Service
Undated
17 3
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Mabel Allred (hard to hear)
1978 October 18
17 4
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Aunt Myrtle (hard to hear)
1977 November 2
17 5
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Aunt Melba (broken)
1978 November 29
17 6
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Aunt Athlene
1978 May 3
17 7
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview about Mom's Trip to Mexico
Undated
17 8
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Aunt Ethel (hard to hear)
1977 October 5
17 9
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview on Investigation of the Murder of Dr. R.C. Allred (broken)
Undated
17 10
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Aunt Ethel
1978 May 31
17 11
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Dr. Rulon C. Allred (4A and 4B)
Undated
17 12
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Dr. Rulon C. Allred continued (4C)
Undated
17 13
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Dr. Rulon C. Allred, Mabel, and Melba Allred (3A and 3B)
Undated
17 14
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Dr. Rulon C. Allred, Mabel, and Melba Allred (3C and 3D)
Undated
17 15
Original Interview Cassette Tape
Interview with Dr. Rulon C. Allred, Mabel, and Melba Allred (3E)
Undated
17 16
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Rulon C. Allred Funeral Service
Side A
Undated
17 17
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Rulon C. Allred Funeral Service
Side B
Undated
17 18
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Rulon C. Allred Funeral Service
Side C
Undated
17 19
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Mabel Allred
(hard to hear)
1978 October 18
17 20
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Aunt Myrtle
(hard to hear)
1977 November 2
17 21
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Aunt Melba
1978 November 29
17 22
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Aunt Athlene
1978 May 3
17 23
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview of Mom's trip to Mexico
Undated
17 24
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Aunt Ethel
(hard to hear)
1977 October 5
17 25
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Investigation of the Murder of Dr. R.C. Allred
(hard to hear, back noise)
Undated
17 26
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Aunt Ethel
Part 1
1978 May 31
17 27
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Aunt Ethel
Part 2
1978 May 31
17 28
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Rulon C. Allred
Part 1: 4A
1974 April 4
17 29
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Rulon C. Allred
Part 2: 4B
1974 April 4
17 30
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Rulon C. Allred
Part 3: 4C
1974 April 4
17 31
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Rulon C. Allred, Mabel, and Melba Allred
Part 1: 3A
1974 March 28
17 32
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Rulon C. Allred, Mabel, and Melba Allred
Part 2: 3B
1974 March 28
17 33
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Rulon C. Allred, Mabel, and Melba Allred
Part 3: 3C
1974 March 28
17 34
Interview CD Wave File: Copy of Interview with Rulon C. Allred, Mabel, and Melba Allred
Part 4: 3D
1974 March 28

USU Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Oral History Effort (Collector: Aaron Smith)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 20

This collection includes interviews with former faculty of USU's LAEP Department. The interviews were conducted by Aaron Smith, USU graduate student, who used the interviews for his master's thesis: The History of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University, 2014; and for the LAEP 75th Anniversary Celebration: The History of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning 1939-2014, a publication prepared for the department's 75th anniversary under the supervision of Michael Timmons, editor, Associate Professor Emeritus and Aaron Smith, 2014.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
20 1
Interview Release forms: removed to collection file
2013-2014
20 2 2014 August
20 3
Interviews (in DigitalCommons, links below)
2013 November 11
2013 November 22
2013 October 14
2013 August 22
2013 August 15
2013 October 10
21 2014 May

Self-Reliance, Social Welfare, and Sacred Landscapes: Mormon Agricultural Spaces and Their Paradoxical Sense of Place (Collector: Anthony Ross Garner)Return to Top

This collection includes interviews with managers and workers of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint (Mormon) owned farms. The interviews were conducted by Anthony Ross Garner, USU folklore graduate student, who used the interviews to inform his master's thesis: Self-Reliance, Social Welfare, and Sacred Landscapes: Mormon Agricultural Spaces and Their Paradoxical Sense of Place Garner notes: as case studies, this thesis examines the motives and methods of an industrially scaled Church welfare farm in Blue Creek, Utah and a Mormon family garden in Bluffdale, Utah. Contextualized within relevant American and Mormon history, I explore the paradoxical sense of place of Mormon agricultural landscapes where ideals of self-reliance and social welfare thrive and social isolation and emotional interconnection coexist, which makes room for principles of economic efficiency and environmental conservation to find a compromise.

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Box
21
Interview Release forms: removed to collection file
2017-2018

Heinz Friedrich Rahde and Gisela B. Rahde Interview (Interviewer: Randy Williams)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 21

Heinz and Gisela Rahde, a married couple who emigrated from Germany to America in 1952, talk about their experiences living in Germany before, during, and after World War II. They provide the perspective of average German citizens during this time in history. Heinz speaks of his schooling, military experience as Luftwaffenhelfer [air force helpers], his activity in the German Stadthagen Branch, near Hanover, and being called as one of the first missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to serve in Germany soon after the war. Gisela talks about her experiences as a dental hygienist, their courtship and subsequent marriage, and coming to the United States as newlyweds. They also tell about Heinz’s continued education at the University of Utah, raising a family in Utah, and his work at the University of Utah as a German language professor. The interview was conducted at the request of Professor Ross Peterson, Emeritus USU History Department.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
21 1
Interview Transcript
2017 Feburary 8
Interview Release forms: removed to collection file

Patrick H. Preston and Patricia O. Preston (Interviewers: Randy Williams and Todd Welch)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 21

Patrick and Patricia Preston share their memories growing up skiing in Utah, as well as their memories and experiences running a ski shop in Logan, Utah. They talk about the history of skiing, their experiences skiing for university ski teams, competing, and their lives in the ski culture and community. The interview was conducted at the request of Professor Joyce Kinkead, USU English Department.

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Box Folder
21 2
Interview Transcript
2017 October 14
Interview Release forms: removed to collection file
2017 October 14

In Defense of the Modern Company Town: Wyoming's Uranium Communities (Collector: Zachary R. Larsen)Return to Top

This collection includes interviews with community members, teachers, mine workers in two Wyoming uranium mine communiites. The interviews informed Zachary R. Larsen's master's thesis: In Defense of the Modern Company Town: Wyoming's Uranium Communities.

Description Dates
Interview Release forms: removed to collection file
2015
Interviwes forthcoming
2015

Alvin A. Gabrielsen: History and Biography, 1926-1948Return to Top

Container(s): Box 21

Oral History. From CD notes: Al Gabrielsen's life has always been characterized by persistence, dogged, determined problem-solving, and unconventional thinking.... [G]rowing up in small-town Mormon, Utah, fighting across Europe in World War 11, and serving a mission in impoverished post-war Norway. How did Al Gabrielsen: soldier, father, architect, scout leader, grandfather, temple worker become who he is? How do any of us become who we are? Read this and see. Ogden, Utah. March 2007

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Box Folder
21 3
CD
2007 March
Donated by Grace Gabrielsen (via Barbara Middleton)
2009 June

An Oral History Interview with LaRue H. Jardine and Alice Merrill Jardine (Lawrence Cantwell interviewer)Return to Top

Container(s): Box 21

Oral history with LaRue H. Jardine and Alice Merrill, 14 July 1985, Transcribed 23 July 2009. Transcription made possible by a grant from Utah Humanities/Utah State History. Corrected April 2018.

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Box Folder
21 4
Text CD and Transcript
2007 March
Donated by Linda G. Walker (LaReu H. Jardine's niece).
2018 June 07

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Folklore--Utah.
  • Oral history--Utah.