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By Taya Wallace Taya did such a great job during her internship that we hired her for the summer. In the fall she will begin an internship at the Office of Public Records in Washington, D.C. I love stories. Getting into the minds of other people who are put in …
By Christina Epperson, GIS Analyst, Utah Division of State History It’s mid-July as I write this blog post and the temperature forecast for the next seven days is near or at 100 degrees. With the foothill grasses a golden brown and the plentiful snowpack on our highest mountains fading to …
By Laurie J. Bryant, Independent Historian [On July 2nd, at the Salt Lake City Cemetery, we unveiled a monument for 55 individuals who died at the “insane asylum” in the 1870s and 1880s. We asked the researcher, Laurie J. Bryant, to tell us more about one of the individuals.] Louis …
By Kevin Fayles, Assistant Director of Operations, Utah Division of State History I am not a professional historian, but I have loved history for most of my life. I recall as a teenager meeting with a high school counselor. She said I could go into a history class or an …