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Revisiting 'A History Of America In 100 Maps' With Susan Schulten On Monday's Access Utah Apr 01, 2019

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Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such they offer unrivaled windows onto the past.

Best Of Access Utah On Music And More With Craig Jessop Mar 28, 2019

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Today on the final day of UPR’s Spring Pledge Drive, my Access Utah co-host is Craig Jessop, Dean of the USU Caine College of the Arts, and Music Director of the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra. We’ll present a portion of a recent interview with eminent historian Joseph Ellis, author most recently of “American Dialogue: The Founders and Us.” We’ll also hear a segment from an interview with ecologist Jeremy Jackson, co-author of “Breakpoint: Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises.” And we’ll hear part of Lee Austin’s interview with Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac.

Best Of Access Utah On Food And Folklore With Lynne McNeill Mar 27, 2019

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Folklorist and USU Assistant Professor of English Lynne McNeill joins me for this special pledge drive edition of the program. We’ll hear a segment from a recent episode featuring Chef Nephi Craig, founder of the Native American Culinary Association. We’ll also feature a portion of one of our most memorable episodes, an interview (from 2011) with Utah author Lee Cantwell. His novel “Mother George” tries to flesh out an incredible true story for which there is little information: Mother George was a black midwife who practiced her art in a small southeastern Idaho town for 40 years. When she died around 1919, the women dressing her for burial discovered that she was a man. We’ll also hear an episode from our Bread & Butter series.

Best Of Access Utah On The Changing Media Landscape With Lee Austin Mar 26, 2019

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On this special pledge drive edition of Access Utah. My co-host is Access Utah founding host and former UPR Program Director Lee Austin. We’ll feature new conversations with USU Associate Professor of Journalism Matthew LaPlante and BBC host Dan Damon. We’ll be talking about the media landscape in the U.S. and the U.K. We’ll also talk about all the latest twists and turns in the Brexit saga.

Best Of Access Utah On Land And The Environment With Ken Sanders Mar 25, 2019

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It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of our favorite recent episodes of the program. We’ll hear from Amy Irvine, Regina Whiteskunk Lopez and Kirsten Johanna Allen, talking about themes in Amy Irvine’s book “Desert Cabal,” which is a response to Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire.” Ken Sanders was a friend of Edward Abbey. We’ll also present part of an interview with another of Ken Sanders’ friends, legendary river-runner Ken Sleight, talking about Glen Canyon. We’ll invite you to pledge your support to UPR to ensure that Access Utah continues strong.

Best Of Access Utah On Reaching Across The Aisle With Jason Gilmore Mar 21, 2019

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On the first day of UPR’s Spring Pledge Drive Tom Williams and co-host USU Communications Studies Assistant Professor Jason Gilmore will present parts of several recent Access Utah interviews: We’ll hear some of our listeners expressing opposing viewpoints. StoryCorps founder David Isay will urge us to try to overcome our differences by truly listening to each other. And we’ll talk about UPR’s upcoming partnership with StoryCorps in their One Small Step initiative, which invites two strangers to share life stories across a political divide. Finally, we'll hear from Richard Saunders on the way contemporary contexts inform our understanding of history.

Mahler's Third Symphony On Wednesday's Access Utah Mar 20, 2019

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Today on Access Utah: the music of Gustav Mahler from his Third Symphony. Our guests include USU Music Professor Sergio Bernal, Austrian conductor Christoph Campestrini with Vienna Hofmusikkapelle, and mezzo-soprano and USU Alumna Tamara Mumford of Metropolitan Opera. Immerse yourself in a universe of awakenings, nature, humankind, and eternity envisioned by Mahler, a composer for whom ''a symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.''

Climate Science With Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel On Tuesday's Access Utah Mar 19, 2019

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Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel is Director of Climate Science for the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She will be in Utah later this week for events in Salt Lake City and Ogden. She says we can adapt to and reduce risks from changing weather patterns and other consequences of releasing heat-trapping emissions to the atmosphere, and that we can switch to a lower emissions trajectory. Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel will give us specific examples for Utah on the program today.

Understanding Utah History Through Juanita Brooks With Richard Saunders On Monday's Access Utah Mar 18, 2019

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Richard Saunders is librarian and professor of history at Southern Utah University. He has written widely on the Mormons and American history topics. He will deliver the 36th annual Juanita Brooks lecture on Thursday, March 28, at 7:00 p.m. in Cox Auditorium on the campus of Dixie State University in St. George.

Homecomers: Returning To Rural Roots With Michele Anderson On Thursday's Access Utah Mar 14, 2019

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Michele Anderson says “I am what you might call a ‘homecomer.’ Wendell Berry, the Kentucky writer and farmer, uses that word to describe people who have spent some time away, usually to pursue better opportunities in cities, and then choose to return to their rural roots.” Her recent opinion piece in the New York Times is headlined “Go Home to Your ‘Dying’ Hometown.” Michele Anderson says “I did, and it isn’t what I expected. I am more involved in social and racial justice, economic development and feminism than I ever was in a big city.”

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