2010 Activities
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January 28, 2010, 7:00 pm
Steven L. Olsen
Currently serves as a senior historic sites specialist of the Church History Department, for which has worked for his entire thirty-year professional career. During this time he has also been an adjunct professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University.
His service to the wider profession includes terms as president of the Utah Museums Association and the Western Museums Association and on the boards of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies (BYU), Utah State Office of Museum Services, National Alliance of State Museums Associations, Utah Humanities Council, and American Society of Church History. He has published widely in the fields of museums studies and Church history and frequently presents at scholarly and professional association conferences.
Dr. Olsen has a B.A. from Brigham Young University and A.M. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago.
February 25, 2010, 7:00 pm
Di Ann Duke Turner
Di Ann Duke Turner will be speaking about people of the Heber Valley she knew as she was growing up.
Di Ann was born a descendant of original settlers of this valley: Robert Stone Duke, Thomas Moulton, and Thomas Hicken. Her parents were Alma Duke and the former Carroll Slaughter. She is married to M. David Turner and has twelve children and twelve grandchildren.
She attended the local schools, then went to Brigham Young University and graduated. She taught school for a few years, then went back to school and became a nurse. She currently works at the VA hospital in Salt Lake City.
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March 25, 2010, 7:00 pm
Clive Romney & The Utah Pioneer Heritage Arts
Executive Director, Utah Pioneer Heritage Arts
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Clive Romney, Pearl-Award-winning recording producer, composer, songwriter, arranger, teacher and performer, and a forty-year veteran of the music business, serves as Executive Director of Utah Pioneer Heritage Arts.
Clive plays guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, accordion, percussion, dan tranh, charango, bodhran, various other ethnic instruments, and some piano, and produces between four and ten albums per year in his recording studio, “Pitchfork Studios”, engineering most of his own recordings. He is comfortable producing music in a wide range of styles, but his musical “home” is in folk, world and old-time music.
Clive wrote the lyrics for the films Swan Princess II and III, the music and lyrics for “Over The Edge at The Grand Canyon” (commissioned by the National Park), and has had more than four hundred original works recorded and published. But he counts “Scripture Power”, an LDS Primary children’s favorite, as his greatest musical achievement.
Clive founded and directs “Enoch Train”, an eight-man ensemble that performs and records folk-flavored instrumental arrangements of hymn tunes, children’s songs, and Americana, incorporating ethnic influences from around the world. Enoch Train were the featured performers for SeaTrek 2001, the reenactment of the emigration of 85,000 Mormon converts to the United States by ship, performing on board a tall ship and in Esbjerg, Copenhagen, Gothenberg, Oslo, Greenock (Scotland), Liverpool, Hull, and Portsmouth.
Clive teaches Introduction to the Music Business at Brigham Young University in Provo, where he has also taught songwriting in the past. (biography courtesy: www. utahpioneerheritagearts.org)
Mike Whit as Porter
April 22, 2010, 7:00 pm
Mike Whit to Reenact Porter Rockwell
We are pleased to invite the community to participate in an evening with Mike Witt as he reenacts the colorful and eccentric personality of Porter Rockwell at the Senior Citizens Center on April 22, 2010 at 7pm.
Mike, son to Joe and Ruth Witt is a native of Wasatch County. Even before graduating from Wasatch High School in 1959, Mike had started an excavating career hauling topsoil. Soon after graduating, he attended BYU for a year before serving a two-year mission to the North Central States for the LDS church. Upon returning, Mike attended Snow College where he met his eternal companion, Eddis McElprang. They where married March 18, 1965 in the Manti Temple.
In 1967, Mike accepted a management position with Kennecott Copper Corp where he continued to work for the next 15 years before retiring in 1982. They are now proud grandparents of 29 grandchildren who they love to spoil.
Orin Porter Rockwell was born June 28, 1813 in Belchertown, Hampshire County, Mas-sachusetts to Orin and Sarah Rockwell. On April 6, 1830, he was baptized into the LDS making him one of the church’s earliest members. Sixteen years later he was endowed to his wife Luana Beebe in the Nauvoo Temple. During his later years, he was most commonly known as the loyal bodyguard to both Joseph Smith, Jr. and Brigham Young. He was reputed to have killed many men defending his life. Porter became as famous and controversial as Pat Garrett or even Wyatt Earp.
All are invited and there is no cost to attend. Light refreshments will be served after-wards.
2009 Awards Dinner
May 27, 2010, 7:00 pm
Annual Recognition Night
It’s that time of the year where we celebrate our local past, present and future pioneers. Join us Thursday May 27, 2010 as we recognize three individuals for their accomplishments and contributions in making our community a better place to live. The awards ceremony will begin at 7pm and dinner will be catered by Tommy’s Texas BBQ. Cost is $15 a plate.
Please RSVP by Monday May 24 by calling (435) 709-8TMV (8868). You may pre-pay for your dinner in advance by clicking the following button:
September 24, 2010, 5:30 pm
Family BBQ & Apple Pickin’
Join us as we celebrate the last of the summer. For more details, view our activity post here