Abstract This collection represents documentation of the Valentine’s Tea held at Adams Elementary School in Logan, Utah. The collection includes interviews of teachers, parents, and the principal regarding the this celebration day event, that includes manner’s tea hosted on Valentine’s Day (14 February) by the Partent Teachers Association (PTA). Folklorist Randy Williams conducted the research in 1995 and 2001. Williams published a journal article on the tradition in “Tea for Two” and the Rest of the...

Abstract This collection hosts the products from the Bear River Heritage Area Historic Barn Survey that works to tell the story of the historic barns in northern Utah and southeastern Idaho through interviews, photographs, and fieldnotes. Criteria for documented barns included an age of fifty-years-old and older, those in good condition, and barns with easy access for public viewing. The project goals included documenting the barn builders; describing the historic uses of the barns; educating the...

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39 Oral histories of people involved in Cache Valley, Utah religious communities (faith traditions); collected August 2008 through March 2010.

Abstract Drug courts are problem-solving courts; the first was established in Florida in 1989. Judge Thomas Willmore founded the Cache Valley Drug Court in 2000. The Cache Valley Drug Court Oral History Project was the idea of Andrew Dupree, drug court participant, now graduate, and was shaped by his vision to collect the voices of drug court participants and graduates, family members, and professionals associated with this court. This born-digital collection was created December 2016 to May 2017 and...

Abstract Cache Valley, Utah is the home of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees. Documenting and preserving their stories is an important goal of Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives (FFA). In May 2015, USU’s FFA and Folklore Program, with help from the Karen community, hosted a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation: “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley.” Field school students worked to document Cache Valley’s recent refugee communities. This collection, Folk Coll...

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The Hal Cannon collection: A Life of Fieldwork and Creative Endeavors spans 55-years of ethnographic collecting and creative works by folklorist and musician Hal Cannon. The collection contains 26 boxes and three series: fieldwork, creative endeavors, and purchased materials.

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In this digital collection of 71 interviews (with 74 people), stakeholders from the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, Central Utah Project Completion Act, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Ute Nation, join with Utah water users, members of the environmental community and Utah’s political establishment to tell the complex and oftentimes controversial story of the Central Utah Project.

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The Climate Challenge digital collection is a small but important oral history effort that presents 19 voices of Utah State University climate scientists (2018), Northern Utah and Northern Idaho climate activists (2021), and people engaged in land restoration efforts in the Intermountain West. The goal of the effort is to document the experiences of these three groups to add to the growing scholarship about the human side of climate scholarship, awareness, and land restoration efforts.

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Collecting Memories contains oral histories (and related materials) of American folklorists. The project is a joint effort of Utah State University and the American Folklore Society.

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Interview notes of the Work Projects Administration's (WPA) history of grazing