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Folklore Archives Founder’s Lecture
From Old-time Ballads to Sudanese Clay Bulls:
34 Years of the Utah State Folklore Archives
by Carol Edison, Utah State Folklorist
Date and Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Place: De Lamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL (1st floor)
About the Speaker: Carol Edison is Folk Arts Program Manager for the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, and directing programs for the Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts in Salt Lake City. She is a recent recipient of the Benjamin A. Botkin Prize of the American Folklore Society for her work with public folklore.
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BYU’s 3rd Annual Provo Founder’s Day Lecture
“One of the Bitterest Fights in Provo History”
: The Controversies over Provo’s Union Depot
by Kenneth L. Cannon II
Date and Time: 3:00 PM, Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Place: De Lamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL (1st floor)
About the Event: The Harold B. Lee Library and the L. Tom Perry Special Collections are proud to announce this year’s 3rd Annual Provo Founder’s Day Lecture. Kenneth L. Cannon, noted Salt Lake City lawyer, historian and author of the publication Provo A Very Eligible Place: Provo and Orem, an Illustrated History will be speaking.
Anyone interested in the city that has hosted Brigham Young University since 1875 is invited to join us for the fifty-minute presentation, which will be followed by a brief Q/A session.
Lecture Description: Provo residents fought for construction of a new union train depot for almost twenty years, from 1891 to 1911. Controversies ranging from uncooperative railroad lines to strong disputes between factions within and without Provo conspired against a new depot. West-side merchants led by Thomas N. Taylor and east-side individuals and institutions led by Jesse Knight disputed the location of the new depot before a sharply divided city council, in court, and in a close special election. Even the LDS Church president and the governor of Utah were enlisted and took sides. Eventually, the differences were resolved and Provo’s lovely union depot was constructed on Sixth South between Second and Third West. These controversies provide a glimpse into the people and institutions of Provo at the beginning of the twentieth century and some understanding of age-old issues in Provo’s history.
About this Year’s Presenter: Ken Cannon grew up in Provo and graduated from Provo High. He graduated summa cum laude in history from BYU in 1978 and was awarded a master’s degree in American history and a law degree from BYU at the same time in 1982, graduating with honors in both endeavors. He has published extensively on historical, legal historical, and legal issues and has received a number of awards for his articles. He published the previously mentioned book on Provo and Orem in 1987. Ken has practiced corporate bankruptcy law for many years in Utah, New York, and around the country as he has represented parties in some of the largest Chapter 11 reorganization cases ever filed. He has been an adjunct faculty member at J. Reuben Clark Law School and has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for over fifteen years. He is currently working on a biography of George Q. Cannon’s three oldest sons, John Q., Frank J., and Abram H. Ken lives in an 1898 Victorian house in the Avenues neighborhood in Salt Lake City with his lovely wife Ann. They have five sons, two daughters in law, two dogs including a massive Newfoundland, three cats, and a very talkative parrot.
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Thomas L. Kane and Nineteenth-Century America
Matthew J. Grow- Time: 2:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009
- Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.
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Tom & Bessie Kane & the Mormons
Edward A. Geary- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, Februrary 11, 2009
- Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.
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Twelve Mormon Homes: Touring Utah with Elizabeth & Thomas L. Kane in 1872-73
Lowell “Ben” Bennion and Thomas Carter- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009
- Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.
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Thomas L. Kane and the ‘Mormon Problem’ in National Politics
Thomas G. Alexander- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008
- Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.
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Founder’s Lecture–Your Ballad Man: Alan Lomax, Radio, and Folk-Populism, 1939-1957
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Place: Library auditorium, first floor of HBLL
Dr. Harvey of the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress is the curator of the Alan Lomax Collection. His lecture aims to describe the nearly 200 Lomax radio programs available at the American Folklife Center archive. The lecture will examine Alan’s use of radio to promote his unique understanding of vernacular musics, as well as the lasting impact of the broadcasts on the popularity and revival of these traditions. Lomax’s programs aired on the CBS, BBC, Armed Forces, Mutual, and NBC radio networks.
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Thomas L. Kane and the Utah War
William P. MacKinnon- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008
- Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.
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Water in the West: A Misplaced Resource
- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008
- Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.
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J. Reuben Clark: A Heritage of Service
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008
- Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.
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Discovering Revolutionary China through the Eyes of Helen Foster Snow
- Time: 1:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
- Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.
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Thomas L. Kane and the Mormons at the Missouri
Richard E. Bennett- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
- Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.
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‘My Dear Friend’: The Correspondence between Brigham Young and Thomas L. Kane
David J. Whittaker- Time: 2:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
- Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.
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Locked Away in Private Collections: Work Seldom Seen
Don Glaister
- Time: 7:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, June 05, 2008
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL, BYU
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German Pädagogik and the Founding of the Brigham Young Academy
Dr. LeGrand (Buddy) Richards, BYU School of Education
- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, June 05, 2008
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL, BYU
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Diversity and Patterns in Georgia’s Religious Architecture
Dr. Ray Luce, Georgia State Historic Preservation Officer
- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL, BYU
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Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood
A memoir by Douglas Thayer- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, April 03, 2008
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL, BYU
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Working in Multiple Layers: How Process Informs Work
Galen
- Time: 7:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, April 03, 2008
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL, BYU
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Fifth Annual Founder’s Lecture
J. Golden Kimball in Mormon Folklore- Time: 7:00pm
- Date: November 28, 2007
- Place: Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium
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Campus Spaces to Public Places
Bruce Maw, BYU Campus Landscape Architect
- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room (HBLL 1130)
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The Failure of The Word: The Bible Conservation Project, 1450-1550
Jeff Peachey- Time: 7:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
- Place: Special Collections Classroom
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Special Collections 50th anniversary
- Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
- Date: October 1st – 19th 2007
- Place: Harold B. Lee Library Special Collections
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Welsh Mormons: Developing an online archive of Welsh Mormon History
Professor Ron Dennis- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
- Place: Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium
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Carefully Kept: Scrapbook Preservation
Deborah Wender- Time: 7:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, September 6, 2007
- Place: Library Auditorium
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Contemporary Context: The Layered Concept of Artists’ Books
Julie Leonard- Time: 7:00 PM
- Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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Street Alchemy: Found Art and the Book Artist
Peter Madden- Time: 7:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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Jungle Garden Press: From the Beginning
Marie and Carl Dern- Time: 7:00 PM
- Date: Friday, March 2, 2007
- Place: Library Auditorium
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Galileo, the Stars, and the Church
David Grandy, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, March 24, 2005
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, HBLL 1130
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Charles Redd Fellow Lecture
Larry E. Morris- Time: 7:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2005
- Place: Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium
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Art and Astronomy in the Age of Galileo
Derek Jensen, Curator of European Books, L. Tom Perry Special Collections- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, February 24, 2005
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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My Mother makes us Pajamas for Christmas: Traditions for Strong Families
Kristi A. Bell Curator, Wilson Folklore Archives- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, December 9, 2004
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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The History of Grading at BYU: How did it happen to us?
A. LeGrand Richards, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, November 18, 2004
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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Explorations at the Table: Food, the Familiar, and the Exotic
Jill Rudy, Assistant Professor/English Department- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, November 11, 2004
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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Anthony Trollope, Welcome Back!
John Taylor, Former Book Collector- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, November 4, 2004
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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Afghan Folklore
Eric Eliason, Assistant Professor/English Department- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, October 21, 2004
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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Thomas L. Kane and the Culture of Honor
Matthew Grow- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Saturday, October 2, 2004
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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Funerals, Mourning, and Foods
Jacqueline S. Thursby, PhD Associate Professor,English Department Brigham Young University- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2004
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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Giving a Voice to Sorrow: Creative Responses to Death
Ilana Harlow Folklife Specialist in Research and Programs American Folklife Center, Library of Congress- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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History and Traditions of Ethnographic and Documentary Photography
Rich Remsberg, Photographer- Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004
- Place: DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room, 1130 HBLL
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Second Annual Founder’s Lecture
Household Folklife: Documenting and Preserving Family Traditions
Michael Taft, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress- Time: 7:00 PM
- Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2004
- Place: HBLL auditorioum
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