Local Matters:
Interweaving historical threads of community
October 10–11, 2017
In 2017, we’re focusing on Local Matters—and local can be broadly defined.
Our annual conference will examine the many strands that create the fabric of communities, such as festivals, buildings, schools, or the arts.
We’ll also discuss the uses of local history and the application of sophisticated methodology to personal, family, and community history.
Workshops will focus on strategies for local organizations, oral history, historic preservation, and community histories.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
Tuesday, October 10th
9:00 am–5:00 pm
Workshops
Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City
State Archives Building, 346 South Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City
Wednesday, October 11th
8:00 am–5:00 pm
Plenary, lunchtime keynote and awards presentation, history and panel sessions
Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 West 3100 South, West Valley
DETAILED CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Tuesday, October 10th
9:00 am–5:00 pm
Workshops
Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City
State Archives Building, 346 South Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City
Introduction to Oral History
Megan van Frank and Jedediah Rogers
9 am–noon, Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Zephyr Room, Rio Grande Depot
300 S. Rio Grande, Salt Lake City
Oral history is a powerful tool for people to understand their family stories and community history. Whether used for scholarly research, finding community stories, or fleshing out one’s family history, oral history provides unusual access to stories not otherwise known or in danger of being lost. This workshop will provide a focused introduction to the art and craft of oral history: to the philosophical underpinnings of the discipline—what it can, and cannot, tell us about the past—and to the nuts and bolts of executing successful oral history projects. An orientation to the Utah Humanities and Utah Division of State History joint oral history program will also be provided.
Megan van Frank directs community history and museums programming for Utah Humanities.
Jedediah Rogers is a Senior State Historian at the Utah Division of State History and co-managing editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
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Community Preservation
Presented by SHPO staff at Division of State History
8:30 am–noon, Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Archives Training Room, State Archives Building
346 S. Rio Grande, Salt Lake City
This workshop will provide the tools and techniques for running successful local historic preservation programs, including incentives, guidelines and regulations, planning tools, partnerships, public education, and grants and tax credits. Find out whether your community is taking advantage of all resources available to it.
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Family History Meets History
Holly George
1:00 – 3:30 pm, Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Board Room, Rio Grande Depot
300 S. Rio Grande, Salt Lake City
The world of family history has much to offer—both tools and stories—to the writers of history. At the same time, historical writing and genealogical work are not always the same thing.
This workshop will address
1) How to use the tools of family history research in historical writing
2) How to craft family stories into articles for journals such as Utah Historical Quarterly
Holly George is a Senior State Historian at the Utah Division of State History and co-managing editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
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National Historic Trails and the BLM: How Historic Trails Can Connect the Public to the Past Rob Sweeten
1:00–2:30 pm, Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Archives Training Room, State Archives Building
346 S. Rio Grande, Salt Lake City
Rob Sweeten is BLM National Trail Administrator for the Old Spanish National Historic Trail and Historic Trails lead for BLM-Utah.
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BLM-Utah’s Cultural Resource Program: Organization, Goals, and Highlights
Nate Thomas
3:00–4:00 pm, Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Archives Training Room, State Archives Building
346 S. Rio Grande, Salt Lake City
Nate Thomas is State Archaeologist and Cultural Resource Program Lead for BLM-Utah
Wednesday, October 11th
8:00 am–5:00 pm
Plenary, lunchtime keynote and awards presentation, history and panel sessions
Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 West 3100 South, West Valley
Schedule at a Glance
| Room 101 & 102 | Room 104 | Room 105 | Great Hall I | Great Hall II | |
| 9:00-10:15am Great Hall 1 |
Plenary Session — Peril, Conflict, and Storytelling in Community History. Speakers: David Rich Lewis (moderator), Gregory Smoak, Ben Pykles |
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| 10:30-11:45am | Familiar Places: Glimpses of Home and Community | National Institutions, Local Crises | Territorial History and Its Records | The Impact of Independent Film on Local Communities | Paiute Tribal Recognition |
| Noon-1:30pm Great Hall 1 |
Lunch (free for registered attendees)
Keynote 2017 Outstanding Achievement Awards Program |
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| 1:45-3:00pm | Food and Culture: Daily Life in Northern Utah
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Pedagogy in the Digital Era | Historic Preservation in Salt Lake City | Knowledge is Power: Education in Utah | Writing Regional History: Gary Topping’s Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History |
| 3:15-4:30 | Cache Valley Utah Drug Court Oral History Project: A Community-Driven Effort | Religion and the Community | Cooperation and the Preservation of Historic Places | Joe Hill Project | Understanding 20th-Century Utah: James Allen’s Still the Right Place: Utah’s Second Half-Century of Statehood, 1945-1995
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Click here for detailed session and speaker information
Thank you to our generous conference sponsors!
Ames Construction
University of Utah Department of History
Utah Westerners
Utah State University
Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
Lloyd Architects.