Lehi Historical Society: Preserving Community Memory — with Lara Bangeter
Full Conversation Transcript
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welcome to roots and branches of Lehi the podcast where we get to know the faces stories and lives that make up our
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community I'm Ryan Harding and I started this podcast as a way for us all to connect with the people we live
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alongside growing up in a small town I learned that connections go beyond blood they're built through shared experiences
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friendships and the moments we celebrate together each week we'll sit down with someone new from Lehi to share their
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unique story their passions and what they love most about living here so whether you've been here for years or
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just arrived join us as we deepen Our Roots and reach out to our branches one
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story at a
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time all right welcome Laura we got Laura Banger here with the Lehi Historical Society she's here with me
Meet Lara Bangeter from the Lehi Historical Society
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today and uh well welcome thank you for coming Lehi Historical Society well we were founded in 2016 by John HW who was
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love Lehi collected anything and everything Lehi and so our uh purpose is
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to collect preserve organize protect share yeah uh anything and everything
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Lehi okay what got you involved in that why did you pick that as something you wanted to to work on and do I wanted to
Lara's Journey to the Historical Society
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do something meaningful if I was going to go back to work and I didn't want to
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go back to a lot of work um somebody in my ward was a member of the Historical Society and posted the job okay opening
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and to manage the sessions things that come in and make it available to the
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public just sounded like fun and it was a part-time job and my background is
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journalism the writing has been incredibly helpful so maybe if I had to
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do it again I would have uh pursued more of an archive sure sure yeah um but the
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journalism has served really well okay so um that's work the my interests it
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all came together here and how long you been there for seven years okay seven and a half and you didn't start as the
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head obviously you know of that organization or did you I did you did yes John HW died about one week after I
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got the job okay so he and I were able to have one conversation where he just
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cheered me on and said you can do it and however you do it will be great okay so tell what does a typical day look like
Daily Operations at the Historical Society
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for you then with that job I mean is it full-time is it parttime how much typical day for you it so it's part-time
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although I let it be full-time basically spend a little more time but we're just open Tuesday through Thursday from noon
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to 5:00 p.m. okay and we are in the Old State bake of Lehigh building which is at 99 West Maine okay so we're in the
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back part of the building The Literacy Center is in the front part of the building so we we spend our days uh
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archiving what's there organizing it into collections getting it into our computer system uh scanning photos
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we have right now we have five service missionaries and we've had service missionaries for about a year and a half
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that our work there has just taken off because we figured out how to make it's
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like 14 steps to get something archived but we figured out how to give each
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person one or two steps and so together we are we're just we're getting things
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everything in the computer system because in 2017 when I came in uh there
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wasn't really a way to search anything on the computer okay and so you say you're open from certain times and stuff
Public Engagement and Services
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like that is that open to the public yes okay and so so let's say hey I'm interested in lehi's history or you know
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helping so what does somebody do I mean is it kind of like family search that family search center is that similar to that kind of thing yeah we're like a
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library SL office and um yeah people come in all the time you know sometimes
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people want to see a picture of their birth mother or they want to know if we
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have a photo of their house so because they want to restore the roof line okay um and so on that particular one it was
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quite fortunate we did have an old photo of their home so we could show them how the the roof line used to look um we've
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had private investigators come in trying to figure out if there was a gasoline tank on this property you know trying to
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figure out what needs to be cleaned up and then people come in all the time working on family history either to
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bring us stuff or to find stuff so um yeah it's we we make people happy every
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day with what we've got I like that making happy making people happy every day so yeah it's a really nice place to
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work because there that's what we're doing is making people happy and so so if I was to compare it to the family
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search center there in Lehi and your guys's place what tell me similarities and differences between the two well I
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think if you went to family search they would put you on the computer and they would want to show you how to get in and they would want to show you your line
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yeah um people when they come here they say my grandfather was John deie do you
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have anything on John deie okay and we probably have 7,000 files on people okay
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so just anything that we've collected on people that have lived in Lehi so if
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your family was one of the families that you know between 1850 and 1950 we likely
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have yeah some information um we usually can pull something when people come in
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and they say my ancestors stayed for a year yeah those are the files we have a hard time pulling but everybody else
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there there's a file sure wow and then there are also files on the places they worked sure and um you know pictures of
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Main Street and you know so that if you want to feel for where your your family
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member lived um then and and where they worked we can usually pull photos of
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those kinds of things too and are a lot of these things then only locally so like I can't go to the Internet and look
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for those things or can I I mean for some or do I need to go in person to that well so because of our Online
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Library every day there's more accessible in our Online Library okay so
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I would totally suggest checking the online library because you may not if your person's file has been done or uh
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their place of work has been done you you may find a pile of photos and
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documents and stuff that would be interesting there's way more in the building that isn't in the system is in
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the system but we just did a grant report it was like 5,000 new items total
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had been added to the system in the last year so you're you're constantly adding things to the online so people can look
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online but you're saying but you're like 23s are still not online yes yeah
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because uh we've only had the computer system since 2020 oh wow okay very new
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yes but you can find The Online Library at Lehi history.org that's our website
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and then if you click on the online library which is right there at the top
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um it'll take you to our system and you can either search by collections or you
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there's just a search bar and you can just type in whatever it is you're looking for okay that's pretty cool and
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you said you also so the so the church is helping you a little bit with service missionaries and stuff like that then
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too I gu so they're they're kind of a part of that also and that's kind of a sweet story we had a young man that uh
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he volunteered his Junior and Senior year and then he is serving a senior a
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service Mission his parents asked if we could be one of the places he serves and
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um with him serving his Junior and senior year just as a
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volunteer uh it was really helpful to figure out how to um use someone that
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would come in a lot and learn how to do it anyway um so once we got approved
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with him then um we usually always have about five or six service missionaries
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okay so that's great yeah it's it's wonderful and they are doing work that
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is super meaningful and um uh you know it's not for everybody we're quiet like
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a library um but for those that that that's their personality yeah it's it's
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a wonderful place to to serve and I'm we are so thankful for the work they do and
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um and then we also have our own volunteers the Historical Society members that come in um so we have a
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daytime crew and a nighttime crew I'd like to participate there if somebody was interested in doing a service
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Mission there is that something they can request and part two to that question would be um what does that typical day
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look like for that type of missionary so yeah you would just need to tell your person that helps you pick your mission
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that the Historical Society interests you okay um so most choose to serve the
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full five hours that were open that day okay and um like one he just scans all
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day that's what he'd like to do we have another that uploads the photos all day
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uh we have another one that just enjoys um writing the captions so he's just going through the photos and writing the
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captions for them um we have another service missionary who uh he does all
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the advertising for our historical marker program okay so and I'm super
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thankful for him CU that's a huge load off to have that done yeah uh so
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everybody uh and we have another one that likes to organize so she's been helping organize collections so you can
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put a pile of stuff in front of her and say figure out how to break that down so
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that um it's easy to search for for what you're looking for well I like that it sounds like a a good place for people to
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serve I didn't realize how much it overlaps with I guess family history and different things like that too which makes sense I mean because you know Lehi
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is made up of families you know people individuals yes right but it sounds like there's a lot of uh things going on
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there with that well let me go I I had some questions here for you so um so what is one his hisorical moment or
Historical Stories that Resonate
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story about Lehi that personally resonates with you and why is there one that stands out to you a story that you like uh yes um it was regarding George
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goats and we just recently put in a historical marker at his farm in um
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October of um 1918 during the flu epidemic okay um he had five family
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members die in four family members four family members die in one week um his
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son was in Ogden working and his son called him and said you know one of my
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children has passed away will you please come get her yeah and bring her back uh
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because he wanted her buried here yeah and um but so George went and got her so
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there are multiple stories on how it went but anyway George it's possible he made as many as three trips to Ogden wow
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and one of those was to pick up his son he brought back four family members um
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and The Story Goes that he he built the coffins he even helped with the burial
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clothes and he did all of that and at the end of the week um he said to his
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son still living at home we've got to go out into the sugar be field and see what
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we can salvage it was Harvest Time and um it was extra cold that winter so the
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ground would have been really hard as they took their wagon out to the field
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there were all these wagons of sugar beets coming back and everyone was saying tough luck George sure sorry
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George the guy in the last wagon said that's all of them George George turned
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to his son and said I sure wish those were our sugar beats yeah and when they got to the field they discovered they
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were um their sugar beats and one of the accounts says that's the first time that
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George cried H week and that he fell to the ground and said thank God for the
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elders cor the men in the area um who had brought in his sugar beets I love
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that story because isn't that what we want Lehi to be yeah and that that is
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the spirit that I think made Lehi the place we all wanted to live and that
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people used to really come together and support each other and wouldn't that be
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wonderful if we could continue to carry on that spirit so we put a historical
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marker there in October and that is probably the one I was most excited about um yeah it's a great story
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I I think it's a wonderful story and Elder Christopherson of the Church of Jesus Christ L Day Saints told that
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story in general conference say I thought I remember hearing that story actually so if you want a good telling
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of it look him up Elder Christopher's in Sugar beats and George goats and you'll get it so he's a Lehi that all happened
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here in Lehi yes that all happened right here in Lehi and it sounds like George
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goats was just a lovely human being and obviously had a lot of good neighbors
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and friends I mean that are nameless we don't know who they were but very good people that helped him during that time
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right so yes that's awesome yeah that's super cool so that's a good one there's
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another one too about William Hadfield he was the postal delivery man okay for
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like 20 years he took his wagon through one half a Lehi in an eight and then the
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other half you know the other half of the the figure eight and um one year a
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package came on Christmas Eve and he just felt really strongly that he should
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get that package to the family yeah and so after dark he drove up with a package
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for this family and as it turned out the family had a son who had taken off and
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the mom and dad really didn't know where the son was they were also getting ready to have an incredibly difficult
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Christmas they were very poor and so not much was getting ready to happen this son had sent items for his siblings um
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so it was a Christmas miracle because the children got Christmas and Mom and Dad got to know where their son was once
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again I love that one um because people were working together to make life
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easier and people here really loved each other yeah so I love that so I think
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that's another good one too which you know it uh things were smaller then right you know and but and so so
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actually that you know like that's actually one of my questions here is you know Lehi has grown a lot right I mean we're kind of a bigger you know I don't
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know if we're a big city but we're bigger city right um and so you know how do you think understanding this history
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and how do you think applying like how we how do we still do those things how do we have those kind of stories and do
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we have those stories I guess now but you know with with us being bigger now you know than we used to be before I
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guess I don't know well um so I don't know if you know but we started the Lehi
Lehi Historical Marker Program
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historical marker program in 2022 we got a grant to do that and generous funding
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from the John David and Dan Hadfield of Hadco construction okay um we have put up six large historical markers this
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year okay and ones at the George goats farm and at Lehigh roller mills wines
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Park uh but I saw those signs in Pennsylvania in 2022 as we were uh
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touring Philadelphia and they're like 10t tall and you get about three sentences and as we were seeing these
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all over Philadelphia I was like oh my goodness Lehi needs these because
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there's so many cool things about Lehi yeah and no I'm sure most people don't
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know no yeah so through this grant we are installing 36 large historical
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markers that is one of the ways we are trying to share lehi's history and to um
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yeah so make it so everybody knows um knows some of these cool stories and I
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believe that soon it will be fun to drive around and read all the signs
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because they're just like three or four sentences and to a large degree that's that's about as much as you want but we
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did win a grant this year to put a QR code on each one so the QR code will
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take you a pictures and and more information so that's a great idea so how many are in total you 36 and is this
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something you'll have a list of that people can you know this could be a fun youth activity or you know drive around
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and hit all these places you know like know scavenger hunt I guess you know kind of thing right so yes they will be
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available well they are available on our website okay but I also hope uh in the
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next couple of years we have three more years to get all the rest of the signs in I hope that we will make a brochure
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that can go in the hotels and stuff uh that will just show you where all the
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markers are so that you can um just take a drive and and go see all the historic
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places and why do you think that's important you know a lot of us that have moved to Lehi probably didn't grow up
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here right I mean lehi's grown a lot so I would assume a very large portion people have no historical ties to Lehi
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but why is that why do you think that's important for them to have some of that um I really think if you understand the
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history if you understand how people have behaved before it can inspire you
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to um to behave similarly I I totally read about people and when I well one
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time I had an instance where I wanted to have road rage and I had
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historical person that I had read about and I thought she would not do that it
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totally backed me up she inspired me and and that for me and maybe that's because
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I like history but I'm totally inspired by the way other people behaved and and
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it makes me think well she could do it I could do it yeah I I think there's a lot of Truth to that I guess you know that's
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I think why we study American history too and stuff like that we learn about the founding fathers and what they did and and you know there's been a lot of
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things sometimes to tear them down or hey they weren't perfect they did this or that and ultimately sure no one was perfect but look what they still did
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right look at the amazing things they did and I think that's where you focus and sure you can focus on the
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imperfections they did but if if you do that I would say do it in the sense of just applying it to yourself and realize
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okay if they were imperfect then I'm imperfect and can I do these similar things right can I do great things and
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uh so I I agree with you and I actually really have a fond place in my heart for history and and especially family
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history because that's your own history but I like hey let's adopt lehi's history as ours you know we live here
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and I don't know I like a lot of what you just said I think there's a lot of Truth to I think that's one of the reasons we're supposed to study history
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is cu because again you just look at good people and you say okay hey if they did it I can do it and sure they were
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imperfect so I agree with you it's possible it can be done she did it yeah yes no I like that well and I think too
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with um a lot of the disrespect for property and stuff that goes on I think
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if people understood their better ways to behave and and another thing I just
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love that as you study people's lives that by being a normal and just trying
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to live your best life um in the end it's quite impressive yeah um we for
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Lehi Heritage day we honor couples and individuals who um are making history
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today in Lehi and most most of them are older and if you just look at their
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lives you know they were just taking opportunities to serve in the PTA and
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taking opportunities to help at the rodeo and then you get to the end of
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their life and it turns out for 50 years they helped at the rodeo yeah you know so it it it also reminds you to just
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just take the opportunities to be to be helpful and in the end it's
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it it turns out to be quite impressive so you're saying small things grow into big things is that what you're saying I
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I think you're exactly right I and I think uh you know um my mom recently died a couple years ago and I've been
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telling my dad hey you you need to like help me compile her history and and your history cuz like you're not going to be
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around much longer and stuff like that and and I would hate to have you live in the information age and have very little information on you and so but but his
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comment sometimes is well I'm you know I'm pretty normal like I'm not like like I don't have anything to there's nothing
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extraordinary about my life and and on the one hand I would agree sure he's a normal guy but I would argue what you
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just said like that's what makes up a community and that's what makes up all these good like I think we're more
The Value of Documenting Every Life
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impressive than we think sometimes and and obviously not in a arrogant or boastful way but we are better than we
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think which is why I think every life should be documented every life should be cuz there's a lot of goodness in each
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life right I mean a lot of people I don't know if I'm getting my point across but I don't know those are my thoughts on it well with Lehi Heritage
Lehi Heritage Day: Celebrating Ordinary Lives
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day that's what most of them say when they find out they've been chosen they're like there's nothing special about me that is the beauty of it you
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just led a good life and it's really fun to look back and see so many of them
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were instrumental in getting little league started or getting the volleyball program started all these things that we
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enjoy somebody started them yes a long time a go the Halloween parade on on
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Main Street somebody started that you know all of it and um once again they
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all feel like they were just living their lives which they they were but now
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it's really cool to look back and see where our Traditions come from and um I
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like that all that uh we so for the rodeo you know they every people are
Building Community Through Traditions
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always invited to come make the hamburgers yeah and um that totally
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stemmed from uh just trying to help build community if you get people in the
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same place serving together you you make friends and that that tradition totally
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dates back to just that that's why they continue it that way got is um it's a
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way to build community so when you get asked to make a hamburger for a night hamburgers for a night at the rodeo you
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really ought to you ought to you ought to say yes sure sure I like it okay it's a deep tradition steep tradition here
Unique Artifacts and Stories of Lehi
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whether there any unique artifacts or uh you know any any other kind of things that are unique to Lehi as far as I mean
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you mentioned some stories and stuff like that any I mean that you know um um well we recently had somebody donate a a
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rocking chair that was made from the wood of a hand cart oh wow so that was kind of cool yeah um every so there were
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five Wards in Lehigh for a long time just five yeah and every kind of
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neighborhood had their own store okay and um in the fourth ward their store
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was literally called the fourth W store very unique I very creative so we have their cash registers we have all kinds
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of interesting little things that people have saved we usually get things when
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someone has passed away in the family doesn't know what to do with the stuff or we have people come in and they say
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my children will throw us away so they give us the stuff before they pass away
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do you have like a little Museum or way to display some of those things there yeah so we have a fairly good-sized area
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in our building so um yes we we have things displayed now we're not nearly as
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big as the museum but but if somebody comes they would also be able to see some of those things that we just absolutely yes yes that stuff is on
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display and you guys recently rebranded right tell me what motivated those changes and where did that come from as
Rebranding the Lehi Historical Society
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far as things go well our official name is the Lehi Historical Society in archives and when you say that to
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someone you can see their eyes glaze over fair enough so we shortened it uh at least for Branding to the Lehi
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Historical Society okay and so we worked with Brooks advertising to create a new logo and it looks a little bit if you
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look at it closely it could it's a book that's open but it also looks like some
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of the stained glass windows here in Lehigh the old forthward building had a
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beautiful stained glass window and that is still in the building at that location that stained glass anyway you
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can kind of see the shape of a window in it too and you can also see a wagon wheel so but we are a window into lehi's
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past yes yes you are and we are also trying to keep up with what's going on
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now yeah we're we're always building files so still maintaining the history
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you're saying you're still doing things currently like as far as what's actually happened and stuff like that and who
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where does that information come from well it's largely just whatever our members collect um so like Michelle
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Stallings from the city uh she's a Lia is on between the city and us and she's
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working on all the stuff uh regarding the school district split she was like
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there should be this should be documented sure yeah so a lot of it has to do with what members think is
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interesting and they're just naturally collecting because they enjoy it um
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right now there's not a huge effort to track every business because it's a lot now there's a lot of business yeah
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bigger bigger city and it was unfortunate when now scouting isn't such
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a big deal because we used to have Scouts come in and need an Eagle project yes and for years we've sent Scouts
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around to take pictures of different areas okay so then different areas are documented but since there's not a push
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for scouting we don't have youth come in and offer to do some of those well let's
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talk about that for a second then so what if somebody wanted to serve you know so obviously we're a community
Opportunities for Community Service
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we're trying to you know what could they do for maybe a youth group activity night or something like that or or some
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kind of service project what what opportunities are there for that kind of activity um well the biggest thing would
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be we would love to to give you a section of Road and have you take pictures of that area um yes so that
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there we just have documentation on what it looked like CU even to look at photos
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three years ago is fun yeah it's really quickly it's fun to look back at photos
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so that would be a really great one especially nobody has done the Traverse
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Mountain Area stuff um so that would be a really fun um
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documentation uh if you were a small group we have files that just need um
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all the file information taped on the file um there are things like that that could be done but big groupwise uh the
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taking the photographs is what comes to my mind okay very first okay there's no scouting with the Church of Jesus Christ
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Latter Day Saints anymore but like you still have activities where they're trying to do service just maybe not as
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comprehensive as an Eagle project would be you know time consuming you know those typically were a little more in depth you're talking probably at most a
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night of an hour right so um but there is act there is options for them I guess
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then and they would just get in touch with with you directly or who should they contact if they're interested in that kind of stuff um so just the Lehi
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Historical Society you can call or email okay thei history gmail.com okay perfect
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and then you'd be able to direct them and help them and give them some ideas for activities and stuff okay yes yes
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and it and it could be as simple as hey let's go take some pictures yeah yes I mean that's what you need yes absolutely
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and it could even be their neighborhood sure any of that would be great good um so obviously you're trying to make more
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of this stuff accessible you mentioned that you're scanning things in and stuff like that is that something a youth group could do too is go in and help
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scan one day too or is that more you have to be a little more uh trained I guess for that well the problem is is we
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just have one um one scanner one scanner okay okay so um yeah and we are limited
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by the number of computers okay that we have um we're we're pretty uh computer
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based so it's harder for me to put you to to work okay if um if you can't do
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the computer okay makes sense okay so I'm just trying to think of how people can you know because I know a lot of
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people have desires to serve and and they want to do something meaningful you know like you know and typically you
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know we don't have time to start our own organization of so it's like hey let's piggyback yours right that's already
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happening it's oh absolutely if if an individual wants to come
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volunteer we will totally show you the three steps on the computer you know
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that what your job would do so if if you're terrified of the computer it's
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going to be hard for me to give you something to do but if you're okay with the computer we can totally find you
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something to do okay yes okay so no good um so so you know maybe this actually
Challenges Facing the Historical Society
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leads into that question but you what are some of the challenges you you're facing right now with the society you know and maybe one of them's not having
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enough scanners I don't know but like what are some challenges that you have that you're running into um we don't
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always have enough computers okay so um yes we need we need more computers um
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more space would also be nice to display more is that something that somebody can
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donate and stuff like that as far as uh yes I'm technical support So Mac is
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better than PC for me but um yes I mean the computers that we have we've won
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through grants right now probably our biggest deal would be um time and
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computers and do you have so if you if you got let's say you some a bunch of computers you know if people listening
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you're like hey I have an old Mac I can I can donate to you guys or something like that is there is there a space to to use those there to you know um yes we
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yes we have a a big open room where people are working so we can always just
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put more desks okay in there so okay yes yes uh any other challenges you're
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facing um well we just got a second employee so that's been absolutely wonderful that more employees we would
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we would love that we would move along faster so and on that not who funds the
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who funds your is it is this a government run or so we are a nonprofit but the city gives us a grant
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every year so Lehi Heritage days is one of the society's Flagship events right you know kind of what can you tell us
Lehi Heritage Days: Honoring the Past and Present
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about its Origins and and how is it continually impacting the community right now John H started it and I think
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the goal was to um Teach an area of History so there's a theme every year
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but it's also to honor those who are making history today and by honoring
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those people it also gives us an opportunity to collect information on them so it's a huge way to collect
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information on our his historical and current you know things
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are currently happening so uh yeah it's every year on Labor Day the Lehi has had
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parades since the very beginning since we were in a fort so uh we put the
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honores in a parade and um and then we honor them and have a meet and greet
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where people can meet and greet them and then um while that's going on then we also have our historical uh area in the
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north gym um and this last year we did quilts and cowboys so uh so we got to
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see quilts that have been made in leehi throughout the years and also histories
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of the Cowboys in the area so every year there's a different there's a different theme um
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2023 was the Roaring 20s okay we've done the Industrial Age we did when we it was
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the Lehigh City Fort and so we it was about living inside that Fort and who was in the fort yeah and we are one of
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the only cities left in Utah that is still laid out according to the Fort
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really yes so the fort ran the fort wall ran on Center Street to third South to
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um fourth West to First North so that
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anyway we're still just totally laid out like that interesting yeah and there are markers on all those Corners good good
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so good when are when are those other markers going to be finished um so the markers from the Le from the historical
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marker program yeah uh 10 more will go in next year okay and then 10 and 10
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that's the plan gotta so over the next three years we'll have it all okay awesome okay and I would assume we can
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get grants for more if we want more after that um okay yeah but that is the
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the funding right now is is for 36 okay looking to the Future what uh you know
Future Plans and Community Engagement
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what things do you have on the horizon for Lehi Historical Society what what things are coming anything anything cool
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coming our way um oh we just uh we have made a cutting board that has U it's a
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map of Lehi so it's got the Hutchings Museum on it it's got the hang gliders at the point of the mountain and
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Cabellas Lehi Roller Mills so that that we're selling that for Christmas okay great awesome that's cool that that's
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kind of fun people tend to be excited about oh yeah what we offer for Christmas yeah yeah so that's our big
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Christmas thing and then we will have 10 unveilings next year beginning with uh
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Broadbent store so that will go in front of the police station okay okay so um we'll put one at the Jordan River Bridge
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Okay and one at the Cutler Mansion which is the big pink house by the what used to be Hearts now it's something else
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yeah so um anyway that sounds like really cool that's why I'm just thinking a youth activity would be fun all right
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let's go like a scavenger hunt you know start doing you know take five of them or something like that and maybe that's something they could do over the next
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couple years you know do 10 out a time or something like that I guess right just thinking out loud with you here
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sure no that's great but uh well if you could leave one lasting message about
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this society and the work you're doing and stuff like that what would that be something that has helped you with Lehi
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and you know as you've worked you know you've been doing this for a little while now and stuff like that something that's stood out to you well I just
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think there's a a lot to be proud of living in Lehi yeah I think we come from
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really nice Roots here and um you know we're growing like crazy we're going to
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be like Salt Lake before you know it yeah and um I just I think it's really
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important that we maintain our history and that we work really hard to share it
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I just everything in me says it will be beneficial um to to us uh I I would
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agree with you and I think you know going back to your comment about history and people and stuff like that I think you know maybe that is the answer if if
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we're trying to so as we get bigger the the problem with getting bigger is we're
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nameless it's the same thing you know with corporations or different you know it's like ah you know you you mentioned
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graffiti and you know just doing to property it's because oh you know it's that's the man or that's the government
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or that's you know somebody else right but I think if we realize that Lehi is
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still small then you know there's a little more accountability cuz like I don't want to do that cuz that's Joe's property or
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that's you know somebody's you know I don't it's a little more personal right yes and so I think uh maybe that's one
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of the things that I think your your organization really is important for is because it's helping us to still
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maintain that Community even if we are growing maybe yes so I think you're
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totally right well which is obviously means you're doing a good work so it's it's you know you're doing a good work
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because I think I think it's very important and I think it it helps with maintaining that Community I I think the historical markers is a great idea I
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again I didn't grow up here and so a lot of those places don't have as much meaning to me and I'd like them to have
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meaning to me all my kids have grown up here right so this is their home and it's my home too but I'm just saying I
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didn't have my childhood here I guess right you have a totally different appreciation um once you understand what
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has has happened here and you have a connection yeah I think how fun would it be if these big markers were in Salt
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Lake you could read about all the different things that happened there yeah I think people are as they discover that
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we've got them will really enjoy them and and in our um unveilings each
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unveiling is unique to that location y so uh anyway our last one we had over a
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hundred people attend that unveiling so I think it is catching on and it's fun
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to like the last one was at the train Deo and the family that their
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grandfather was the station Master there okay they told stories and um it was
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just totally it was totally fun and and now you have a little more appreciation
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for that building and what happened there and yeah I like that again try
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we're trying to make Lehi smaller right I mean that's that actually the purpose of this podcast and obviously the I'd
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say one of the side purposes of your organization I guess is is trying to build that Community still right so okay
Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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well Laura thanks for you know spending some time with us is there anything we didn't cover that you wanted to cover one of the markers that we're going to
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do next year is to Mark the flood of 1983 okay and that's when um there was
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Major runoff and Lehi really had to come together to fight that flood and um just
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talking about Community um and historical markers don't have to be from 1850 I'm excited that we'll have one
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from 1983 telling about how how the community came together came together
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then to fight the water anyway love it excellent Community good yes it is I
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agree well thank you thanks for coming on thanks for having me yeah thank you for joining us on roots and branches of
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Lehi I hope today's story helped you feel a little more connected to the people who make up our community
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remember every person here has a unique story and together we're what makes Lehi feel like home if you know someone who
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