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Show Page Eight - The Springville Herald - January 17, 1996 DUP has negatives for their pictures HI HQ! The Daughters of Utah Pioneers Pio-neers Museum has negatives for every picture in the DUP Museum. Muse-um. Anyone wishing to purchase a picture can now do so by either calling Jerrie S. Fackrell, 489-7525, 489-7525, or coming into the museum Tuesdays or Saturdays 2 to 5 p.m. or Wednesdays 1 to 5 p.m. Another project the Daughters of Utah Pioneers are working on to make the museum more enjoyable enjoy-able is to obtain name plates for each of the pictures. These name plates are expensive, some of the money was raised during the Art City Days Bake Sale last year. The daughters also have homemade home-made items for sale at the museum muse-um to earn money for the name plates and to pay for other projects pro-jects that will make the museum even more accessible. Remember they have filed information on every picture, history and artifact or information found in the scrapbooks. This information can be located by looking in their filing cabinets under the last or maiden names. They are also attempting to gather the names of everyone who lived in Springville or Map-leton Map-leton prior to 1900, and then they will attempt to get a history, picture and a family group sheet of each of these people, which makes the Springville DUP Museum Mu-seum a great source for obtaining genealogy information for these people. Anyone with histories or pictures of those who lived in Springville or Mapleton prior to 1900 are encouraged to bring .a copy into the museum. There is a list of the histories and pictures now in the museum and a growing grow-ing list of those living in Springville Spring-ville or Mapleton prior to 1900. These lists can be found on the display cabinet just as you walk into the museum in a three-ring binder. Historical Society lecture series to start January 24 The public is once again invited to the 1996 lecture series sponsored by the Springville Historical Society. The first meeting will be held on Wednesday, Wednes-day, January 24, at the Springville Spring-ville Civic Center, 50 S. Main at 7 p.m. all lectures are free of charge. Each year the Historical Society Soci-ety sponsors a series of five lectures beginning in January and running through May. Those giving the lectures are experts in their field and provide a wealth of knowledge and expertise on various subject s relating to the history of the area and especially as it relates to Springville. Leading off this year's series will be a lecture on photo collec tion and preservation. Springville has been blessed with several of the finest pioneer photographers and many of these fine photos are owned by our citizens, which if not taken care or preserved, will be lost to alter generations. To conduct this lecture, we have one of the foremost authorities on this subject. Dr. Thomas R. Wells, photo archivist of the Harold B. Lee Library at the Brigham Young University. The Lee Library is the depository of the glass plates of the very famous Springville Photographer George E. Anderson's collection. Everyone is invited to this interesting and informative meeting. km Library Corner by Stacey Strong It has been a busy new year at the Springville Public Library. We have been busy with moving some things at die library to accommodate all the items we have in the collection. Thank you for helping us to keep our books on the right counter-next to the doorway to check in and at our new counter in the middle to check out. This helps us to avoid lots of confusiou. Many thanks to Morrell Dean and Adam Johnson for our remodeling re-modeling project. Thanks also to the electrical department and Floors 'N' Things. We appreciate their help in making the library run more efficientlyand we look great, too! If you or your group needs to know more about the library and what is available, please contact the library to arrange for a tour. We can give you the short version ver-sion or the long version, depending depend-ing on your needs. Tours can be scheduled any time that the library li-brary is open. There will be another book order to TrollCarnivalGolden Books sent out on January 20. You can come to the library to pick up order forms. There is a new story kit on the block. This one is entided "Bubbles, Balloons, Buttons and Holes." Story kits are great for pre-school-aged children. Each kit checks out for two days. Plans for the new library extension are being prepared to be sent out to bid and construction construc-tion should begin soon. We appreciate ap-preciate your being patient with our moving. Open house to honor workers at Family History Center V , i - r "! n I Paul and Catherine Boman will be honored at an open house at the Springville Multi-Stake Family History Center, 415 S. 200 East, Friday, January 19. The Bomans have served as directors of the center for the past three years. John Jensen, former Technical Services Coordinator, and Cheryl Huff, former Patron Service Coordinator, will also be honored. hon-ored. All Family History Center staff, patrons and friends may call between 7 and 9 p.m. Family History Center staff members will be on hand to conduct brief tours on answer questions about the center or family history. James and Oneita Sumsion have been called as new directors with James "Ted" Poulton. Technical Tech-nical Services Coordinator, and Helona Fischer, Patron Services Coordinator. Carl Johnson will continue in his position as Training Train-ing Coordinator. Classes on computerizing and working with your own family records are taught each Sunday at 7 p.m. at the center and are available to the public without charge. Information about scheduled sched-uled subjects is available at the center. The center is open Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 9 p.m. and Sunday, 5 to 9 p.m. The center is closed Saturdays, Mondays, Mon-days, calendar holidays and each Sunday prior to a Monday holiday. Robert E. Winfield Jr. recently enlisted in the 116th Engineer Company (CSE), Utah Army National Guard, in Spanish Fork. He will be trained as a heavy equipment operator in the second platoon. Robert was raised and attended school in California. He enlisted in the United States Air Force in June, 1982 and was trained as a marksmanship instructor. He left the Air Force after nine years of service. He now lives in Springville with his wife and two children and is employed by Volt temporary services in Provo. 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Humanities Council donates anthology to local library With a Eurailpass, the freedom to roam anywhere by train opens up a vast new realm of sightseeing. Dozens of Eurailpass options are available, but they can only be bought in the United States. It is a good bargain to incorporate in your European travel plans. "Expect the World of Us" A Travel Towne 489-3444 224 S. Main, Springville At a brief ceremony January 11. Elaine Englehardt Chair of the Utah Humanities Council's Board of Directors presented a copy of the first-ever anthology of Utah literature, "Great & Peculiar Beauty" to the Springville Spring-ville Public Library. The landmark land-mark book was be presented to Lynette Catherall as a gift from the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Statehood Centennial Commission. . The Utah Humanities Council (UHC) commissioned the literary anthology nearly five years ago as a project to commemorate the state's centennial. UHC Board Chair Englehardt notes, "We knew that many groups would be celebrating the statehood centennial centen-nial with parties and events, but we wanted to add meaningfully to the state's humanities treasures. I think this anthology, is arnple evidence of a literary legacy that Utahns should enjoy and be proud of." "Great and Peculiar Beauty," edited by nationally-celebrated authors Terry Tempest Williams and Thomas Lyon, offers readers a massive collection of literary pieces that reflects the spirit of the people of the state and shows . how the people of the state shows how they have been affected by the land and culture. The book features more than 100 works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journals jour-nals and Native American stories from authors as notable as Wallace Wal-lace Stegner, Eliza R. Snow, Maurine Whipple, Edward Abbey and May Swenson. Diverse selections selec-tions include the journals of trappers and explorers as well as the recollections of Japanese Americans interned in WWII relocation camps. As a whole, the 1 ,000-page work spans Utah's finest literature from pre-White settlement of the state to contemporary contem-porary poetry. In order to make the anthology antholo-gy fully accessible, the Utah Humanities Council is donating a copy of "Great and Peculiar Beauty" to each of Utah's public libraries, totalling 100. Delmont Oswald, UHC's Executive Director Direc-tor says, "Every project of the Utah Humanities Council is free and open to the general publicum public-um one is no different." The project is underwritten in part by a grant from the Utah Statehood Centennial Commission. To further augment the publication publi-cation of the book, UHC is offering offer-ing a companion speakers bureau of noted Utah writers and scholars. schol-ars. Groups or nonprofit organizations organi-zations interested in hosting free literary and historical discussions should call 359-9670 for a "Great Peculiar Beauty" brochure. The Utah Humanities Council, now celebrating its 20 Anniversary, is an independent nonprofit agency serving as Utah's affiliate to the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first edition of Shakespeare's Shakes-peare's collected plays is called the First Folio. The slot machine was invented by Charles Fey of San Francisco in 1895. Vista Landscape 475 North State Lindon, Utah 84042 A Professional Company With A Proven Track Record Here is a small sample of the projects we have been involved in through complete landscaping or sprinkler systems: Mount Timpanogos Temple Murdock International City Creek Park, S.L.C. Block 57 Park, S.L.C. Gateway (entry to S.LC. Airport) Incredible Universe LD.S. 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