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Show Family histories give new clues I - Sift. - v 4 'i i i 1 " - Going beyond politics, wars, and diplomacy, beyond the work of kings, counselors, and philosophers, historians have begun to bury themselves in new material. Taking all aspects of life as important im-portant clues to the character of culture and social change, a dazzling daz-zling diversity of historians are studying a remarkable array of groups: children, women, ethics, working classes, the poor and downtrodden, the family and local community in an effort to recover the past. Studies jn family and -community history are among the richest veins 0f these new efforts at historical mining- The Utah History Fair, Utah Endowment for the Humanities, Utah State University and BYU's pomilv and Community Center are OAKY KU.NZ earned by attending both the lecture and the workshop. For further information, contact Shannon Hoskins, director of the Utah History FAir at 1-750-1090. sponsoring a public lecture series throughout the state of Utah in an effort to introduce the public, students and teachers to the concepts con-cepts of family history. The Provo area lecture will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 1 at the BYU Convention Center, Room 265. Dr. James Faulconer, Professor of Philosophy at BYU, will present a brief interdisciplinary view of the family and community developing the 1983-84 Utah History Fair theme: "The Family andor Community in History." Gary Kunz will speak on the "Roaring Twenties in Provo" as an explicit example of the Utah History Fair's theme for this year. It will be helpful to students and teachers participating in this year's Fair. The lecture will be offered as part II of the Utah History Fair Workshop held in Provo, Sept. 28. Utah State University credit may be |