Oral History Program
Address:
225 South 700 East
St. George, UT 84770
Phone:
(435) 652-2087 |
Contact:
Bonnie B. Percival
Special Collections Librarian
Phone: (435) 652-7718
FAX: (435) 656-4169
Email: bpercival@dixie.edu |
Hours:
Monday-Friday
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
(or by appointment between semesters and in summer) |
Under the direction of Delmar D. Gott, former Library Director, the Browning
Library began the Special Collections Oral History Collection. This Collection
covers the contiguous geographic and cultural area of Utah's Dixie, especially
Washington County; Southeastern Nevada (the Big Muddy Region), and the
Arizona Strip.
Major portions of this Collection include interviews from the following
areas:
Voices of Remembrance.
(441 audiotapes) This first oral history project, started in the late
1960s, under the direction of Melvin Blomquist and the Voices of Remembrance
Foundation, focused on recording mainly the spiritual memories of identified
Washington County residents who were sixty years of age and above. Audiotapes
of these interviews were donated to the Browning Library by The Voices
of Remembrance Foundation. The original reel-to-reel tapes are housed
in the Special Collections Library, Sherritt Library, Southern Utah
University. Few of these interviews are transcribed; however, a grant
from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University
was received in 2004-2005 to begin transcription on the untranscribed
audiotapes.
Delmar D. Gott Oral History Collection.
(70 audiotapes) Delmar D. Gott contacted local residents and community
leaders and personally recorded 70 oral interviews between the years
1965-1990. This collection contains interviews with a wide variety of
people discussing their lifestyles (ranching, farming, government, business,
etc.) and the lives of their pioneer ancestors. Transcriptions for these
interviews are available, due to grants from the Utah State Historical
Society and the Utah Humanities Council.
Douglas D. Alder/Karl F. Brooks Oral History Collection.
(80 audiotapes) This collection is a result of local interviews conducted
during research for the Centennial County History Series book A History
of Washington County: From Isolation to Destination. Transcriptions
for these interviews are available, due to grants from the Utah State
Historical Society and the Utah Humanities Council.
Institute for Continued Learning (ICL) Oral History Collection.
(66+ audiotapes) This collection is the result of local history classes
conducted by ICL through the auspices of Dixie State College of Utah
for retirees in the local community. New audiotapes are added periodically
(irregular). Transcriptions for these interviews are available, due
to grants from the Utah State Historical Society.
Dixie State College of Utah Archives.
(11 audiotapes) This collection is not growing at the present time.
It consists of commencements, convocations, and miscellaneous College
functions. Transcriptions for these interviews are available, due to
grants from the Utah State Historical Society.
Santa Clara-Virgin River Flood, Washington County, Utah, 2005.
(100 audiotapes) This collection consists of audiotapes and other ephemera
collected by local community members to record personal memories of
this event. The audiotapes were used in the compilation of the book
Portraits of Loss, Stories of Hope created as a fund-raiser for
victims of the 2005 floods. A grant from the Utah State Historical Society
and Utah Humanities Council is assisting with the organizing, reformatting,
and preserving of this collection.
Revised 8/10/2005
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