Other earlier american and even british and other explorers never chose to settle here. This was seen as a difficult place to live. And not a desirable patch of land. That was part of the logic for mormons taking it. Brigham young wanted a place that could be isolated from other american settlers so that they wouldnt run into the same kinds of conflicts that they had experienced in the east. That dream was only partially realized because not only does the gold rush bring some 30,000 nonmormons through utah in the first three years of settlement, maybe five years of settlement. The 20,000 or so native americans here, these stories became as difficult as the ones the mormons had experienced before. Misunderstanding. Cultural alienation. Violent conflict and displacement. Only this time native americans are moved out of their traditional homelands. And so it becomes a difficult story to tell. Human beings have been here for a very long time. Provo, when the first angloamerican settlers ar
Organist is really unique. This ceiling does a remarkable ceils of projecting the soupd no the back of the room. It is like a warm bath when you hear this organ play. When you hai sit on this befrmn huge wall of sound going over me and out into the room. I have been here 23 years now and im still thrilled as much as i was the first time i heard them. One great story has to do with helen keller who was here in the early 19 hundreds and spoke at the pulpit behind where im seated here, if you can call it speaking. We know she was deprived of her eyesight and learned to speak if a very guttural voice. She gave a presentation to a packed house. They asked if there was anything she would like. The organist came and played come come thee saints. They placed her hands on the wood of the case and the person said she just wept as she felt the throbbing of the great instrument and the pipes playing the song the pioneers had played. There is something unique about this choir that comes across to a
It was in 1849 that welch pioneers came to the valley and they sang in harmony and welch. They decided you need to be the nucleus. It started in 1849. They used to sing in the tabernacle. When that was too small they started building this particular building which was in the late 1860s. It was completed at the end of the civil war. The tabernacle here has been the home of the choir ever since. As we had voisitors come one of the things they first noticed is the organ. It is right there and has been accompanying since the organ was put in. It has been around even longer. This is older than the temple itself. The oldest thing inside is this organ case. These gold pipes next to me here have looked down on decades and decades of history. So a lot of history in this organ case and in the building. The soupd of the tabernacle organist is really unique. This ceiling does a remarkable ceils of projecting the soupd no the back of the room. It is like a warm bath when you hear this organ play. W
Mormons taking it. Thought it could be isolated from other mac and settlers so they wouldnt run other american settlers so they wouldnt run into the ideas of the east. Only does the gold rush bring 30,000 nonmormons through utah in the first three years of settlement, first five years of settlement, but 20,000 or so , theseamericans here stories became as difficult as the ones the mormons had experienced before. Misunderstanding, cultural alienation, violent conflict. Case, native americans are pushed out of their historical homeland. It becomes a difficult story to tell. Human beings have been here for a very long time. Provo wins when the first angloamerican settlers arrived with the intent to stay in 1849, there were already lots of people here. Native americans called this area home for hundreds, even thousands of years. The site of the largest concentration of native americans in what is now utah,. N fact the tip and get band of the utes were not far from where we are. They made t
With help from our Comcast Cable partners we will ask for the history of the city. Visit the Brigham Young University Museum of paleontology the hear about how one man changed the way dinosaur skeletal remains are displayed in museums. Mr. Fluhman the metal rods the support of the animal are hidden within the bounds. When you can hide the armature in the steel supports, the animal looks more alive. Later, see artifacts recovered from one of provos early structures in the story they tell about the lives of the towns first settlers. Mr. Scheetz when we look back at how our ancestors lived, the little bits and pieces that we uncovered tell that story. We begin the hour i taking a look at the settlement of provo and how it is changed over the years. Mr. Fluhman provo has a difficult early story. Of the big narrative of mormon settlement of the region is about coming into this place in aching at work even though earlier american and even british and other explorers never chose to settle her