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
Hey, tony, we heard from one tribal source today who put it bluntly. He said theyre keeping all of their Legal Options open. And if they have to go to court, they will have a good case. Theyre not the only ones with the options. Utah, new mexico and colorado, they are keeping their option open too. But those are the longterm issues, and the shortterm issues are all about water, availability and priority. Gina mccarthy continues her trip since the spill in the animas river. She traveled with russell mcbay and other leaders, and said that they have a good working relationship, despite navajo threats to sue over the spill. And you know epa is not unfamiliar with litigation, but none that have tone was in the discussion this morning, and we hope to build a relationship with the new president , and we expend a lot of time talking about next steps. They are full partners right now in terms of being able to sample reporter people who depend on the river for irrigation and livestock have been
Very, very sad. Especially so many things happening today, its very sad. Its a very tragic incident. Prayers to good fd for him and family. Reporte reporter thats the latest live on capitol hill. Wendy and chris, back to you. Thank you, chris. A team of military investigators from alabama is in maryland tonight digging thru the wreckage of that deadly helicopter crash. The crew from the Army Combat Readiness center at fort rucker is trying to figure out why the chopper went down. The black hawk took off from ft. Belvoir yesterday afternoon, crashed across the Potomac River on a golf course in st. Marys county. People who live near the breton bay golf and country club saw the chopper flying low before the crash. We were sitting down on helicopter come by, sitting very low. My brother said, look how low it is. I said, oh, my god, its going sideways. Then it started going backwards and it went down. Reporter three people were on that chopper, their names have not been released. One of the
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