Oral history interview with Barbara J. Hutchins by Janet Cook [Transcript and Audio]

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Title Oral history interview with Barbara J. Hutchins by Janet Cook [Transcript and Audio]
Creator Hutchins, Barbara J.; Cook, Janet E.
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2012-01-16
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-01-24
Spatial Coverage Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5775346/grantsville.html
Subject Big bands; Brothers; Community; Dance floors; Dances; Daughters; Death; Demolition; Fire escapes; Ford's Theatre National Historic Site (Washington, D.C.); Friends; Gaslight (Motion picture : 1944); Gone with the wind (Motion picture : 1939); Grand Opera House; Legacies; Marriage; Mothers; Motion pictures; Music conductors; Parents; Plays; Seminary students; Sheet music; Singing; Social life and customs; Stairs; Theater companies; Theaters--Utah; United States. Navy; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln); Utah State University; World War II; Yankee Doodle (Song); Grantsville High School; Grantsville (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Janet Cook with Barbara J. Hutchins. Topics include: Growing in Grantsville, Attending Utah State University, Marraige, Living in a close-knit community, Her brother's service in the Navy during World War II, Her parents attending plays and Old Folks Sociables at the Opera House, Her Mother's cousin's death after permorming at the Opera House, Friends who used the fire escape, The interior of the builidng, Going to see movies with friends, Attending seminary graduation, Singing with her mother at the Opera House as a young girl, Being given the music for Yankee Doodle Dandy, How the Opera House made her think of Ford's Theater where President Lincoln was shot, Being scared by the movie Gaslight, Watching Gone With the Wind, Attending dances in the basement with her parents as a child, Bands that played at the dances, Dancing at the University of Utah, Learning dances, Her father's belief that the Opera House dance floor was the best in the state, Attending dances with her friends as a teenager, Living in Logan when the Opera House was torn down, Feeling the void of losing the Opera house, Participating in the Grantsville Memorial Theater Group, Leading the music for Fiddler on the Roof and other productions, and friendship made in the theater company.
Collection Number and Name Mss B 1954 The Grand Opera House Oral History Collection, 2011-2012
Abstract No video, just audio
Type Text; Sound
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 14 leaves; 36:21
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 1954 The Grand Opera House Oral History Collection, 2011-2012
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s69vtp3q
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2476719
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69vtp3q
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