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Best Of Access Utah With One Of Our Favorite Folklorists Lynne McNeill On Tuesday's Access Utah

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It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is folklorist and USU Assistant Professor of English Lynne McNeill. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some great episodes of the program. We’ll hear from Eric Nuzum, former Vice President of Programming at NPR and author of “Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, A Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted.” We’ll also hear part of my conversation with National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen about global warming and rapid changes in the Arctic. And Lee Austin will introduce us to the soundscape of Zion National Park. We’ll invite you to pledge your support to UPR to ensure that Access Utah continues strong.

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.