Bruce U. Utah Phillips

May 15, 1935 - May 23, 2008

In memory - A man of great conscience, humor and depth of character, a fellow worker forever. Utah will be missed, but his stories and his message remembered.

"The stories I tell don't just come out of my own life. many of them come to me from my elders. I strained to hear them through the roar of my own ego, my own needs and desires. but when I became quiet and open to the thoughts and feelings of my elders, I learned that my life-story deepens, grows richer, by taking in the stories of those who have led extraordinary lives, lives that can never be lived again. except in memory - through mine, through yours - as the fragments of our story - lives mix and blend into a common whole, the great river of our collective memory of which we are all a part and into which each one of us will, some day, dissolve."

- U. Utah Phillips, "The Golden Voice of the Great Southwest"

Info about Utah:

Duncan's blog

Videos

Podcasts

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