Diversity
Current Challenges and Developments in a Post-Industrial Neighborhood: Part Two
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirty-Fourby Brad Westwood The Pioneer Park neighborhood has always been a contested space. Initially, the area was owned by Native Americans until Mormon (members...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Growing Up Latinx in Utah: A Conversation with Lee Martinez and Maria Garciaz
Date: February 6, 2023 (Season 5, Episode 9: 40 minutes long). Click here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. Are you interested in other episodes of...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
African Americans and Salt Lake City’s West Side: Part Two
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Twenty-fiveBy Brad Westwood and Cassandra Clark The above photo was taken in 1944 by Chinese American newspaper photographer Ray King, from the Salt Lake...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Utah & 1900 US Census with Cartographer Brandon Plewe
Date: March 7, 2022 (Season 4, Episode 7: 59 min. & 28 sec. long). Click Here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above photo is...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
The Legacy of Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Fort
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Sevenby Brad Westwood Above photo caption: Utah’s Hall of Relics, built as a small Parthenon replica. Note above the pediment is a smaller replica...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Returning Home: Diné Poetry, Essays, Art & Journalism from Utah’s Intermountain Indian School (1950-1983, Brigham City)
Date: November 29, 2021 (Season 3, Episode 14: 102 minutes long). Click Here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above illustration is a cropped image...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
“Soul of God” – the Life & Works of Utah Raised Mexican Muralist Pablo O’Higgins – A Conversation with Susan Vogel, Fanny Guadalupe Blauer and Catherine Aviles
Date: February 28, 2022 (Season 4, Episode 5: 73 minutes (1 hr 13 min.). Click here for the BuzzSprout version of this Speak Your Piece episode. The above image is...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Bagley on the Value of History (reissued)
Date: November 4, 2019 (Season 1, Episode 1; 35:31). Click here for the Buzz Sprout version of this episode. The photo montage is courtesy of Will Bagley’s pubisher. Are you...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Salt Lake City’s LGBTQ+ Communities and the Pioneer Park Neighborhood
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirty-Twoby Brad Westwood Although the LGBTQ+ community had many prior informal political and social gathering spots elsewhere in Salt Lake City, a number of...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Introducing Salt Lake West Side Stories
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post OneBy Brad Westwood Welcome to this serialized and illustrated history of Salt Lake City’s old west side. This blog consists of over thirty posts...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Utah’s Expanding Railroads and Salt Lake’s West Side
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Nineby Brad Westwood The completion of the world’s first transcontinental railroad in 1869 dramatically affected the social, political, economic, and cultural life of Salt...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
Continued Transformations: Industrialization and Salt Lake City’s West Side
Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirteenby Brad Westwood Salt Lake’s west side underwent massive and constant changes during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. What began as a...
Last updated: March 4, 2026
