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Hello Friends, Community Classroom is one of our favorite service activities that we do throughout the year. Our generous Utah Daughters donate to school food pantries throughout the state to assist children and their families. Leading the way is the Salt Lake Valley Chapter’s donation of over 500 pounds of food and school supplies to the…

Hello Friends, My eyes are filled with tears as I am so happy and very proud of The Utah State Society Daughters of the American Revolution for their creative piano pin fundraiser organized by the Uintah Chapter to purchase a Traditional/Digitized Piano for our once homeless Veterans who now reside at the Valor House in…

Hello Friends, The Escalante Marker is located at 10 South Main Street in Spanish Fork, Utah. It is a tribute to the Spanish Priest/Explorer Father Silvestre Valez de Escalante, the first white man to reach the State of Utah on September 23, 1776. With an early snowstorm and short provisions, Father Escalante and his small…

Hello Friends, As the Utah State Regent, it is my honor to present the beautiful DAR Drinking Fountain and Monument, that was dedicated in1905 by the Spirit of Liberty Chapter, Utah’s first DAR Chapter. It is currently located in a flower bed within the park. The Monument is made of splendid Vermont granite and featured…

Hello Friends, With smiles and joyous tears, fifty individuals stood with raised right hands repeating the Oath of Citizenship to the United States of America at the first public Utah Naturalization Ceremony since the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic on December 16th, 2021 at This Is The Place State Park. As a guest speaker,…

Hello Friends, Members of the Wasatch Range Chapter had the pleasure to honor women veterans of Utah at the dedication for the Women Veterans’ Monument in Spanish Fork Cemetery. Wasatch Range also had the opportunity to volunteer at the American Legion’s “Hats Off to Lady Veterans” Tea at the Spanish Fork Senior Center. The Tea…

Hello Friends, It is my privilege to work with the members of the Pony Express Chapter and the Sego Lily Chapter on the restoration of a large NSDAR marker commemorating a “Site of a Pony Express Station 1860-1861.” The marker was originally dedicated in 1924 by the Spirit of Liberty Chapter, NSDAR. Pony Express riders…

Hello Friends, The Fur Trappers and Traders monument is located in Warm Springs Park in Salt Lake City. This marker commemorates the arrival of these explorers  to the Utah Territory. James Bridger, Etienne Provost, and Jedediah S. Smith were named as the principal leaders on the monument’s bronze marker listing them as discoverers, fur trappers,…