In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians.

Revisiting Craig Johnson, Author of the Walt Longmire Series, on Wednesday's Access Utah

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