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Marie (Becker) Young talks about her experience living in Germany for a year, and the early days of fruit farming in Mesa County, Colorado. Marie also discusses the early history of Orchard Mesa, her social and work life as a teenager, the business of cattle driving and roundups with her husband in Utah, and her life as a homemaker. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the...
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A KOTO Radio show, in Telluride, Colorado, called Grape Moments. Rita Robinson and Lynn Rae Lowe interview Elvira Wunderlich and Irene Visintin on June 16, 1982. Please see the transcript for a written account and to jump between topics. Her are the major topics discussed:
1.) Cornett Creek Flood 1914
2.) Father's work, including the opening of the Telluride Beer Hall (a saloon)
3.) Telluride brothels
4.) The major nationalities that lived in...
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Interview with Laurence 'Campy' Campton, b. October 27, 1916 and died April 13, 2012. Laurence discusses his time in a P.O.W. camp in WWII, competing in FIBArk in the 50s, and his life and work in Salida, Colorado. Interviewed May 10, 2004.
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Nancy Waring Nottingham and Susie Tjossem expound on developing the early programs for the Vail Children's Ski School.
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A KOTO newscast, from 05/05/1994 To 05/20/1994, featuring Jon Kovash, Paul Spellman, & Eric Whitney. Here are the headlines:
05/05/1994: Guides in government try to work together to protect fishing on the San Miguel. At-risk kids in San Miguel County will get a chance to have a big brother or big sister. KOTO news samples local opinions on growth. Those stories and more and today's weather forecast.
05/06/1994: In today's top stories, tourism and...
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Dorothy Tindall talks about the early days of Whitewater, Colorado as a rail center for cattle and stock. She speaks about the administrative organization of schools prior to the consolidation of Mesa County School District 51, her development of Mesa County’s first school hot lunch program at the Star School, games kids played at recess, about her work educating the children of migrant laborers who lived in La Colonia, and her role in the development...
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Fritz Becker, a former officer in the Grand Junction Police Department, discusses crime in Grand Junction, including: murders, the clean-up of prostitution and vice on Colorado Avenue, gambling houses and bootlegging. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Lydia (Sitzman) Parker, a nurse practitioner in Telluride, Colorado, describes her experiences in medicine and those of her husband, Joseph James Parker, a medical doctor in Telluride and Grand Junction. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Dudley W. Mitchell gives an account of the Lamar Bank Robbery of 1928, and discusses the role of Grand Junction, Colorado resident George Abshier in the crime. He also talks about his teenage years working for the Holly Sugar Company in Grand Junction and describes the process by which the factory made sugar from sugar beets. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums...
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Dorsey G. Son discusses his career as a surveyor for the Colorado State Highway Commission operating in Southwestern Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
