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Chet Enstrom, producer of the locally famed Enstrom’s Toffee, talks about his life in the candy and ice cream business, his career in the Colorado State Senate, his volunteerism, and his impressions of Grand Junction, Colorado, his longtime home. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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Bessie Jane Milholland talks about her childhood growing up on a ranch in Molina, Colorado and how her family earned a living selling butter and other dairy goods. She describes trips to Grand Junction in horse and buggy, trading and selling handmade goods, and her education at the rural Molina School. She talks about her eventual move to Grand Junction after marrying her husband, Danford Wheeler, their life there, and the tasks of a homemaker. She...
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Levi Morse discusses the history of Mesa County, Colorado, including fruit growing, drinking water from the Gunnison River and its link to typhoid fever, the YMCA, and the creamery business. He also talks extensively about social events such as the Mesa County Fair, and gives a firsthand account of the first motion picture showing in Grand Junction. June Morse talks about teaching at Fruitvale High School, community organizations and social gatherings....
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In an interview from May 14, 1981 (audio only, no transcript), Basil T. Knight talks about his youth in Michigan, meeting his wife’s family in Palisade, Colorado and ultimately moving there, operating a fruit farm, and becoming a lifelong teacher and school administrator. He explains the mechanisms that originally funded the many smaller school districts on the Western Slope, including taxes on railroads, and the reasons for the consolidation that...
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Helen Johnson talks about moving to Denver, Colorado from Cleveland, Ohio at a young age and growing up in different places in Colorado. She talks about the fraudulent land sale that first brought her family to Delta County, Colorado in 1910, and that took her father’s life savings. She discusses living in a rented log cabin in Hotchkiss, her mother working as a hired washerwoman and housekeeper, and her father’s difficulty finding gainful employment...
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Gertrude Rader talks at length about the Tabequache band of the Ute and her frequent contact with them when they camped in Kannah Creek during their annual return migration from the mountains of Colorado to the Uintah Reservation in Utah in the early Twentieth century. She discusses her memories of Chipeta and describes Ute customs she observed. She talks about her pioneering grandfather, and about a serious sheep and cattleman conflict that occurred...
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Lower grades at Burns School District #9, 1954-1955 school year. Teacher was Irma Wilson (Hofmann).
Back row: Berta Russell, Mary Fox, Jim Bratton, Earl Skiles, Buddy Spencer
Front row: Buddy Russell, Lonny Russell, Marilyn Fox Spencer, Caralee River, Gary Russell
not pictured: Terry Nunn, Martha Fox Spencer
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Rob and Tillie Phillips, dressed up and standing outside. Tillie Phillips taught at Derby Mesa School until it closed.
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School children at Burns School District #9 1954-1955 school year. Teachers were Elizabeth Spencer (upper grades) and Irma Wilson (Hofmann) (lower grades). There were 22 students in all.
From left: Buddy Spencer, Jimmy Bratton, Orville Hurt, unknown, Walter Hurt, Martha Fox (Spencer)
10) Spencer Family
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Elizabeth Spencer and her husband, with Buddy Spencer at leaft and Martha Fox Spencer at right. Mrs. Spencer taught the upper grades at Burns School District #9 in 1954-55. Her husband drove the school bus. They adopted the Fox girls.
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Minnie Foster describes her early life on a farm in Nebraska, her teaching career in Missouri, and her subsequent career as a nurse in Seattle, Los Angeles and other urban areas. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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Walt Simineo talks about growing up on a ranch in Whitewater, Colorado, his father’s homestead there, and describes the town in the early Twentieth century. He speaks about working as a coal miner in Whitewater and about mining operations there. He discusses the evolution of soil amendments used in farming and the changes in area ranching practices. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County...
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The second Malta school house, south of Leadville, which operated from 1902-1945, now part of the Leadville Historic District.
"My Uncle Bob worked down in the canyon at the Gillman Mill. My Uncle Bob and my Aunt Thelma, my Mother's sister, and their family lived in Red Cliff. On the Denver Public Library there is a picture of the Red Cliff Depot with icicles. When I showed this picture to my Cousin he said his Dad went by the depot on his way...
