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Interview with John Pete Spino, born July 18, 1929 and died Sept. 6, 2011. John's family built a multitude of businesses on Highway 50 in Salida. He remembers cutting ice for the ice sheds, having fun at Wellsville Hot Springs, and being involved in the first FIBArk in 1949.
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Former residents share details about Mt. Harris, a small coal mining community that existed between 1914 and 1958.
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Jerry and Rusty Nay are interviewed by Troy Keller and Lara Johnson about their lives growing up in Steamboat Springs.
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Interview with Ella Warren Burnett by Walter Gallacher. Ella discusses her childhood in Red Cliff, CO, her nursing studies during World War II, her life with husband Pete Burnett, and her nursing career in the Gilman Mine, with Dr. George Stanley, and in Vail, with Dr. Tom Steinberg.
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Bill Heicher and Bill Andree established legacies as District Wildlife Managers with the Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW).
Heicher began with Colorado Game, Fish and Parks Department (later DOW) and served the Eagle District from 1971 until 2003. Andree began with the DOW in 1980 and served the Vail District from 1981 until 2018. Circa 2012, the DOW evolved into Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
In this remarkable oral history, Heicher and...
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In a lecture sponsored by Mesa County Libraries, Professor Don MacKendrick talks about the cultural history of the Grand Valley, framing that history in the context of the broader American settlement of the West. He reports on the rowdiness on Colorado Avenue that accompanied Grand Junction’s founding, followed by the quick establishment of social norms and cultural organizations. He describes Grand Junction’s early theaters and performance spaces,...
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In this recording, Alta Nolan reads the memoirs of Cordelia Files. Files talks about the history of her parents and maternal grandparents who homesteaded in the Fruita, Colorado area in the 1890’s. She describes the fruit growing operation on the homestead. She recounts seeing the Ute people and Chipeta when they came in the fall to dry fruit from the orchard. She remembers early Fruita, with its dirt streets and plank sidewalks. She speaks about...
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Dick Pownall, who was a member of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition (AMEE), discusses his role in the history of alpinism and technical climbing. Climbing extensively in North America and the Dolomites of Europe, as well as in the Armenian Highlands and in the Himalayas, Pownall was an early guide for Exum Guide Service in Grand Teton National Park area.
Dick Pownall was also an original Vail ski instructor and a member of Vail Ski...
