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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. The plays’ authors used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Campfire Tales: Hunting...
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play The Making of a Legend:...
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Early Day Experiences...
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Rimrock Road: A Memorial,...
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play When the Armistice...
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. The plays’ authors used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. In this recording the listener will hear the play Charlie Glass:...
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Early Day Schools...
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. The plays’ authors used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Harold Bryant: Western...
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The celebration of Grand Junction’s 100th anniversary. Activities began in September of 1981, corresponding with the 100-year anniversary of the settlement of the first white people in Grand Junction after the forced expulsion and resettlement of the Ute Indians from the area. Activities continued into 1982.
Such activities included the recording of several radio plays about area history for the Grand Junction Centennial Celebration Radio History...
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She was born in Princeton, Kansas. After high school, she received a scholarship for a business school in Topeka. During that time, her parents moved to Fruita, Colorado to escape the Dust Bowl. After finishing school, she followed and took her first job in the law office of Silmon Smith in Grand Junction. She then took a job as a secretary in the office of Western Slope Wholesale Grocers. After marrying James “Jim” Kyle in Los Angeles on November...
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He was born in Columbia, Missouri to Leonard Haseman, a professor at Columbia University, and Elosia Belle (Fish) Haseman, a homemaker. He attended David Henry Hickman High School, where he was in the Latin Club, the orchestra, and the all-state orchestra. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Missouri. There, he was in Lamda Chi Alpha, played football, and was in the Stripes and Diamonds and the Pistol Club. He received a science...
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He was born in Nebraska, and raised in Lincoln and in Stockton, Kansas. His father was Albert Look and his mother Marie Look. Both parents were the children of German immigrants. They ran a grocery store, a dry goods store, and then a creamery. While in high school, he was active in theater productions, sang bass in a local barbershop quartet, and sang in the Methodist choir. He attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where he studied journalism,...
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Mrs. Rose Perry relates her son’s experience on the U.S.S. Helena, a Brooklyn-class light cruiser used by the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater of World War II. The Helena was one of the cruisers attacked in Pearl Harbor, and was directly torpedoed by the Japanese. The Helena survived the attack and was assigned to assist in the Guadalcanal campaign. It helped to destroy several Japanese aircraft and battleships and contributed to American victories...
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A KOTO Radio newscast, from 4/26/1991-5/10/1991, broadcasted from Telluride, Colorado. Here is the transcript:
Speaker 2 (00:00:33):
This is the K O T O Community Radio News for Friday, April 26th. I'm Deb Laity in the headlines tonight. Plans for use of the Hobgood property have been stalled. Once again. Mesa State College plans to open an annex in Montrose. The Rainbow Preschool hopes to win $10,000 for a new school, and the miners look for...
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The picture is of a hang glider (person unknown) landing in Beaver Pond, in Telluride, Colorado. The exact date is unknown, but probably from the 1970's. Here is an email, provide by Craig Muhonen, about an article written by John Heiney, about Telluride Hang Gliding's 25th year festival:
"Rainy, But Good
Telluride Hang Gliding Festival’s 25th Year
© John Heiney
The atmosphere of the 1998 flying season has been somewhat overbearing...
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Evelyn Kyle, the first coordinator of the Mesa County Oral History Project, discusses her role in expanding the program shortly after its inception in 1976, and describes colorful personalities that she met through the project. She also talks about her life in the performing arts, establishing and acting in community theaters around Western Colorado, about her experiences during the Dust Bowl and World War II, and about her marriage to Jim Kyle and...
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A KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from September and October of 1977 until August of 1978. Total length is about 1 hour, 37 minutes. Tracks include:
1. Pat O'Boyle on chemical spill in Lawson Hill, 8/5/78.
2. Opening Arts & Humanities Art Show: Interview with Meager, 8/77.
3. Jazz Festival 1977: Interview with Nick Terstenjak and other folks, 8/77.
4. Interview with Pat Lamb, new owner/editor of Telluride Times, 9/23/77.
5. Interview...
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A KOTO newscast, from 8/16/1996 To 8/30/1996, featuring Jon Kovash, Matthew Lewis, and Becca Thorson. Here are the headlines:
8/16/1996: We have a report on Chamber Music's finale weekend. We've got the winners of the Duck Race. We've got a mountain weather report.
8/19/1996: Curtis Wayne Byrne gets 11 years for the 1994 sexual assault. Lightning sparks another round of fires. Film Fest offers a free movie screening. We have a mountain weather report...
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A KOTO newscast, from 08/27/1991 To 09/06/1991, featuring Jon Kovash, Geoff Hanson and Lynn Heinisch. Here are the headlines:
8/27/1991: Telluride Council reluctantly puts festival petitions to voters. Telluride Conoco shuts down gas sales after tank leaks discovered. TCRA board will discuss whether to release booking information. Three new festivals apply for dates on 92 calendar, and we have today's weather report.
8/27/1991: TCRA board decides...
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Josephine Dickey talks about songs sung in Grand Junction’s Handy Chapel, the history of the Chapel, the role of the church in helping African-American people in a time of greater racial segregation and discrimination, and her family’s long history of involvement and leadership at the church. She discusses the role of law enforcement in referring Black people in need to the Handy Chapel. She details the segregation that prevented African-Americans...
