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Harry Sylvester Godby discusses his time spent working for and traveling with the Robinson Brothers Circus before moving to Grand Junction, Colorado. Harry also talks about his itinerant childhood moving from place to place, and the wide variety of jobs he worked throughout his life, including construction, mining, blacksmithing and potato farming, and how he was affected by the Great Depression. He shares his discovery of a large pile of boxes with...
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Harry Godby describes working as a crane and heavy equipment operator for Corn Construction and others at sites throughout Western Colorado and Eastern Utah, including the Uranium mill in Grand Junction, Colorado and oil shale mines along Parachute Creek. He also talks more specifically about working as a pile driver and pile driving technique. He discusses working in a woolen mill for ten hours a day after running away from home at fourteen, his...