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Wayne Aspinall describes his boyhood in Palisade, Colorado, his education at Mt. Lincoln School and the University of Denver, and his career as a schoolteacher, fruit farmer, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman. 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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Wayne N. Aspinall describes his enlistment in the Air Service of the United States Army at the start of US involvement in World War I and his enlistment for World War II at the age of 48. He speaks about the necessity of discipline in upbringing and in the military, changes in basic training from World War I to World War II, the necessity of military training, the obligation of military service, and his philosophy on war and the duties of citizenship....
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Wayne Aspinall discusses a political career that spanned his election to the Mt. Lincoln School Board near Palisade, Colorado to his last election for the US House of Representatives in 1972. He speaks about campaigning in what was then the Fourth Congressional District in Western Colorado. He talks about his eight-year career as a teacher and school bus driver at the Mt. Lincoln School, taking students camping, dealing with ticks, and coaching girls...
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Essie Aspinall talks about her arrival in Palisade in 1910, her childhood there, and life in town. She speaks about growing up on a fruit farm and attending school at Mt. Lincoln, where she met her future husbands Frank Best and Wayne Aspinall. She describes teaching in a one-room school house in Sedgewick, Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western...
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He was born in Ohio to William Aspinall and Amanda J. Aspinall. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He married Jessie E. Norviel in Logan, Ohio in 1895. US Census records show them living with their children and farming in Zane, Ohio in 1900. The family purchased land on first street in Palisade, Colorado in 1904, where they farmed peaches. In one of his Oral History interviews, Wayne Aspinall once related a story where he convinced...
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Palisade farmer and younger brother of US Representative Wayne Aspinall. He was born to Mack Aspinall and Jessie E. (Norviel) Aspinall in Ohio. The family moved to Palisade, Colorado in 1904, when he was seven years old. There, they farmed fruit. Like his older brother, he probably attended the Mt. Lincoln School near Palisade. He joined the Army Students Training Corps during World War I, but nearly died from the Spanish Flu and was discharged after...
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Wayne Aspinall was a U.S. Congressman from Palisade, Colorado. He was a Democrat who represented Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District from 1949-1973. He was the head of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee from 1959-1973. His accomplishments included the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, which he initially opposed. He also actively promoted water reclamation projects in Colorado and throughout the West, including Glen Canyon...
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A letter from US Representative Wayne Aspinall of Colorado written to Josephine (Taylor) Dickey, expressing condolences upon the death of her husband, William Wesley Taylor III.
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She was born in Missouri to Eddie L. Jeffers, a preacher, and Mary L. Jeffers, a homemaker. Her mother’s health caused the family to move to Palisade, Colorado in 1910, when Essie was 13. There, her father purchased a peach orchard. She graduated from Palisade High School in 1915 and obtained her Mesa County Teaching Certificate that same year. She moved with her family to Denver in 1916. She taught in Eads in 1916-17. She also taught in Sedgewick,...
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A July 1985 view of the Aspinall-Wilson Center. W Mountain is in the background.
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The Aspinall-Wilson Center main entrance, circa 1985.
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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 Wayne Aspinall: Scholar,...
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The Aspinall-Wilson center viewed from the north, circa 1985.
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Dudley Mitchell talks about the election campaigns of U.S. Representative Wayne Aspinall, and the campaign caravans they held in Western Colorado. Mitchell also discusses his work as the “ribbon candy expert” at the Miller Candy Factory in Grand Junction, the history of the Grand Valley’s Interurban line and the Grand Junction streetcar line, working at the Lyceum Theater on Main Street as a young man, and teenage escapades, such as causing...
19) Charles Traylor
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He was the longtime campaign manager for US Representative Wayne Aspinall and served in that capacity for twenty years. According to Aspinall, Traylor was a dedicated member of the Democratic Party, and worked unpaid for all of his campaign work.
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Dudley Mitchell discusses his political affiliation with the Democratic Party and his involvement campaigning for multiple Democratic nominees for the Fourth Congressional District. Dudley also discusses the fascinating political career of Wayne Aspinall and how he became the chairman of the House of Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. After talking politics, Dudley describes his experience with candy making as a young man at Miller’s Candy...
