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A KOTO newscast, from 09/09/1994 To 09/22/1994, featuring Jon Kovash and Eric Whitney. Here are the headlines:
09/09/1994: The county logging task force sets goals and schedules field trips. Faraway plans to expand on Wilson Mesa. The film festival leaves KOTO awash in beer. Those stories and today's mountain weather forecast.
09/12/1994: The council will discuss campers' housing and water conservation, LP denies rumors of a plant closing, Keesler...
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A KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from approximately 1977 Total length is about 2 hour, 39 minutes. Tracks include:
1. Bob Hedlend interview on coal stire's affect on Telluride, 11/1977: (1:22).
2. Don O'Roark interview, past due taxes: (7:38).
3. John Manstield on mountain medical services progress and needs: (3:12).
4. Jane Hill interview on county health services (WIC), 11/6/77: (11:08)
5. Bob Dolan, division of highway speed limit...
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A KOTO newscast, from 5/13/1991 To 5/24/1991, featuring Jon Kovash and Dominic Cross. Here are the headlines:
5/13/1991: Town burn pile is snuffed after complaints from Shandoka residents; postponement asked on challenge to electric rates. Library users can now access the Marmot database system. Valley floor owner offers trails easement. We have a report on Tuesday's Town Council reports from Marshalls and Sheriffs. Today's weather and a personal...
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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 reel-to-reel news archive #22 recording, from 1978. Total length is about 3 hours, 11 minutes.
See transcription for time stamps, to jump between tracks.
Tracks include:
1.) Report on the Grand Junction Office of Attorney General, by Jim Martin: 10/1978.
2.) The food co-op possibly operating out of the Reid building, report from Dean Randall: 10/02/1978.
3.) A report on creating the new Placerville Park with Robert (Bob) Dempsey and...
6) Jean Urruty
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A Basque immigrant who came to Mesa County in 1925. Along with other Basque immigrants, he was a sheepherder in the Pinon Mesa and Green River, Utah areas. After approximately five years of herding sheep, he and other Basques pooled their money and purchased a sheep ranching outfit, which they did in the middle of the Great Depression. In 1935, he purchased the LaSalle Hotel on Grand Junction’s Colorado Avenue, and helped decrease prostitution and...
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Newscasts, from KOTO Radio, in Telluride, Colorado, provided by Jon Kovash and Deb Laity. Topics include:
02/12/1991:
Skier death blamed on high speed fall. Promoters ask for bigger stage in town. Park airport board passes the hat for airport security costs. County will hear concerns over wildlife habitat.
02/13/1991:
In the headlines in answer to declining revenues, local movie prices will be going up.
The county will look at Upzoning of...
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Colorado Mesa University was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1925. It began as Grand Junction Junior College and was established with the support of Colorado State Representatives Sterling Lacy and Ollie Bannister, who worked with representatives from Trinidad and Pueblo to secure colleges for all three areas.
During its first years of existence as Grand Junction Junior College, classes were taught in the old Lowell School, which had been...
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Here is an email from Craig Muhonen, dated 9/23/22:
"I was born October 28th, , 1946, in Gardner Mass. and spent a lot of time at my Grandfathers general store in Barnard Vt. . I came to this little town (Telluride, Colorado) on a whim, after Vietnam, in May of 1971 with my dog Munch, and the first person I met was Everett Morrow who looked this Marine Veteran and California surfer up and down, but took my money for a camp site in town park, and...
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She was born in Colfax, Louisiana to James W. O’Quinn and Mary Catherine (Killingsworth) O’Quinn. Her father was a watchman and a machinist. Her mother was a homemaker. The 1910 US Census lists Josephine by the nickname “Minkie” at the age of 13. Josephine attended Colfax High School, a boarding school in Natchitoches, and then the Louisiana Teacher College in the late 1910’s. The 1920 Census shows her living with her parents and teaching...
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The Handy Chapel housed a congregation affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church when it was built in 1892. The Grand Junction Town Company formed in September 1881, shortly after the forced relocation of the Ute Indian population. As part of its platting of the city, the Town Company offered free land, on the Northeast corner of the blocks between 3rd and 7th Streets on White Avenue, to religious organizations wanting to construct churches.
African-American...
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An oral history recording, between Davine Pera and Alta Cassietto, which took place on February 8, 1990. Here is the transcript:
Alta Cassietto-CD’s 1 and 2
OH25
Disc1
1. Introduction between Pera and Cassietto.
2. How Alta’s father arrived in Telluride.
3. Where her father was born.
4. How Alta’s mother arrived in Telluride.
5. Mother’s brother in Rico, a third sibling all in the area.
6. Her mother arrived in the U.S. with a relative,...
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An oral history interview, given by Davine Pera, on August 12, 1992 to Kathryn Olive Collins: (The "T" stand for tracks, but the recording has been combined):
T1
Intro
T2
History of parents arriving in Telluride. Mother's father arrived here from Iowa to work at Ptarmigan Lake above Tomboy Mine as a watchman.
T3
Mother came to visit her father and stayed to work in a restaurant.
T4
Father was born in Sweden, parents died when he...
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The oral history transcription for the oral history, which occurred on 8/12/1992, between Davine Pera and Kathryn Collins. Here is the transcription (T stands for track):
T1
Intro
T2
History of parents arriving in Telluride. Mother's father arrived here from Iowa to work at Ptarmigan Lake above Tomboy Mine as a watchman.
T3
Mother came to visit her father and stayed to work in a restaurant.
T4
Father was born in Sweden, parents...
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An oral history recording from August 1, 1990, in which Davine Pera interviews Joseph B. Brown. Here is the transcript: (Please note that track 2 is missing):
Brown, Joseph B.
OH27
9770 Chamber's Rd. Commerce City, CO.Rt1#80022
August 1, 1990
City Library, Telluride, Co.
Davine Pera
728-3632
OH27
OH File
CD1
57:34min
62 Tracks
CD2
39:01 min.
36 Tracks
CD1
Track1
Intro
Track2
Personal information. Address, date of...
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Voice Recording
An oral history of C.D. Waggoner, recorded 5/23/1990, by Davine Pera. Here is the transcript:
Waggoner, C.D.
OH75
Denver, Colorado
May 23, 1992
Wilkinson Library
Davine Pera
728-3632
64 tracks
69:19
T1
Intro
T2
History of parents and their arrival in Telluride. They were married in Telluride in 1909.
T3
Describes house he was born in
T4
And the house he grew up in. Visintine Sisters.
T5
Talks about childhood...
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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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Postcard
A color photo of the Silver Spruce Motel in Durango, Colorado.
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Voice Recording
Philip Griebel talks about his life as an educator and a coach at Fruita High School. He remembers the fire that burnt down the first Fruita Union High School in 1934. He describes teaching topics in science and math for 28 years. He speaks about his career as a basketball, football, and track coach, remembers school and community involvement in the games, and rivalries between Fruita and high schools in Delta, Grand Junction, Gunnison, Montrose,...
