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Dorsey G. Son discusses his career as a surveyor for the Colorado State Highway Commission operating in Southwestern Colorado. 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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Charles H. Buttolph discusses the early fruit growing industry in Mesa County, and the challenges it faced. 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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Lois Long describes the homestead she grew up on near Loma. She remembers living in a tent and then a pre-cut house, and drinking ditch water. She recalls her father and uncle moving the Valley View School to north of the Colorado River in the 1920’s, and the school bus that was sometimes a horse-drawn cart. Leland Buniger talks about his childhood in Grand Junction, Fruita and Loma. He describes farming potatoes, beans and hay. He speaks about...
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Allen Brink, a United States Marine who was one of the early volunteers to go to Vietnam, talks about his experiences in the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1968. He expresses his disillusionment with the war, its purpose, and its methods. He speaks about his life after returning to the United States, his identification with veterans who protested the war (though he himself was not a protester), and his disagreement with protestors in the general public....
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Elizabeth Angus talks about teaching in Atchee, Colorado, now a ghost town, in the early 1920’s. She remembers the life and history of the company towns that served the Uintah Railway, a gilsonite mining enterprise. She speaks about the Ute people who would visit the general store in Mack, Colorado. She describes certain employees of the Uintah. She talks about Baxter Pass and the environment of the Bookcliffs. The interview was conducted by the...
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Vesta Fitzpatrick speaks about a railroad accident that occurred west of the town of New Castle, Colorado around 1900. She talks about her father, a Union Civil War veteran. She discusses poetry and short stories that she wrote about her youth. She remembers working in a rooming house in Uravan for workers from Oakridge, Tennessee during secretive mining for the first atomic bomb, and receiving a letter of appreciation for her work after the first...
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Reba Ball talks about her upbringing in Palisade, Colorado, the history of Vineland, the ferry over the Colorado River, and the Seventh Day Adventist Church and school. She remembers growing up on a peach farm and aspects of peach farming, such as picking and shipping peaches. She discusses smudging to prevent frost, diseases and pests common to peaches, and pesticides. Harvey Ball speaks about his career as a manager of grocery stores, including...
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William Hill talks about joining the US Air Force in 1967, his training as an Airborne Radio Repairman, his assignment with the Strategic Air Command, and his training in cryptography with a top secret clearance. He remembers being stationed in Thailand during the Vietnam War, where he repaired radios and went on frag runs at night with the 2nd Detachment of the 834th Air Division, dropping flares to aid US troops, and flying classified missions....
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Merle Winters, a cowboy and ranch hand for the Turner Ranch in Utah, describes the 1939 flash flood of Diamond Creek, in which Laura (Brown) Turner died. He also talks about American Indian petroglyphs, and about the inscription of Antoine Robidoux and about other archaeological finds. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical...
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In a retrospective video covering her period as Artist in Residence at 970West Studio in Mesa County Libraries, Devan Knapp talks about her work with letterpress printing and her love of paper art. She speaks about the inspiration for creation she gets from the artistic community and about the importance of collaboration across artistic disciplines. She discusses the rewards of teaching art, of guiding people’s artistic efforts during her residency...
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Marilyn Anderson speaks about folk medicine as practiced in Colorado and the United States in the early Twentieth century and Nineteenth century during a meeting of the P.E.O. International BY Chapter. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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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 Living History in...
1033) TJ Smith Retrospective
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In a retrospective video covering his period as Artist in Residence at 970West Studio in Mesa County Libraries, artist and graphic designer TJ Smith talks about his work in printing, painting and photography. He speaks about his hope that his artwork conveys positivity to his audience. He explains the way in which nature’s creativity inspires and drives his own creative process. He discusses the value of community to him as support, sounding board,...
1034) Sun Cactus
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This piece is part of the Artist in Residence collection at 970West studios, from the residency of Devan (Penniman) Knapp (May 6 - August 12, 2019).
1035) Raven
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This piece is part of the Artist in Residence collection at 970West studios, from the residency of Devan (Penniman) Knapp (May 6 - August 12, 2019).
1036) Intrusions
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This piece is part of the Artist in Residence collection at 970West studios, from the residency of Julia March Crocetto (January 14 - April 22, 2019).
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Sarah Wood and Kermit Brubaker memorialize Cora “Mom” Sheets, a longtime Loma resident and volunteer for the Lower Valley Hospital (now Family Health West), during a 1970 episode of the radio program Hymn Time with the Country Parson on KQIL radio in Grand Junction, Colorado. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado....
1038) Cactus Stripe
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This piece is part of the Artist in Residence collection at 970West studios, from the residency of Devan (Penniman) Knapp (May 6 - August 12, 2019).
1039) Left Behind
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This piece was included in the 2016-2017 Art on the Corner Temporary Exhibit.
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Former Grand Junction Fire Chief Frank Kreps describes living in a one-room log cabin on his parents’ Roan Creek homestead as a young boy in the 1910’s, the feeling of community among the scattered residents, and a sawmill that provided lumber to residents. He talks about his father’s career as a locomotive engineer for the Uintah Railway and the Denver & Rio Grande. He remembers having to split wood for all the sick families in Atchee during...
