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Kate and Dan Flynn, hoeing the garden at Kent. Inscription reads: "Long Ago."
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Floyd Beck standing in a backyard garden, Lakewood Colorado. He wears a hat. Bird bath and flowers visible in the background.
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The Macdonell children posing in front of the family garden at Brush Creek. Ethel Mary is standing behind Mary Margaret; Mac (Alexander Jr.) is standing behind George.
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Josie Ruehle, at left, and Minnie Ambos at the Black Mountain Ranch in 1925. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"This group of women and their husbands were pioneers of Eagle. From left to right are Cora Mayer, whose husband, William, ran the Mayer Ranch (now the Eagle Ranch subdivision); Rosetta Nogal (wife of Charley); Alice Bacon (a local historian); Mrs. Hockett; and Caroline Thoborg. Women's organizations such as the Eagle Garden Club were instrumental in community improvement projects." Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher p.101 [Title supplied from catalog...
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Betty Ray holding flowers, standing next to a tent building.There is a garden plot behind her, protected with fencing. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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John Rodgers seated on horse in front of a house. Fence, gate and garden visible beyond horse. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Farmers" (caption from photo album (?), Duane and Hans Larsen stand in their field. The man on the left is holding onto a tool, possibly a shovel or hoe.
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Frank, Viola, Juanita, and Lottie Staton in Glenwood Springs, 1922. Frank is Ivan Staton's brother.
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Eda Musser talks about life in Delta, Colorado after moving there in 1908, when she was thirteen. She discusses landmarks such as the LeVeta Park School, the Anna-Dora Opera House, and the Delta House Hotel. She describes her involvement in the Spoon Club and other aspects of social life. She speaks about her family’s move west from Illinois using an immigrant car. She talks about meeting and marrying rancher Kelso Musser and their move to Cedar...
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Mary Plaisted talks about growing up in the Milldale area around the sugar beet factory in Grand Junction, Colorado, and about the brothels and red-light district nearby. She describes having to beg and take odd cleaning and sewing jobs to support she and her children, and the kind strangers that helped her. She mentions the many places she lived in Grand Junction, the floods common in the Riverside neighborhood, and living in a close-knit Italian...
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Sally Johnson "'helping' plant garden," in April of 1952.
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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 Grand Valley Gardens,...