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Artist Cecilia Cardman talks about her struggles with the English language and her experience in public schools as a young immigrant from Italy, and about her higher education in both Italy and in Boulder at the University of Colorado. She speaks about teaching art at early Mesa College and what the college was like at that time. She describes the “topnotch” teachers she had at Grand Junction High School. She discusses leaving her teaching career...
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Dick Williams talks about the games he played with children as a boy in the downtown area of Grand Junction, including hide and go seek and kick the can. He remembers playing sandlot baseball and other games in a vacant lot on 9th Street between Grand and White Avenues. He recalls swimming in ditches and canals, and ice skating in what is now Lincoln Park. He speaks about competing in athletics in high school and college, and in Pioneer Clubs, which...
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Cora Henry talks about her childhood in Loma, Colorado, her adoption by David and Elizabeth Brumbaugh, the hotel and grocery store the Brumbaughs ran in Loma in the 1910’s, and the grocery store they ran in Fruita from 1919 to 1940. She speaks about two large agricultural enterprises near Loma: The Golden Hills Ranch, owned by Verner Z. Reed, and Garmesa, owned by Quaker Oats. She and Paul Henry recall a fire that destroyed the original Brumbaugh...