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Call Number OH3045Date 2019Contents Single recording; 1 hour, 04 minutes, 48 secondsDescription Jenny LePage discusses the difficulties of finding affordable, safe housing in Boulder. She recounts her experience of living in a poorly maintained and unhealthy rental unit, which contained asbestos and mold, as well as having insect and rodent infestations. She feared that these conditions were impacting her health. When her landlord failed to address these issues, she tried to work with a mediator and learned about the legal aspects of landlord responsibilities, but she was unable to get the landlord to fix the problems. Finally, she decided she had to move out. She talks about her desire to live in a stable situation, where she might be able to own a home and live near her work location, but fears that the housing prices in Boulder make that impossible.
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Call Number OH3046Date 2020Contents Single recording; 1 hour, 10 minutes, 31 secondsDescription Linda Trahern describes her childhood growing up in Martin Acres in the 1950s and ‘60s. She lived in a small house with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, and attended Sacred Heart Catholic School and then Boulder High School. Her world revolved around doing chores at her home at 29th and Moorhead, attending church at Sacred Heart, going to Duckworth’s Five and Dime at Base-Mar Shopping Center, and playing in the fields near her home with her siblings and neighborhood friends. Later, when she started high school at Boulder High and got a job at the Fox Theatre, her horizons expanded to watching drag races in Longmont and at Lakeside Amusement Park, skipping school to eat burgers and fries at Azar’s Big Boy, dancing at the Devil’s Thumb bar, and making trips to Lafayette to watch the Louisville and Lafayette boys get into rumbles. She speaks fondly of attending the annual Pow Wow Days, which drew people from all over to see the rodeos. Her memories paint a picture of Boulder before the influx of people in the ‘60s and ‘70s, decades that caused a small town at the edge of the mountains to transform into a busy, expensive city. At 18, Linda met her husband Lynn (OH3043), and they left Boulder when he went into the Air Force, returning to the area in the late 1970s to find a very changed town.
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Call Number OH3047Date 2020Contents Single recording; 67 minutes, 11 secondsDescription Following a widely publicized instance in Boulder of child abuse resulting in death, and the associated public health failure to effectively intervene, Janet Dean and others established what became the Community Infant Program. Dean drew on her education with the Henry Kempe Center and the writings of Selma Fraiberg to develop an organization and methodology for identifying and resolving cases of infant neglect and abuse through home visits and psychotherapeutic techniques that improved parenting skills. She delves into the history of the program, some of the innovative approaches that it used, and reflects on some of the challenges confronted and reasons for the program’s success. She also discusses recent advances in the field of neuroscience that contribute to the understanding of infant brain development and early intervention strategies.
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Call Number OH3048Date 2020Contents Single recording; 57 minutes, 34 secondsDescription Jack Bowes, a retired third-generation farmer in the Louisville area, talks about his family’s long history with coal mining, farming, and ranching after they arrived in the area from England in the 1880s. Initially coming to the area to mine coal, they quickly transitioned to a homestead at 9182 Dillon Road, where they raised hay, grains, and livestock. He describes his childhood on the farm, both his early days and how, after his father died when Jack was 13, he had to help his mother with the farming. Jack discusses ways in which farming has changed since his childhood, from the days of horse-drawn farming. Much of the water for their homestead came from the South Boulder & Coal Creek Irrigation Ditch, and in the 1990s Jack became president of the ditch company, as his father and grandfather had been before him. He describes the changes in the job responsibilities since his father’s time, and also changes in how the ditch was operated. He talks about his grandparents’ and father’s memberships in local fraternal organizations, his aunt telling stories of seeing Native Americans camping on Coal Creek in the 1890s, family picnics and parties in the apple orchard, the sale of part of his family’s property to Boulder County Parks and Open Space and Louisville Open Space, and the death of many of the apple trees. He closes with a story his father told him about being 13 years old in 1914 and watching the Colorado militia get off the train to deal with conflicts between mining companies and striking miners in Louisville.
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Call Number OH3050Date 2020Contents Single recording; 1 hour, 14 minutes, 03 secondsDescription Steven Griffith grew up on Magnolia Road in Boulder County during a time when children had a lot of freedom to roam the foothills independently. He talks about his family’s long history in the area, his uncles’ involvement in hard rock mining, and his father’s store Boot Hill. In addition, the interview covers many topics from eccentric uncles to weightlifters, wild dogs, wild parties, music celebrities, local teachers, the Hill, and hippies, as Griffith describes watching a parade of unusual people making their way through Boulder in the 1970s. He talks about the more permissive attitudes people had at that time toward things like underage drinking, gun ownership, and teacher/student interactions. He also reminisces about stores, restaurants, and entertainment venues in Boulder during the 1970s.
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Call Number OH3051Date 2020Contents Single recording; 28 minutes, 58 secondsDescription This is interview is one of a series about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life during 2020. Nicole Christensen and her husband are the owners of a Crossfit gym and the parents of two young daughters, who were 6 and 4 at the time of this interview. The interview was conducted in May 2020, seven weeks after the pandemic initially caused the shutdown of many businesses and schools. Ms. Christensen reflects on her first experiences after learning about the pandemic (in February of 2020) and discusses ways that she and her employees pivoted their business (beginning in March of 2020) to virtual platforms and the impacts of the pandemic on their family life—both the challenges and the silver linings. She also discusses the impact of the pandemic on the community at large.
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Call Number OH3052Date 2020Contents Single recording; 34 minutes, 21 secondsDescription Andrea Tilstra is a graduate student and teacher at the University of Colorado in Boulder. This interview was conducted about two months after the appearance of coronavirus in Boulder and the issuing of stay-at-home orders. She discusses the ways in which her lifestyle and work have been impacted, including the upending of routines that formerly gave her life structure and the ways in which it has curtailed her in-person interaction with others. She talks about the challenges of online teaching, the positive and responsible response of the Boulder community in general, and the less-responsive attitude of some university students. She reflects on how the pandemic has helped her become more accepting of uncertainty in her life, things that have been positive changes brought on by the challenges of the pandemic, and what might be lasting lessons from this time. She concludes with observations about the public’s use of the Pearl Street Mall and how it has changed during the first two months of the pandemic in Boulder.
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Call Number OH3053Date 2020Contents Single recording; 47 minutes, 22 secondsDescription This is interview is one of a series about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life during 2020. Lea Yancey talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected her work, travel plans, a move to a new house, and especially her pregnancy. She discusses her experience of being pregnant during the pandemic, how the hospital changed its rules over time for maternity patients, how her everyday life has changed during the pandemic, and what she has learned from this experience. [Note: At the time this interview was conducted, scientists were concerned that COVID could be spread easily through touching surfaces, and the public was still 9 to 12 months away (depending on age and medical conditions) from being able to be vaccinated against COVID.]
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Call Number OH3054Date 2020Contents Single recording; 46 minutes, 58 secondsDescription This interview was conducted four to five months into the COVID-19 pandemic in Boulder. [The pandemic began in Boulder in March of 2020; the interview was recorded toward the end of July of 2020.] Nora Schlosser talks about the formation and operation of the Covid Recovery Center (CRC) in Boulder and her work as assistant manager. The CRC served as a safe place for people in the homeless community (and other low-income people) who had contracted Covid to heal and also helped to limit spread of Covid in Boulder County homeless shelters and in the community at large. She also discusses how the Covid pandemic has changed her and the community.
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Call Number OH3055Date 2020Contents Single recording; 65 minutes, 39 secondsDescription This interview is part of the Apple Tree Project series of interviews. Troy Waycott has lived in Lyons since 1996, on a property whose orchard was begun in the 1870s. He talks about the 30 surviving apple trees on his property (originally there may have been more than 100); apple tree varieties and cultivation; the history of his property; the history of fruit-growing in the region; ditch history, ownership, and operation; and the history of both the town of Lyons and of area families. He also talks about homesteading in the area, the uses of apple wood, the effects of the 2013 flood, water rights, and the geography of the Lyons area.
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Call Number OH3056Date 2020Contents Zoom web recording; 48 minutes, 44 secondsDescription Amanda talks about volunteering at Boulder's COVID-19 Recovery Center.
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Call Number OH3057Date 2020Contents Single recording; 53 minutes, 42 secondsDescription Becky Rex is a single mother who lives with her one-and-a-half-year-old son in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver and works for the University of Colorado, Boulder. She discusses what it had been like to work from home while taking care of her toddler son during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly during the Stay-at-Home orders that were issued in the spring of 2020. She also talks about her experience of the protests for social justice, which coalesced around the Colorado capitol building after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May of 2020. These protests happened only a few blocks from her apartment. She reflects on encounters that she and others have had with police officers, ranging from positive personal interactions to challenging encounters that others experienced during the protests.