Oral History Collection

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Title: Oral History Collection
Date: 1976-current
Call Number: OH0000
History: This oral history collection began in 1976 as a project, facilitated by grant money from the Bicentennial Celebration Committee. The collection continues to grow and, since 1984, has been coordinated by the Carnegie Library for Local History. Volunteers conduct the interviews. The interviewees mostly are long-time residents, discussing a variety of topics covering local history.
Terms of Use: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Oral histories may be used for non-commercial purposes, with attribution to the Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder.
Format: Oral histories.
Subjects: Boulder (Colo.)--History

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: Oral history interview with Sawada Shonin Gyosen, 2000 B

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: Oral history interview with Ruth Elaine Wahlstrom Kinney, 1992 A

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: Oral history interview with Jack J. Kraushaar, 1988

Call Number OH0422

Date 1988

Contents 1 sound cassette.

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: Oral history interview with Ed Gawf, 2001

Call Number OH1045-V

Date 2001

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: Oral history interview with Evan Gould, 1987

Call Number OH0788

Date 1987

Contents 1 sound cassette.

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: Oral history interview with Barbara Stearns Wootten, 1997 B

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: Transcript: Oral history interview with Maria Krenz, 2014

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: Oral History with Angela Maria Ortiz Roa, OH3073

Call Number OH3073

Date 2021

Contents Single recording; 29 minutes, 48 seconds

Description Angela Maria Ortiz Roa talks about living in the Mapleton Mobile Home Park, where Isabel Sanchez, who works with the non-profit organization The GrowHaus, has established permaculture gardens. She details the difficulties involved in qualifying for a mobile home unit, the high interest rates charged for mobile home loans, and other challenges for those who are seeking affordable housing, such as maintenance and energy costs. She also talks about her work with FLOWS (Foundations for Leaders Organizing for Water and Sustainability), and Boulder Food Rescue, and how that work has dovetailed with accessing resources for the mobile home park’s gardens. She talks about being an immigrant and the importance of building community. She talks about the misconceptions people have about low-income communities and the need for those who design programs for affordable and low-income housing to involve members of the targeted communities in the planning.

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