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 Mr. and Mrs. Emerenciano E. Bernal, 1977

Call Number OH0081

Date 1977

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: Oral history - talk given by Frank Miller, 1968

Call Number OH0054

Date 1968

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: Oral history interview with Harry Johnson, 1998

Call Number OH0931

Date 1998

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: Oral history interview with Beth Klein, 2012

Call Number OH1825

Date 2012

Description Beth Klein is an attorney who concentrates her work on helping people recover from physical or emotional injury. She has worked extensively to aid people who are victims of human trafficking, both labor trafficking and sex trafficking. She describes the nature and extent of human trafficking in Colorado and Boulder County and discusses approaches that do and do not work to cut down on the amount of trafficking and to aid its victims. She praises the work of Boulder County's district attorney, Stan Garnett, and Longmont's mayor, Bryan Baum; explains how ordinary citizens can help victims; and describes next steps for Colorado to take to try to combat the problem.

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: Oral history interview with Laura E. Chesebro 1980, Eldorado Springs Historical Society collection

Call Number OH0246

Date 1980

Contents 1 sound cassette.

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: Oral history interview with Andrew Steele, 1978

Call Number OH0035

Date 1978

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: Oral history interview with Richard H. Ross, 1997

Call Number OH0894

Date 1997

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: Oral history interview with William E. Arndt, 2009

Call Number OH1561-V

Date 2009

Description In this wide-ranging interview William Arndt discusses many aspects of the history and functioning of the First United Methodist Church of Boulder, especially the church's music programs, architectural history, and sense of community. He describes the upheaval that the congregation experienced over the issue of having gay pastors during the 1970s and its eventual decision to become a "reconciling congregation". He also offers recollections of the social and political upheaval that Boulder experienced during the 1960s. Finally, the interview details his own family history, including memories of his mother, Arlyne Arndt, who also has been interviewed for this program's collection (see OH 1132V A-B).

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: Oral history interview with Morey Wolfson, 2004

Call Number OH1184-V

Date 2004

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: Oral history interview with Ray C. Imel, Jr., 1992

Call Number OH0613

Date 1992

Contents 1 sound cassette.

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: Oral history interview with Dominic and Edith Tisone / June 1, 1995

Call Number Oral History files

Date 1995

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: Oral history interview with Ruth Correll, 1986

Call Number OH0316

Date 1986

Contents 2 sound cassettes.

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