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One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the history of Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. Topics include: timelines and history, Rocky Flats Virtual Museum, waste disposal plans, decontamination processes and cleanup, building demolitions, recreational uses, and activism. Also inlcuded is a 1978 copy of The Rocky Flats Monitor.

This interview is part of a series focusing on the history of apples in Boulder County. Two cousins share oral traditions and personal recollections pertaining to a Boulder-area ranch that their family has owned for five generations. Cherry Moore provides historical and genealogical information concerning the migration of the Pruden, Barber, and Ruby families—early Boulder residents—from Iowa and Illinois to Colorado during the second half of the nineteenth century. Cherry also discusses the lives of Jennie and Charles Pruden, the first members of the family to take possession of the ranch. Using information from Jennie Pruden’s diary, Cherry describes the origins of the apple orchard on the property, which Jennie and Charles Pruden planted during the 1890s. She also reconstructs life on the property around the turn of the twentieth century. Charlie Robinson, who spent much of his childhood living on the ranch, shares memories of his mid-twentieth-century upbringing. Charlie explains the processes by which his family produced apple cider and other agricultural products. He also talks about butchering hogs, trapping animals, and fishing in the South Boulder Creek. Both narrators stress the importance of family and community ties. Many of their recollections are of Sunday dinners and other family gatherings.

Beau Rezendes was one of the founders of Boulder Hospice [Beau Bohart when founding Hospice]. She helped shepherd it through changing notions of its place in the community. She discusses educating physicians and community members in order to build support for hospice, explaining how regulations and funding might affect hospice, and the place hospice holds in the natural cycle of life. She also describes work to help create other hospices across Colorado and nationally and to secure insurance reimbursement as a source of hospice funding. She describes her marriage to and professional partnership with Dennis Rezendes. She recounts the changes in the organization that started as Boulder Hospice; went through a series of name, program and location changes; and now is called TRU Hospice. She speculates about possible future changes in the hospice movement. And finally, she reflects on what has been most meaningful throughout her life.

Joel Edelstein describes his long involvement with radio station KGNU - as a volunteer producer, the station's news director, and as a member and then chair of the board of directors. He talks about the evolution of the station from 1979 on, as it changed from being mainly a music station to also including many spoken word programs. Among the programs discussed are Hemispheres, Connections, Feminist Frequencies, War Talk (later Peace Talk), and Morning Magazine. Edelstein describes the centrality of volunteers in running the station and producing its shows, the changes involved in becoming an NPR affiliate and dropping NPR affiliation, the development of the station's mission, the increasing provision of local news coverage, and the development of a team approach to news production.

Dr. Honeyman is an Associate Vice President for Research at the Colorado School of Mines. In this interview he talks about his involvement with Rocky Flats, from about 1997 to 2002: providing Kaiser Hill with expert analysis of remediation efforts; his scientific research; and his roles on the Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) and Scientific Advisory Board. Honeyman compares Rocky Flats to other U

An outline report on consultations with federally-recognized Indian tribes in response to wide-ranging archaeological issues and concerns. Two exemplary American Indian tribal consultation projects took place in Boulder County, Colorado, between 1993 and 1996: The "Dowe Flats" project, Lyons, Colorado, between 1993 and 1995; and, the "NIST medicine wheel" project, between 1994 and 1996.

Frank Quinn, an employee of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant for more than 33 years, talks about his early years of education in Denver and Golden, as well as his military service in the U.S. Army as part of the Army Marine Ship Repair Company. He was on his way to fight in Japan when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and later served in Japan during the post

and shows that he initiated and carried on for many years, including the shows "Of Cabbages and Kings" and "On Parenting and Other Things", and wraps up with a discussion of KGNU on-site coverage of the Rocky Flats encirclement.

of the library's oral history archive, and ways in which the oral histories are used. The interview also includes excerpts from and discussion of interviews about Rocky Flats, the Fourmile Canyon Fire, the 1918 flu epidemic, famed climber Albert Ellingwood, musician Pete Wernick, the resettlement of Soviet Jewish refugees, and Boulder's social unrest in the 1970s.

Mary Hey, one of the founders and the former president of the Boulder Sister Cities Program, talks about the mission of the program - to foster greater understanding between American and Soviet people - and the many years of effort that led to Boulder and Dushanbe, Tajikistan, becoming sister cities. She also addresses the controversy that came about when people with the group Boulder Action for Soviet Jewry (BASJ) asked the Sister Cities Program to become involved with their efforts to attain the release of refuseniks from the Soviet Union. See also an oral history in which BASJ leader Bill Cohen and Mary Hey talk together about the issue (OH 1716).

Ron Rountree discusses his serious health issues relating to his work at Rocky Flats. He worked primarily as a waste inspector, which led to his exposure to a wide variety of hazardous chemicals, often without protection. His health issues were poorly understood for many years, in part because security regulations did not allow him to tell his doctor what chemicals he was working with. He relates

Report defining the historic context of Post WWII residential architectural design in the city of Boulder, including the ranch, splitlevel and bi-level housing set on curving roads and culs de sac.