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Oral history interview with June Peterson Howard, 2009
Oral history interview with June Peterson Howard, 2009
Call Number
OH1584-V
Date
2009
Description
June Howard grew up on a farm in Kansas during the Depression. She won a scholarship to the University of Kansas, which she attended during World War II; married, and then moved to various locations in the U.S. with her engineer husband. They first moved to Boulder in 1946, then returned in 1955. In the 1950s they had a young family and lived in the then-new Martin Acres and Newlands subdivisions. Life in the housing developments is described in detail. She also talks about the developers of the Martin Acres subdivision, George and Everett Williams. She outlines how her life as a woman changed from the 1960s onwards as she became involved in a teaching career and local politics. June describes the huge political changes in Boulder during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Oral history interview with June Peterson Howard, 2010
Oral history interview with June Peterson Howard, 2010
Call Number
OH1685-V
Date
2010
Description
June Howard describes her property in Sunshine Canyon and its history, including that of the Pilot Mine, Casa Loma cabin and Cottonwood cabin. Her narrative is accompanied by illustrations from the book she wrote called, "Stories of Sunshine: Life in a Mining Camp". She recalls how her family acquired the properties, her and her family's visits to the site, the horses she kept there, plants and animals that were seen in earlier times; and gives an account of structures that remain and those that were burned in the September 2010 Fourmile Fire.
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