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Augustine Cordova is retired as a software programmer/engineer at IBM and is also a musician. His family, on both sides, is from New Mexico, but his parents moved to the San Luis Valley in Colorado, where he grew up. He describes the sense of community there, and his respect for his father, who was ready to help anyone. Augustine attended the Univesity of Colorado at Boulder in the 1970s. Among the student movements in which he took part were the Coors boycott, the grape boycott, and the Safeway boycott. He talks about his participation in street theater and musical groups to publicize Chicano issues and describes a song he wrote while a student called "Yo Soy Chicano". Later he describes what happened with the bombing of "Los Seis de Boulder". He recites a song that he wrote about Los Seis de Boulder. He discusses the positive strides made by Latino students who attended CU in the 1970s, Latino presence and culture in Boulder County, the long-term contributions of the Chicano movement of the 1970s, and encourages the younger generation to "pick up the baton" of cementing and continuing gains made by his generation.

One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: public art; sculpture; the "phantom sculptor"; the mysterious appearance of SMiLE Boulder artworks around the city; a family totem pole at 802 16th Street; the Coca-Cola mural now stored at Lafayette's fire station; "Rescued Memories" installation in Central Park dedicated to the losses of the 2013 flood; public art damaged by the 2013 flood; the controversial sculptures over the entrance to Boulder High School known as "Minnie and Jake"; the removal of the "Where's Waldo" images as well as the removal of the "Untitled" sculpture, which was commissioned and completed by Kim Fields in 1973; "Los Seis de Boulder," a sculpture on the University of Colorado campus created by Jasmine Baetz; and the Slick the Pig sculpture.