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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. The plays’ authors used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Harold Bryant: Western...
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Al Look talks about singing in a quartet, publishing books on Mesa County history, and fishing. He also discusses various people and places of the Western Slope. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, A collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Marie Tipping talks about the history of her family in Mesa County, Colorado and on the Western Slope. She speaks about her grandfather Thad Duckett, a miner, an early rancher on Pinon Mesa, and the operator of the Duckett Burgman Sawmill on East Creek in the 1880’s. She describes the Duckett Burgman Sawmill company. She gives the history of George Corn, a rancher and foreman on the S-Cross Ranch, and of the Corn family. The interview was conducted...