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A KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from 1977-1978. Total length is about 1 hour, 37 minutes. Tracks include: 1. Hart water conservation week: Richard Lamm. 2. Planning & Zoning geo. hazards/flood planes, J. Crane: 3/78. 3. Lynn Swartz: eclipse of the moon, 3/78. 4. Jim Bedford/R. Malan: Chamber music interview; County Planning & Zoning preview of parking & transportation plus master plan: Tom Hale, 5/18/68. 5. Terry Selby speaking with...
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A black and white photograph of two men standing together with a dog. One of the men is holding a shovel.
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A snow-plow in deep snow.
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A KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from 1979. Total length is about 3 hours, 32 minutes. Tracks include: 1. Question of the Week: Have you decided and how, about the elections? (Street Interviews). 2. Interview with Johnson about the selling of Idarado land, 4/10/79. 3. Interview with Mike Calagan about the grant requested for the Chamber Music Festival. 4. Speaker Linda Jackson about the land tax transfer at Crested Butte, 4/2/79. 5. Interviews...
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A KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from 1977. Total length is about 1 hour, 17 minutes. Tracks include: 1. Interview with T. Hale: County budget, 10/1977: (6:44). 2. Freebox: "To Be or Not to Be", 10/1977: (6:54). 3. Interview with Dick Bird, volunteer for Ray Kogovsek: (3:59). 4. Governor Lamm, New York snow job, 10/1977:(1:30). 5. Interview with Kent State worker, 9/19/1977: (10:02). 6. CETA Investigation, phone interview with...
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A KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from 1978-1979. Total length is 59 minutes. Tracks include: 1. Public forum, Part I, 11/3/78. 2. Interview with candidates: Conlin & Stevens. 3. Jim Reent, reason: Aspen mall and transportation. 4. Interview with Monsieur Johnson, 5/25/79. 5. Interview with Dennis Keaton about Homestake, 6/4/79. 6. Fred Shellman: Bluegrass, 6/7/79. 7. Telluride Lodge: F. Libby, 6/8/79. 8. Ryan/Milliken, John Brooks,...
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Tom and Marie Biglin talk about their lives in the Nucla, Colorado area, about his career in ranching, and about her career as the office manager for the Nucla Regional Office of the Rural Electrification Administration. They also touch on his service as an ambulance driver during World War I, the development of irrigation in Nucla, and other tidbits of local history. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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A KOTO Radio show, called Friday Live, that aired in Telluride, Colorado probably in the early 1980's (the date of the recording is unknown). Jerry Greene interviews Donald O'Rourke, Telluride's longest resident. Donald goes into extensive history of the area--starting in the early 1900's until the present. Please see the transcription for details and to jump between topics with the timestamps. Topics discussed include: 1.) Liberty Bell Gold mining...
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A KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from approximately 1978. Total length is 2 hours, 15 minutes. Tracks include: (1-4) NFCB Convention '78 report. 5. Jazz festival '78 interviews with visitors and town folk & jazz festival '78 music. 6. Bear Creek closing interview with Jack Hawkins, 8/4/78. 7. John Cohn softball report: final. 8. Whooping cough, 9/5/78 (Dr. Grevel interview on Church of the First Born) & Mining in national parks (Everheart),...
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A KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from September and October of 1977 until August of 1978. Total length is about 1 hour, 37 minutes. Tracks include: 1. Pat O'Boyle on chemical spill in Lawson Hill, 8/5/78. 2. Opening Arts & Humanities Art Show: Interview with Meager, 8/77. 3. Jazz Festival 1977: Interview with Nick Terstenjak and other folks, 8/77. 4. Interview with Pat Lamb, new owner/editor of Telluride Times, 9/23/77. 5. Interview...
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A KOTO Radio show, called Voices and Visions, from Telluride, Colorado, on June 10, 1987. The title of this show is Couples who Stay Together, featuring long-time local residents Bill and Susan Kees. Length is about 28 minutes. Rita Robinson and Sharon Shuteran interview Bill and Susan Kees. Supported in part by an award from the Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission...
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Photo print image of a meadow surrounded by forest with two mountain peaks visible in the distance.
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Photograph taken looking down the San Miguel Valley, with Telluride in the distance.
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Kip Wood recites original poetry, talks about his life as a cowboy, and discusses his acquaintance with John “Peg-leg” Foster, Butch Cassidy, and other memorable and disreputable characters from Colorado history. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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The second KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from 1976-1977. Total length is about 1 hour, 34 minutes. Tracks include: 1. Kathy Kelly/Ken Boyer deaths 2. Interview with John Payne on title insurance 3. Phone interview with Miles Arbor about Beau Calloway/Crested Butte 4. Phone interview with Marshall Jim Hall on his resignation. 5. Steve Sulloway report on school board meeting: Vanest/Burley/Young building request to HPC. 6. Interview...
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A radio show, called "Straight Talk" presented by KOTO Radio, in Telluride, Colorado. This discussion includes Jerry Greene, Jim Burleigh, George Greenbank, Michael McLaughlin, Amy Levek, Bob Mattatol, and Elaine Fisher. Ben Kerr is the producer. This conversation takes place in 1987. Speakers debate how buildings should be designed, building guidelines, and general development in Telluride... Who's in control of building rules and development? Should...
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A KOTO Radio show, called Grape Moments, in which Rita Robinson and Lynn Rae Lowe interview Esther White on June 8, 1982. Esther discusses her up-bringing (see her biography for more information), including her first job in Telluride in housekeeping for the Telluride Lodge. She mentions she obtained the job within 15 minutes after arriving in Telluride and she even found a place to live! Esther describes Telluride in 1972 as a fun place to live with...
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A Voices & Visions program, from KOTO Radio, in Telluride, Colorado. Malcolm "Mouse" McDonald speaks of the history of Hastings Mesa, including Malcolm's great-grandfather, who was the first settler on Hastings Mesa in the 1880's. Malcolm also discusses the history of areas surrounding Telluride, such as the Placerville area and Goronno Ranch. Also includes the naming of Hastings Mesa and Wilson Mesa. Malcolm lived on Hastings Mesa during the 1930's...
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A KOTO Radio show, in Telluride, Colorado, that aired January 1st, 1988. Terry Tice interviews Amy Levek (Telluride Town Planner) and Richard Grice (San Miguel County Planner) to discuss plans for the future of Telluride. Recording is about 40 minutes long. The last 13 minute recording is of unknown origins. Supported in part by an award from the Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications...
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A KOTO Radio show, aired December 12, 1985, in Telluride, Colorado, called Friday Focus. Bob Brickell interviewed Martin Isles, Design Consultant for the Cordillera Corporation, Vince Hooper, Town Planner, and Larry Larsen, County Planner, about plans for developing the valley floor by the Cordillera Corportation. Recording is about 34 minutes long. Supported in part by an award from the Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding...