Boulder Oral History Program’s Videos
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Women in the Backcountry: How the landscape has changed
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In this short video, Janet Robertson talks about changes in women's comfort level with adventuring in Colorado's backcountry and the nurturing role of the Colorado Mountain Club.
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Richard and Betty Stevens Talk about the Boulder County Farmers' Market
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Richard and Betty Stevens started selling vegetables at the Boulder County Farmers' Market in 1978. In these excerpts from an oral history interview for the Boulder Library's Maria Rogers Oral History…
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Earl Scruggs, the legendary creator of what came to be known as Scruggs Style Three-Finger Picking, died March 28, 2012. Here, bluegrass musician and Hot Rize band member Pete Wernick demonstrates…
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Dale Johnson and the Flatiron C
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Noted Boulder climber Dale Johnson died in February 2012. In 1949, as a college freshman at the University of Colorado, he got in trouble for painting a big white "C" on the Third Flatiron, a rock…
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In March, Roland Wolcott passed away. Roland was a long-time member of our oral history program as well as the grandson of pioneers who came to the Boulder area by wagon train in 1862. Born in 1917,…
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I Feel Home: The Essence of Boulder Action for Soviet Jewry
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“For the nearly three million Jews living in the Soviet Union, the trauma of the war was compounded by a regime that wanted no trace of Jewish communal life, extinguishing even that which was permitted…
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Lost and Found: A Family Love Story
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Have you ever dragged your feet about recording your parents or grandparents history? Wondered whether it is worth the time and effort involved to preserve old photos, collect family stories, or make…
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New Vista: Alternative Education in Boulder, Colorado
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In 1991, Rona Wilensky, a woman of great enthusiasm and high ideals, said to the superintendent of schools in Boulder, Colorado, "Let's start a new high school!" What emerged was New Vista High…
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Introduction to the Stories of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant
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This video provides a thought-provoking introduction to understanding the history of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, which operated just outside of Denver from the early 1950s to the early…
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