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In an interview from May 14, 1981 (audio only, no transcript), Basil T. Knight talks about his youth in Michigan, meeting his wife’s family in Palisade, Colorado and ultimately moving there, operating a fruit farm, and becoming a lifelong teacher and school administrator. He explains the mechanisms that originally funded the many smaller school districts on the Western Slope, including taxes on railroads, and the reasons for the consolidation that...
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Mary Maluy talks about her birth in Kansas, her marriage to Clement Maluy, and their move to the New Liberty area of Mesa County in 1918. She remembers popular dances and other social activities. She recalls the New Liberty School and its history. She speaks about the family’s homestead, learning to irrigate, their first crops, and raising poultry. She gives some history of the town of Mack. She remembers getting electricty in the home and then...