During the program Women in Politics at the Museum of Western Colorado, Maxine Albers, the first woman to serve as a Mesa County Commissioner, and Jane Quimby, the first woman to serve on Grand Junction’s City Council, talk about their experience as pioneering women in politics, about sexism they faced from some male politicians, and about the local legislative process. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...

During a Women’s Network Luncheon at the Moose Lodge in Grand Junction, Colorado, Dottie Lamm gives a speech titled “Today’s Women,” about the state of women’s political, professional, and social empowerment in the United States. Her speech was part of a larger program. This recording is provided by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado. *Photograph Dottie Lamm:...