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Audio Recording Interview with Lloyd Tower and Irene Tower about the Dawson houses, Clayton, New Mexico

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Lloyd Tower and Irene Tower about the Dawson houses, Clayton, New Mexico

Names

  • Kalb, Laurie Beth (Research team member)
  • Tower, Lloyd (Interviewee)
  • Tower, Irene (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Clayton, New Mexico, August 28, 1985

Headings

  • -  Folklore--New Mexico
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- New Mexico -- Clayton

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Index data: Side 1: part 1 of a 2-part interview with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd and Irene Tower of Clayton, New Mexico about houses in Clayton that had been moved from the former coal mining town of Dawson NM to become part of Clayton's residential housing stock; the Towers live in a Dawson house on Harding Street, commenting that the houses across the street were moved over later and are known as "Tough Street," mostly unoccupied in at the time of the interview, the Towers explain they got a good deal when purchasing their house, there was a blizzard the second year they lived here that caused a neighbor's ceiling to collapse, about the differences in the layout of some of the houses, the Towers made many additions to the original layout, including a room, insulation, plumbing, heat, a porch, fenced yard; about the term "affordable housing," these houses were bought after the Dawson mines shut down (several years after two mine disasters); in Clayton, some of the Dawson houses have been handsomely renovated, some less so.
  • -  Index data: Side 2: part 2 of a 2-part interview with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd and Irene Tower of Clayton, New Mexico about houses in Clayton that had been moved from the former coal mining town of Dawson NM to become part of Clayton's residential housing stock; about how Irene Tower baked cookies for new families in the neighborhood; about attending the Assembly of God Church; about some residents changing the windows and doors in their houses; about backyards and what can be done with them; when the Towers built a fence, comments about neighborhood mothers saying, "you're building a fence to keep out my children," and Irene just "looked at them and smiled and didn't say a word," neighborhood kids had been coming over to play because of a sand-pile and a clean yard; Lloyd and Irene Tower have been married 44 years, have three daughters, three sons-in-law, and five grandchildren; the Towers take fieldworkers Laurie Kalb and Boyd Pratt on a walking tour of house and backyard, including an antique room with several prized items and a large addition to the bedroom.

Medium

  • audiocassette, 60 min.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/032: SR13
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYM 3797
  • Field project identifier: NM-85-LK-A4

Source Collection

  • New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Kalb, Laurie Beth, Lloyd Tower, and Irene Tower. Interview with Lloyd Tower and Irene Tower about the Dawson houses, Clayton, New Mexico. Clayton, New Mexico, 1985. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991032_sr13/.

APA citation style:

Kalb, L. B., Tower, L. & Tower, I. (1985) Interview with Lloyd Tower and Irene Tower about the Dawson houses, Clayton, New Mexico. Clayton, New Mexico. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991032_sr13/.

MLA citation style:

Kalb, Laurie Beth, Lloyd Tower, and Irene Tower. Interview with Lloyd Tower and Irene Tower about the Dawson houses, Clayton, New Mexico. Clayton, New Mexico, 1985. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991032_sr13/>.