Manuscript/Mixed Material Oral history with 89 year old white male, Mesa County, Colorado (Transcript)
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Image 1 of Oral history with 89 year old white male, Mesa County, Colorado (Transcript) Transcription for Date: July 7, 1977 and July 18, 1977 Place: Grand Junction, Colorado Interviewer: Jean Pare Begin M9 A(2) J. came to the Grand Valley area in 1911 from Holland, as…
- Contributor: Straayer, Neil - Page, Jean
- Date: 1977-07-07
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Image 2 of Oral history with 89 year old white male, Mesa County, Colorado (Transcript) (N.S.) any old way. Well, it took me ten days to come across the ocean. When I came to New York, you had to be examined and all, in order to get…
- Contributor: Straayer, Neil - Page, Jean
- Date: 1977-07-07
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Image 3 of Oral history with 89 year old white male, Mesa County, Colorado (Transcript) (N.S.) people sitting, up at the counter and some was laying on a couch smoking a pipe, and it didn't smell very good and I didn't know what was going on, but…
- Contributor: Straayer, Neil - Page, Jean
- Date: 1977-07-07
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Image 4 of Oral history with 89 year old white male, Mesa County, Colorado (Transcript) (N.S.) to Pueblo. I took the one to Pueblo. I didn't know where I was going but, you know, I just took one train. J.P. That was before they had the Moffat…
- Contributor: Straayer, Neil - Page, Jean
- Date: 1977-07-07
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Image 5 of Oral history with 89 year old white male, Mesa County, Colorado (Transcript) (N.S.) get off. I shook my head since I wasn't going off. I was going to Fruita. Well, he thought and thought and he saw he couldn't do nothing with me, so…
- Contributor: Straayer, Neil - Page, Jean
- Date: 1977-07-07
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Image 6 of Oral history with 89 year old white male, Mesa County, Colorado (Transcript) (N.S.) picked me up and I went home. Got home there about twelve thirty that night and Sunday morning I went to work. I didn't lose any time. I went to work…
- Contributor: Straayer, Neil - Page, Jean
- Date: 1977-07-07
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Image 7 of Oral history with 89 year old white male, Mesa County, Colorado (Transcript) (N.S.) ested in fruit ever since. I still have some fruit trees. J.P. What happened to the apples? N.S. Well, what happened to the apple industry, to my idea of it, ---…
- Contributor: Straayer, Neil - Page, Jean
- Date: 1977-07-07
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Image 8 of Oral history with 89 year old white male, Mesa County, Colorado (Transcript) (N.S.) it had no keeping quality. So then I planted peaches end m9A(2) and then the Board of Control come in and you couldn't ship out anything unless it was two and…
- Contributor: Straayer, Neil - Page, Jean
- Date: 1977-07-07
About this Item
Title
- Oral history with 89 year old white male, Mesa County, Colorado (Transcript)
Names
- Straayer, Neil (Speaker)
- Page, Jean (Interviewer)
Created / Published
- July 7th and 18th 1977
Headings
- - Emigration and immigration
- - English language--Dialects--Colorado
- - Men, White--Colorado--Mesa County--Language
- - Immigrants--Colorado--Mesa County--Language
- - Dutch Americans--Colorado--Mesa County
- - Farmers--Colorado--Mesa County--Language
- - Orchards--Colorado--Mesa County
- - Apples--Diseases and pests--Colorado--Mesa County
- - Arsenates--Colorado--Mesa County
- - Peach growers--Colorado--Mesa County--Language
- - Older men--Colorado--Mesa County--Language
- - Mesa County (Colo.)--Social life and customs
- - Interviews
- - Narratives
- - Oral histories
- - Personal narratives
- - Transcripts
- - United States -- Colorado -- Mesa
Genre
- Interviews
- Narratives
- Oral histories
- Personal narratives
- Transcripts
Notes
- - For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mesa County Public Library. Grand Junction, CO and Museum of Western Colorado. Grand Junction, CO
- - 89 year old white male. Born in Burgh, Holland 2/4/1888. Came to Mesa county in 1911.
- - Biography of narrator who was a fruit grower.
Call Number/Physical Location
- AFC 1986/022: AFS 24,307, folder 17
Source Collection
- Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (AFC 1986/022)
Repository
- American Folklife Center
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- online text
- image
IIIF Presentation Manifest
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Location
Language
Subject
- Apples
- Arsenates
- Colorado
- Dialects
- Diseases and Pests
- Dutch Americans
- Emigration and Immigration
- English Language
- Farmers
- Immigrants
- Interviews
- Language
- Men, White
- Mesa County
- Mesa County (Colo.)
- Narratives
- Older Men
- Oral Histories
- Orchards
- Peach Growers
- Personal Narratives
- Social Life and Customs
- Transcripts