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Kris Keys of the Porchlight Players, portraying both O. W. Daggett and Ed Slaughter during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Orin W. Daggett was born January 4, 1861, and died April 16, 1942. He owned and operated the...
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Key to the previous photo of the Eagle School elementary students in 1919.
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Ruth Hoffman talks about her teen and young adult years spent packing fruit for Cross Orchards and other farms in Mesa County, Colorado. She describes the work involved in fruit packing, lighting smudge pots, picking fruit, the change in the kinds of jobs women did on the farm over time, and life on the farm. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of the Mesa County Public Library and the Museum of Western...
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He worked as a foreman at Cross Orchards Ranch 1915-1916, before he entered the U.S. Armed Services during World War I. He let his sister ride to work on his bicycle handlebars.
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Laird Smith talks about the life of his father, Silmon Smith. He recounts his father’s childhood trapping bear on the Grand Mesa at the age of thirteen, running a fruit and vegetable cart while in high school, and graduating second in his class from the Franklin School. He speaks about his father’s education at Colorado College, his position as editor of the college paper, and his work as the assistant weatherman in Colorado Springs. He recounts...
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She was born in Knoxville, TN and moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1906, when she was eight years old. Her father, Gentry L. Key, was advised to move to the West for his health. She went to school at Pear Park Elementary. Her father died when she was quite young and her mother bought a five acre tract of land. As a result, Ruth and her siblings took any sort of seasonal agricultural work that was offered, including tending the smudge pots for local...
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He was from Tennessee, and settled two miles west of Clifton in 1906 on the advice of his doctor, who told him to move west for the health of his lungs. There, he planted a peach orchard.
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Laird Smith talks about his grandfather Frank Smith’s severe case of Tuberculosis that caused the doctor to move with his family to Grand Junction, Colorado. He describes the apartment next to a saloon where the family lived on Main Street, where drunken men would sometimes crawl in through the windows by mistake. He discusses his father Silmon Smith’s “spartan” upbringing, his camping alone on the Grand Mesa for long stretches when he was...
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He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to prominent water law attorney Silmon Smith and homemaker Lena B. Smith. He grew up at 1030 Chipeta Avenue and on an apple orchard in Fruitvale. He attended Grand Junction High School. After his graduation from high school, he attended Grand Junction Junior College for one year before transferring to Colorado College, where he majored in English. At Colorado College he was involved in Phi Gamma Delta, The...
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Black and white photograph of The Key Hold Doorway at Aztec Ruins National Monument.
Thumbnail for 'A ten-key class is in session in Taylor Hall, Summer 1959.'
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A ten-key class is in session in Taylor Hall, Summer 1959.
Thumbnail for 'The Liberal Arts Education: The Key to a Life of Happiness?'
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In our ever-rapidly changing world, there are few constants. Skills mastered at vocational schools are soon antiquated; new jobs and industries require on-going training to keep up with their demands. The ability to problem-solve and think critically and be flexible in our perceptions, however, will help us navigate the dynamics of these times and for the future, and a liberal arts education helps to develop these broad-based skills by challenging...
Thumbnail for 'Two WSC students concentrate on mastering the ten-key machine in Taylor Hall, 1959.'
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Two WSC students concentrate on mastering the ten-key machine in Taylor Hall, Summer 1959. The nearest machine is an Olivetti Divisumma 24 electromagnetic model, an impressive machine for 1959.
Thumbnail for 'WSC students learn ten key skills on a variety of adding machine styles in an Office Machines class in Taylor Hall, ca. early...'
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WSC students learn ten key skills on a variety of adding machine styles in an Office Machines class in Taylor Hall, ca. early 1970s.
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This thesis attempts to establish a distinct timeline in the development of the idea of Eugenics, which is the theory that a superior race of humans can be created through the manipulation of marriage, reproduction, and genetics. The most important changes in eugenic ideology occurred not in the 1900's, but between 1869 and 1883, the years between which Francis Galton published his theories on Eugenics. In 1869, Eugenics was simply a theory on how...
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The view is to the north on Broadway just south of Hampden. The old Key Savings is on the left.
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The white building on the left is the original Key Savings bank. The architect for Key Savings was Charles Deaton. The view is to the east.