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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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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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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...
7. Kris Keys
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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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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...
11. Laird Key Smith
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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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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...
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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...