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THANK YOU TO THE BOULDER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION. Thanks to a generous grant from the Boulder Public Library Foundation, the oral history program has new video cameras, which replace the cameras that we had been using for the past nine years. The Foundation also funded new tripods and camera bags for the program. The new equipment yields better video, better sound, and is more compact, making it easier for interviewers to bring it to interview locations.

WE ALSO THANK THE BPL FOUNDATION FOR SPONSORSHIP of the program manager and one of its volunteers for attending this year’s national oral history conference (Oct. 24-28, 2007) to give talks about the oral history program and about the program’s Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant Special Collection .


OUR CURRENT FEATURED INTERVIEW IS:
OH 1454, an interview with Pat McCormick, a Sister of Loretto. In this interview, Sister Pat McCormick describes the development of her political values through her early work in Latin America and tells about her twelve years of weekly prayer vigils and other actions of civil resistance with regard to the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. She describes in detail a protest action in which she and another nun drove through the Rocky Flats gate and, while in a restricted area, poured human blood on crosses that had photos of the world’s poor on them, resulting in her arrest and imprisonment for two months. By Dorothy Ciarlo. Transcribed by Sandy Adler.

ABOUT THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE  

Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium nurses
Four unidentified Boulder,
Colorado Sanitarium nurses, 1910s
The Maria Rogers Oral History Program (MROHP) Collection contains more than 1,300 interviews about all aspects of life in Boulder County, from pioneers to agriculture, mining, businesses, the arts, education, daily life during various decades, cities and mountain towns in the county, government policies and city planning, open space programs, women, immigrant and ethnic populations, rock climbing and mountaineering, politics and political activists, the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, and much more.

While the actual collection is archived at the Carnegie Library for Local History (1125 Pine St., Boulder, Colorado), the audio, summaries, and transcripts of the interviews have been digitized and stored in this searchable digital archive, accessible via the internet.

The oral history digital archive is linked to the Boulder Public Library's computer catalog to make it easy to find interviews of interest. To find interviews by subject, click on Library Catalog and do a WORD search using a topic or a name plus the words "oral history."

To see groups of interviews about selected topics, click on Special Collections.

You also can browse or search the list of names in the blue box on the left side of the screen.

For more information about how this Oral History Digital Archive works, use the blue buttons above.

For more information about the collection, click on About the Oral History Collection or go to the Program Web Site.

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