{"id":906,"date":"2016-04-24T00:40:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T00:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicpalisade.org\/?page_id=906"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:41:22","slug":"oral-histories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historicpalisade.org\/index.php\/oral-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral and Video History Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Palisade Historical Society has an active oral and video history program. We have recorded digital videos of people and are including written summaries of those who share memories of Palisade, their lives, and family stories. The written summaries of these interviews and written memories are below.<\/p>\n

If you know someone who is interested in participating in our program, please contact us.<\/p>\n

Also, we are grateful to the Marie Tipping Archives at the Museums of Western Colorado for sharing notes and transcriptions of Mesa County Oral Histories which were conducted in the 1970s and 1980s. Our summaries of several Palisade residents are listed below, organized by the Mesa County Oral History Project number.\u00a0The Museum and the Mesa County Library are working on transferring the original cassette tapes to mp3 audio and putting them on the Library’s Oral History Project on its\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

Shirley Rowley Craig Maurer<\/a><\/p>\n

Ed Maurer<\/a><\/p>\n

Bill Beckwith<\/a><\/p>\n

Bill Floryancic <\/a><\/p>\n

Lucille Hampton Floryancic<\/a><\/p>\n

Merrilyn Kay Decker Simpkins<\/a><\/p>\n

Barney and Ruth Davis <\/a><\/p>\n

Geraldine Malatche Burdick<\/a><\/p>\n

John Hickman<\/a><\/p>\n

Gordon Stewart<\/a><\/p>\n

Nancy Maurer Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n

Art and Kathy Wells Keswick<\/a><\/p>\n

Albert Merlino <\/a><\/p>\n

Keith Clinton <\/a><\/p>\n

Dorothy Carver Hines<\/a><\/p>\n

Lyman Wallace <\/a><\/p>\n

Ida McKay Shrum <\/a><\/p>\n

Jack Webb<\/a><\/p>\n

Thelma Rose Pahler Hays <\/a><\/p>\n

Dorothy Vernon Moss Green<\/a><\/p>\n

Barbara Bikki<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary Aspinall White<\/a><\/p>\n

Wilma Kerr<\/a><\/p>\n

John and Doris Butler<\/a><\/p>\n

Maxine Lundgren Clark Allen<\/a><\/p>\n

Ann Merlino Mendicelli<\/a><\/p>\n

Steve Johnson Memories<\/a><\/p>\n

JOHNSON 1989 FAMILY HISTORY<\/a><\/p>\n

Lawrence Pyeatt memories<\/a><\/p>\n

Memories of Fern DuBose<\/a><\/p>\n

Jack Stephens<\/a><\/p>\n

Growing up on a Palisade Peach Orchard by Jeff Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n

Salvador Rivas Memories in English<\/a><\/p>\n

Los recuerdos de Salvador Rivas en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n

Mesa County Oral Histories of Palisade residents:<\/strong><\/p>\n

MC #43 Marion Bowman\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

MC #48 -1 and MC #48 – 2 Levi Clark<\/a><\/p>\n

MC #92 Helen Maher Bowman<\/a><\/p>\n

MC #279 Eugene F. Rowley<\/a><\/p>\n

MC #295 Lee Toothaker <\/a><\/p>\n

MC #298, #349-1 and 349-2 Virgil Hickman<\/a><\/p>\n

MC #447 Bill Lorenzen <\/a><\/p>\n

MC #526 1- 4 Ann Reese Stokes <\/a><\/p>\n

MC #739 Max Sisson<\/a><\/p>\n

MC #748 Lorin Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n

MC #770 Annie Goffredi <\/a><\/p>\n

MC #794<\/a>\u00a0George Bunte Jr <\/a><\/p>\n

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