Second Interview with Mary Belle (Powers) Plaisted

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Mary Plaisted talks about growing up in the Milldale area around the sugar beet factory in Grand Junction, Colorado, and about the brothels and red-light district nearby. She describes having to beg and take odd cleaning and sewing jobs to support she and her children, and the kind strangers that helped her. She mentions the many places she lived in Grand Junction, the floods common in the Riverside neighborhood, and living in a close-knit Italian community there. She talks about being pregnant during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. She speaks of living in Delta County as a girl, about sugar beet and potato cultivation, and life on a farm. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.

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Title: Second Interview with Mary Belle (Powers) Plaisted
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Subject: Begging, Poverty, Basic needs, Homemakers, Gardens, Italian Americans, Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919, Mesa County (Colo.) -- History, Grand Junction (Colo.) -- History, Irrigation -- Colorado, Delta County (Colo.) -- History, Ute Indians -- History, Ute Indians -- Social life and customs, Garfield County (Colo.) -- History, Agriculture, Farm life, Family life
Description: Mary Plaisted talks about growing up in the Milldale area around the sugar beet factory in Grand Junction, Colorado, and about the brothels and red-light district nearby. She describes having to beg and take odd cleaning and sewing jobs to support she and her children, and the kind strangers that helped her. She mentions the many places she lived in Grand Junction, the floods common in the Riverside neighborhood, and living in a close-knit Italian community there. She talks about being pregnant during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. She speaks of living in Delta County as a girl, about sugar beet and potato cultivation, and life on a farm. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Date: August 25, 1980-
Type: Voice Recording
Format: 1 MP3 audio file (49:25) digitized from source material (Interview 435: Audiocassette 2); No transcript.
Identifier: mesa:1329, : OH 435 Plaisted, Mary
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Language: English
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Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=enlocalorganization:2Mesa County Librariesorganization:1040Museums of Western ColoradoThis Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). For rights management and/or licensing questions, please see http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ or http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/copyright-law Other inquiries may be sent to the Lloyd Files Research Library at the Museums of Western Colorado: https://museumofwesternco.com/contact/ Alternatively, inquiries may be sent to Mesa County Libraries: https://mesacountylibraries.org/aboutus/contact/English

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Second Interview with Mary Belle (Powers) Plaisted

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