Interview with Sterling Price Bittle, Velda Lorraine (Kelly) Bittle, and Marie (Dunston) Bittle

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Sterling, Velda and Marie Bittle talk about their lives in Loma, Colorado and the surrounding area. Marie talks about coming to Loma from Kansas when her parents homestead in eastern Utah in 1923, and about running a dairy farm in the 1940’s and 50’s. Price Bittle talks about coming to Loma in 1920 with his parents, helping them farm north of town, working as a ranch foreman in Kannah Creek for E.H. Munro, and working for the Elizondo sheep ranching outfit. Velda Bittle speaks about her involvement with the Loma Presbyterian Church and the history of the church. They speak about people getting their drinking water from the Highline Canal, cutting ice from the Colorado River, and washing clothes on a board before gas and electric washing machines. 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: Interview with Sterling Price Bittle, Velda Lorraine (Kelly) Bittle, and Marie (Dunston) Bittle
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Subject: Mesa County (Colo.) -- History, Utah -- History, City and town life, Dairy farms -- Colorado, Farmers, Ranchers, Sheep farmers, Presbyterian Church, Women in the Presbyterian Church, Drinking water -- United States, Water resources development -- Colorado, Icehouses, United Presbyterian Women, Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado, Religious life and customs, Homemakers, Lifestyles -- Colorado -- History
Description: Sterling, Velda and Marie Bittle talk about their lives in Loma, Colorado and the surrounding area. Marie talks about coming to Loma from Kansas when her parents homestead in eastern Utah in 1923, and about running a dairy farm in the 1940’s and 50’s. Price Bittle talks about coming to Loma in 1920 with his parents, helping them farm north of town, working as a ranch foreman in Kannah Creek for E.H. Munro, and working for the Elizondo sheep ranching outfit. Velda Bittle speaks about her involvement with the Loma Presbyterian Church and the history of the church. They speak about people getting their drinking water from the Highline Canal, cutting ice from the Colorado River, and washing clothes on a board before gas and electric washing machines. 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: July 13, 1982-, January 3, 2022
Type: Voice Recording
Format: 1 MP3 audio file (25:00) digitized from source material (Interview 522: Audiocassette 1); No transcript.
Identifier: mesa:1575, : OH 522 Bittle, Sterling Price
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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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Interview with Sterling Price Bittle, Velda Lorraine (Kelly) Bittle, and Marie (Dunston) Bittle

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