Second Interview with Anna Gertrude (Barker) Foster

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Anna Foster talks about teaching at the Mesa School, beginning in 1908. She remembers some of the teachers and students at the school, and going sledding with them for fun. She speaks about the role of the Mesa’s Methodist church in providing community for people of all Christian faiths. She describes stagecoaches that delivered between towns, traveling the old Hogback Road from Palisade, and the building of the Plateau Canyon Road. She recalls early attempts at growing fruit near the town of Mesa, including her husband’s apple orchard, and she tells about packing peaches in Palisade. She talks about the many rural schools in the area, including the Egalite School and the Mormon Mesa School. She remembers camping in the summer with Roy and Ida Sisac and others. 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 Anna Gertrude (Barker) Foster
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Subject: Mesa County (Colo.) -- History, Teachers -- Colorado, Education, Rural schools -- Colorado -- History, Colorado -- Social life and customs, Sledding, Religious life and customs, Rural churches, Rural roads, Grand Mesa (Colo.) -- History, Agriculture -- Colorado -- Mesa County, Apple growers, Fruit growers, Ute Indians -- History, Camping
Description: Anna Foster talks about teaching at the Mesa School, beginning in 1908. She remembers some of the teachers and students at the school, and going sledding with them for fun. She speaks about the role of the Mesa’s Methodist church in providing community for people of all Christian faiths. She describes stagecoaches that delivered between towns, traveling the old Hogback Road from Palisade, and the building of the Plateau Canyon Road. She recalls early attempts at growing fruit near the town of Mesa, including her husband’s apple orchard, and she tells about packing peaches in Palisade. She talks about the many rural schools in the area, including the Egalite School and the Mormon Mesa School. She remembers camping in the summer with Roy and Ida Sisac and others. 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: October 15, 1982-, February 6, 2023
Type: Voice Recording
Format: 1 MP3 audio file (59:10) digitized from source material (Interview 578: Audiocassette 1); +1 transcript.
Identifier: mesa:1773, : OH 578 Foster, Anna Gertrude
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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/ Or Mesa County Libraries: https://mesacountylibraries.org/aboutus/contact/English

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Second Interview with Anna Gertrude (Barker) Foster

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