Josephine Dickey, an early African-American resident of Grand Junction, talks about her mother’s illness and stepping in to care for her siblings after her mother’s death. She remembers her mother’s doctor and other doctors that cared for the family. She recalls her father William Wesley Taylor III and how he worked to put his brother and sister through college. She talks about African-Americans as portrayed in television programs, especially the Jeffersons, and about race relations as portrayed on TV. She speaks about her early memories of Grand Junction, including parades on Main Street, a fire downtown, and a circus train unloading beneath the 5th Street viaduct. She remembers Handy Chapel picnics held at the Colorado River, and recipes handed down in her family. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
