Interview with Lois Marie (Long) Buniger and Leland Jacob Buniger

Description

Lois Long describes the homestead she grew up on near Loma. She remembers living in a tent and then a pre-cut house, and drinking ditch water. She recalls her father and uncle moving the Valley View School to north of the Colorado River in the 1920’s, and the school bus that was sometimes a horse-drawn cart. Leland Buniger talks about his childhood in Grand Junction, Fruita and Loma. He describes farming potatoes, beans and hay. He speaks about the Daily Sentinel paper route that he and Lois ran. He remembers things that they did for fun, such as rabbit hunting, horseback riding, and swimming in the ditches. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.