Interview with Louis Frank "Lou" Guccini and Margaret Elaine (Beede) Guccini

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Lou Guccini describes growing up in Loma, Colorado, his father’s sheepranching business, speaking Italian in the home, and learning English in school. He remembers loving baseball and playing on town baseball teams with his brothers against the town teams of Hotchkiss, Rhone, Fruita, Appleton, and other locales. He describes how he became a sugar beet farmer with the help of his father-in-law, Thomas Wayne Beede. He recalls German prisoners of war that worked topping beets in the field during World War II, and irrigating crops from the Highline Canal. Margaret Guccini remembers her schooling in Loma. Lou Guccini talks about playing banjo in bands for town dances. 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 Louis Frank "Lou" Guccini and Margaret Elaine (Beede) Guccini
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Subject: Mesa County (Colo.) -- History, Italian Americans, Baseball -- History, City and town life, Youth -- Social life and customs, Sugar beet, Immigrant -- West (U.S.), Agriculture -- Colorado -- Mesa County, Farmers, World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German, Irrigation -- Colorado, Dance -- Social aspects, Musicians, Country dancing -- West (U.S.)
Description: Lou Guccini describes growing up in Loma, Colorado, his father’s sheepranching business, speaking Italian in the home, and learning English in school. He remembers loving baseball and playing on town baseball teams with his brothers against the town teams of Hotchkiss, Rhone, Fruita, Appleton, and other locales. He describes how he became a sugar beet farmer with the help of his father-in-law, Thomas Wayne Beede. He recalls German prisoners of war that worked topping beets in the field during World War II, and irrigating crops from the Highline Canal. Margaret Guccini remembers her schooling in Loma. Lou Guccini talks about playing banjo in bands for town dances. 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: March 17, 1983-, September 11, 2023
Type: Voice Recording
Format: 1 MP3 audio file (30:42) digitized from source material (Interview 637: Audiocassette 1); No transcript.
Identifier: mesa:1863, : OH 637 Guccini Louis F. and Guccini, Margaret B.
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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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Interview with Louis Frank "Lou" Guccini and Margaret Elaine (Beede) Guccini

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