First Interview with Josephine Kate (Ramsay) Biggs

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Josephine Biggs discusses her memories of Cross Orchards and owner “Colonel” Bill Cross, horseback riding excursions, and the LaCourt Hotel. She also talks about her work with the YWCA during a time when many young girls were “getting out of hand with all the boys coming home” from World War I, Lincoln Park and Lincoln Park School, her husband’s development of the Lincoln Park Neighborhood, and some details of the home they lived in there. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of the Mesa County Public Library and the Museum of Western Colorado.

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Title: First Interview with Josephine Kate (Ramsay) Biggs
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Subject: Mesa County (Colo.) -- History, Grand Junction (Colo.) -- History, Horsemanship, Young Women's Christian Association, Colorado -- Social life and customs, House furnishings
Description: Josephine Biggs discusses her memories of Cross Orchards and owner “Colonel” Bill Cross, horseback riding excursions, and the LaCourt Hotel. She also talks about her work with the YWCA during a time when many young girls were “getting out of hand with all the boys coming home” from World War I, Lincoln Park and Lincoln Park School, her husband’s development of the Lincoln Park Neighborhood, and some details of the home they lived in there. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of the Mesa County Public Library and the Museum of Western Colorado.
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Date: January 11, 1980-
Type: Voice Recording
Format: 1 MP3 audio file (55:40) digitized from source material (Interview 312: Audiocassette 1); +1 transcript.
Identifier: mesa:920, : OH 312 Biggs, Josephine
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Language: English
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First Interview with Josephine Kate (Ramsay) Biggs

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