Hannah Evans Oral History Audio-A

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Hannah Evans was born in 1880 in England. She moved to Lafayette when she was a young teenager. She recalls the 1910 Miners Strike and the presence of the militia. She often traveled by horse and buggy with her children around Lafayette and further into Boulder and Denver. She remembers her first experience in Lafayette coming from England, thinking it was an awful place. There were very few buildings and no sidewalks. Lafayette changed a lot in her lifetime. She speaks of businesses, growth in population, and technological innovations among other things.