Vail Valley Voices
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Eagle Valley Community Fund - Oral History with Vi Brown and Nancy Waring Nottingham
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Associated with the Eagle Valley Community Fund (EVCF), the EVCF Annual Rummage Sale was inaugurated by a group of Vail women as a fund-raiser for the first teacher in the community of Vail. Ultimately, the EVCF Rummage Sale, and its associated nonprofit umbrella, the Eagle County Community Fund, raised nearly $6 million dollars for Eagle County nonprofit organizations between 1965 and 2017. Vi Brown, Nancy Waring Nottingham and Merv Lapin were mainstays of this popular Eagle County, Colorado entity and function.
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Ed Grange - Oral History
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Ed Grange described his family roots from Aoste Valley in northern Italy and their migration to America circa 1900. His father initially worked in the Leadville mining industry but ultimately relocated to the Roaring Fork Valley in 1916. Grange grew up without electricity on a ranch stradled Eagle and Pitkin Counties near Basalt and remained in his family nearly 100 years.
Besides discussing his career with Holy Cross Electric, Grange expounds upon his role in the electrification of the Eagle River Valley, in addition to bringing power to the sheep ranches in the Upper Gore Creek Valley. Grange examines how Holy Cross Electric Cooperative took a chance on Pete Seibert and their decision to create the power infrastructure to the Vail Ski Area.
Grange was interviewed by Walter Gallacher and his Western Colorado Immigrant Stories, a Colorado Public Radio program aired from KDNK in Carbondale, Colorado., Ed Grange images are from the February 2013 issue of Colorado Country Life and Walter Gallacher's Western Colorado Immigrant Stories website.
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Ella Burnett - Oral History
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Interview with Ella Warren Burnett by Walter Gallacher. Ella discusses her childhood in Red Cliff, CO, her nursing studies during World War II, her life with husband Pete Burnett, and her nursing career in the Gilman Mine, with Dr. George Stanley, and in Vail, with Dr. Tom Steinberg.
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Ella Burnett Pioneer Pew Plaque
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Plaque Reads:
The Pioneer Pew
From the Minturn Church (1914-2002)
Dedicated to the pioneers of our early church
And our longest serving elder
ELLA BURNETT
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