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What's New?

There are two new ways for you to enjoy oral histories.
We now have a blog and a Facebook page, both of which have links to oral history videos, podcasts, and more that will entertain you and bring history alive.

Visit us at www.BoulderOralHistory.wordpress.com
or www.tinyurl.com/MROHP-FB .
You don't even have to be a Facebook member to visit our Facebook page!



FEATURED ORAL HISTORY:
OH 1384. Rona Wilensky took New Vista High School from being a gleam of an idea to becoming a 300+ student nontraditional high school that recently finished its seventeenth year in Boulder under her stewardship as principal. Shortly after Rona Wilensky "graduated" from being principal of New Vista by retiring, she talked about the planning and creation of the school, its underlying principles, its nontraditional elements, its approach to serving English as a Second Language students, the community support it has engendered, and its successes. She also discusses some of the controversial and contentious political struggles that the Boulder Valley School Board experienced during the 1990s and the general social-cultural climate for students in Boulder.

ABOUT THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE

Four unidentified Boulder, Colorado Sanitarium nurses, 1910s

The Maria Rogers Oral History Program (MROHP) Collection contains more than 1,300 interviews about all aspects of life in Boulder County, from pioneers to agriculture, mining, businesses, the arts, education, daily life during various decades, cities and mountain towns in the county, government policies and city planning, open space programs, women, immigrant and ethnic populations, rock climbing and mountaineering, politics and political activists, the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, and much more.

While the actual collection is archived at the Carnegie Library for Local History (1125 Pine St., Boulder, Colorado), the audio, summaries, and transcripts of the interviews have been digitized and stored in this searchable digital archive, accessible via the internet.

The oral history digital archive is linked to the Boulder Public Library's computer catalog to make it easy to find interviews of interest. To find interviews by subject, click on Library Catalog and do a WORD search using a topic or a name plus the words "oral history."

To see groups of interviews about selected topics, click on Special Collections.

You also can browse or search the list of names in the blue box on the left side of the screen.

For more information about how this Oral History Digital Archive works, use the blue buttons above.

For more information about the collection, click on About the Oral History Collection or go to the Program Web Site.

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