Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-12-03
Description: Oral history interview with Mimi Vigil recalls her childhood with her grandparents in Trujillo Creek, Colorado, traditional cultural events, and the Hispanic neighborhood she grew up in Colorado ...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-10-01
Description: Oral history interview with Luis Velez, Colorado Springs Police Chief. Velez recalls growing up in Puerto Rico and New York, his service in Vietnam, and his arrival in Colorado Springs. Velez dis...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-03-18
Description: Oral history interview with Carmen Vazquez-Guy in which she describes her childhood in Puerto Rico, her subsequent immigration to Colorado Springs, and her family's celebration of holidays. Vazqu...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-03-04
Description: Oral history interview with Ada Torres in which she describes her childhood in Puerto Rico and New York, the importance of culture during holidays, and her service in the Navy. Torres graduated w...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2003-12-19
Description: Oral history interview with Gene Sanchez, Colorado Springs information technology business owner and president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Sanchez recalls his time growing up in the San ...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-05-14
Description: Oral history interview with Ken Salazar who was Attorney General of Colorado in 2004 and went on to serve as a U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Interior. Salazar tells of how his cultural herita...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-10-08
Description: Oral history interview with Lionel Rivera, Colorado Springs Mayor and former president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Rivera recalls his childhood in a large family from Santa Fe, their cul...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-11-05
Description: Oral history interview with Josie Rivera in which she describes her father's employment in the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, her attendance at Colorado Springs High School, and her early work a...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-04-16
Description: Oral history interview with Aida M. Richardson, Colorado Springs businesswoman of Puerto Rican descent. Richardson recounts her experience immigrating to the United States during her childhood an...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-09-03
Description: Oral history interview with Brenda Quinones, head of the Latino Unity Council. Quinones describes her childhood in Texas, her cultural heritage, and the Hispanic community of Colorado Springs. Qu...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-06-11
Description: Oral history interview with Ignacio "Noss" Ortiz, a Colorado Springs educator, veteran, and lifelong resident. Ortiz recounts his childhood in the Shooks Run neighborhood, his immigrant parents a...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-10-08
Description: Oral history interview with Manuel Navarro, Colorado Springs Fire Department Chief. Navarro describes his childhood in California, cultural traditions, religious beliefs|and various experiences w...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-06-01
Description: Oral history interview with Mabel Medina, Irene Tolmich, Sadie Valdez, and Edulia Garcia, older members of the Colorado Springs community. All three women describe growing up in small towns on fa...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-01-16
Description: Oral history interview with Bernie and Natalie Martinez, active participants in Colorado Springs Hispanic community. The Martinez' discuss their leadership of the Hispanic Arts Council, efforts t...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-02-26
Description: Oral history interview with brothers Bonney and Eddie Lopez, born and raised in the San Luis Valley. The Lopez brothers recount childhood stories that include handmade toys, their father's work e...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-02-26
Description: Oral history interview with brothers Bonney and Eddie Lopez, born and raised in the San Luis Valley. The Lopez brothers recount childhood stories that include handmade toys, their father's work e...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-02-18
Description: Oral history interview with Isabel Higbee and Sylvia Manzanares. Higbee was born in 1916 in New Mexico, and her daughter Manzanares was born in Trinidad, Colorado. Higbee's father was a Spanish s...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-02-06
Description: Oral history interview with George P. Guerrero, former Senior Vice President with the El Pomar Foundation and retired Army officer. Guerrero describes his childhood spent across the southwest as ...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-03-19
Description: Oral history interview with Ben Gallegos, Colorado Springs financial planner. Gallegos describes his childhood in the San Luis Valley where he grew up with a single mother and three brothers duri...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-04-01
Description: Oral history interview with three generations of the Cordova family: Presiliano, Annie, Anthony, and Anna Cordova. Presiliano and Annie describe growing up during the Great Depression in rural Co...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-01-17
Description: Oral history interview with Michael Berniger, long time Colorado resident. Berniger describes his childhood as a son of beet farm workers, his educational background, and his service in the Medic...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2004-04-16
Description: Oral history interview with LeAnn Baca Bartlett in which she recounts her life in a multicultural family. Bartlett spent the early years of her childhood in Tehran in a military family and reflec...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-06-10
Description: Oral history interview with Jose Barrera in which he shares his family history from Mercedes, Texas, his ideas on multiculturalism, and his experiences with discrimination in the 1950s. Barrera d...
Item Type: VideoDate: 2005-03-22
Description: Oral history interview with Jose Aponte, director of Pikes Peak Library District. Aponte describes the challenges of facing racism as a school boy, his love of art and literature, and his career ...