The “Listen to This!” podcasts are created using interviews from the Maria Rogers Oral History Program’s collection of more than 1,800 interviews that consist of personal reminiscences and recollections that give the flavor of everything from everyday life to major events in Colorado history.
Maria Rogers Oral History Program
Maeve Conran’s story about the Maria Rogers Oral HistoryProgram aired on KGNU on May 31, 2012. Conran, Co-Director of News for the Boulder public radio station begins her story like this: “The Carnegie Library in Boulder feels more like a museum. Housed in an historic building on Pine Street, there’s that hushed silence that harks […]
By Brandon Springer IN SEPTEMBER OF 1946, Soviet Jewish mathematician Naum Meiman was parted from his family. His daughter, Olga Plam; her husband, Misha; and their son were leaving the Soviet Union for the United States after spending a year as refuseniks, Soviet Jews who had applied for exit visas from the state and were […]
THE MARIA ROGERS ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM has collected interviews with Boulder and Boulder County residents since 1976. Each year we add about 50 new interviews to our archive. And every year, some of the people that we interviewed finish their time here on earth, leaving behind loved ones and memories of a wide variety of […]
By Brandon Springer AS THE SOVIET UNION BEGAN TO CRUMBLE in the late 1980s, a group of Jews in Boulder organized to aid and resettle Soviet Jews who faced increasing discrimination from the Soviet state and refusal of their requests to emigrate (earning them the label of “refuseniks”). These Jewish Boulderites called themselves Boulder Action […]
The first schoolhouse in Boulder, Colorado, was built in 1860. During the next hundred years, the people of Boulder County established sixty-six school districts. A district was established only after proof was provided that there were at least 10 children between the ages of five and twenty-one years of age living in the proposed area. […]
EARLIER THIS MONTH we celebrated Independence Day, which is symbolic of many things for American citizens: a hard war fought and won, freedom gained in the balance, inalienable human rights that determine the fabric of American society. The day is one of remembrance for Americans born and raised on United States soil – but it […]
OUR PODCAST ABOUT LONG’S GARDENS is up. Access it by clicking here . You also can play it from our site, where you can download it to your computer and/or mp3 player. Take it along on your mp3 player to listen to as you tour the gardens, which are located at 3240 Broadway in Boulder […]
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