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A couple danced on Arapaho Glacier before it was closed to hikers. (Nederland Area Historical Society)
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THE MOUNTAIN-EAR ARCHIVES
Relive the Past with these Oral History Interviews
Jeannette Smith
Jeannette Smith grew up in Denver and spent summers in Nederland, where her mother ran the Junior Catholic Daughters Camp for girls. Jeannette rode horses and bicycles with the girls. She met her husband, Mike, when she was twelve and he was fourteen, just before a ten-year drought in Nederland, and she has lived the rest of her life in Nederland.
Oral History with Jeannette Smith, OH3095
Don Smith
Don Smith worked for the Boulder Valley School District for many years, beginning in the mid-1950s, first as a physical education teacher and coach for Casey Junior High School, and later as a counselor at Baseline Junior High School and Nederland High School. In this interview he recalls his own days as a student at Nederland High School, and his career as a teacher, coach and counselor.
Oral history interview with Don Smith, 2011
Jean Walsh
Jean Walsh taught elementary school in Nederland and Boulder for 32 years. After graduating from college, her first elementary school teaching job in Colorado was in Nederland, where she taught for 13 years, beginning in 1969. In Boulder, she taught at Martin Park Elementary School.
Don JohnsonIn this oral history, Don Johnson shares memories of time spent in Eldora and surrounding areas. Don first went to Eldora in 1936 or ’37 as a child, when his aunt, Florence Bell, and her husband, Bob Whiting, had a cabin there called Bonnie Brae. One early experience was exploring a large cabin that had belonged to Molly Brown.
Mary FlartyMary Flarty was born in a house near the Wolftongue Mill in Nederland in 1908. She worked the telephone switchboard in Nederland, married, and had one son. In the 1986 interview she talks about early life in Caribou, the flu epidemic, Goldie Cameron, Nederland’s ‘big fire,’ the cemetery, Antlers Hotel and other old buildings in Nederland.
Guy TannerTanner Brothers groceries, mining, tungsten mill, Wolf Tongue Mill, Colorado Springs Mine, Conger Mine; entertainment, buildings, Green’s groceries, anecdotes, Goldie Cameron.