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Anna Alstatt talks about her life as a young Swedish immigrant in Kansas, and about homesteading and homemaking in Mack, Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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Mary Maluy talks about her birth in Kansas, her marriage to Clement Maluy, and their move to the New Liberty area of Mesa County in 1918. She remembers popular dances and other social activities. She recalls the New Liberty School and its history. She speaks about the family’s homestead, learning to irrigate, their first crops, and raising poultry. She gives some history of the town of Mack. She remembers getting electricty in the home and then...