First Oral History Goes Live!
Mold My Malus installation at the Boulder Public Library, 2019.
For the past year, BATP team members and volunteers have been collecting interviews and oral histories in partnership with the Maria Rogers Oral History Program at the Carnegie Library for Local History. The first recording we did, with Dr. Bert Tolbert of Old North Boulder, is live!
You can find the recording and the transcript here.
Thanks to hours of volunteer work at BATP and at Carnegie — first to research and record the interview, then to transcribe it, clean up the recording, and upload it, along with a description and keywords — this interview is now accessible to the Boulder community and anyone with an internet connection. Listen to Dr. Tolbert describe the historic apple trees on his property, the history of his own, carefully-tended orchard, the bears that come down from the foothills to munch on the sweet fruit, North Boulder and the University of Colorado in the 1960s, and more.
More recordings to come! Check out the Maria Rogers Oral History Program, a local treasure, anytime to learn about all sorts of Boulder history.