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Oral History Interview with Adrienne Griffen, August 12, 2022

Description: Interview with Adrienne Griffen, the Executive Director of the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance from Arlington, Virginia. Griffen discusses her family, time as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy, education, her own experience with postpartum depression, becoming an advocate, Postpartum Support International, other leaders and organizations in her field, postpartum psychosis, statistics, and treatments.
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Date: August 12, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Griffen, Adrienne

Oral History Interview with Howard Garrett, August 22, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Howard Garret discussing his education and practice as a landscape architect and arborist, as well as his community engagement around organic gardening and soil health.
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Date: August 22, 2019
Creator: Stark, Johnnie & Garrett, Howard

Oral History Interview with Gary G. Olp, August 7, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Gary Olp, an architect and the founder of GGO Architects (the first green architecture firm in Dallas). He discusses how he became involved in sustainable architecture and with LEED rating systems, as well as his community outreach activities related to various green practices.
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Date: August 7, 2019
Creator: Stark, Johnnie & Olp, Gary Gene

Oral History Interview with Audrey Daniels Kariel, August 6, 2019

Description: Interview with Audrey Kariel, former Mayor of Mashall, Texas, discussing her family, upbringing in Corsicana, being Jewish during World War II, segregation, her education and marriage, becoming Chairman of the City Commission as Mayor of Marshall, Texas, race relations over the years, and becoming Chair of the Marshall Chamber of Commerce.
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Date: August 6, 2019
Creator: Lacy, David & Kariel, Audrey Daniels

Oral History Interview with Robert "Bob" Kimber and Rita Kimber, August 8, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with with Robert and Rita Kimber, homesteaders and simple life advocates concerning their childhoods; early experiences with gardening and the outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life.
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Date: August 8, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Kimber, Robert & Kimber, Rita

Oral History Interview with Masanobu and Tomoko Ikemiya, August 7, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Masanobu and Tomoko Ikemiya. In the first part of the interview, Ikemiya Masanobu discusses his early life in China and Japan, and his education in the United States. He talks about religion and Zen, and sustainable lifestyles. In the second part of the interview, his wife Ikemiya Tomoko talks about her early life, and their lives together.
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Date: August 7, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Ikemiya, Masanobu, 1946- & Ikemiya, Tomoko, 1956-

Oral History Interview with Gerry Bryan, August 6, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Gerry Bryan, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning his childhood; early experiences with farming; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings.
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Date: August 6, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Bryan, Gerry, 1941-

Oral History Interview with Lorraine Dyer, August 5, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Lorraine Dyer, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood in Maine; memories of the Nearings; homesteading.
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Date: August 5, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Dyer, Lorraine, 1940-

Oral History Interview with Abbie McMillen, August 4, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Abbie McMillan, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; early experiences with gardening and self-sufficiency; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
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Date: August 4, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & McMillen, Abbie

Oral History Interview with Chip Wadsworth, August 1, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Chip Wadsworth, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; early experiences with the outdoors; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
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Date: August 1, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Wadsworth, Chip, 1949-

Oral History Interview with Elizabeth (Ivy) and Joel Ricci, August 1, 2014

Description: Interview with Joel and Ivy Ricci, homesteaders and members of the Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine, from Everett, Washington, and Washington DC, respectively. The Ricci's discuss their upbringings, family backgrounds, and educations; their discovery of Scott and Helen Nearing's work and the appeal of homesteading; their marriage; becoming homesteaders and their thoughts on the experience; thoughts on community and property; and reflections on their relationship.
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Date: August 1, 2014
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Ricci, Elizabeth Feiga Ross & Ricci, Joel Anthony

Oral History Interview with Kelly Sanders, August 8, 2013

Description: Interview with Kelly Sanders, owner of Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair, Denton’s first LGBT-friendly bar. She recalls her childhood in East Texas and in Gainesville, Texas; brief marriage to a man; coming out narrative; experiences managing bars in Dallas; experiences during the AIDS crisis; relationships with LGBT community; decision to open Mable Peabody’s, and experiences there.
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Date: August 8, 2013
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Sanders, Kelly

Oral History Interview with Mary Finley, August 8, 2013

Description: Transcript of an interview with Mary Finley, administrator and co-founder of the UNT Ally program, concerning building LGBT resources at the UNT library and Ally program; Safe Zone programs; faculty training to support LGBT students in the DFW Metroplex; education and work experiences; influence to become an Ally; support of the gay community.
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Date: August 8, 2013
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Finley, Mary, 1950-

Oral History Interview with Gary Bruce, August 6, 2013

Description: Interview with Gary Bruce, a resident of Pilot Point, Texas. Bruce recounts his childhood and growing up in a poor community, primary school, his parents, high school, racism, the JFK and MLK assassinations, the Texas State Fair, Juneteenth, jobs worked, his first marriage, children, his second wife, family history in north Texas, changes in Denton and Pilot Point over the years, segregation, and the Zimmerman trial. In appendix are a series of family photos.
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Date: August 6, 2013
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Bruce, Gary

Oral History Interview with Richard Longstaff, August 4, 2013

Description: Interview with Richard Longstaff, a gay rights activist from Cambridge, England. Longstaff discusses his childhood, gay men in the British military in the 1960s, moving to Dallas, becoming involved in gay rights, attempting to become a US citizen, his trial for being a gay immigrant and deportation, immigration reform, and gay marriage.
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Date: August 4, 2013
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Longstaff, Richard

Oral History Interview with J. Brown, August 4, 2010

Description: Interview with J. Brown, a teacher, rancher, stagecoach-builder, and longtime resident of Weatherford, Texas. Brown discusses his family history, his education and family, working the Wild West Show at Six Flags, building stagecoaches, the history of the stagecoach, and a tour of his shop.
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Date: August 4, 2010
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Brown, J. W.

Oral History Interview with J. W. Stoker, August 4, 2010

Description: Interview with J. W. Stoker, a cowboy from Weatherford, Texas. Stoker discusses his family and growing up, getting involved in the rodeo, traveling shows, being drafted into the Army and serving in Korea, celebrities he has worked with, the Six Flags Wild West Show, induction into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, contemporary rodeos, his favorite acts, and reflections on his career. In appendix are two promotional photos of Stoker and his horse, and three of him performing.
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Date: August 4, 2010
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Stoker, J. W.

Oral History Interview with William McElvaney, August 20, 2008

Description: Transcript of an interview with Reverend William McElvaney, Dallas clergyman and social activist. McElvaney discusses concerning his childhood and education in Dallas; membership in Methodist Church; pursuit of undergraduate and MBA degrees from SMU; career in banking and oil businesses; decision to enter Perkins School of Theology at SMU and Union Theology Seminary in New York; influence of Reinhold Niebuhr; family life; pastorship of Methodist church in Justin, Tex., St. Stephen's United Meth… more
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Date: August 20, 2008
Creator: Mims, Michael & McElvaney, William K., 1928-

Oral History Interview with Frank and Betty Ann Barrow, August 4, 2005

Description: Interview with longtime Denton residents Frank and Betty Ann Barrow for the Denton County Historical Commission. The interview includes Frank's personal experiences about his childhood and moving to Denton, having a career as a radio announcer, serving in the Special Services division of the Army Air Forces, having a career as an automobile dealer, insurance agent, and haberdasher in Denton, working with a Methodist church, being involved in the Denton Community Theatre, serving on the Denton C… more
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Date: August 4, 2005
Creator: Nelson, Martha Len; Barrow, Frank & Barrow, Betty Ann

Oral History Interview with Norman Mailer, August 25, 2004

Description: Interview with Norman Mailer, novelist and Army veteran. The interview includes Mailer's personal experiences about World War II in the Philippines, Army life, jungle patrols, and the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. Mailer talks about the role of his wartime experiences in his novel, The Naked and the Dead.
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Date: August 25, 2004
Creator: Johnston, Glenn T. & Mailer, Norman

Oral History Interview with Vick Edmiston, August 22, 2003

Description: Interview with truck driver Vick Edmiston. The interview includes Edmiston's personal experiences about being employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. The interview includes an appendix with a photograph.
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Date: August 22, 2003
Creator: Dixon, Tricia Taylor & Edmiston, Vick

Oral History Interview with Jerome D. Fox, August 21, 2003

Description: Interview with Jerome D. Fox, an OS2U Kingfisher gunner aboard the cruiser USS Detroit in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The interview includes Fox's personal experiences about childhood on a ranch in West Texas, enlisting in the Navy, boot camp at San Diego, California, aerial gunner school at Naval Air Station, Modesto, California, his assignment to the OS2U crew aboard the USS Detroit, patrol duty in the Aleutian Islands, bombardment of the Kurile Islands, South American patrol, hi… more
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Date: August 21, 2003
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Fox, Jerome D.

Oral History Interview with Janell Myers, August 16, 2003

Description: Transcript of an interview with with Dr. Janell Myers, counselor, concerning her recollections of the Texas International Pop Festival, in Lewisville, Texas, Labor Day Weekend, 1969. Myers discusses her conservative family background in Dallas, Texas; her attraction to the hippie counterculture as a teenager; hanging out with hippies in Lee Park in Dallas; her college experience at North Texas State University in Denton; her participation in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and sit-ins; her admi… more
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Date: August 16, 2003
Creator: Tittle, Dennis & Myers, Janell
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