13 10 216 https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/b05c28f601e9865da9fa383151d44f91.pdf 19be1b14b675f326baeb9c4e42f46815 PDF Text Text . ~ -. ~, ~ �~ ; c; 7 r JACK AND ANNETTA FROST "I was bor n May 27, 1910,"Jack sta tes, "north of the Sout he rn Ute Ag ency j ust above Oscar Strain's place. My fathe r wa s a North ern Ut e named Moav a nd my mot her wa-s Ma r.i.:;i Fro!:.t , a Sou therr. u::.e . Many o f the Utes, like my father~ used to have only one name . I had an old er sister , Mamie , and a younger brother, Curry, b ~t both a re now d eceased. My pare n t s were l iving ina teepee when I wa s born. When I was about four years old, we moved i nto a one r oom frame ho use f our mi les s out..~ o f Bayfie l d on the west side of t h e river. My fathe r was a good farmer . He r a i sed wheat and oates and hay . He plowed with horses and a wa lking plow and t aught me to plow as soon as I was old enough. we we re very proud wh en he bought h is firs t r iding plow. The Al len Day School was l ½ mil es away across the r i ver. l g o t t o r ide a horse t o s c hool , which made it easy t o f o rd the river. After 4th grade the .Zi.llen Day School c l o sed a nd I was sent to Towaoc the next year. Hy Dad got sic~ and that was the end of s chool ior me. I helped with the farm work at home full time until I married An netta Burch. " "My father o ften told me s tories about ho w the Northern Utes used t o live. He said t he never s tayed i n one p lace too l ong. They liked to camp and t ravel and fi'\o,·e about the country, hunting game and picking pinon nuts a nd berries. Th ey roamed fron Grand J unction t o Heeker t o Ver na l and to Hoon Lake. Th ey onl y wen t t o Ft . Duche sEe to p i c k up their rations . That is how he me t a nd ma rried my mother. He car,e wit h a group o f Northe rn Utes to visi t here and met ray mother. After t hey were married , he never went back to Utah except f or vis its. Whe never he got restless o r l onely, he hitched up h is horses and buggy and went to s ee his p eople. When I was s t ill a young ma n , I went to Utah on horse~ack to vis i t my Dad 's pec p l e . It took me 10 days to reach Hyten, Ut a h, (ne a::- Ft. Duchesne) g oing th:::ough Cortez, Monticello , '.'1oab and Green River. Corning b ack I r ode through Grand Junction, Montros e and Silverton ·t o Ignacio in 9 days. I married Annetta Burch i n 1937, when I was 26 y e ars o l d. " "Annetta was born February 2, 1913 . When h er mother, 'Ada Burd,, d ied in 1915, Annetta 's grandparents , Steve a nd Ruth B1.1rch t ook her t o :!'a:i s e, a long wi th tw·o o ther grand-daughters , E~sie ~ent and Cora Jefferson. " We lived in a n adobe house , "Annetta says , "just a s hort wa lk north of the ~.llen My grandfather was a farr:,er . He raised tur keys a nd rabbits for s a l e , bc1t his real interes t was t horoughbr ed race horses . He raised beautiful hor s es, s o~e of which h e raced and o thers he sold . We trave led every where wi t h in a hundred miles c f Ignacio t o r aces ahd hor se sales . I r e mer.'.ber a trip to Ridgway . Ny g randparents hitched up the wagon, l o aded t he ir camp suppiles and h eaded north into the mountaiES. My job was to s it in t he back o f the wagon to h o ld the r eins o f the r ace horses a nd keep t h e.~ calm . Grandfather allowe d five days to r e a ch Ridgway , a v ery slow pace , s o the horses woul d not bec ome too t ired to race. The t rip was a lot of fun . :·ie ' d wc.tch the b eautiful country go by a ndcook out on the open t ire . I was older t han Essie end . Cora and loved to tease and fr ighten the m. Grandfathe r often t o ld us s t o ries , somE of t hem s c ary o n e s a s we r ode along and a s we sat arou nd t he campfir e i n the eveni r,gs. After we had h e a r d o ne of t hese s t ories it was very e asy t o s care the other g irls , especially Essie becaus e she was the yo ungest. I sometimes got spanked f or this . At the r aces there was a lot of noise and e xcitement. People attend ed for the fun of seeing o ne another as much a s f o r t h e races. After t h e r a ces there was a l wa ys a l o t o f horse t rading before the long trip home ." Day School. I attended Allen Day school. That was whe re I firs t met Jack Fros t. At that time the Utes didn't know about most o f• the ho lidays , but we were t aught about Christmas at scho o l. 1 learned "Twas the Night Before Christmas" we l l enough to g i ve i t a t a p rogram . The t e a c her eve n took me to r ecite it at Bayfield." Jack, interrupted a t this point to a dd, " She had a good memory, but I always b eat her at t he s pelling bees!" .. �~ ltJ?f ) Jack and Annetta were married -in 1937. They have nine children. Dorothy is the oldest, then Cl~ent, Ray, Dixie, Darlene, Donna, Byron, Ronnie and Debbie. ~:ost of the children still live near Ignacio, but Ray is in Tucson, Byron is in Washington and Debbie is attending College at Mazola, Montana. For many years the Frosts have lived on a farn, just north of the place Where Annetta was raised. At first they made their living alwost entirely by farming. "We milked 5 Jersey cows, earning $15. 00 per week selling the crean. l•,e had 300 chickens and traded the eggs for groceries. · 1t was not all work, We both loved horses. \,'hen Annetta was still with her gra.....dparents, she was forbidden to rice the race horses, but she sometines sneaked the jockey saddle on one of the fast ones and went for a wild ride. My interest," Jack recalls, "•,;as just as strong. During the 1940's I traveled with a local Cowboy's Polo Tea,-n. One of the horses I rode was a big help. He learned to kick the ball and sometimes made a score. I never got to play basketball or football, but I played base:)all every Sunday on a team sponsored by the B.I.A," Involvement with the business of the tribe has always been important to the Frosts. Annetta served on the Education Committee during the 1950's. Jack has served on the Adoption Committee and has been a newer of the Southern Ute Tribal CoW1cil. Jack has worked at. raany jobs to su~pleraent his fa_'Tlily income(at the John Deere Ager.cy, Headstart, night-watchman, etc.), but his heart and Annetta's heart have always been en t..~e farm and _the land of their. fathers. Shelby Smith ) ~ ~r) 1 ~ - Z / J ; /'179 -,,y~~ ~~- ~-aw..M-~~ft~~~ ~1-~-~~~ ~~ ;/.W'I- ~~ -~~~9-~ CT~~-~,Je~ 3) �b ~ : - 6"4:. -/~;ti. -l3.;t:/: -l'l~ -~(,d- J Georgeanna Etheridge noted in her Allison-Arboles news that Lester HcCoy received the Community Citizen Award from the Mount Allison Grange at the October 27th Harvest Supper. The award was presented by Hrs. Franklin Anderson. McCoy received the award in recognition for his work as instructor of tJ-,.e first aid course at the Mt. Allison Grange and other hel:p in the Community. He is a certified lr!edical Technician for the area. He has worked with the Red Cross for the past five years. The Herbert Beaches ·were home from a short vaca"t:ion trip to Tyler, Texas to visit their foster daughter, Diana, and her husband Bradley Ball and their five months old son, Jacob. Diana Valdez, before her rr:.arriage, was eI:Iployed at the Wise:n.an Hardware. . She ~ade her home with the Beaches since she was a little gi~l. A weekend houseguest at the home of Mrs. Jannie King was She also enjoyed seeing other fa□ily members. She came with a friend who went on to Durango to visit her daughter. The two ladies left Monday morning, the 12th, to return to Tucumcari. · her sister, Ers. Thelma Bennett fror:J. Tucumcari, Xew I·Iexico. Mrs. Olive D1.llon le;ft Tuesday, the sixth, to stay overnight with her friend, ~..rs. Evelyn Harrison, at her home in Fruitland, New Mexico. Hednesday they went to Arizona to visit with Mrs. Dillon's daughter, Dorothy, and family, the Ruben Rinkers at Sunrise Trading Post for a few days. �clJrr ~? ( ~ ~ f w r - : d J ~ ~ J , ~~~) For more than 60 years Ignacio had a newspaper. The Chi eftain in 1969 was in its 59th year of publication and was being put out by the Chieftain Publishing Company. One noteworthy feature of the newspap~r was that news was news and facts were facts and the two went together. Some of the highlights of 1969 - 10 years ago - from the Chieftain issues of February 20, April 10, and June 5 were: Do you re~e~ber? Hain Str eet Paving prospects looked good. The Ignacio Town Board met with representat~ves of the Colorado Highway Dept and discussed the eventual paving of Colorado 172 south from Ignacio to LaBoca at the New Mexico state line. It was hoped the department might be able to help with the cost of completion of the paving through Ignacio itself. James Casey was the district engineer; George McNicholas was the construction engineer; James Romero, Mayor of Ignacio; and Irvin L. Mason, town attorney. 0pen House, 11 honoring Mr. and Virs. Tony Sanchez on their 50th wedding anniversary was set for February 22nd at St. Ignatius Parish Hall. The Sanchez family lived on a ranch a short distance east of town since 1924. Hrs. Sanchez first came to Ignacio in 1907, coming here in a wagon with her parents. She attended the Ignacio school which was then located across from the Velasauez house. All of Browning avenue and where the Ignacio junior.and senior high is now located, was nothing but sagebrush. Mr. Sanchez was born in Farmington and grew up in Blanco. ) When Tony and Maria were married they drove six miles in a two seated buggy over rough dirt roads to be married at the Santa Rosa Catholic Church in Blanco. 11 As a result of the Southwest Data Institute's initial contract with the U.S. Department of Labor, finalized January 31, providing for the training and subsequent employment of 150 persons in a keypunch operation conducted by the S.D.I. division in Ignacio, star t i ng March 14, other avenues of cooperation in several other goverrenent and private projects have presented theI!!.selves. The Jim Petersons operated The Ignacio 11:usic Store in the Horris Building. Besides selling sane instruments and cusic supplies, Ivl".rs. Peterson was also giving guitar lessons. l•J>s. Rodney ?e..rgin attended the :fational Convention of Soil Conservaticn Districts in ~tla~ta, Ga. president of the Colorado Auxiliary. '.·~s. Pargin was the Food dishes native to Austria were featured at the noon dinner and program of the Happy Homemakers Extension Club at the home of Hrs. Jannie King. �In April Congressman Wayne Aspinall paid Ignacio a call sitting in on the Ute Tribal Council meeting and visiting the Southwest Data Institute keypunch training program. He witnessed the signing of the contract between the Tribe and the SDI for the use of Agency buildings and facilities in the manpower training project. Lake Capote was scheduled to be opened to the public for fishing on April 12th. Jeffery Jefferson was chairman of the Lake C9,pote board and announced the Lake would be opened to begin the season on Saturday and Sundays only. The annual Ignacio Cub Scout Pinewood Derby was held March 27th at the Ute Rec. Hall. The Derby track was built by Dan Shaughnessy. The boys in the scout troops built and painted model race cars which they raced in the Pinewood Derby. In the June 5th Chieftain scholarship awards were announced. Receiving awards were Arlinda J. Reeves who planned to attend Adams State College, Linda L. Klus~an who planned to attend Fort Lewis College and Norma Hae Engler who also planned to attend Fort Lewis College. Stanley Carpenter was the prograI!illler of the Ignacio schools' Bobcat Mobile Cultural Bus for the 1969 year. The Tuesday evening Bridge club members were entertained at the home of Mrs. Lena Doyle. James and Beth Sower became parents o·f their first child, a son named Allan Hayne. Thew. L. Wisemans left on their annual Memorial Day weekend with their three grandchildren, Gretchen, Loretta and Larry. *********************** CURRENT NE1•;S Funeral services for .John P. 1:Tashington.., 82, were on Wednesday, October 31st at thi~ Southern Ut e CoI!lmuni ty Center. Hr. Washington, a member of the Southern Ute Tribe, was buried at Dulce, New Mexico. The services were conducted by Verna P. Poncho of the Ignacio Church of Christ. Mr. Washington was a member of the Ignacio Church of Christ. He was born in Ignacio February 15, 1897, and lived all his life in the Ignacio Dulce areas. During his lifetime he ~as a farmer-rancher and sheen~an. Vir. Washington was-a veteran of World War I. He is survived by one stepson, Howard Reval,sr. of Dulce. �The population of the I gnacio area increased in October by the arrivals of several new babies. ?·il' . and l·il'S. Br uce Swanenyr had a girl on October 27 at Mercy Medical Center who weighed in at 6 pounds, 7 ounces. The first ti:.ne grandparents are Bruce and Jean HcClanahan and the Bob Swanemyrs of All ison . The Arthur J ackson Pa:ynes also became parents of a daughter on the 27th at Co..,.,,..unity Hospital . The baby weighed s ix pounds, twelve ounces. In ?fovember on the second Max and Roxanne Calvert becan:e first time parents of a girl born at Co:mJ!junity Hospital. The young lady weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces. David and Alicia Sullivan are the maternal grandparents . Two Tribal Council members were elected Friday, Uo_v ember The election was in the Com::iunity Center from 9 a.m. to 7 p .m. Seven candi dat es ran for the two Council positions . The two incumben t s were reelected . John Baker s r. received 121 vote s and Guy Pinnecoose r eceived 122 votes. Other candi dates and the votes recei ved wer e Ray Sage, 63 votes; Jame s Jefferson, 47 vote s ; Gay~a Rae Soi.th, 39 votes; Lillie Frost, 35 votes; and Ivan Red, 10 votes. second to serve on the Council. Hrs. Christine Callison returned hol'.!le Thursday, the eighth following a month's visit wi t h her daughter, Joyce , the Don Brown family, in Evansville, I ndiana. Ethel Canterbury , a longti~e r esident of the Tiffany area, died October 16 at 1•:t. San Rafael Hos ni tal in Trinidad . Following the death of her s ister , Edith, His s Canterbury moved to Trinidad i.n 1978 to live with her sister Elma Allen . · Funeral service's were in Trinidad and "burial was in the Aguilar Co!I!QUnity Cemetery in Aguilar, Colo. She was born February 19 in Has tings, Colo. and attended schools in Hicks and Aguilar •. She was a me::iber of the Hethodis t Church. tlhile l i ving on the ranch she oft en attended the Ignacio Pre sbyterian Chur ch. Be s ides her sister Elma, she is also survived by a sister, Sudie Clark of Phoenix. Two weeks of traveling around was enjoyed by Mrs. Charlotte Jone s. She spent one week with friends in Palisade and Fruita, then went on to Arvada to s pend a week with her daughter, Jacqueline and family, the Rex Reas. The Reas four months old fo ster child , J eremy, went to the home of new adoptive parents. The next day the Reas acquired a new ) I �foster baby. This infant, naced John Doe on th€ Lakewood police record s, was found on the porch of a fa=ily i n Lakewood. ~~ap~e~ in a towel, he ,,:as judged to be t wo .hours old . Re was taken to St4 Anthony's Hospital wher e he was well careci for and na!iled Anthon)' . When he was assigned to the Reas car e the nurses had a baby sho·,rer , so he ca:::.e wi. th a new ou tfi t, bl?.nkets and all. His picture •,\· 2.s i n the Denver Post; he was on the Channel 7 Denver news in !lis foster hoce. ne was two weeks old , }~onday, November fifth . He now goes by t:ne na:::e of Eric and. is a darling. Letters and phone calls wanting to adopt or provide fos ter care have been rece i ved by the Social Services Dept. and the Lakewood police. The search goes on for some infor~aticn as to his background. Bill Koenig is the new head of the Ignacio police department since the first of October . · Koenig '..:as hired ·oy the Ignacio town boa rd folloiling the resi gnati on of George l•'.anazanares. 1-:anazanares is no.,.. on the police force at Center, Colo . Koenig received his Colorado certification as a Colorado law enforc ement officer in 1976 . :-us background i nclu des cons ider-able training .e..rid background experi ence ir. la:,., enforcement work. The fat1ily now lives in Ignacio . •His ,,1ife, Kathy , is a licensed practical nurse at Mercy Hospital. They have a year . .. d...!.lU 1 .., f" Cl. J..Ld....LJ.. .., ... VJ.U ;:,vJ..L, -- .i.::;4c;1..,; . The Friendship Circle neeting was on Rovenber seventh in the church annex. Circle p res ident, Heinie Ga~dner, conducted the business meeti·ng . The October 25 Bake Sale :<1as reported as quite successful with $132 . 50 taken on the sale . The Circle □emb ers were invited to a n ocr.. luncheon at the ·Hobby Corner a t the Allison Cornnuni t y Church f er noon, Wednesday, the ll+ th . · Al so an invitation was extended to IgnciCic to the Than..'\.c Service at the Allison Church the af.ternoon of the 28th.• Plans were to finish the laprobe s and. gift "t.rrap them. th e afte r noon of the 16th at the church annox . It •..,as voted to give tbe Ignacio Brown~.e Scout troop fi ve dollars · tm•1 ard t;1.e nurchase of needed s u,P)lies . The Bro·.mies now nunber 42 girls . ':.'he t::-oop is headed by- :,~rs. Shirley Snider . The C:..rcle Christ:'..as par ty is to be a ~~alad l uncheon at noon ·.lednesCay , DC'c . 4th . ':here is to be a gift exchange anc. 6ntertain~ent by everyone present . Refreshme nts were served by Hrs. Be ssie ?ennell for Mrs. E,.relyn Crawford . � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1972-1979 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby; Jones, Charlotte Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years: November 1979 Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1979-11 Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/215ff4a536d3e511215729acfaadce6b.pdf 100570373dcfe57668cbd7709dc785a9 PDF Text Text -- ... ~ - / _'!_J_!I_ .. --- ----- -:-:-- ____ ~ - ---- ------ ------ J u - .,.......,,. - - -- - - ... -.-...... ----- ..., - --. - - --- ... - -:--- · . -- ~-~_-_----:--· -·· - ..-- I . ,J - -.... ~-- -- - ~-- _;_ .:..-.-:-:~ . - --- ···----- �~ /1/79 EUGENIO VALDEZ 11 I -was born in Chama, Colorado, (1+ miles east of San Luis) in the San Luis Valley on ifovember 1 5, 1 895. ~{l~ parents, Serafin and Toni ta Valdez were farmers, raising wheat, peas and livestock. }fy father's parents were originally from Los Ranchitos, N.M. near Espanola, but migrated into Colorado before my father was born. I have four brothers and two sisters. That does not count several others who died before they were gro;m. ·when I was 7 years old I started to school at Cha.r:-,a. Durlng the school tE;rm I stayed with my mother's parents, Trinidad and Juanita. Sanchez, whose farm was close to school. Every !::'.;.orning the sc_hool janitor fired up the pot-belly stoves in each of the three rooms. At the end of the day each teacp.er .had to sweep the classroom. Mr. David G~ul was my first teacher~ All of us were Spanish speakers. They tried to teach us English, but it didn 1 t work too -:.iell. Every text book was in English._ We would sound out the words and Hr. Gaul would translate; It was slow work and not too interesting. But we enjoyed baseball ganes and ether activities at noon and during recess. Also, we helped pass the ti~e of day with mischievous pranks during the school day. 11 11 After seventh grade I stayed home to help may father with the farm work. I did this until I was 25 years old. If I had any extra time, I worked for wages on other farms. When I 'Has about 16 years old, ffiY father hired Albino Baca and his facily to herd,sheep, Little did I know I v.·ould .some d.ay marry his daughter, Earia Inez, who at that time was only a 7 year old girl. I never saw Maria again until 9 years later two c.ays before our wed.ding. 11 11 When I was 25 years old, rr!Y parents decided. it was tj_ce for me to get ~arried. They thought over the possibilities and remembered .Albino Baca 1 s daughter must be about old enough to □arry. The custom of parents arranging their children's n:.arriages was a very old. and traditional way, bu-c I had no objections. A little after Christt:e.s my mother and father hitched up their buggy to pay Albino Baca a visit. He lived on a farm near Red Wing, Colorado, a two day journey across the mountain,3 t.hxough La Veta ?ass. The ,.~ed.d.ing was arranged. I went to San Luis to buy a ~ed1ing dress, shoes and other clothing as a gift to -r:,y bride. ·1.'his was also an old tradition for the groon to present the bride with a trunk full of beautiful clothes just before the wedding. Cn the 16th of January, 1920, r2y parents, ny grandparents an aunt and an uncle and I loac.ed up two buggies and began the trip tn Red Wing. About half way over the ~ountain was an abandoned sa~ mill -where we ca~ped for the_ night. The next day , ',,;hen we arrived at rte a. °\,'ling, the facilies were introduced and my ur..cle took his buggy on to the ho~e fo a friend several miles away-to stay the night. I went to our buggy to bring the trunk to lfaria, but found it was missing. !·:y dad headed back to the saw mill, thinking we had left it there. After he left, my uncle retu~ned because he had found the trunk in his buggy. I got on a horse to catch rny father. By the time I overtook him and returned to Red Wing it ..,,as midnight. 11 11 I was very pleased with rr.y parent's choice. Maria was very pretty and was well trained. Even though she was young, she cou+d cook and sew and everything else a i,life needs to do. We were married in church on January 20, 1920. We took her two little brothers who were ages 3 and 7 home to raise. Maria had taken care of them since their m.o ther died." ) �-s:,, 3 "At first we lived in a house p r ovided by the farmer I worked for . Two years later I built a two -room adol;le house on my fathe r' s land. Pi.aria and I h ad seven children . They are: Leonardo, Rudolfo, Eugenio, Ad L :1.'la, Ignacio and Ben . Her little brothers were Isaac and 1 Fr~t~; 0 • In 1 940 we moved to Florence where I ·,10rked on the turnip and on:1.on farms. Just as soon as one crop was harvested , we planted tber a.s long a s t he season lasted . Earia died in 194 3. I :::1oved 0 c~nter and liv~d the r e until 1958 . In 1958 I r:arried Rose Green ~d w e mo ved to her farm. east of I gnacio where I r aised cattle and oats · until I r etir ed Rose d i ed in 1977. I stayed on the farm until 9?8 when I moved to the senior citizen aparti!lents north of Ignacio 'Where I still live . f f Shelby Smith GENL."tu\L MEETING A general meeting of the Southern Ute Tribal :r:1embership will be hela.. at the Community Center on Dece nber 14th at 9 : 0G A.;.f. Pah-Chu-Chu-Wa Club met Honday, November 26th at the Presbyterian Church annex . The Chris t mas party .will be held Monday evening, De cembe r 10 th at tho Presbyterian Church . . Each roereber is to br ing _a $1.00 gift for exchange and the gifts for the rest home. Each member is to bring a chri stmas goodie of some kind. Roll call will be g i ven with so~ething pertaining to christrnas. Olive Dillon introduced Virginia Lunsford, who gave a very interest11 in r ;gr a!Il on "Can-Sur- Nount • g p Sheryl lfayf i eld and Violet Sarr.s served ref r e sh.men t s . 1 "-..J The county Ex tension Christrr:as Party was held Tuesday, December 4th at the ext ens ion build ing in Durango . It was potluck . He1!lbers from Hapoy Homer.:iak~rs __l!.xte ns~o.r:i Club attending ~~e!'e: 011 ve Dillon , !Tona _ Roberts Jannie Kinf , Cnristine Ca llison , Lul a Preston, Carmen Hea , Vivian aici1anond Virg inia Richr:!onci , and Th el J:,a Wri ght . V �Remember December 25, 1960 the first year of the decade of the 60s. Here are a few items from the Ignacio Chieftain and Bayfield Blade for December 23 , 1960. Charlotte Jones Santa Claus was to arrive that Friday evening and distribute gifts to the children of I gnac io and surrounding col'.!'.!!!lunities. The arrangements were being made by Town Harshal, Frank Davis . The ne:-:i~e rs of the Lions Club had spent a busy week sacking the candy and nuts. The annual Chr ist□as party of the Southern Ute Tribe was being held at the junior high s chool gy:r,nasium. The party would include singing by tribal groups, a visit from Santa and a dance under the sponsorship of the Ute 4-E club . A group of young people went caroling at the Valley View Nursing Home at Bayfield . The Ignacio Bobcat·s beat Dulce in a prelea-gue season basketball game 75-'56. The Ted Graves family adopted the small puppy, who had been abandoned. The pup had been put in Ted's car. *********** Christmas Eve services were held in the Ignacio Presbyterian Church with the Rev . Don I..yday bring5.ng the t!essage. The Ignacio l-~us ic Club ~embers at their Dece::rrber meeting voted to buy additional unifor~s like the Ute Vocational School band unifor0s. Garth Gaylord was t:ie music instructor. La Plata Elect~ic failed to elect new directors at the 1960 annual meeting~ La ?lata Electric had recently purchased some land near KIU? to build a new RE._4 building . U~ s. Rep. Wayne Aspinall and H. Re~ Lee, deputy Co:!l!!lissioner of Indian Affairs, 1.,1ere guests of honor, at a luncheon at the Tribal Re creation Hall during their official visit to the tribe. Buffalo meat was served. Congressman Aspinall compli~ented the tribe on the outstanding progress that has been ~ade in recent years under the Rehabilitation Progran , and. said he often held up the two Ute tribes of Colorado a s examples of tribes, which are naking unusual achieve!nents in handling their affairs • . Isaac ?eacock, his daughter Lydia and two c,f the dorm girls, Vivian .Jack a..rid l 1artha Begay baton twirlers and :precision marchers 1.-1ere going to 21 Paso, Te::as along with other r.:er:bers of the Navajo Triba:._ Band were to be in Zl Paso, Dece.r:ber 30 to take part in the Sun Bo·...rl football ga~e paTadE. Tne Peacocks, Viviar-. and. ::artha ·Here tc be in ;,'ashi~gton, D. C. Januery ~7 t o =a r c~ in t he Inacgural ? a raa e a s Jack Kennedy is ins ta:led as uresidr!1t of the Unite(~. :3tatc s. - The January 1st Chief tain noted it snowed nost of Christmas Day. The power was off for nearly an hour Christn:as morning. The entire weekend was one of bad -weather. Arboles was shut off from the ·world - s now and also a power line fell onto the telephcne wire Christmas morning. No radio either. James Walker of Arboles drove tc Durango on Christnas night to inform REA of the plight of the co:r.munity. On that happy note best wishes are extended for the 1979 holiday season . • •••. 1 �TRIBAL CHRISTH.i".S EVENTS This year the Tribal Christnas Party will be held at the Co~nity Center on Wednesday, Decel:ilber 19th at 7:00 P.M. and Christmas Dinner will also be at the Corn:unity Center frox 3:30 to 6:30 on Saturday, Dece'.":lber 22nd. All menbers of the tribe are invited. *********** Thanksgiving dinner at the ho~e of Bob and Zelta Hott was enjoyed by the family, the Hot ts two sons , he r r:::other , l·!rs . Freddie Newton and his parents, Emmett and Je ssie Hott . Corrii.n g ho~e for the Thanksgiving holidays ~as their daughter, Ca.my. Camy a nd a friend ca~e fro~ Arlington, Texas. She graduated l ast spring fro~ Ignacio High and is now attending the Schoool of Design in Arlington which is near Fort :.forth. *********** ) Driving to Phoenix to spend Thanksgiving week were 1-frs . Ruby Hailey and Earl and Ruth Fisher. The famly Thanksgiving dinner was at the ho:i:ie of the Fisher 1 s daughter, a...n.d lJ>s . Hailey's granddaughter and fa!:lily, Kent and Earline J. Carlson and t wo children. J._ls o nm, living in Pho"enix and. being -with them was the Fishers son, Dale and his far::iily. They returned Tuesday morning, the 27th. *********** Mrs. Hary Patrick who has been living at the Patrick ranch with her grandson Gary ~as in Gallup for Thanksgiving with LEe and Jean Patrick. She planned to stay with. them until the first part of Decemqer. *********** Frank and Leona Everett began their Thanksgiving holiday season early. They left on the 17th and flew to Detroit to visit a nephew and his facily. It was their first trip to Detroit. Then it was back to Denver anc a week of visiting relatives in Denver and Idaho Springs before returing home. *********** The World Co□munity Day program prepared by Church WoCTen United was the thet:1e of the Thanksgiving Praise Service Wednesday afternoon, November 28th in the Allison Community Church. The wo□en of the Larger Parish were invited to join the Allison women in this vJorship service. RefresluJents were served in the annex following the service. Attending from th~ Ignacio church and the Friendship Circle were: Llizabeth Riggin, Bessie Pennell, Olive Dillon, Grace Patrick, Heinie Gardner, Ruby Hailey and Ann Fo~eman. �V.rs. Jannie King joined family members for Thanksgiving Day events in both Bayfield and Ignacio. For the noon dinner, she was with her daughter, Beth and husband, Jim So~er and their two sons at their ho::1e in Bayfield. la'. Sower's parents, Cecil and Gertrude Sower were also guests. In the evening the To~..rr:.y King fa~ily me~bers were at the home of Jannie King's granddaughter, Brenda and husband, Leland Landsverck. The Landsvercks had been living at Fruita, Colo., but recently moved· to the former home of the Melvin Rodriques family on south Browning avenue. *********** Thank.sg1.ving d5:nner at th€ home of Mrs. Onal Price was in the evening as her daughter, JeriLee Kavelman and~a friend were driving from El Paso Thanks g i v-ing Day to be home for the Thanksgiving dinner. They left Sunday to return to El Paso. Charles and Sheryl and baby Jessie Price were also Thanksgiving dinner guests. *********** For thirteen vears Melvin and Joanne Roclriaues lived 5.n the 600 block on Browning avenue in a house 0'8ned b}: 1-:rs. Jessie Hott. This was for r:any r::any years the hor:e of i-:.rs. Hott I s parents, l·Ir. and Hrs. Jess St.aufi'er. For nearly two years thE: Rodriques farr.ily have been building a ne,1 home on the hill north of Ignacio on 172. Althot:.gh there is still wor}: to be done on this ho::e the Rod.riq_ues f ar:::iily which includes four daughters moved. this fall to their new location. *********** Mrs. Harie Brm-m was in Ignacio Monday, N'ovwer 26th. She visited in the norning at the ho~e of the R.H. Gardners. Coming -with 2-'.rs. Broim was her daughter, !frs. Jeannette Valdez and daughter Beth. Jeannette 1.-,as here for a dental appointr:ient. She has enlisted for a terr::? of four :'ears in the Air Force. Following her basic training she e:-cpects to be as signed to the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Her ~aining will be in the field of electronics. The Brmms, Marlon and l•:arie lived in Ignacio for a number of years. 11,.r. Brown was an e!1ployee cf El Paso Natural Gas. They r:10ved to Lindrith when he was transferred to the Lindrith Gas Field • . The Brmms also o•.med a....'1d ope:-a ted the Ignacio Furniture Store, after buying the business fros Lester Lunsford. Hhile :-:rs. Valdez is taking her basic training- the Bro~•ms -,.,111 have te~porary custcdy of ?aul an~ Beth. They ~ill be with their ~ether L.:.tf;-r e.t :=-2.e: l:l2n.:. Robert Toledo has been in Germany on vacation visiting friends. He also spent a few days ·with Tim Pacheco who is stationed there with the air force. �John & Bettye O I Ccnnell and ·fa~1ly of Ala1:iosa visited Freddie Newton over the 7, 8, & 9th of Dece~ber. They attended wrestling at Ft. L!::~·.'is C::.:llege. John ·is as3ista.i.7.t coach of ,,:restling at ~~a~ State College. Jennifer Suzanne is a new addition to Freddies grandchildren, her parents are Brad and Barbara aewton. Freddie plans to fly off soon to ~akE her acquaintance. l *********** Thanksgiving this. 1979 was a snecial tiI:.e of far:iilies and friends being together. In . spite of cold weather, snow, icy roads !:!any cam.e ho2e or joined.. families in other areas for the day or the week. Along with re5em.brances of things past or future pla.."1.s the ·highlight, no doubt about that, was the traditional dinner with the roast turkey, chicken, ha~ or roast goose along with the stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberries anc pu~pkin or mince pie, perhaps served.later in the day. Football ga~es were on and viewed with mixed emotions depending a lot on the vie~er's interest in football. Canadians too celebrate Thanksgiving. For a good many years the holiday ~as Eoved around to various dates in the fall season. It is now set by law for the second l{ooday in October. *********** The Patrick.s - Grace a..r1d. Pat ·were hosts at the Thanksgiving Day dinner at their hor.e. Thc:ir guests included their daughter, granc.d.a~ghter and great granddaughter, George and Laura ·whi tt and Justa, l{rs. Patricia ~rease, Dick and Heinie Gardner and l·~~. 1•1axine .Anderson. *********** l•Irs. Christine Callison spent Thanksgiving day with her son anci family, Claude and Trudi Callison and three children, at their home on the Florida ~esa. *********** The Karl Hauerts entertained on Thanksgiving Day in their new a ttrac ti ve home. Enjoying the dinner with them were l·Ir s. Virginia Russell and. Ers. Hazel :arake. *********** Three of th£ Egger sons and their families were home for Thanksgiving with their parents, Chuck and Donna Egger. They were Charley and Dawna Egger fro~ Salt Lake City, Utah. Donnie and Cindy Egger and their son and daughter from Bloomfield and Kenny and Roxanne Egger and their two sons fro□ Bayfield. With all of them on Thanksgiving Day was Hrs. Egger's mother, Mrs. Olive Dillon. *********** ~ Dan and Mary Shaughnessy joined Raymond and Pat deKay and children for Thanksgiving Day in their new home on the Florida. l•'.esa. Sno',\ kept the Shaughnessys from their original plans to be with John and Marianna Glass in their new hone in Colorado Springs. 1 �HoTI'.e for Thanksgiving and it was a r ·e al surprise as Bob and LaVerne Klus::::1a.n didn't know thei:- daughter, Twila ·would be here until they arrived. 'i~-lila and her husband, Ror::a Haiver came for Thanksgiving fro □ their ho:::e in Eldorado Springs, 1{l.ssouri. They visited with the Bob and Charley iuusnan families until heading back to Missouri on the sixth of Dece=ber. *********** Thanksgiving was a day oostly of driving for Don and Lida Kl'atz and no turkey either. They left here Nove~ber 18th going first to St. Louis. 1han..lr.sgiving Day they were driving to ~fashington, D. C. In Washington the rtev. Kratz officiated at the wedding service for l,frs. Kratz's son and his bride. The wedding was out door as it was a sur:nery day. ServicEs in the Parish churches on the 25th were conducteQ by the Rev. Willia!!l Hassler. ;,.:r. Hassler is the .Associate Synod Executive for the Presbytery of ·..res tern Colorado. His hose is in Pueblo -:•.rest. *********** Larry h"iseman ca'.I!e ho!2e fro!:1 his so'Jhor::ore studies at college in Rangely to spend. the Tt.a..'1ksgi ving weskena. with his parents, the 'Ic12 Wisereans and_ other relatives. He left Su:iday to return to Rangel~r. *********** The Christ::ias party for the r-'riendship Circle ~~eTI:.bers and guests was in the Ignacio Church ar..ne~ with a silver tree and cedar greens and red tablecloths. The festivities began with a salad luncheon followed by the installation of Circle officers for 1980. They were installed by :=ula Preston.. The new offi-cers are: President -Dorothy· Olbert - Vice-9resident - Heinie Gardner - Secretary Elizabeth Riggin and Treasurer - Zvelyn Cra .-1ford. ~"Ts. Gardner was the MC for the progr~"-J. ;,,hich included Christr::as m.usic, stories~ :poems and recollections of Christ~as ~ast. The Gifts around the silver tree were then exchanged. The nroject for the Christcas gifts this year by the Circle was making polyester lapro bes for the bro Bayfield. :rursing Ho~e s. The first :rr:eeting in January will be on 'Jednesday, the ninth. 0 1 *********** The C. F. Pachecos had their Thanksgiving dinner in the evening as their son Lrnest his wife Rose and daughter Andrea were driving from Colorado Springs to spend the weekend with then. They had to shovel 4 feet snow drifts fron their drive way that oorning to be able to get the car out of the garage and getting out of to~n ~as bad because of snow drifts, the rest of the ~ay the road was snow packed but driveable. They left Sunday to drive back home. �. . . - 9 George R. Hams 93, died Honday, November 19th in l•~ercy Medical .-,center. He had been in quite good health until in recent months. He had cancer surgery this fall. Nr. Hams had many friends in this area. One thing he especially liked to do was to come with his daughter for lunch at the SEnior Center an6 see the people he knew. George and his wife, Amy Belle moved to Ignacio to a ranch north of tmm in 191+7. Previously they lived in Hager~an, tfow Mexico. Hr .. Hams was a pharnacist in Hagerman. After ~oving to Ignacio he worked for a time as a pharmacist in the Ignacio Drug Store ·while }frs. Haybelle Britt was the owner. He -was born in Hastings, Hichigan October 22, 1886. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. Hrs. Hans died in 1970. Hrs. Viola Lip comb of the fa."nily hcI!!e, survives and one grandson and li.s f am.ily in New l·~t:xico and other relatives. Services were held Wednesday, Nove~ber 21st from the Hood 11,ortuary Chapel with the Rev. Donald Warner officiating. Interment was in the Ignacio Ce~etery. Hr. & 1-~s. Abenecio Hunoz and daughters Lillie, Crissie and Berna went to Reno, Nevada to spend Thanksgiving -with Abe's brother Manuel and family and his sister Cornia and facily. *********** ) Leroy Salazar the caretaker at the Senior Citizens complex and his little son Tracy were guests of Shelby S~ith and fa~ily for ~hanksgiving dimmer. Leroy's wife Dorothy ·was in the hospital. RAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE FOLLOWING: Dee Dee Garcia Louie Valencia Concie Cruz Mary Shaughnessy Russell Shock ~uice Ifaranj o Christine Callison Dan Shaughnessy Manley Hott Roger Cloud Leonard Burch Jessie Hott Emmet Hott Harvey Joy Elliott Cloud Ruth Snooks Buelah Miller Zelta Hott Edgar Parrett �11) ~~ ! 3_ - / 4 c i - a f ~ ~ It;~ . '1~"$()A./r1. . _j_ . - 5f"tnnl ~~ d ) ~ ; J ) ~ Ga-~...u-~.;v1 ~ ) ft - - W d . R . ~ ~ !_!_ - 'l,'t}J> -11,·~1 A.fa\. lttJ/J -~/l!J P.M, ~ ~~ 111~ 1-A.v~ ~~P~r~~~) 3 L - ~ ~ ~ d ) ~ J / ~ c;;p~-11/~vA,//J. 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Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1972-1979 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby; Jones, Charlotte Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document EUGENIO VALDEZ 11 I -was born in Chama, Colorado, (1+ miles east of San Luis) in the San Luis Valley on ifovember 1 5, 1 895. ~{l~ parents, Serafin and Toni ta Valdez were farmers, raising wheat, peas and livestock. }fy father's parents were originally from Los Ranchitos, N.M. near Espanola, but migrated into Colorado before my father was born. I have four brothers and two sisters. That does not count several others who died before they were gro;m. ·when I was 7 years old I started to school at Cha.r:-,a. Durlng the school tE;rm I stayed with my mother's parents, Trinidad and Juanita. Sanchez, whose farm was close to school. Every !::'.;.orning the sc_hool janitor fired up the pot-belly stoves in each of the three rooms. At the end of the day each teacp.er .had to sweep the classroom. Mr. David G~ul was my first teacher~ All of us were Spanish speakers. They tried to teach us English, but it didn 1 t work too -:.iell. Every text book was in English._ We would sound out the words and Hr. Gaul would translate; It was slow work and not too interesting. But we enjoyed baseball ganes and ether activities at noon and during recess. Also, we helped pass the ti~e of day with mischievous pranks during the school day. 11 11 After seventh grade I stayed home to help may father with the farm work. I did this until I was 25 years old. If I had any extra time, I worked for wages on other farms. When I 'Has about 16 years old, ffiY father hired Albino Baca and his facily to herd,sheep, Little did I know I v.·ould .some d.ay marry his daughter, Earia Inez, who at that time was only a 7 year old girl. I never saw Maria again until 9 years later two c.ays before our wed.ding. 11 11 When I was 25 years old, rr!Y parents decided. it was tj_ce for me to get ~arried. They thought over the possibilities and remembered .Albino Baca 1 s daughter must be about old enough to □arry. The custom of parents arranging their children's n:.arriages was a very old. and traditional way, bu-c I had no objections. A little after Christt:e.s my mother and father hitched up their buggy to pay Albino Baca a visit. He lived on a farm near Red Wing, Colorado, a two day journey across the mountain,3 t.hxough La Veta ?ass. The ,.~ed.d.ing was arranged. I went to San Luis to buy a ~ed1ing dress, shoes and other clothing as a gift to -r:,y bride. ·1.'his was also an old tradition for the groon to present the bride with a trunk full of beautiful clothes just before the wedding. Cn the 16th of January, 1920, r2y parents, ny grandparents an aunt and an uncle and I loac.ed up two buggies and began the trip tn Red Wing. About half way over the ~ountain was an abandoned sa~ mill -where we ca~ped for the_ night. The next day , ',,;hen we arrived at rte a. °\,'ling, the facilies were introduced and my ur..cle took his buggy on to the ho~e fo a friend several miles away-to stay the night. I went to our buggy to bring the trunk to lfaria, but found it was missing. !·:y dad headed back to the saw mill, thinking we had left it there. After he left, my uncle retu~ned because he had found the trunk in his buggy. I got on a horse to catch rny father. By the time I overtook him and returned to Red Wing it ..,,as midnight. 11 11 I was very pleased with rr.y parent's choice. Maria was very pretty and was well trained. Even though she was young, she cou+d cook and sew and everything else a i,life needs to do. We were married in church on January 20, 1920. We took her two little brothers who were ages 3 and 7 home to raise. Maria had taken care of them since their m.o ther died." ) -s:,, 3 "At first we lived in a house p r ovided by the farmer I worked for . Two years later I built a two -room adol;le house on my fathe r' s land. Pi.aria and I h ad seven children . They are: Leonardo, Rudolfo, Eugenio, Ad L :1.'la, Ignacio and Ben . Her little brothers were Isaac and 1 Fr~t~; 0 • In 1 940 we moved to Florence where I ·,10rked on the turnip and on:1.on farms. Just as soon as one crop was harvested , we planted tber a.s long a s t he season lasted . Earia died in 194 3. I :::1oved 0 c~nter and liv~d the r e until 1958 . In 1958 I r:arried Rose Green ~d w e mo ved to her farm. east of I gnacio where I r aised cattle and oats · until I r etir ed Rose d i ed in 1977. I stayed on the farm until 9?8 when I moved to the senior citizen aparti!lents north of Ignacio 'Where I still live . f f Shelby Smith GENL."tu\L MEETING A general meeting of the Southern Ute Tribal :r:1embership will be hela.. at the Community Center on Dece nber 14th at 9 : 0G A.;.f. Pah-Chu-Chu-Wa Club met Honday, November 26th at the Presbyterian Church annex . The Chris t mas party .will be held Monday evening, De cembe r 10 th at tho Presbyterian Church . . Each roereber is to br ing _a $1.00 gift for exchange and the gifts for the rest home. Each member is to bring a chri stmas goodie of some kind. Roll call will be g i ven with so~ething pertaining to christrnas. Olive Dillon introduced Virginia Lunsford, who gave a very interest11 in r ;gr a!Il on "Can-Sur- Nount • g p Sheryl lfayf i eld and Violet Sarr.s served ref r e sh.men t s . 1 "-..J The county Ex tension Christrr:as Party was held Tuesday, December 4th at the ext ens ion build ing in Durango . It was potluck . He1!lbers from Hapoy Homer.:iak~rs __l!.xte ns~o.r:i Club attending ~~e!'e: 011 ve Dillon , !Tona _ Roberts Jannie Kinf , Cnristine Ca llison , Lul a Preston, Carmen Hea , Vivian aici1anond Virg inia Richr:!onci , and Th el J:,a Wri ght . V Remember December 25, 1960 the first year of the decade of the 60s. Here are a few items from the Ignacio Chieftain and Bayfield Blade for December 23 , 1960. Charlotte Jones Santa Claus was to arrive that Friday evening and distribute gifts to the children of I gnac io and surrounding col'.!'.!!!lunities. The arrangements were being made by Town Harshal, Frank Davis . The ne:-:i~e rs of the Lions Club had spent a busy week sacking the candy and nuts. The annual Chr ist□as party of the Southern Ute Tribe was being held at the junior high s chool gy:r,nasium. The party would include singing by tribal groups, a visit from Santa and a dance under the sponsorship of the Ute 4-E club . A group of young people went caroling at the Valley View Nursing Home at Bayfield . The Ignacio Bobcat·s beat Dulce in a prelea-gue season basketball game 75-'56. The Ted Graves family adopted the small puppy, who had been abandoned. The pup had been put in Ted's car. *********** Christmas Eve services were held in the Ignacio Presbyterian Church with the Rev . Don I..yday bring5.ng the t!essage. The Ignacio l-~us ic Club ~embers at their Dece::rrber meeting voted to buy additional unifor~s like the Ute Vocational School band unifor0s. Garth Gaylord was t:ie music instructor. La Plata Elect~ic failed to elect new directors at the 1960 annual meeting~ La ?lata Electric had recently purchased some land near KIU? to build a new RE._4 building . U~ s. Rep. Wayne Aspinall and H. Re~ Lee, deputy Co:!l!!lissioner of Indian Affairs, 1.,1ere guests of honor, at a luncheon at the Tribal Re creation Hall during their official visit to the tribe. Buffalo meat was served. Congressman Aspinall compli~ented the tribe on the outstanding progress that has been ~ade in recent years under the Rehabilitation Progran , and. said he often held up the two Ute tribes of Colorado a s examples of tribes, which are naking unusual achieve!nents in handling their affairs • . Isaac ?eacock, his daughter Lydia and two c,f the dorm girls, Vivian .Jack a..rid l 1artha Begay baton twirlers and :precision marchers 1.-1ere going to 21 Paso, Te::as along with other r.:er:bers of the Navajo Triba:._ Band were to be in Zl Paso, Dece.r:ber 30 to take part in the Sun Bo·...rl football ga~e paTadE. Tne Peacocks, Viviar-. and. ::artha ·Here tc be in ;,'ashi~gton, D. C. Januery ~7 t o =a r c~ in t he Inacgural ? a raa e a s Jack Kennedy is ins ta:led as uresidr!1t of the Unite(~. :3tatc s. - The January 1st Chief tain noted it snowed nost of Christmas Day. The power was off for nearly an hour Christn:as morning. The entire weekend was one of bad -weather. Arboles was shut off from the ·world - s now and also a power line fell onto the telephcne wire Christmas morning. No radio either. James Walker of Arboles drove tc Durango on Christnas night to inform REA of the plight of the co:r.munity. On that happy note best wishes are extended for the 1979 holiday season . • •••. 1 TRIBAL CHRISTH.i".S EVENTS This year the Tribal Christnas Party will be held at the Co~nity Center on Wednesday, Decel:ilber 19th at 7:00 P.M. and Christmas Dinner will also be at the Corn:unity Center frox 3:30 to 6:30 on Saturday, Dece'.":lber 22nd. All menbers of the tribe are invited. *********** Thanksgiving dinner at the ho~e of Bob and Zelta Hott was enjoyed by the family, the Hot ts two sons , he r r:::other , l·!rs . Freddie Newton and his parents, Emmett and Je ssie Hott . Corrii.n g ho~e for the Thanksgiving holidays ~as their daughter, Ca.my. Camy a nd a friend ca~e fro~ Arlington, Texas. She graduated l ast spring fro~ Ignacio High and is now attending the Schoool of Design in Arlington which is near Fort :.forth. *********** ) Driving to Phoenix to spend Thanksgiving week were 1-frs . Ruby Hailey and Earl and Ruth Fisher. The famly Thanksgiving dinner was at the ho:i:ie of the Fisher 1 s daughter, a...n.d lJ>s . Hailey's granddaughter and fa!:lily, Kent and Earline J. Carlson and t wo children. J._ls o nm, living in Pho"enix and. being -with them was the Fishers son, Dale and his far::iily. They returned Tuesday morning, the 27th. *********** Mrs. Hary Patrick who has been living at the Patrick ranch with her grandson Gary ~as in Gallup for Thanksgiving with LEe and Jean Patrick. She planned to stay with. them until the first part of Decemqer. *********** Frank and Leona Everett began their Thanksgiving holiday season early. They left on the 17th and flew to Detroit to visit a nephew and his facily. It was their first trip to Detroit. Then it was back to Denver anc a week of visiting relatives in Denver and Idaho Springs before returing home. *********** The World Co□munity Day program prepared by Church WoCTen United was the thet:1e of the Thanksgiving Praise Service Wednesday afternoon, November 28th in the Allison Community Church. The wo□en of the Larger Parish were invited to join the Allison women in this vJorship service. RefresluJents were served in the annex following the service. Attending from th~ Ignacio church and the Friendship Circle were: Llizabeth Riggin, Bessie Pennell, Olive Dillon, Grace Patrick, Heinie Gardner, Ruby Hailey and Ann Fo~eman. V.rs. Jannie King joined family members for Thanksgiving Day events in both Bayfield and Ignacio. For the noon dinner, she was with her daughter, Beth and husband, Jim So~er and their two sons at their ho::1e in Bayfield. la'. Sower's parents, Cecil and Gertrude Sower were also guests. In the evening the To~..rr:.y King fa~ily me~bers were at the home of Jannie King's granddaughter, Brenda and husband, Leland Landsverck. The Landsvercks had been living at Fruita, Colo., but recently moved· to the former home of the Melvin Rodriques family on south Browning avenue. *********** Thank.sg1.ving d5:nner at th€ home of Mrs. Onal Price was in the evening as her daughter, JeriLee Kavelman and~a friend were driving from El Paso Thanks g i v-ing Day to be home for the Thanksgiving dinner. They left Sunday to return to El Paso. Charles and Sheryl and baby Jessie Price were also Thanksgiving dinner guests. *********** For thirteen vears Melvin and Joanne Roclriaues lived 5.n the 600 block on Browning avenue in a house 0'8ned b}: 1-:rs. Jessie Hott. This was for r:any r::any years the hor:e of i-:.rs. Hott I s parents, l·Ir. and Hrs. Jess St.aufi'er. For nearly two years thE: Rodriques farr.ily have been building a ne,1 home on the hill north of Ignacio on 172. Althot:.gh there is still wor}: to be done on this ho::e the Rod.riq_ues f ar:::iily which includes four daughters moved. this fall to their new location. *********** Mrs. Harie Brm-m was in Ignacio Monday, N'ovwer 26th. She visited in the norning at the ho~e of the R.H. Gardners. Coming -with 2-'.rs. Broim was her daughter, !frs. Jeannette Valdez and daughter Beth. Jeannette 1.-,as here for a dental appointr:ient. She has enlisted for a terr::? of four :'ears in the Air Force. Following her basic training she e:-cpects to be as signed to the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Her ~aining will be in the field of electronics. The Brmms, Marlon and l•:arie lived in Ignacio for a number of years. 11,.r. Brown was an e!1ployee cf El Paso Natural Gas. They r:10ved to Lindrith when he was transferred to the Lindrith Gas Field • . The Brmms also o•.med a....'1d ope:-a ted the Ignacio Furniture Store, after buying the business fros Lester Lunsford. Hhile :-:rs. Valdez is taking her basic training- the Bro~•ms -,.,111 have te~porary custcdy of ?aul an~ Beth. They ~ill be with their ~ether L.:.tf;-r e.t :=-2.e: l:l2n.:. Robert Toledo has been in Germany on vacation visiting friends. He also spent a few days ·with Tim Pacheco who is stationed there with the air force. John & Bettye O I Ccnnell and ·fa~1ly of Ala1:iosa visited Freddie Newton over the 7, 8, & 9th of Dece~ber. They attended wrestling at Ft. L!::~·.'is C::.:llege. John ·is as3ista.i.7.t coach of ,,:restling at ~~a~ State College. Jennifer Suzanne is a new addition to Freddies grandchildren, her parents are Brad and Barbara aewton. Freddie plans to fly off soon to ~akE her acquaintance. l *********** Thanksgiving this. 1979 was a snecial tiI:.e of far:iilies and friends being together. In . spite of cold weather, snow, icy roads !:!any cam.e ho2e or joined.. families in other areas for the day or the week. Along with re5em.brances of things past or future pla.."1.s the ·highlight, no doubt about that, was the traditional dinner with the roast turkey, chicken, ha~ or roast goose along with the stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberries anc pu~pkin or mince pie, perhaps served.later in the day. Football ga~es were on and viewed with mixed emotions depending a lot on the vie~er's interest in football. Canadians too celebrate Thanksgiving. For a good many years the holiday ~as Eoved around to various dates in the fall season. It is now set by law for the second l{ooday in October. *********** The Patrick.s - Grace a..r1d. Pat ·were hosts at the Thanksgiving Day dinner at their hor.e. Thc:ir guests included their daughter, granc.d.a~ghter and great granddaughter, George and Laura ·whi tt and Justa, l{rs. Patricia ~rease, Dick and Heinie Gardner and l·~~. 1•1axine .Anderson. *********** l•Irs. Christine Callison spent Thanksgiving day with her son anci family, Claude and Trudi Callison and three children, at their home on the Florida ~esa. *********** The Karl Hauerts entertained on Thanksgiving Day in their new a ttrac ti ve home. Enjoying the dinner with them were l·Ir s. Virginia Russell and. Ers. Hazel :arake. *********** Three of th£ Egger sons and their families were home for Thanksgiving with their parents, Chuck and Donna Egger. They were Charley and Dawna Egger fro~ Salt Lake City, Utah. Donnie and Cindy Egger and their son and daughter from Bloomfield and Kenny and Roxanne Egger and their two sons fro□ Bayfield. With all of them on Thanksgiving Day was Hrs. Egger's mother, Mrs. Olive Dillon. *********** ~ Dan and Mary Shaughnessy joined Raymond and Pat deKay and children for Thanksgiving Day in their new home on the Florida. l•'.esa. Sno',\ kept the Shaughnessys from their original plans to be with John and Marianna Glass in their new hone in Colorado Springs. 1 HoTI'.e for Thanksgiving and it was a r ·e al surprise as Bob and LaVerne Klus::::1a.n didn't know thei:- daughter, Twila ·would be here until they arrived. 'i~-lila and her husband, Ror::a Haiver came for Thanksgiving fro □ their ho:::e in Eldorado Springs, 1{l.ssouri. They visited with the Bob and Charley iuusnan families until heading back to Missouri on the sixth of Dece=ber. *********** Thanksgiving was a day oostly of driving for Don and Lida Kl'atz and no turkey either. They left here Nove~ber 18th going first to St. Louis. 1han..lr.sgiving Day they were driving to ~fashington, D. C. In Washington the rtev. Kratz officiated at the wedding service for l,frs. Kratz's son and his bride. The wedding was out door as it was a sur:nery day. ServicEs in the Parish churches on the 25th were conducteQ by the Rev. Willia!!l Hassler. ;,.:r. Hassler is the .Associate Synod Executive for the Presbytery of ·..res tern Colorado. His hose is in Pueblo -:•.rest. *********** Larry h"iseman ca'.I!e ho!2e fro!:1 his so'Jhor::ore studies at college in Rangely to spend. the Tt.a..'1ksgi ving weskena. with his parents, the 'Ic12 Wisereans and_ other relatives. He left Su:iday to return to Rangel~r. *********** The Christ::ias party for the r-'riendship Circle ~~eTI:.bers and guests was in the Ignacio Church ar..ne~ with a silver tree and cedar greens and red tablecloths. The festivities began with a salad luncheon followed by the installation of Circle officers for 1980. They were installed by :=ula Preston.. The new offi-cers are: President -Dorothy· Olbert - Vice-9resident - Heinie Gardner - Secretary Elizabeth Riggin and Treasurer - Zvelyn Cra .-1ford. ~"Ts. Gardner was the MC for the progr~"-J. ;,,hich included Christr::as m.usic, stories~ :poems and recollections of Christ~as ~ast. The Gifts around the silver tree were then exchanged. The nroject for the Christcas gifts this year by the Circle was making polyester lapro bes for the bro Bayfield. :rursing Ho~e s. The first :rr:eeting in January will be on 'Jednesday, the ninth. 0 1 *********** The C. F. Pachecos had their Thanksgiving dinner in the evening as their son Lrnest his wife Rose and daughter Andrea were driving from Colorado Springs to spend the weekend with then. They had to shovel 4 feet snow drifts fron their drive way that oorning to be able to get the car out of the garage and getting out of to~n ~as bad because of snow drifts, the rest of the ~ay the road was snow packed but driveable. They left Sunday to drive back home. . . . - 9 George R. Hams 93, died Honday, November 19th in l•~ercy Medical .-,center. He had been in quite good health until in recent months. He had cancer surgery this fall. Nr. Hams had many friends in this area. One thing he especially liked to do was to come with his daughter for lunch at the SEnior Center an6 see the people he knew. George and his wife, Amy Belle moved to Ignacio to a ranch north of tmm in 191+7. Previously they lived in Hager~an, tfow Mexico. Hr .. Hams was a pharnacist in Hagerman. After ~oving to Ignacio he worked for a time as a pharmacist in the Ignacio Drug Store ·while }frs. Haybelle Britt was the owner. He -was born in Hastings, Hichigan October 22, 1886. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. Hrs. Hans died in 1970. Hrs. Viola Lip comb of the fa."nily hcI!!e, survives and one grandson and li.s f am.ily in New l·~t:xico and other relatives. Services were held Wednesday, Nove~ber 21st from the Hood 11,ortuary Chapel with the Rev. Donald Warner officiating. Interment was in the Ignacio Ce~etery. Hr. & 1-~s. Abenecio Hunoz and daughters Lillie, Crissie and Berna went to Reno, Nevada to spend Thanksgiving -with Abe's brother Manuel and family and his sister Cornia and facily. *********** ) Leroy Salazar the caretaker at the Senior Citizens complex and his little son Tracy were guests of Shelby S~ith and fa~ily for ~hanksgiving dimmer. Leroy's wife Dorothy ·was in the hospital. RAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE FOLLOWING: Dee Dee Garcia Louie Valencia Concie Cruz Mary Shaughnessy Russell Shock ~uice Ifaranj o Christine Callison Dan Shaughnessy Manley Hott Roger Cloud Leonard Burch Jessie Hott Emmet Hott Harvey Joy Elliott Cloud Ruth Snooks Buelah Miller Zelta Hott Edgar Parrett Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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It details a conversation between Ignacio resident Glen Walker and ICL staff members Daniel Frauenhoff and Cheyenne Munns. Mr. Walker discusses his efforts to establish Ignacio’s first library, career as the owner/operator of the hardware store, and other local history topics. It has been produced as part of the Voices of Ignacio Project, administered by the ICL, which aims to assemble and curate a collection of oral histories from residents of Ignacio and the surrounding area to preserve for community members, researchers, and future generations. Timestamps are based on the original recording, which is to be cataloged on the Voices of Ignacio Digital Collection website. Contents [0:00] - Introduction/The Walkers Come to Ignacio [1:48] - The Origins of Ignacio’s First Library [3:40] - Arranging Funding for the First Library [4:40] - The First Board of Directors [5:40] - Additional Funding for the First Library [6:10] - History of the Original Library Building [7:05] - Passing the First Mill Levy and Establishing the Library District [8:30] - Background of the New Library Building [8:50] - Financing the New Library Building [10:09] - Acquiring Land for the New Library Building [12:30] - Past Library Employees/Directors [15:58] - The McClanahan Connection [17:00] - Changes to the Library Over Time [19:15] - Other Community Members to Speak To [21:00] - Changes to Ignacio Over the Years and the Southern Ute Tribe [23:00] - History of the Ignacio Hardware Store [25:40] - Lawrence Wiseman [27:39] - Final Thoughts ​ �2 [0:00] - Introduction/The Walkers Come to Ignacio Frauenhoff: ​ It is Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025. This is Daniel Frauenhoff speaking and I am joined by [gestures to the right]. Munns: ​ Cheyenne Munns Frauenhoff:​ We are here on behalf of the Voices of Ignacio project, administered by the Ignacio Community Library, and to that effect our guest of honor today is Mr. Glen Walker. Mr. Walker, if you would briefly introduce yourself, where and when you were born? Walker: ​ My name is Glen Walker. I was born in Louisiana on June 25, 1942. My wife and I moved to Ignacio in 1974 and I still live here. Frauenhoff: ​ What was it that brought you out here? Walker: ​ We didn’t want to live in Denver anymore. We were both from small towns and it was sort of accidental that we ended up here. I had a longtime friend that moved to Durango to teach at Fort Lewis and he said ‘well why don’t you move over there,’ [Ignacio] so we did. It turned out to be a good choice for us. Frauenhoff: ​ So you’ve lived here ever since? Walker: ​ Yes, well, we lived briefly in Costa Rica for a couple of years. [1:48] - The Origins of Ignacio’s First Library Frauenhoff: ​ Was there any library in Ignacio when you first came here? Walker: ​ Nope, nothing. Frauenhoff: ​ And, as I understand, you were pretty closely involved with getting the first library up off the ground? Walker: ​ Yeah. I worked for the town of Ignacio, back years ago. I had a couple of jobs, I was the Assistant Town Manager and Recreation Director. The town had a business incubator over where the Southern Ute Adult Education [Center] is now. And I got sort of saddled with that after a while. We were trying to attract businesses to town and didn’t have much luck at it. But one day, where the deli is �3 at the grocery store now, there was a small cafe called Jerry’s Cafe. [To Munns]: Do you remember that? Munns:​ Yea. Walker:​ So one day I went over there for a coffee break, and there was only one other person in there, a gentleman by the name of Wayne Whiteman, who had just retired from being president of the Bank of Ignacio. So Wayne and I were talking and I asked him what did he think would help Ignacio grow, be a better place? And he said ‘what we really need is a library.’ [3:40] - Arranging Funding for the First Library Walker:​ Some years prior, he [Whiteman] and a few other people had raised some money to start a library, but they just couldn’t do it. And they still had $2500 in the bank. He said ‘probably the only entity that could do this would be the town, and we’d be willing to give them that $2500 to kickstart things.’ So when I went back to town hall I asked the town manager what he thought about that and he said ‘write up a proposal and we’ll take it to the town board.’ So I did, and did some checking on other funds, took it to the town board, and they all were in favor of it. [4:40] - The First Board of Directors Walker:​ So, [I] recruited some board members that the town appointed. They were: a gentleman named Larry Corbin, a lady that was on the town board, Elizabeth (Cindy) Gallegos, Donna Young, who at the time was the director of the Southern Ute Community Action Program, Dorthy Zahrt, who was actually finishing up a degree in education at Fort Lewis, her husband had been principal at the junior high here, and myself. [5:40] - Additional Funding for the First Library Frauenhoff: ​ And I guess you’d call that the first Friends of the Library or? Walker: ​ Well, no, we were the board, Board of Directors, or whatever they called us. I got a $5000 grant from the State Library Board and we started doing fundraisers. We had raffles, bake sales, cause we had no tax base. The town was supportive of it, but they weren’t gonna fund us very much, even though they bought the first building that was here. �4 [6:10] - History of the Original Library Building Walker:​ It was an old building that was, I think built in 1908 if I remember right, and it had been several things over the years, a furniture store, I don’t know what else. But at that time it was a woodshop, and the gentleman, unfortunately, was not able to make it here and the bank took the building back and they sold it to the town for a very, very good price. We started remodeling that building and we had lots of donations of materials, free labor, a few community service people [laughs], and we built the library basically from scratch. [7:05] - Passing the First Mill Levy and Establishing the Library District Walker: ​ ‘91 is when we became an official district, and I think that spring, the spring of ‘91, we had an election [that] established a very small Mill Levy and defined the Library District as being the School District boundaries. We opened with mostly donated books, of which the majority were Reader’s Digest condensed books [laughter], everybody in Ignacio and the surrounding area had a set of those and they brought ‘em, and, of course, we had to haul them to the dump. But that’s how we got started. I don’t know what else you’d want to know. Frauenhoff: ​ So you said that all happened around ‘91, give or take? Walker: ​ We started working on it late ‘87 or early ‘88 and we opened the library in ‘91. [8:30] - Background of the New Library Building Frauenhoff: ​ Now, as far as the building we’re sitting in today [present library], it was constructed in 2007, is that correct? Walker: ​ That’s correct. Frauenhoff: ​ So its on, or at least the court yard is on, the site of the old library. Were you closely involved with getting the funding together for this building we’re in? [8:50] - Financing the New Library Building Walker: ​ Yea, I was still Chairman of the Board at that time. We had two questions on the ballot. One was to increase the Mill Levy to, I think it was five mills, and I’m probably wrong on that, but it was a big increase over what we had. The other one was to approve the district issuing bonds to build the building. The bond issue �5 passed fairly comfortably, [but] the increase in the tax only passed by about five votes. I didn’t understand that because if we didn’t get an increase in the tax we couldn’t do the bonds, cause we couldn’t repay them. And this was all the easy part, way easier than getting this thing started originally, cause somebody else was doing all of the work. We hired an architect, and then, obviously, a contractor. [10:09] - Acquiring Land for the New Library Building Walker: ​ But there was still lots of stuff that had to be done, acquiring enough land was part of it. Where the parking lot is there were two small houses, real small. [To Munns]: Do you remember that? Munns:​ Yea, I remember. Walker:​ They became very expensive pieces of property [laughter] once the library wanted ‘em, but we bought those. We’d already purchased the [other] land, it was old, old apartments. They were built out of adobe and they were very small units from back in the ‘50s, I believe, when there was an oil boom here [and] somebody quickly put [them] up. And the town had purchased that. We applied for and got a sizable grant. I don’t remember how much it was, but one of the requirements was that we had to own the property. We had been leasing the property for a dollar a year from the town and they did the maintenance and provided insurance. Naomi Jones and myself went to the town board and pointed out how they’d save lots of money if they just gave it to us, wouldn’t have the liability, maintenance, etc. We weren’t gonna build this building if we didn’t own the property. So they deeded the property to the library and we got started on building.I left before the building got completed. My wife and I were spending as much time as we could in Costa Rica and when my term was up I did not feel that it was fair to be a part-time board member. So I left. [12:30] - Past Library Employees/Directors Frauenhoff: ​ Of course, Debbie Winlock, Dorthy William’s [present library employee] sister, was a director for a time in the old library? Walker: ​ Debbie started as a volunteer. We had a librarian, but we didn’t have a qualified librarian for what we could pay. To be honest the library just barely existed, but it was open and we had customers. When Debbie Winlock came along she had lots �6 of energy, she loved libraries, and I still believe she’s the reason we had to build this building. She just got more people to use the library. Frauenhoff: ​ And from conversations with Dixie [Cook] it sounds like there was an interesting director that succeeded Debbie, kind of a businessman type? Walker:​ It was after Debbie. The gentleman’s name is on the plaque where you come into the building. His first name was Jerry [Gracy], I don’t remember the last name. But, yea, I didn’t help hire him. He was not a librarian, he wanted to redo the Dewey Decimal system. They spend lots of time re… [trails off]. It doesn’t matter now you know. But, yea, he was a business person. ​ And after him they hired a librarian from Colorado Springs, but [she] wanted to move to Durango and unfortunately she didn’t work out either cause she didn’t want to be in Ignacio. ​ And then they hired a lady [correct name unclear] and she was very good for several years till she retired. I don’t remember if we had anybody between her and Marcia [Vining - present library director]. [To Munns]: Do you know? Munns:​ We had a few part-time ones, Mr. Meunier for a little bit, but I don’t know if they were ever officially director. Walker:​ Yea I don’t think so. Marcia has been here a long time and has done a lot of good. But Debbie was the first real librarian that we had. I don’t know what her degree was in but she started working on a master’s degree online in Library Science immediately. As a matter of fact probably before we hired her. [15:58] - The McClanahan Connection Frauenhoff:​ Now, the original library was named for Mr. Butch McClanahan, and how did that come to be? Walker:​ [Laughs] I probably shouldn’t say this, but there was a town board member who had worked for years for the McClanahans at the grocery store. And he was wanting to buy the store after Butch had passed away. Butch was a generous man, you know, did lots for the community. But he wasn’t involved in the library and neither were any of his family members. It was sort of a PR thing. When we built a new building the board thought it shouldn’t be named for any one person. So they named one of the rooms for Mr. McClanahan [instead]. �7 [17:00] - Changes to the Library Over Time Frauenhoff:​ [To Munns]: anything I missed that you can think of? Munns:​ [To Walker]: Since you’ve seen the building from the get-go, what have been one of your favorite changes or things that you think are important that have grown so much in here? I mean, I remember being little and my mom Dixie working here and we were still writing due dates on bills and had the fun stamps to put on the books. Now its all just online. Walker:​ Obviously the biggest thing is technology. I don’t think we had a computer when we started. But, like it or not, most people read books online. We will always need books, I hope. Improvements in technology opened it up for more kids, I think. Cause kids are, well, they’re technologically driven. If they don’t have a computer they don’t know what to do. [laughter] When we opened I think we had some computers that were open for the patrons to use, but there were only two or three of them as I recall. And now you guys got quite a few. The board at that time, I don’t think none of us was really computer literate like you guys are now. I could use a computer - sort of. [laughter] [19:15] - Other Community Members to Speak To Frauenhoff:​ Well, is there anything coming to mind right now that we didn’t cover or you think would be important for us to know? Walker:​ Uh, I don’t know. I would hope that the original board members could somehow be recorded or something. Frauenhoff:​ This is more future steps, but as we would like to interview more community members, and you’ve been in the community for so long, is anyone coming to mind that you think might be good for us to try and talk with next? Anyone who’s really got a good story we should hear? Walker:​ You know a person that has a lot of knowledge of the history of Ignacio is Laura Witt at the Style Shop. She would be a good person to talk to. There's not many of us left that have much knowledge of how Ignacio has grown, what little it's grown, and the change in the community. [Its] different than it was in the 70’s, the makeup of the people, the type of jobs, you know. �8 [21:00] - Changes to Ignacio Over the Years and the Southern Ute Tribe Frauenhoff:​ What’s the nature of the change, as you’ve seen it since ‘74? What was it like then compared to now? Walker:​ Well, there were very few good paying jobs in Ignacio at the time. Probably the best thing that has happened to Ignacio was the Southern Utes and their growth. As they built, they created lots of jobs. I'm not a casino person, but the casino [has] actually been good for the community as far as creating jobs. There's still not a lot of really good jobs in town, you know there’s the grocery store, but at least there are lots of jobs close by with the tribe. In my opinion the tribe never gets enough credit for what they have done for the community. Frauenhoff:​ Oh yea, certainly, the growth fund has been able to do some pretty impressive stuff. Walker:​ They have, they have. Frauenhoff:​ I mean, there was certainly oil and gas before the tribe, but it was generally on the decline? Walker:​ Yeah, it was. I don't know how much the tribe had to do with the boom in the gas industry here, but at least they managed it and you know created lots of local jobs with it. [23:00] - History of the Ignacio Hardware Store Walker:​ I don't know if Marcia or somebody asked me if I could do a brief history of the hardware industry here. I owned the hardware store for 31 years, after I left the town that’s what I did. And if you want to be bored by it, I would tell you what I know about the hardware store in Ignacio. In 1912 a gentleman by the name of H.C. Biggs from Pueblo opened a store here. He owned a hardware store and lumberyard in Pueblo and he opened one here. It was at 1776 Browning Avenue, 1,200 square foot store. In the 50’s, a gentleman by the name of Lawrence Wiseman, who was working for Mr. Biggs, bought the store. And he doubled the size of the store to 2,500 square feet. Then in 1970, his son Tom Wiseman bought the store from Lawrence and became affiliated with True Value. �9 In 1992, I bought the store from Tom Wiseman. That was about the time things were starting to happen with the tribe with the gas industry and lots of building. At least for a while the store was just too small for the demand. So we built a new store at 1,100 Goddard Avenue, the very south end of town in ‘99. I retired when I was 80 years old and we sold. The Lee family owns it now, it's a hardware store and irrigation supply company. That’s a brief history, the only history I know about Ignacio is what happened with the hardware store. [laughter] [25:45] - Lawrence Wiseman Frauenhoff:​ Well we appreciate you keeping it going for as long as you did. Now, do you remember much about Mr. Wiseman. Walker:​ Yea, I know some. Frauenhoff:​ If you could, tell us one story about him. Walker:​ Lawrence Wiseman, if I remember correctly, moved to Durango from South Carolina. Then he moved to Ignacio when he started working at the hardware store and Tom grew up here, grew up in the store. He really loved Ignacio, but he didn't want it to ever change, you know. When I bought the store they still used an old-fashioned cash register, wrote bills out on a receipt, and stuff. He told me, ‘I never would have computerized, but I'm glad you did, brought us into the modern era.’ He was a good business man I think, but a little stubborn and hard-headed. Frauenhoff:​ Set in his ways it sounds like. Walker:​ Yea, set in his ways. There's nothing wrong with that. Frauenhoff:​ [To Munns]: Well, unless you have anything Cheyenne? Munns:​ Nope. Frauenhoff:​ [To Walker]: We really appreciate you coming in and chatting with us. Glad you were able to clear some things up, at least with my understanding of the library. Thank you very much. [27:39] - Final Thoughts �10 Walker:​ Okay, thank you. I'm glad you let me talk because lots of people, even Marcia, didn't really know anything about how the library got started. It was actually sort of accidental, me running into Wayne Whiteman, and there was no one else to talk to, so sort of had to talk to him. [laughter] But basically from that was how the library came about. Lots of people think it started when this building was built, but it was way before then. It was a struggle, way bigger struggle than this, (referring to present library). The big increase in funding from the taxes and other things made it much easier to do. I mean, I know it's much more complicated to run. Frauenhoff:​ Just to get it going compared to the original? Walker:​ Yeah [28:52] - End of Recording � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Interview with Glen Walker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2025-04-02 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio Community Library; Library History; Walker, Glen; Whiteman, Wayne; Winlock, Debbie; Wiseman, Tom; Ignacio hardware store; Oral History; Interview Description An account of the resource Mr. Walker shares his role in establishing Ignacio's first library, time operating the Ignacio hardware store, and other local history topics. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walker, Glen Language A language of the resource English Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Voices of Ignacio Digital Collection Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP3 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 28 min., 50 sec. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Frauenhoff, Daniel; Munns, Cheyenne https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/1e71fd10b9fccce5b752979ece1d6405.pdf db0c131195e3830189486bf23aaba783 PDF Text Text ALBERT & ETHEL MAY (Chambers) ANCELL Albert G. Ancell was born in Collinsworth, County, Texas, south of Shamrock on October 17, 1902. His father, Thomas M. Ancell had been born in Howard County, Missouri in October of 1871, and moved to Dallas, Texas with his parents when he was an infant. After he was old enough to work, Thomas got a job laying ties and rails on the Ft. Worth and Denver Railroad which was building a line from northwest Texas to Denver. While working near Harold, Texas, Thomas found a farm he liked enough to settle down and raise wheat and cattle. "While dad was on the farm near Harold, he married my mother, Lettie. I was the third of four children. Shortly after I was born, we moved to Gaines County Texas on the New Mexico Line near Seminole. It was flat empty ranch country where I grew up. Our nearest neighbors were 8-10 miles away. My first schooling was at a little ranch school. Later I attended 6th and 7th grades at Lovington, New Mexico. During the drought of 1918 I quit school to help my dad drive his 1200 head of cattle to Colorado. He sold the cattle to buy a farm, but later lost it on a mortgage. I started working for wages on the Butler Ranch. In 1926 I headed for California in a Model T Ford. The route I took went through Trinidad, Albuquerque, Silver City and Lordsburg. Then I went to Tucson, Phoenix and Yuma, to San Diego and Santa Barbara. West of Yuma I had to follow the old plank road across the sand desert. The whole trip took 13 days. There weren't any motels so I camped along the way." . ) J ) ) ) _) .J J J .J ,..J J "I soon got a job working for the Bixby Ranch, one of the biggest ranch companies in California. They owned land in several parts of California and Arizona. Their headquarters was in Long Beach. We ran cattle through the area where Disneyland is now located. I stayed with the ranch for about 6 years. My wages were $60-75.00 per month plus room and board." "My brother at Presidio, Texas, asked me to come down there and help him operate a filling station. At that time there was a small boom going on in that part of the country with the building of the railroad from San Antonio to Chihuahua, Mexico, and on to the Pacific. In 1936 I moved to Como, Colorado in South Park where I worked in the hay and cattle business for 11 years. Then I came to Ignacio and bought Glen Rouses's place. I raised grain and hay and did combining and other custom farm work for neighbors. In 1965, I married Ethel May Arnspiger." Ethel May was the seventh of eight children born to Henry Walls Chambers and Susan Louise (Lee) Chambers, Susan's dad was a relative of Robert E. Lee. Henry and Susan were both born in Texas, but after their marriage moved to Globe, Arizona and then on to Colorado in 1902. .J ..J· .J .J J J J ·J ...J "My dad helped build the Cascade Flume north of Durango. In 1904 they moved to Bayfield and took a homestead on Spring Creek where I was born on July 4, 1904. Mother died when I was 5 years old. I attended the Mason School east of town where the Lieses now live, for 8 years, then came to Ignacio for 2 more years. That was all the school offered here. In 1924 Ernest Arnspiger and I were married. Ernest worked in a 3 �butcher shop in Ignacio for a while, then got a job at a coal mine north of Bayfield. Finally, we bought a farm over on the Florida Mesa near Falla where we raised our children. We had one son, Randall, who died in 1957 and one daughter Lorraine, who is now a Registered Nurse in Tucson, Arizona." "My dad's second wife died in 1939, leaving him with 2 young daughters. Since one of the girls was only 10 years old, Ernest and I decided to move over to the farm on Spring Creek to help dad with the work and to help take care of the girls. In 1961 when Ernest became ill, we moved to Bayfield where he died in 1963." "Two years later, I married Albert Ancell. He had a place on the southeast corner of Holt's farm where we still live. Albert has 3 children of his own. Lettie June lives in Littleton, Colorado; and Lyle and Dennis live in Abilene, Texas." The Ancells have both lived a good many years and Albert has lived a good many places of different climate and elevation. In Albert's opinion, Southwest Colorado has the most pleasant climate of all, otherwise he says he wouldn't have stayed here for 30 years. Of all the various periods of time Albert has lived through, he feels that today is the best and the easiest time to be living. Taken in August 1979 August, 1979 -- by Shelby Smith 4 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Albert Ancell and Ethel May (Chambers) Ancell Biography Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1979-08 Subject The topic of the resource Ancell, Albert; Ancell, Ethel May (Chambers) Description An account of the resource Biography of Albert Ancell and Ethel May (Chambers) Ancell based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the August, 1979 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ancell, Albert; Ancell, Ethel May (Chambers) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/36fd309450e71441576d8ee1a9b87512.pdf 2333adb530fa82980f5e8646a3af94d4 PDF Text Text ROSELIA (Munoz) BACA Though Spanish-American people had lived in the Rio Grande valley for years, few except prospectors and fugitives from justice had ventured into the San Juan basin to stay until about 1875 when a wagon train of Spanish-American settlers from Culebra moved across the passes to homestead in this area. About the same time families from EL Rito near Espanola moved in to the San Juan valley near present day Blanco. One of these was the family of Presentation and Mercedes Munoz. Their first child was a daughter whom they named Roselia. Mr. Munoz farmed a well-irrigated farm in the river valley. Except for sugar and coffee and patent medicines, the family produced almost all their food and other needs on the farm. Since no refrigeration was available, it was difficult to keep meat in the summertime. They made jerky with some of the meat. The rest they ate or shared with the neighbors. For fun Roselia and her younger brothers and sisters loved to swim in a large hole in their irrigation ditch. Any toys they had they made themselves. Roselia remembers making her own dolls and doll clothing. "Usually," she says, "there was not much time for fun, since all work was hand work on the farm, all of us, even the children had work to do everyday. " Life became more difficult when Roselia was 13. Her mother died that year. Immediately Roselia became "mother" to her 6 younger brothers and sisters. Roselia has since had 12 children of her own and has a major hand in caring for some of her grandchildren. ) ) J J _) J _) J J _) j ...) J J J J J -.J -.J J J Now 80 years old,Roselia says, "I feel like I have always been a mother. "Occasionally Mr. Munzo allowed the children to attend dances in the area. At one of them 17 year old Roselia met a stranger named Simon Baca who had recently moved from Colorado to work on construction of the new citizens ditch. Roselia was 17 Simon was 31. When asked why she chose to marry someone this much older. Roselia says, "Simon was a very nice guy and 1 wanted someone nice to take care of me. "Marriage soon meant more people to take care of. She and her husband moved into her father's house. When the first of her 12 children was born she was still keeping house for her father and caring for her brothers and sisters. Each week she used 251 bs. of flour to make light bread for the family. During the warm months she supervised the drying and canning of the winter supply of garden produce, fed her family and her father's family plus any hired hand on the farm. For five years Simon drove a horse and buggy on the mail route between Largo and Aztec. When her younger brothers and sisters were old enough to take care of them selves, the Bacas moved to a farm on the Mesa, south of Ignacio. Simon worked for the tribe as well as caring for sheep and goats. In the evenings he enjoyed calling for square dances and was very talented on the violin. Most years the children had to stay out of school till at least Thanksgiving to help put up hay and to harvest the potatoes and beans. For fun the boys liked to go rabbit hunting. During good years all the children gathered pinon nuts. The family kept what they wanted and sold the remainder for cash. 5 �One summer day, Simon and Roselia were away from home. One of the children must have been playing with matches for the farmhouse burned to the ground. Manuel who was the oldest one at home-was barely able to get the younger ones out of the house. In five minutes the whole place was a roaring inferno. Roselia was sad not only because they lost all their clothing and household goods, but also because she had lost family mementos from previous generations. The family had to start all over again to acquire the possessions of a life time. Seven of Roselia's boys were in the service during WW II and the Korean War. She recalls being very worried, fearing what news might come in the mail, but all of them came back. Simon died at the age of 87 in 1969. All of Ros.elias' 12 children are still living. They are scattered every where across the west from Denver to Seattle. Roselia who is still healthy and very active spends a Great amount of time traveling and visiting kids and readily admits how much she enjoys it. "I'm on vacation all the time," she states, "I have to keep track of my children and grandchildren." by Shelby Smith 6 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Roselia (Munoz) Baca Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-12 Description An account of the resource Biography of Roselia (Munoz) Baca based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the December, 1973 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baca, Roselia (Munoz) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/0f1518c4411e60c7c46aed5619379f9e.pdf 6a972345b80f2394197d26651096a294 PDF Text Text '1 ~ ~ 'J l EDNA (Russell) BAKER "I ,,..) l ·, ) ) ) 1 J ) 1 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) About 10 miles south of Durango the Weazel Skin Bridge crosses the Animas River. Since the main highway runs up on the Florida Mesa and mostly local travelers use the bridge, it receives little attention. Perhaps a few of the old-timers of that area remember how it got its name. Weazel Skin was a Ute who settled on a tract of land in the Animas Valley in the 1880's. He raised sheep and goats and developed a profitable farm and ranch operation on the river. Weazel's English name was Hickey Williams. One of his daughters who grew up on the ranch was named Marsalino. The Russell's lived on the Weazel Skin Ranch and had four daughters: Daisy, Maggie, Edna and Sara. Edna remembers going to Durango in a buggy to see the fair and for shopping. "We liked to ride the street car from one end of Main to the other. Once my mother left a diaper bag on the car and we had to wait till it made a complete round before we could retrieve it." When Edna was still a young girl, her family moved onto the Spanish Fork Ranch where Spring Creek enters the Pine River near La Boca. Edna went to school here for a few years, then was transferred to the Indian School at Santa Fe. Then she was sent to Sherman Institute at Riverside, California to finish high School. There she met Indian students from all over the country. "We were given a choice of pre-vocational training at Sherman. I tried nurse's training and dry cleaning. I liked both of them and both have been useful since then. At first I didn't believe I'd like the nursing. A nurse sees so many sad and stomach-turning things, but soon I began to see the other side of it. Sick and injured people are just people who need help and the feeling you get from helping them is just great." ) J ') J ·_) _) __J ,. ) .J __J ..J __J __J Edna's years in California were great, too. California in the 1920's was a beautiful, uncrowded place with its clean air and tropical plants and mountains by the sea. From Riverside to Los Angeles were large open country areas, not all city like today. ''We went to Catalina Island and rode the glass bottom boat. Sometimes we went to the amusement Park at Long Beach. I remember how I screamed when we rode the roller coaster over the ocean. We went to Tijuana to see the bull fights. At that time the arena was a beautiful log structure." When Edna finished her nurse's training, she worked at Dulce, then at Towaoc, then at the Taylor Hospital in Ignacio. Minnie Cloud and I were some of the first ones hired . We cleaned and cleaned the building and made towels and baby clothes until it was opened. Soon afterwards Edna married Cassimero Baker. They had two sons, Archie and Dusty. When the army started building up Ft. Carson, Cassie and Edna moved to the east slope. Cassie worked on construction projects on the base and Edna became a welder ..J ..J .J J J ..._) 7 �in an airplane factory operated by Universal Electric at Colorado Springs. She enjoyed the work very much. Finally. she and her boys came back to Ignacio and she worked in the Taylor Hospital until ii closed in 1955. "Even when we moved back to Ignacio, I sent my boys to the public school because I wanted them to learn to get along with all kinds of people." After the Taylor Hospital closed Edna worked in Denver and in Colorado Springs for a while, then she returned to Durango where she worked at Mercy and Community Hospitals until she retired. "I always liked my work in the hospitals. Such nice people to work with. It was a new world every week -- always in training or going to nurse's workshops and conventions and having dinners. I worked side by side with all kinds including foreign students and trainees. I really miss my many friends in Durango and Colorado Springs whom I visit whenever I can." Archie worked hard and went through training for auto mechanics. He worked several years in California and now lives in Durango. Dusty has had mechanics training and also training as an X-Ray technician in the hospital. He was working in Durango hospitals until the opportunity to apply as manager of the new Shell Station opened up, and when he got the job, he and Edna moved back to Ignacio. After being gone so long, it seems a little strange to be back in this area, but Edna has quite a few relatives here and just as she has made new friends wherever she has lived, she will surely be able to do the same here again. We wish her and her children the best of good fortune and wish lo welcome her back to Ignacio. November, 1975 - Shelby Smith 8 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edna (Russell) Baker Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1975-11 Subject The topic of the resource Baker, Edna (Russell) Description An account of the resource Biography of Edna (Russell) Baker based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the November, 1975 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baker, Edna (Russell) Language A language of the resource English Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/9d4d026ad7bd8a144f6f2d4586a0cd7c.pdf 43f9539a2134a7f095a1072f5457aa4c PDF Text Text I") 'l 'l 'l i ,, J i ' 1 ) l 1 ) ) . JAMES (JIMMY) SPENCER BAKER James Spencer Baker, known to most Ignacio people as Jimmy Baker, was born on August 12, 1899, the son of James Baker and Lucy Spencer Baker. "I was born in a log house at Caracas. I think the house is still there. My father built a good barn and corral. We had chickens and milk goats and hogs and range cattle and riding horses and draft horses. The draft horses were "Perch" (Percherons) and weighed 1500 to 2000 pounds. They could really plow and pull the wagons. My father raised wheat and hay for the animals and potatoes and beans for the family." When Jimmy's mother Bessie died in June of 1907, Jimmy and his father and his sister Grace and his brothers Julian, Frank and Cassey faced a lonelier world. It was still two years until Jimmy's father took him to the Indian School at Ignacio. During summer starting at the age of 12, Jimmy was sent to the hills to herd the cattle. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) J _J J ...) ..J ..) ...) ...) ...) ...) J J J J J J "I rode my horse up to the Vega every week to count the cows. Some of them would be way up in the brush. When we went up some of the steep hills, I would get off the horse and grab a hold of his tail and he would pull me right up. The first year I went out I was afraid a lion or a bear or a bobcat would get me, but I never had any trouble." One of those trips Jimmy will never forget. He was late getting started back and then it started to rain and how it rained! "Before I got out of the Vega, it started to rain and by the time I got to the Dipping Vat on Cat Creek my horse and I were both soaked and it was so dark we couldn't see anything except those big lightning strikes coming down. I didn't get home until 1:00 or 2 :00 a.m." In the days when Jimmy was a boy, one of the best ways and certainly one of the most exciting ways to obtain new wealth and valuable property was to hunt the wild horses in the hills above Caracas. Jimmy and his father and brother sometimes were gone several days patiently tracking, listening, stalking and then off on a wild chase to rope a few horses or, if possible, to drive a herd into a box canyon. "Our friends Tito and Tony and Narcisso Gomez sometimes went with us. Then we all got together to brand the horses and break them. Our brand was a curved arrow with a split tail. ln the winter of 1915 we went out one morning and all our horses were gone . We told the Marshall, Porfirio Chavez. There was deep snow and he tracked the men all the way to Lumberton and brought our horses back and put the men in jail in Pagosa . They turned out to be some of our neighbors. After the trial, they were put in the pen." Jimmy lived at Caracas until 1916 before he moved over toward lg nacio. In 1918 he was drafted and sent to Brownsville, TX, then to Laredo, then to San Antonio and finally to Ft. Riley in Kansas. Jimmy was in Company A, 9th Engineers and was trained to be a blacksmith. During the First World War the army had some motorized vehicles, but it also retained many horses and mules and wagons. Therefore, blacksmiths were needed to shoe the horses and to keep the wagon wheels in repair. Jimmy would have been sent to France soon, but as he explains, "Woodrow Wilson and Kaiser Wilhelm signed the peace." 9 �When Jimmy was mustered out of the army in 1921, he decided he wanted to see the country, so for a while he rode the rails. "I went all over the country as far as Bismarck, North Dakota, but I never got caught by the railroad bulls because I moved like the coyote." Next Jimmy got a job on the D.& R.G.W. Railroad on the line between Denver and Steamboat Springs as a member of the Extra Gang. Jimmy's crew spent a lot of time on the lines around Moffat Tunnel 13,000 feet up on the continental divide west of Denver. Jimmy enjoyed the changeable weather and the beautiful sunrises and sunsets visible from the divide. He remembers one morning when "the sun came up pale, so pale over the lake. (Yankee Doodle Lake) it looked like the moon." After working a while on the railroad, Jimmy went down to Denver and got a job with the Public Service Company till 1926. The next year Jimmy's father died and Jimmy came back to Ignacio to stay. He married Bessie Box. They lived on his place about a mile east of Ignacio where he raised cattle and hogs and chickens. This month Jimmy celebrates his 76th birthday. He has been alone for some time. Of course, he gets lonely sometimes, but he is still strong and healthy, likes to walk a lot for exercise, and has a wonderful sense of humor. We wish him many more years of good health and good times. August, 1975 -- by Shelby Smith 10 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James Spencer Baker Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1975-08 Subject The topic of the resource Baker, James Spencer; Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of James Spencer Baker based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the August, 1975 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baker, James Spencer Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/00ef6b6599ca0c21e37c8beefd4dfda0.pdf deef2b18cd9072d3894f58b050727645 PDF Text Text .., 'I 'I , , ' ' ' ) ) ) ) ) , ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ~ ) _) ) ) J J _J J _J .J ..J J J J J J J J J J JULIAN S. BAKER An Indian family riding in a wagon pulled by two houses came jolting over the last hill into the Pine River Valley. Almost ready for its second cutting, the hay in the meadows was brilliant green and restful to the eyes. This time of year the river was low and clear. Here and there the family could see the flashing movements of large feeding trout. To the south they could see the depot and a few other buildings in the young village of Ignacio. Up the valley to the right was their destination, several buildings of the Ute Agency and a few homes. Julian Baker was eight years old. He had no idea this trip would mean any more to him, than any other previous trips to visit a cousin who lived near the agency and to trade for supplies in Ignacio, but it was to be very different. The next morning after all business and visiting was done, Julian's father hitched the horses and loaded the supplies. As Julian approached the wagon, his father stopped him and said, "These are your relatives here. They will be a family to you. You won't need to feel that you are away from home." Through tearful eyes Julian beheld his mother in the wagon and began slowly to understand that he was expected to stay. Almost before he could begin to wonder why this was happening a bell began to ring. "Do you hear that", his father asked. "That'.s the school bell. Do you see those boys and girls going to that building? Your cousins will be a family to you." Julian watched the wagon roll slowly toward the river, then turned and walked more slowly toward the strange building across the field. Julian recalls the winter holidays were all new to him. Until school he knew nothing of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter. On his first Halloween celebration he remembers a great bowl of a new food called popcorn and remembers even more clearly that he ate with delight and great gusto until he was ill. Soon enough the school became a familiar and comfortable place. Most years thereafter he rode the train to Ignacio in September. Julian was born July 17, 1892, on his father's farm in a canyon behind Allison. Since the county line runs right through their place, Julian says to this day he is not sure whether he was born in Archuleta or in La Plata County. One of his earliest recollections is a clear memory of men surveying the section lines near Allison. This was done in 1896 when Julian was four years old. This government survey he observed was one incident among others leading to an exciting yet sad rivalry which erupted a few years later near Julian's home. To tell that story we must go back further into the past. Long before the Spaniards and the French and the Americans came, the Utes enjoyed a home territory and hunting ground unsurpassed by that of any other tribe in North America. Though the territory of every other tribe had advantages and desirable characteristics, the home land of the Utes, occupying the great valleys and ranges of the backbone of the continent was unusual for its size and beauty. Few tribes ever possessed so large an area or enjoyed such richness and variety of terrain. The Utes made occasional raids onto the great plains east of Pikes Peak in search of buffalo or to harry their old enemies the Cheyennes and the Arapahos who in turn made occasional raids against the Utes in the mountain regions. Finally, the whites coming with their 11 �numbers and new weapons eventually began asserting their will over the land. Julian remembers the old men who told him of the time when the American Army came to the great plains and ordered the Utes to leave. "You will no longer eat Buffalo. You will eat deer," they said. "Go into the mountains. Migrate among them. When you have found the area you like best, stay there. " Each head of a household was told to stake an allotment. (160 acres for farming, 160 acres for grazing) Rather than marking the corners of the allotment, the Indians were told to plant a large post in the center of their chosen land and each year to clear and work a larger area around the post until all 160 acres were being used. Hundreds of farms were started by means of the allotment system, before the land was surveyed. When little Julian saw the surveyors at work, he didn't begin to guess the trouble it would soon cause down the canyon aways. A Ute farmer had a farm not far from Julian's home acquired by means of the allotment. After the land survey, he discovered another Ute had acquired nearby farmland according to the survey lines and that the surveyed land and the allotted land overlapped. Rather than attempt some sort of peaceful solution, the two farmers became very angry and proceeded to shoot at one another whenever they watered their horses in the creek each claimed. The feud ended when one of them killed the other. Julian was asked for any memories of Chipita and Ouray, but he said they died a few years before he was born. Julian and Ultima Baker (the former Ultima Watts, sister of Max Watts) were married at a farm house between Bayfield and Ignacio. They had one daughter, Mary, and eight sons: Walter, Randolph, Ullysses, John, Carl, Thomas, Christopher and Clem. Four of the sons survive, John, Carl, Chris and Clem. Julian has been a farmer and rancher full or part time most of his life. He was selected to be Tribal Judge from 1947-1956. Though this is essential and important work, the pressures and mental strain of decision-making were very strong and Julian recalls, "That's not the kind of job to make anyone the most friends." Another kind of work · Julian especially enjoyed and still enjoys in his shop is carpentry. He has done a lot of construction work including some of the building at Lake Capote. In the last few years Julian has invented several kinds of bead looms and an ingenious stock chute for separating sheep. Julian will be 82 this next July. His life has been long and varied and full. He and his people have survived many challenges and coped with many changes during his lifetime. All of us appreciate his example of tenacity, courage and hard work. We wish him many years of happiness and good health. by Shelby Smith - January 1974. 12 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Julian S. Baker Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1974-01 Subject The topic of the resource Baker, Julian S.; Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Julian S. Baker based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the January, 1974 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baker, Julian S. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/5ed4d6abd9de43ddd2617d75672b8aa0.pdf 4ccd1a4aa131642a4839a0b3b6719ec1 PDF Text Text ALMA BOX "My parents were from Capote Band of the Utes. Henry Box, my father, owned land down near La Boca. He raised wheat and corn and vegetables for the family. My mother, Sally Box, also worked hard on the farm. I had three brothers and one sister. The oldest was Jacob (the father of Eddie), Agnes, Fritz and Mary Box Chavez. Then came my brother Paul, my sister Bessie, who married Jimmy Baker, and my little brother, Henry. Now all my brothers and sisters are dead. We lived in a post house plastered with adobe inside and out. These were easy to build and were warm. Our water was carried from a spring. Mostly we ate deer meat, which my father supplied. He was a good hunter. My mother taught me to dry food, to do beadwork and to sew my clothes. We dried wild spinach, chokecherries and buffaloberries. She taught me to weave baskets from the wild grasses, but I have forgotten how to make them. In those years there was a small store near the train depot in La Boca. Sometimes we went shopping there, sometimes at the stores in Ignacio. I quit riding horses when I was very young. Once a horse threw me off, so I quit." ) ) "Our family always went to the Bear Dance and other pow-wows. My brother liked to sing at the dances. Anymore I don't go. Maybe we just drive around at the Sun Dance to see who all is there." ) ) ) ) ) ) ) _) J J _) ..) _) _) ...J ...J J ..) J ...J J J ...J ...J "When I was a child, I was sent to the dorm and the Indian School here in Ignacio, but I only stayed about 3-4 years. After that I stayed home to cook and wash and sew for the family." "I have four children, but only two are still living. Emiel is the oldest, then Rhoades, Sarah and Alice. Rhoades served in the Army in World War II. He lived through the war, but died a short time after coming home. Alice died in 1968. Her children, Terry and Tooley, still live w ith me. Sarah married Clifford Baker. Their seven children are the twins, Ronnie and Iden, Teddy (now deceased), Ann Wesley, Connie and Melvin. Emiel was never married." Alma bought her house in Ignacio about 1955. She still uses her wood and coal stoves for heating and cooking. Once she tried an electric range, but didn't care for it. She has never used natural gas because she doesn't trust it. Alma goes to Durango with her grandchildren for shopping whenever needed. A few times in her life she has visited Dulce and Towaoc. From time to time she goes to Santa Fe to visit Rhoades' grave, but that's about as far as she has ventured from home. Alma is now 77 years old, a quiet, old-fashioned lady. She never learned to drive a car. If the phone rings, she will answer but she never has learned to call out. She spends her time sewing and watching TV and occasionally thinking about her parents. "I really miss them," she says. Alma is still in good health, has good hearing and good vision and still sews most of her own clothes by hand. We wish her many more years of peaceful and quiet life. January, 1981 -- by Shelby Smith 13 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alma Box Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1981-01 Subject The topic of the resource Box, Alma; Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Alma Box based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the January, 1981 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Box, Alma Extent The size or duration of the resource. 1 page Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/238603d434631037ca4f1a913bb7cd40.pdf f160749ee230e17f4b6097b77b54ace1 PDF Text Text FRITZ BOX I was born on September 25, 1915, in the Pine Valley just south of Bayfield, west of the river. Soon after I was born my parents moved to an adobe house north of Russel Box's place. My father, Jacob Box, was a member of the Capote Band and my mother, Bertha Bent Box, was a member of the Moache Band. I barely remember my grandfather, George Bent, since he died while I was very small, but I can still picture his braids and his buckskin clothes. I remember my grandmother, Virgie Bent, much better since she lived until I was 10 or 11 years old. She was a tireless worker. She is the one who took care of us all. She kept busy all the time, tanning buckskin hides, making moccasins and leather clothes. She snared rabbits and prairie dogs and dried greens and berries for the winter. When she was not making clothes or preserving food, she did beadwork. I had five sisters; Marjorie, Florence (who died at the age of 10 or 11 ), Agnes, Ellen (Mirabel), and Mary (Chavez); and three brothers: David, Eddie and Clyde (who died at the age of 6). Our dad-was a good farmer. He raised wheat, oates, hay, chickens, pigs, turkeys, cattle, and horses. He had rights to summer grazing in Carbonate Basin north of Bayfield. Every summer we made a big herd of our cattle and those of several of our neighbors. We loaded the camp gear on the pack horses and headed up to the range. We stayed until the cattle were settled, then returned home for the summer. In September Dad and I and several of the neighbors went back for the roundup. Once they were started, they came willingly. The cold nights were telling them it was time to get out of the hills. When an infestation of poisonous weeds began taking over the range, we were assigned another range east of Tillawocket. I attended the Allen Day School with Joe Weaver, Harold Groves, and Jack Frost. They were pretty good boys. Sometimes in the winter Joe and I sneaked off to the river instead of going to school. We'd ice skate a while, then build a fire to get warm. In the afternoon we'd go home at the right time. When Dad asked us how was school, we'd answer, 'Just fine.' Then he'd say, 'You didn't go to school today.' I don't know how he knew, maybe we looked too happy on those days. Even though we skipped school once in a while, we did well in school. None of us had any trouble learning to read or do the other work. After 5 or 6 years at Allen Day, I was sent to the Indian School at Santa Fe with Casey Baker, Robert Weaver, John Williams, Charlie Spencer and Graves Gunn. We rode the train to Santa Fe with several Utes from Utah. II was like a military school with bugles in the morning and marching drills. In February of that year I was called to the office. I was sure I was in trouble. All they did was tell me I was going home. Until I got on the train with my sister, I didn't know that my father had died. One year shortly after we got back to Santa Fe, Graves and I decided to run away from school. It took us several days to walk to Antonito following the railroad track. For several days we hung around town sleeping wherever we could with no idea what to do next. One afternoon a nice looking man walked up and said he wanted workers in his potato harvest. He drove us to a farm northwest of Monte Vista where some Spani-sh people lived. The first three days of picking potatoes were very hard. Our backs were very sore from stooping and lifting but we soon got used to it. Our bed was a blanket in a straw stack. They fed us very well. When the harvest was finished, the man paid us off and put us on the train at Monte Vista. I don't remember what he paid us, but we thought we had a lot of money. We got off the train at Alamosa where we stayed in the best hotel, ate a fancy meal and played pool in the lobby. The next morning we took off walking along the railroad track toward Antonito. Four miles south of town we stopped to 14 �.- , """) """) """) """) 7 t t '") "') ) 1 ' ' ) ) ) ) ) ) ' ) ) ) ,) ) ) _) _) J J J J ..J rest. The traffic was passing along the road not far away. Suddenly, a pickup slowed down with the driver watching us. We thought it was the truant officer. There was no place to hide. Graves said, 'They've got us now.' The man walked up and asked, 'Where are you going?' When we didn't answer, he said, 'Why don't you come work for me?' He drove us way west of Alamosa toward that big mountain. We harvested potatoes for another week and a half. Back in Alamosa we stayed in the hotel and ate another meal. The next morning we decided to quit fooling., around and get home. It was getting cold. So we bought train tickets to Ignacio. The closer we got to home, the more nervous we got, because we knew someone would be on the lookout for us. At La Boca we got scared and jumped off the train. I walked up to my grandmother's place and told Graves to stay there until we found out whether anyone was looking for us, but he went right on to town. Just as soon as he walked into Ignacio, Harry Richards grabbed him. Harry was the Indian cop at that time and he knew we were going to show up sooner or later. He tried to catch me, but I kept on the move. Early each morning I rode out into the country and didn't come back till late. I was down i n La Boca the day Harry Richards putSxGraves on the train for Santa Fe. I waved at Graves as the train rolled by with him trapped between Harry and the window. I was laughing, but Graves didn't think it was funny. I spent two years out of school, hunting hauling wood, breaking horses, and doing a little rodeo riding. I joined a dancing club made up of young single boys with one older man who was our leader and teacher. He taught us the war dances and the songs for the sun dance. After two years of freedom I decided I better go back to school and make something of myself. I enrolled at Albuquerque with Mary Chavez, Joe Weaver, Harold Groves, Frances Pinnecoose and Nettie Frost. Later I transferred to Haskell Institute in Kansas where I finished high school in 1935. When I got out of school it was the middle of the depression. I worked at whatever I could find. My brother David was leaving a job in the BIA auto shop at Towaoc to go to school. He sent me to ask for his job and I got it. One year at the Ute Mountain Bear Dance I met a girl named Pearl Posey. I soon got acquainted with her parents. They made their living fro'] a herd of sheep. Pearl and I got married in 1938. I was drafted in 1945. They statione€1 me in Mineral Wells, Texas, Hawaii and Okinawa and sent me home in 1946. Back home the BIA rehired me and I stayed with them for eight years. I served one term on the Southern Ute Tribal Council 1951-54 in John Baker's place while he left to go to school. In 1954 I went back to cattle farming and stayed with that until I became a game warden in 1963. After that I ran the tribal shop and then went into Tribal Resources doing custom farming, which I still do. Pearl and I had seven children: Alvina, who lived in Gallup; Orian, who lived in Montana; Clyde, who died in 1967; Veronica, who works in Denver; Ernestine and her husband who still live here; Gregory, who lives here; and Karen, who lives at Towaoc where she is enrolled . J J "Pearl died in 1975 and I'm still working. I'm going to work till I drop. I dug ditches for a living when there was no other job. I've worked all my life since my dad died and I'm not going to stop now." J Shelby Smith, February 1980 J J J J J J J 15 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fritz Box Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1980-02 Subject The topic of the resource Box, Fritz; Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Fritz Box based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the February, 1980 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Box, Fritz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby