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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Second Interview with Mary Belle (Powers) Plaisted]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Begging]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Poverty]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Basic needs]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Homemakers]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Gardens]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Italian americans]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Influenza epidemic 1918-1919]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mesa county--history]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Grand junction--history]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Irrigation--colorado]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Delta county--history]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Ute indians--history]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Ute indians--social life and customs]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Garfield county--history]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Farm life]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Family life]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mesa County Oral History Project]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Madam Fran]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Maria Louisa (Hoover) Powers]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Joseph Alexander Knox Crawford]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Theophilus "Cap" Head]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Charles "Charlie" Arthur Kessinger]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mary Belle (Powers) Plaisted]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[World War I]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Mary Plaisted talks about growing up in the Milldale area around the sugar beet factory in Grand Junction, Colorado, and about the brothels and red-light district nearby. She describes having to beg and take odd cleaning and sewing jobs to support she and her children, and the kind strangers that helped her. She mentions the many places she lived in Grand Junction, the floods common in the Riverside neighborhood, and living in a close-knit Italian community there. She talks about being pregnant during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. She speaks of living in Delta County as a girl, about sugar beet and potato cultivation, and life on a farm. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Avis M. Carlson]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Noel Kalenian]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Plains to Peaks Collective]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[25-Aug-80]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[<div class="item-relation"><a href="https://mesa.marmot.org/Archive/mesa%3A1329/Audio" target="_blank"><img src="https://islandora.marmot.org/islandora/object/mesa:1329/datastream/TN/view" alt="https://islandora.marmot.org/islandora/object/mesa:1329/datastream/TN/view" height="200"></img></a></div>]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:references><![CDATA[https://mesa.marmot.org/Archive/mesa%3A1329/Audio]]></dcterms:references>
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