Mesa Verde Voices Audio History

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Mesa Verde Voices- Aileen Nusbaum Hospital [5.45mb mp3 file]
Did you know that Mesa Verde National Park had its own hospital for almost 65 years? Hear more about it in this Mesa Verde Voices segment.

Mesa Verde Voices-- Larry Nordby [5.46mb mp3 file]
In the past decade Mesa Verde National Park has begun using less invasive techniques to gather information about its many archeological sites. Hear about Chief Research Archeologist Larry Nordby, who pioneered this program at the park.

Mesa Verde Voices- Marry an Archeologist [5.37mb mp3 file]
In the 1930's women in Southwestern archeology were definitely a minority. Florence Lister got her degree in archeology, but as far as getting a job in it, she was advised "marry an archeologist."

Mesa Verde Voices-- Mesa Verde Company [5.43mb mp3 file]
The Mesa Verde Company was a family-owned buisness that ran the park concession for almost 40 years. Hear more about it's impact on the park in this Mesa Verde Voice.

Mesa Verde Voices-- Oddie Jeep [5.33mb mp3 file]
Mesa Verde had it's first "Career Business-Woman" in the form of Oddie Jeep, twenty-one-year-old daughter of Superintendent Rickner.

Mesa Verde Voices-- Sam Ahkeah [5.32mb mp3 file]
Hear how this young Navajo man came to work at Mesa Verde National Park and later went on to become the Navajo Tribal Chairman.

Mesa Verde Voices-- WMAP Lab [5.82mb mp3 file]
During the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project of the 1960's, museum aides were hired locally to work in the Research Lab. Ruth Chappell, Sue Waite, Jeannie Lee, and Marilyn Colyer remember.

Mesa Verde Voices--Al Lancaster [5.29mb mp3 file]


Mesa Verde Voices--Art Rohn and Mug House [5.28mb mp3 file]
Archaologist Art Rohn's innovative take on interpreting his excavations, specifically at Mug House cliff dwelling, was ground-breaking in the 1960's.

Mesa Verde Voices--Beer's Stage Line [5.29mb mp3 file]
Robert Beers explains his father's stage line business at the park, and how he routinely braved the perils of the Knife Edge Road.

Mesa Verde Voices--Calvin Clements and CCC [5.77mb mp3 file]
Hear an audio snapshot of the Civilian Conservation Corps and a young worker, Calvin Clements, trying to make it through the Depression by Mesa Verde National Park.

Mesa Verde Voices--CCC Life [5.45mb mp3 file]
The Civilian Conservation Corps camps located in Mesa Verde National Park shaped it into what it is today. Ross Durant and Herman Wagner reflect on what life was like for workers of the CCC.

Mesa Verde Voices--Dioramas [5.28mb mp3 file]
Hear an audio snapshot of how dioramas depicting life for ancestral puebloans was created in the the oldest museum in the National Park System.

Mesa Verde Voices--Early Park Tours [5.28mb mp3 file]
Minnie Hickman describes the four-day tour she and her family took into the park in 1904.

Mesa Verde Voices--First Wagon Road into the Park [4.83mb mp3 file]
Each year, over half a million visitors make their way up the windy road to Mesa Verde. Ina Aimes Aileen tells us what conditions were like during the early years.

Mesa Verde Voices--Growing Up in Mesa Verde [5.76mb mp3 file]
Jeannie Lee Jim and Jan Wade Vaughn reflect on what it was like to be a child growing up in Mesa Verde.

Mesa Verde Voices--Linda Martin on Interpretation [5.43mb mp3 file]
Linda Martin, Suprvisory Park Ranger in Interpretation, gives an insider's look into Park interpretation.

Mesa Verde Voices--Navajo Work Force [5.29mb mp3 file]
The Navajo people have been an integral part of Mesa Verde National Park for the majority of its history. Dan Parker of Shiprock talks about the work he did on the Park's infrastructure.

Mesa Verde Voices--Ruth Beecher and the One-Room Schoolhouse [5.28mb mp3 file]
Children in Mesa Verde, during 1930s to the 1960s, attended school at the Park. Ruth Beecher describes her experiences as a teacher at the school house in Mesa Verde National Park