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Object Description
TITLE | Oral history interview with LaVona Evans 2012-01-21 |
INTERVIEWEE | Evans, LaVona, 1912- |
SUBJECT | Centenarians--United States--Interviews; Oral history--Arizona; Tucson (Ariz.)--History--Anecdotes; Mormon families—Anecdotes |
Browse Topic |
Family and community |
DESCRIPTION | LaVona Evans recounts her life in Southern Arizona. Evans was born in Thatcher, Arizona on February 14, 1912. Evans talks about her childhood in Thatcher and Mesa and her experiences raising a family in Binghampton, a Mormon settlement that has since become a part of Tucson. Evans also tells of her time in the 1980's as a missionary in Tonga. |
INTERVIEWER | Stone, Mikel |
TYPE |
Sound Text Image |
RIGHTS MANAGEMENT | For permission to use these materials, contact Pima County Public Library, http://www.library.pima.gov. |
DATE ORIGINAL | 2012-01-21 |
Time Period |
1910s (1910-1919) 1920s (1920-1929) 1930s (1930-1939) 1940s (1940-1949) 1980s (1980-1989) 2010s (2010-2019) |
ORIGINAL FORMAT | CD |
DIGITAL IDENTIFIER | index.cpd |
Date Digital | 2011-2012 |
DIGITAL FORMAT |
MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3) DOC (Microsoft Word) PDF (Portable Document Format) JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) |
DIGITIZATION SPECIFICATIONS | Oral history interview recorded on a Marantz CDR310 |
REPOSITORY | Pima County Public Library. 101 N. Stone Ave., Tucson, AZ 85701 |
Full Text | 1 Perspectives of the Past Oral History Project: LaVona Evans Mikel Stone: We're gunna go. Okay. LaVona Evans: Alright. MS: Well, good afternoon, my name is Mikel Stone and today is January 21st, 2012 and I'm interviewing LaVona Evans. So why don't we start with uh, me asking you where you born? LE: (deep breath) I was born in Thatcher, Arizona February the 14th, 1912. Just over about a couple of blocks from where I live right now. MS: So you-you're born on the day the state, the day Arizona became a state. LE: The day Arizona was-became a state. And my father was teaching school at the Gila Academy here in Thatcher, and we lived in Thatcher, oh we lived it was a few years before um, we moved away. I was five years old, when my mother passed away and otherwise I think we would've still just stayed here in Thatcher. But he took the children, there were five children, and he took the children over to Mesa so the grandmas could help take care of 'em. MS: Well, tell me, tell me a little ab |