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Families--history

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

Margaret Leaman, June 2, 2015

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Abstract Margaret Leaman’s interview was completed on June 2, 2015. During the interview, Leaman, and a few of her friends, described their involvement in the Vista Neighborhood Association from the 70s to 2007. She detailed the association’s various projects throughout the years, community participation, and partnerships between the association and local business and government entities. Much of the Vista Neighborhood Association’s many projects focused on helping residents with home improvement and...
Dates: June 2, 2015
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Vista Neighborhood

Marge and Daniel Conley , May 26, 2017

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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.

Dates: May 26, 2017
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Ustick Neighborhood

Marko Simunich, July 14, 2013

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Abstract Marko (Butch) Simunich, son of Eastern European immigrants. His father (Mike Simunich) worked for Boise-Payette lumber company and bought many acres of land in the Central Bench. Butch went to Franklin School, and spent his summers swimming in irrigation ditches. His father passed away when he was 13 years old, so much of his teenage years was spent farming to earn money for the family. As an adult, Butch remained at the family home, and continued to farm on his own property and on rented...
Dates: July 14, 2013
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Central Bench Neighborhood Association History Project

Mary Crist, September 28, 2013

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Abstract

Mary Crist, daughter of Eastern European immigrants. Her father (Mike Simunich) worked for Boise-Payette lumber company and bought many acres of land in the Central Bench. Mary went to Franklin School for all 12 years and recounts some stories of early childhood, including getting a permanent style haircut, raising cows and pigs, and riding her horse through Boise.

Dates: September 28, 2013
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Central Bench Neighborhood Association History Project

MaryAnn Breskin, October 2, 2017

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Abstract

MaryAnn Breskin discusses living with her family on Ustick Road beginning in 1923.

Dates: October 2, 2017
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Ustick Neighborhood

Maurine Hutchings, August 8, 2017

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Abstract

Maurine Hutchings discusses her life living with her family in the Ustick area beginning in 1936.

Dates: August 8, 2017
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Ustick Neighborhood

Maxine Briggs, November 4, 2013

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Abstract Maxine Briggs was born in 1923 in Caldwell, Idaho. She is the grand daughter of Michael Roberts and Ada Frost who owned a meat market on Main Street in Caldwell. She attended Caldwell High School, graduating in 1940, then studied at College of Idaho for two years before transferring to University of Idaho. She married in 1943, leaving Idaho for Florida then California before returning to Boise. Her and her husband, Carlyle, built a house on a tract of land owned by his family out of an old...
Dates: November 4, 2013
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Central Bench Neighborhood Association History Project

Maxine Huckstep , October 17, 2017

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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.

Dates: October 17, 2017
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 3: Citizens

Meffert family collection

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Identifier: MS 014
Scope and Contents

Collection contains photographs of the Meffert family and Daughters of the Nile newspaper scrapbook.

Dates: ca. 1920-1950
Found in: Collections / Meffert family collection

Michael Meade, July 20, 2016

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Abstract

Michael Meade discusses his life growing up in Ustick beginning in 1940, and his grandparents, Archie and Nora Pelton, owning the Ustick Mercantile.

Dates: July 20, 2016
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Ustick Neighborhood

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