The Oral History Archives includes audio clips and partial transcripts.
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Marge and Ed Ebel
Concrete work on Grand Coulee Dam
The dam’s effect on Moses Lake community
Yadira Garcia
Life as a high school student in Moses Lake
Don Goodwin
The closure of the U & I Sugar Refinery
Remina Jorgensen: Mormon resident of Moses Lake since 1940s
Increasing population and changing ethnicity in Moses Lake
The Columbia Basin Project, technology, transportation, and modern agriculture
The effect on Moses Lake of the Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980
Frank Koba
Personal account of being relocated to Moses Lake
Frank Koba discusses Moses Lake after 1943
Barbara and Ted Osborne
Preparing for irrigation
Clyde Owen: Air Force colonel, commanded Larson Air Force Base in 1960s
On moving to Moses Lake, and the closing of Larson Air Force Base
Japan Airlines buys Grant County Airport for training of 747 pilots
Andrea Stucki: Mormon high school student
The shooting at Moses Lake High School
Joe Tokunaga
Internment at Minidoka and coming to Moses Lake
Lillian Tokunaga
Living in Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II
Harry Yamamoto
Farming in Moses Lake after 1943
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Carrie “Kitty” Blakes – African American resident of Moses Lake
Deane, Dick – Moses Lake community member since 1945
Garcia, Yadira – Mexican American high school student
Goodwin, Don – County Commissioner for sixteen years
Hanson, Wanda – Farm wife and State Senator for one year
Jorgenson, Remina – Mormon resident of Moses Lake since 1940s
Koba, Frank and Mrs. – WWII Internment – Minidoka/small business owners in Moses Lake
Schiffner, George and Margaret – Building the big dams, and electricity
Tokunaga, Fudge, Joe, and Lillian – Japanese Internment/Farming in Moses Lake
Yamamoto, Harry, Jr. – Japanese American who came to Moses Lake with his parents on work release status from a World War II internment campInterviews were conducted and are housed at the Adam East Art Center and Museum in Moses Lake, Washington.