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Audio clip from interview with Rabbi Yocheved Mintz, March 11, 2015
Date
2015-03-11
Archival Collection
Description
In this audio clip, Rabbi Mintz talks about attending a class at the Academy for Jewish Religion in California, which helped her realize a lifelong dream to become a rabbi.
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#71521: UNLV student Ka-Voka Jackson, a Hualapai tribal member, is working on a restoration project on her tribe's ancestral lands through her master's program. The research, conducted in collaboration with the National Park Service in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona, will restore degraded plant communities in several canyons along the Colorado River by testing methods of invasive plant species control and established native plant populations. The invasive plants not only wreak havoc on the environment and pose a wildfire risk, but they're also squeezing out plants central to the culture, religion, and history of native populations, April 10, 2017, 2017 April 10
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Archival Collection
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
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Collection Number: PH-00388-05
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 01
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 01
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Transcript of interview with Gertrude Anne Moore by Mamie Beuttner, February 21, 1975
Date
1975-02-21
Archival Collection
Description
General Nevada history, Searchlight, Anderson's Dairy, Rancho Grande Creamery, Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam), working on Fremont Street, Helldorado, Stewart Ranch, flooding, Mormons and religion, Hunt Family of Bunkerville, Atomic Testing, Carole Lombard plane crash, Pioche, Goodsprings, WWII, Ghost Towns, El Rancho.
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Transcript of interview with Georgia Adras by Robin L. Hayes, March 02, 1977
Date
1977-03-02
Archival Collection
Description
Robin L. Hayes interviews her Greek-American grandmother Georgia Adras, born 1916, in Farmington, Utah. Adras relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1936. This interview covers education, religion, ad raising a family in Nevada. During the interview Adras also discusses the building of the Boulder Dam, road conditions, grocery shopping in the early days, and the Strip.
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Transcript of interview with Charlotte Brascia by Joe Mascellino, February 24, 1977
Date
1977-02-24
Archival Collection
Description
Joe Mascellino interviews Charlotte Brascia in his home about the history of Nevada. Mascellino asks Brascia about social and cultural changes, the growth of different religions, Brascia’s brief presence in the airline industry, political presence in Las Vegas, and rising crime rates. Brascia also specifically discusses her experience in the gaming and hospitality industry and how gaming operations have changed over time, particularly comparing gaming and hiring practices in the 1950s with those in the 1970s.
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