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Oral History Interview with Jovita Soria, November 10, 2012

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Interview with Jovita Soria, Mexican-born immigrant to Plano, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. The interview includes Soria's personal experiences of childhood in Mexico, her first experience in Plano at the age of seventeen and her second on as a live-in nanny, her move to Abilene, Texas, and return to Mexico with her husband. Soria also talks about her return to Plano as an illegal immigrant, difficulties with illegal status, assimilation into Texas culture, children's experiences as Mexican-American, and her thoughts on the immigration process.
Date: November 10, 2012
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Soria, Jovita
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mae Nell Shepherd, April 10, 2017

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Mae Nell Shephard for the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. In the interview Shepherd discusses her involvement in the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship, desegregation in Denton, and contemporary race relations.
Date: April 10, 2017
Creator: Huebner, Andrew & Shepherd, Mae Nell
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Barbara L. Parry, December 10, 2019

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Interview with Dr. Barbara L. Parry, a psychiatrist from La Jolla, California. Parry discusses premenstrual psychosis, light treatment and circadian rhythms, the DSM, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, treatments, medications, the impact of politics, and grants.
Date: December 10, 2019
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Parry, Barbara L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Pedro F. Franco, March 10, 2011

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Interview with Colombian-born oral surgeon Pedro F. Franco as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Franco's personal experiences about childhood in Cali, Colombia, attending college and dental school in Bogota, playing on the college soccer team, and working for a new constitution in Colombia. Additionally, Franco discusses family background, his father being kidnapped by a guerrilla group, his residency in the guerrilla-dominated portion of Colombia, educational experiences in Chicago, returning to Colombia, his decision to come to Dallas after being threatened by guerrillas, the impact of his father and mother shaping his values and work ethic, dealing with American stereotypes of Colombia, the apathy of the new generation in America, the legalization of narcotics, his expectations upon coming to America, his thoughts on the importance of philanthropy, and the importance of immigrants in making American great.
Date: March 10, 2011
Creator: Nabors, Daniel & Franco, Pedro F.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Eliot Coleman, October 10, 2013

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Interview with Eliot Coleman, an organic farmer and homesteader from Rumson, New Jersey. Coleman discusses his childhood, college experience, work at Franconcia College, befriending Scott and Helen Nearing and purchasing a stead from them, thoughts on government, counterculture, good methods for organic farming, local ecology and maintaining ecosystems, his marriages, different farms worked, stories about the Nearings, and thoughts on his way of life.
Date: October 10, 2013
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Coleman, Eliot
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jeanne Gaudette, October 10, 2013

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Interview with Jeanne Gaudette, a yogini from Lynn, Massachusetts. Gaudette discusses growing up, discovering a love of nature, astrology and spiritualism, meditation, considering a monastic vocation as a teenager and quitting religion, thoughts on her family's struggles, her marriage and divorce, having a son, becoming a Ayurvedic yogini, reading charts, planetary energy, Scott and Helen Nearing, dowsing, death and souls, chakras, and Helen Nearing's death.
Date: October 10, 2013
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Gaudette, Jeanne
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ann Barnett, March 10, 2017

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Ann Barnett about her experiences and involvement in the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship.
Date: March 10, 2017
Creator: Robinson, Sarah & Barnett, Ann
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library