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Immigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Lauri LoebThis year Carbondale, Colorado celebrates the 54th Annual Carbondale Mountain Fair. Tune in as Laurie Loeb remembers Carbondale and Aspen in the 1970s and the little big idea to start a summer fair celebrating the art and music of the valley.2025-07-1627 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Haregewewoin WoldemariamHaregewewoin Woldemariam grew up in Ethiopia, a country that has struggled with war, instability and corruption. She reflects on how the love her mother and father showed her as a child has carried her through life's worst hard times.2025-06-1727 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Ho Jin CheeHo Jin Chee known to his friends as H.J. remembers how his parents had toflee the South Korean mafia leaving him asthe sole provider for his younger siblings at the age of sixteen.2025-05-2726 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Dr. George MiznerTune in as Dr. George Mizner remembers when he was eight years old watching the Nazis goose step down the street in front of his apartment in Austria. He knew, even then, that his life had changed forever.2025-03-1927 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Kurt BresnitzTune in as Kurt Bresnitz remembers the Spring of 1938 when he was preparing to graduate from high school until Hitler stormed into his country and made him an Austrian refugee, seeking asylum in the United States.2025-02-1827 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Misheel ChuluunOn this months episode of Immigrant Stories, host Walter Gallacher interviews Misheel Chuluun. In 1991, Misheel Chuluun was eleven and living in Mongolia when the Soviet Union collapsed and brought her country's economy down with it. Tune in as she remembers her family's struggles to survive.2025-01-2227 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Klaus ObermeyerKlaus Obermeyer celebrates his one hundred and fifthbirthday this month. Tune in as he describes how he madehis way from immigrant day laborer to winter sports icon.2024-12-1827 min
Immigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Kaziemierz KozakKaziemierz Kozak grew up in the 1930's in the Polish countryside. Life was good, until the day World War II came to his little farm. Tune in as Kaziemierz remembers life on the front lines.2024-11-2026 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Wafá SaeedWafa Saeed talks about her mother country, Sudan, and the Sudanese people's ongoing struggle for independence.2024-10-1627 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Mercedes GarciaMercedes Garcia was fifteen when El Salvador's civil war came to her village. Tune in as she remembers her childhood and her perilous journey to the United States.2024-09-1826 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Kathleen FitzsimmonsOn this month's episode of Immigrant Stories, Kathleen Fitzsimmons, a frontier mining historian and Leadville, Colorado native describes the life of Irish immigrant miners during Leadville's silver rush of the 1880s.2024-08-2127 min
Immigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Diana HigueraOn this month's episode of Immigrant Stories, Diana Higuera, the founder and director of the Rocky Mountain Welcome Center in Denver, remembers the Venezuela of her childhood and talks about why millions of Venezuelans are fleeing what was once the richest country in South America.2024-07-1727 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Elizabeth BoomhowerOn this episode of Immigrant Stories we hear from Elizabeth Boomhower who grew up in the Netherlands in the 1930s when her country was known as Holland. She remembers the summer of her nineteenth year, 1940, when the Germans jumped out of the sky and took her country.2024-06-1927 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Spany MburunyemeOn this episode of Immigrant Stories, Spany Mburunyeme describes how his family escaped the chaos of civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, when he was a child.2024-05-2227 min
Immigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Minani TheonesteOn this episode of Immigrant Stories, host Walter Gallacher speaks with Minani Theoneste. This April marks the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Tune in as Minani Theoneste remembers his family's escape from the violence and their search for home.2024-04-1727 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Gloria PerezOn this month's episode of Immigrant Stories, Gloria Perez reflects on her journey from Mexico to a life of community service and leadership in Leadville, Colorado.2024-03-2027 min
NYUKI PodcastHow our Parents escaped EXECUTIONS and GENOCIDESIn this special episode of Nyuki Podcast, we had the privilege to be interviewed by Walter Gallacher. Mr. Gallacher began his thirty-year career in higher education teaching adults on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He spent most of his career with Colorado Mountain College where he was the Director of Marketing and more recently the Dean of Students. Since his retirement in 2005, he has been producing "Immigrant Stories," a radio program, podcast and oral history project that is gathering the recollections of immigrants who have settled in western Colorado.
Throughout this episode, we dove deeper into the untold...2024-03-041h 04Immigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Pat & Tony TonozziThis month we revisit a past episode of Immigrant Stories. Tune in as Pat and Tony Tonozzi talk about how they fell in love and sustained it for seventy-five years.2024-02-2127 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Jose MirandaOn this episode of Immigrant Stories, Jose Miranda water buffalo rancher and former resident of the Roaring Fork Valley describes the desperate conditions in Venezuela that forced him and his family to flee in 2014.2024-01-1727 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Traolach O'Riordain Part 2On this episode of Immigrant Stories, Part 2, host Walter Gallacher speaks with Traolach O'Riordain, director of Irish Studies at the University of Montana, Missoula. He remembers growing up in Ireland and describes how Irish immigrants changed life in the United States and Ireland.2023-12-2033 minImmigrant StoriesImmigrant Stories | Traolach O'RiordainOn this episode of Immigrant Stories, host Walter Gallacher speaks with Traolach O'Riordain, director of Irish Studies at the University of Montana, Missoula. He remembers growing up in Ireland and describes how Irish immigrants changed life in the United States and Ireland.2023-12-2027 min
the WNR podcastWNR227 WNRJUNEEpisode 227! It's the monthly WWE Network Review for the month! On the show all the latest content including WWE 24,Chronicle Ride Along and a great look at Triple H in Creation and Destruction. 205live includes a great match between Jack Gallacher and the and improve Chad Gable! All the news of the week with Becky Lynch and Edge's beef and of course NXT Update! The main event of this episode is NXT UK! Pete Dunne vs WALTER for the NXTUK title1 That's not all, the fall out and a shocking debut plus Women's title on the line and a new...2019-06-162h 41the WNR podcastWNR227 WNRJUNEEpisode 227! It's the monthly WWE Network Review for the month! On the show all the latest content including WWE 24,Chronicle Ride Along and a great look at Triple H in Creation and Destruction. 205live includes a great match between Jack Gallacher and the and improve Chad Gable! All the news of the week with Becky Lynch and Edge's beef and of course NXT Update! The main event of this episode is NXT UK! Pete Dunne vs WALTER for the NXTUK title1 That's not all, the fall out and a shocking debut plus Women's title on the line and a new...2019-06-162h 41