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Rusty Bowers

lines on the record: 55
first: 2022-11-10
most recent: 2022-11-10
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Dad and Jackie Robinson would fight their way to school and fight their way home, one being African American, the other one being Mormon. And both on the Alps with most other people. And they finally figured out they'd better fight their way or just outrun everybody.”
2022-11-10 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 511 — Speaker Rusty Bowers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My dad was the Iron Man of California, all CIF. He ran track and mostly track and football in LA. And he lived kind of close. His neighbor has talked to us, said they lived through the block from Jackie Robinson”
2022-11-10 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 511 — Speaker Rusty Bowers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, at first it was where they settled was called Lehigh, and he's a that's the name of a figure in the book of Mormon. But up on the Mesa, up above them was where they ultimately found that the long ago indigenous people had dug canals and had diverted water from the Salt River out onto that mesa to grow crops. So they followed the same canal pathways and were able to start irrigating and that's where Mesa really took off as far as taking off it really didn't start until 1945. And it was irrigable land and they did an awesome work.”
2022-11-10 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 511 — Speaker Rusty Bowers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And we occasionally get to sneak up and see their graves and remember how tough life really was for a lot of people. And then they moved down here then to the valley and got a half section down here near Mesa under the hill. And that's where grandma really, as a child began to flourish, et cetera. But it was a different time for a lot of people, that's for sure.”
2022-11-10 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 511 — Speaker Rusty Bowers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, they settled in the White Mountains almost into New Mexico over St. John's was the first place, then down to they settled a tiny little hamlet called Nutrioso, and a brother, two brothers. One was in Nutrioso, the other one is in Alpine. And my great-grandfather lost three of his kids that winter.”
2022-11-10 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 511 — Speaker Rusty Bowers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source