Archive Tucson short: Floating the Floodwaters in a Mortar Box
Jan. 27, 2025
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Sleeping outside on the back seat of a car, living on beans, and floating across the flooded desert in a mortar box—Ben Witt recalls childhood in a household of Dust Bowl refugees in the thinly-populated Amphi Neighborhood during the 1940s.
Listen to audio (3:57)
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Archive Tucson is a living and growing collection of audio interviews about life and change in Tucson and Southern Arizona. University Libraries Oral Historian and Videographer, Aengus Anderson, has spent more than five years interviewing 100+ people and recording their stories about our city.