Oral History by Ed Tyson

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This video interview was recorded in the last days of Edwin Tyson, Curator of the Searls Library and revered Nevada County historian--resident of Nevada City for many years. He became synonomous with the "Searls Library" to the extent that tourists sometimes assumed he was "old Mr. Searls" Ed passed away at age 92 in February 2010 shortly after recording this oral history. He was much respected and beloved."

Wally Hagaman conducted the intrview at the Searls Library. This a 114 MB MP4 video file was created with very old video equipment.

Here is the video.

Here is a brief transcript. (PDF)

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