This is week four of our 10 FOR 10 campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Panama Canal Museum Collection’s (PCMC) arrival at the University of Florida!

Once a week for ten weeks we will post an oral history clip to the blog. We hope you will enjoy them and that at least one or two of the stories inspire some memories.

This week we selected a clip from Skip Rowley – he talks about working at the locks.

I picked his interview for this week because he talks about Halloween and pulling pranks, but the clip about the locks was too great to pass up. For those of you that want to hear Skip’s Halloween story, visit his full interview through the link below. (Plus the great people at the Canal Record beat me to the wonderful Halloween photo they used on the cover of the October issue)

The goal is to raise $10,000 during the ten week to support the PCMC oral history program. If you are interested in donating, please visit https://pcmc.uflib.ufl.edu/oralhistory/ or contact John Nemmers, jnemmers@ufl.edu, (352) 273-2766. View our Celebrating Ten Years Booklet. Contact Betsy Bemis, ehbemis@ufl.edu, if you are interested in doing an oral history interview.

This is week three of our 10 FOR 10 campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Panama Canal Museum Collection’s (PCMC) arrival at the University of Florida!

Once a week for ten weeks we will post an oral history clip to the blog. We hope you will enjoy them and that at least one or two of the stories inspire some memories.

This week we selected a clip from Maxine (Conover) MacDonald – she talks about riding horses in Panama and the Canal Zone and the racetrack in Panama City.

The goal is to raise $10,000 during the ten week to support the PCMC oral history program. If you are interested in donating, please visit https://pcmc.uflib.ufl.edu/oralhistory/ or contact John Nemmers, jnemmers@ufl.edu, (352) 273-2766. View our Celebrating Ten Years Booklet. Contact Betsy Bemis, ehbemis@ufl.edu, if you are interested in doing an oral history interview.

This is week two of our 10 FOR 10 campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Panama Canal Museum Collection’s (PCMC) arrival at the University of Florida!

Once a week for ten weeks we will post an oral history clip to the blog. We hope you will enjoy them and that at least one or two of the stories inspire some memories.

This week we selected a clip from David Seitz – he talks about mangos and growing up in Gamboa.

The goal is to raise $10,000 during the ten week to support the PCMC oral history program. If you are interested in donating, please visit https://pcmc.uflib.ufl.edu/oralhistory/ or contact John Nemmers, jnemmers@ufl.edu, (352) 273-2766. View our Celebrating Ten Years Booklet. Contact Betsy Bemis, ehbemis@ufl.edu, if you are interested in doing an oral history interview.

This is week one of our 10 FOR 10 campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Panama Canal Museum Collection’s (PCMC) arrival at the University of Florida!

Once a week for the next ten weeks we will post an oral history excerpt to the blog. We hope you will enjoy them and that at least one or two of the stories inspire some memories.

This week we selected a clip from Reggie Hayden – he talks about selling Panama American papers near the Pedro Miguel Locks.

The goal is to raise $10,000 during the next ten weeks to support the PCMC oral history program. If you are interested in donating, please visit https://pcmc.uflib.ufl.edu/oralhistory/ or contact John Nemmers, jnemmers@ufl.edu, (352) 273-2766. View our Celebrating Ten Years Booklet. Contact Betsy Bemis, ehbemis@ufl.edu, if you are interested in doing an oral history interview.