Audio cassettes

Many of the interviewees were charter customers and employees of GVEC and remembered a time before electricity was available to the residents of the Guadalupe River Valley. Interviewees were asked to comment on how their lives changed as a result of the availability of electricity, their level of satisfaction with the service provided by GVEC, and their opinion of GVEC’s intention to provide additional services such as satellite television or waste management.

The GVEC collection contains complete transcripts of all but one of the twenty-seven interviews. In addition to the transcripts, each folder contains release forms, copies of correspondence, and biographical information on each interviewee. A second box contains all the extant audio copies of the interviews on audiocassette. Audio copies exist for thirteen of the twenty-seven interviews. Materials arranged alphabetically.

Most of the interviews were conducted by Southwest Texas graduate student Karen Yancy, who used the interviews in her master’s thesis, And Then There was Light: A History of Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative 1963-1988.