Jack: Have you ever heard of the broadcast from the top of Mt. Blanca?
BH: I've heard of it. What can you tell me about it?
Jack: That's Gil Traveler. . .
BH: Gil Traveler was the one that. . .
Jack: He's the one that did it.
BH: I talked to Lloyd Jones a couple of weeks ago.
Jack: He was up there too. He's. . . he's real hazy on a couple of dates, but he did go up there. But I've talked to several people that were up there. Ah. . .
BH: What was the date of that broadcast?
Jack: Ah. . . it was like. . . I've kind of forgot it, but I think it was like '33, '34, along in there. It was after. . . after he got. . . throw out of the Methodist Church, and he was still doing some. . . people still had huge esteem for him. And it's kind of funny, ah. . . but I still haven't researched this out, but I think. . . (Unintelligible). And her husband was a professor at the college, and anyway, Gil Traveler married them. And so she come. . . and she was in that. . .
BH: On that trek?
Jack: And ah. . . ah. . . well, I think it was (?). But anyway she come out and said that we always thought. . . we wondered if Gil Traveler still had a license to marry us, because he'd been. . . (Laughs) and she said we never wanted to pursue that, because there was. . . there were many people he married. But you know, they often wondered if was official.
BH: (laughs) That would be an interesting twist, wouldn't it? Do you know. . .
Jack: The Hansens. . . the Hansen ranch ah. . . was also the ah. . . where they started out on that climb on Easter Sunday to ah. . . and I've got some pictures of that.
BH: That would be something ah. . . that I'd think we'd really like to have, is one or two pictures of that event.
Jack: Okay.
BH: So they started from the Hansen ranch, and they carried spools of wire, is that how it went?
Jack: Yeah. I talked. . . I had an interview with a. . . with the fellow that did the. . . laid the wire. And I've got it. . . I've got his interview in there. But. . . but he and his daughter had a ranch down at San Acacio, and they were ah. . . short-wave radio. . . radio had just started. . .
BH: Um hum.
Jack: And so they had. . . they had done some radio work. And they. . . they. . . that radio station was right outside of town.
BH: Um hum.
Jack: And they laid a wire along the barbed wire fence from Alamosa to ah. . . near Blanca, and then Blanca had a. . . a (?) line, and then let's see. . . they laid a wire from the Hansen Ranch up on top of Mount Blanca, but they also never did quite make it. It was (?) by two or three (?), but anyway. They ran a message on this wire from where they were on Mount Blanca down to the Hansen Ranch. Ran from the telephone wire to the Blanca telephone company. Ran by wire from the Blanca telephone company along the fence, all the way to the radio station and broadcast it.
BH: Oh, my goodness.
Jack: And he told me how I did it. . . it was just great. (Unintelligible)
BH: Do you have any idea what the message was?
Jack: It was an Easter. . . it was. . .
BH: An Easter sermon.
Jack: Yeah.
BH: And did Gil Traveler do the sermon?
Jack: Yeah.
BH: Wow. Oh, how wonderful.
Jack: Yeah.
BH: Lloyd had told me a little bit about it, but I sure didn't know all that.
Jack: And. . . they got some (unintelligible) Gil Traveler was a. . . Gil Traveler, Jr.