Valorie Childers Oral History Interview

Collinsville, Great Flood of 1993

“Valorie Childers Oral History Interview,” Madison Historical, accessed December 22, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/508.

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Valorie Childers describes her experiences of living in West Alton during the Flood of 1993. She also describes the circumstances surrounding the levee’s break, as well as the hardships faced for those flood survivors and their attempts to rebuild. She briefly discusses the involvement of the Red Cross and the Army Corp of Engineers during the flood.

• Great Flood of 1993
• Collinsville

December 11, 2016

• Collinsville

English

• Oral History

• mp3
• pdf

• 0:51:03

Kroder, Kayla

Childers, Valerie

Collinsville, Illinois

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• 1970s-2010s
• West Alton, Missouri
• Collinsville, Illinois

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