Al Richmond interviews Pauline Sampson and Marjorie Poquette, two long-term residents of Williams, Arizona about their life and occupational experience in Williams for the Grand Canyon Railroad Oral History Project [constructed title], May 10, 1984, 1984, 2005 July 6

Richmond interviews Sampson and Poquette in Sampson's home in Williams. Both Sampson and Poquette, long-time friends and residents of Williams were involved for numerous years in teaching in the Williams schools. Poquette's family arrived in Williams around 1923 after her father, Bert Harmon, accepted a position as a conductor/brakeman for the Gran Canyon Railway. They discuss their experience as teachers, guidance counselors to students, the racial make-up of the schools during their years of teaching, and their views concerning bilingual education.