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Audio and text excerpt of an interview with John Budke and Alysa Hall where Alysa Hall describes learning about the eruption while her family lived in Germany, seeing the dramatic changes to Mount St. Helens when they returned to Washington, and…

Audio and text excerpt from an interview with Carolyn Driedger where she discusses souvenir tee shirts sold at the time of the eruption and her difficulty in wearing one in light of the resulting loss of life and scale of the destruction. Duration…

Audio and text excerpt from an interview with Carolyn Driedger talks about United States Geological Survey (USGS) volcanologist David Johnston and his death on Mount St. Helens as a result of the eruption. Duration 4:20.

Audio and text excerpt of an interview with John Budke and Alysa Hall where they discuss the scale of the destruction to Mount St. Helens and the slow recovery of plant life in the years after the eruption. Duration 0:46.

Audio and text excerpt of an interview with Lynn Kelly where she discusses childhood memories of family recreation on Mount St. Helens and the dramatic, lasting changes caused by the eruption. Duration 4:16.

Before the eruption, people having a picnic at the base of Mt St Helens.

A collage of pictures showing volcanic ash clean up.

Results of the lateral blast stripped trees.

Along the Toutle River

A new fern growing out of the ash