Interviews with Carl T. Bode, Isabelle Fritschen, Joseph H. Hirt, Mary G. Hirt, and Minnie Campbell, 1958-07-05

File — Box: MS 017-02, Folder: MS 017-02-10

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1958 no. 05

Staff Only

RT 398 F666m 1958 no. 05 - 7 inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

13 index cards - Bickerdyke, Mary Ann, 1817-1901; Bode, Carl T.; Campbell, Minnie; Folk-songs, German--Kansas; Folklore of the Middle West, 1958, No. 5; Fritschen, Isabelle (4); Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas; Hirt, Joseph H.; Hirt, Mary G.; Russell County, Kansas--History;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Carl T. Bode, Isabelle Fritschen, Joseph H. Hirt, Mary G. Hirt, and Minnie Campbell. The recording includes a variety of German-language songs. The last half of the recording is dedicated to Minnie Campbell telling about her time working for Mother Bickerdyke. The first few minutes of the recording are missing.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:13 - Song, The Messenger Bird sung by Joseph H. Hirt and translated by Isabelle Fritschen

00:01:35 - Song, Birdie in the Window, sung by Mary Gertrude Hirt

00:02:59 - Story of Peter John Thielen's experience in the Franco-Prussian War told by Joseph Hirt

00:05:27 - Grandfather's experience with wild cattle told by Isabelle Fritschen

00:07:31 - Carl T. Bode introduction

00:08:46 - Nursery rhyme about hands

00:09:09 - The Cuckoo and the Donkey

00:09:42 - Sleep Baby Sleep

00:10:24 - Golden Evening Sun

00:11:00 - Beautiful Moon

00:12:10 - My Homeland

00:13:50 - Minnie Campbell Introduction

00:14:05 - Experiences as Mother Bickerdyke's secretary

00:14:35 - Mother Bickerdyke's 81st birthday celebration in Bunker Hill, KS

00:19:59 - Mother Bickerdyke's portrait

00:23:55 - How Lydia Foster, Mother Bickerdyke's Black maid came to live with her.

00:26:34 - Mother Bickerdyke's death

00:29:34 - Mother Bickerdyke's burial in Galesburg, Illinois

00:30:28 - Working for Mother Bickerdyke

00:34:01 - Going to School as a student of James Bickerdyke, Mother Bickerdyke's son

00:35:26 - Decline of Bunker Hill, KS

00:37:15 - Russell stealing the county seat from Bunker Hill

00:38:09 - Closing of the Dorrance, KS bank

00:39:00 - Mother Bickerdyke's personality

00:42:34 - Experience with Nina Brown Baker author of Cyclone in Calico

00:48:24 - Mother Bickerdyke Home for Widows and Children in Ellsworth, KS

00:51:13 - Post script