Interview with Oscar Lee Gunckel, Calvin H, Keyser, Lila Grace Ash and Margaret Flint, 1960-07-18

File — Box: MS 017-04, Folder: MS 017-04-08

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1960 no. 04

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RT 398 F666m 1960 no. 04 - CD-ROM and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

9 index cards - Ash, Lila Grace; Ash, Lila I; Flint, Margaret; Folklore of the Middle West, 1960, no. 4; Gunckel, Edith Dale; Gunckel, Oscar Lee; Kansas--History; Keyser, Calvin H.; Oklahoma - History;

Typed and handwritten notes.

An interview with Oscar Lee Gunkel, Calvin H, Keyser, Lila Grace Ash and Margaret Flint containing various stories and songs native to Western Kansas.

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00:00:30 - Early personal history and family life in Rush County, KS

00:04:52 - Father's country store in Lacrosse

00:09:29 - Rattle snakes

00:11:32 - Prairie chickens

00:12:32 - Jack rabbits

00:13:51 - Seeing the first train

00:14:47 - Schooling

00:16:41 - Literaries

00:17:21 - Prairie fires in Rush County

00:20:31 - County seat fight between Lacrosse and Rush Center, KS

00:23:32 - Ice for summers

00:27:47 - Train trip to Colorado

00:32:12 - Harmonica music

00:33:09 - Harmonica music, Skip to my Lou

00:33:50 - Harmonica music, untitled

00:34:36 - Harmonica music, Swanee River

00:35:19 - Harmonica music, Irish Washer Woman

00:35:59 - Harmonica music, No Place Like Home

00:36:69 - Harmonica music, untitled

00:37:20 - Harmonica music, untitled

00:38:10 - Song, Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight

00:38:51 - Song, Once I Had a Charming Beau

00:39:29 - Song, A Village in Sunny Tennessee

00:41:20 - Song, Two Little Girls in Blue

00:42:32 - Song, The Battle of Bull Run

00:43:10 - Joke, Green apples

00:43:47 - Story, Origins of butter

00:44:27 - Story, Little girl from Missouri

00:45:31 - Story, Indigenous Americana Mosquitos

00:45:49 - Joke, Kissing Grandma

00:46:07 - Joke, The carpenter

00:46:45 - Introduction, Calvin H. Keyser

00:47:15 - Poem, Romance of a Red Ear

00:48:55 - Introduction, Lila Grace Ash

00:49:19 - Song, I kissed my girl while riding

00:49:52 - Song, Little girls are made of sugar and spice

00:50:25 - Song, You Don't Know Nellie Like I Do

00:50:35 - Introduction, Margaret Flint

00:50:43 - Song, Children's Rain Song

00:51:07 - Song, Froggy Ain't Got No Tail But Hardly

00:51:46 - Song, In the Evening By The Moonlight

00:53:10 - Song, The King's Hash

00:53:43 - Song, Little Red Caboose

00:54:01 - Lila I. Ash, story, Big George and Little George

00:56:22 - Story, An English lady in Barber County

00:57:02 - Story, Big George

00:57:33 - Story, Carrie Nation in Barber County

00:58:23 - Story, Sockless Jerry Simpso

00:58:56 - Song, Barbara Allen

01:02:30 - Song, Way Out West in Kansas

01:03:22 - Joke Recipes, Bear meat, mint julep,

01:04:18 - Margaret Flint, story, the farmer who needs a new mule

The recording abruptly ends