Interview with Vern Kear, Mable Bruster Sears, Mary Vlcek Pfeiffer, Leona Blanch Towner, and Manfred Ernest Denny, 1960-07-16

File — Box: MS 017-05, Folder: MS 017-05-05

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1960 no. 18

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RT 398 F666m 1960 no. 18 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 2 Audio Cassette Tapes

9 index cards - Anderson, Dale; Davis, Eula G.; Denny, Manfred Ernest; Folklore of the Middle West, 1960, no. 18; Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas; Kear, Vern; Pfeiffer, Mary Vloek; Sears, Mable Bruster; Towner, Leona Blanch;

Typed and handwritten notes.

An interview with Vern Kear, Mable Bruster Sears, Mary Vlcek Pfeiffer, Leona Blanch Towner, and Manfred Ernest Denny containing various songs, stories, and remembrances from life on the western Kansas prairie.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:27 - Vern Kear, founding of Sons and Daughters of Soddies

00:01:08 - Family history

00:01:45 - Sod houses and pioneer life

00:05:23 - School experiences

00:11:23 - Games

00:12:28 - Teaching experiences

00:13:50 - Dust bowl

00:16:52 - Song titles

00:17:05 - Song, Birdie, Birdie In A Tree

00:17:17 - Song, No Place For Me

00:18:00 - Games

00:18:37 - Song, An Old Gray Mouse

00:19:28 - Twins born on the prairie and a snake bite

00:21:45 - Uses for mad stones

00:23:25 - Historical firearms and accessories

00:28:44 - Cellars, storm shelters, and tornadoes

00:31:34 - Mabel Bruster Sears, introduction

00:31:54 - Biographical information

00:32:24 - Wagon trains

00:33:55 - Dust storms in 1911 and again in the 1930s

00:35:21 - Song, Mr. Frog Lived In The Well

00:36:03 - Song, I Can Handle a Musket

00:36:25 - Mary Vlcek Pfeiffer introduction

00:36:41 - Biographical information

00:37:02 - Marriage customs

00:38:14 - Song, Ah, Lovely Meadows (Czech language)

00:39:20 - Singing and dancing game, Scarecrow (Czech language)

00:40:31 - Thanksgiving and Christmas customs

00:41:55 - Family history and life in Czechoslovakia

00:44:53 - Leona Blanch Towner and Ernest Denny, introduction

00:45:33 - Experience with Indigenous Americans

00:51:40 - Free range in Clark and Comanche counties

00:59:28 - Prairie fires

00:53:45 - Tornado damage in 1945 & 1946

00:55:26 - Coyotes

00:56:05 - Fish stories

00:57:27 - Jack rabbit drives

Side 2 is missing