Interviews with John Pearson, Harry Kidd, Jake Pfeifer, Bertha Van Newman, and Alice F. Kuiper, 1962-06-16

File — Box: MS 017-06, Folder: MS 017-06-06

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 06-1

Staff Only

RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 06-1 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 2 Audio Cassette Tapes

7 index cards - Folklore of the Middle West, 1962, no. 6; Folklore - Kansas; Kidd, Harry; Kuiper, Alice F.; Pearson, John; Pfeifer, Jake; Van Newman, Bertha;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with John Pearson, Harry Kidd, Jake Pfeifer, Bertha Van Newman, and Alice F. Kuiper

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Interview with John Pearson of Prairie View, KS on June 15, 1962

00:00:23 - Song, "Way Down In The Low Green Valley"

00:03:48 - Song, "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down" (Song about the Titanic)

00:06:10 - Song, "Rosewood Casket"

00:09:37 - Song, "A Message from Home, Sweet Home"

00:13:27 - Song, "On The Site Of Dark and Bloody Ground"

00:17:24 - Song, "Beyond the Rio Grande"

00:23:06 - Introduction, Harry Kidd of Prairie View, KS on June 16, 1962

00:23:30 - Coming to Kansas in a covered wagon and surviving the first winter

00:32:05 - Foraging for food

00:33:07 - The local grist mill

00:34:49 - Farm machinery

00:39:12 - Spinning and weaving at home for cloth

00:42:05 - Life on the homestead

00:46:40 - Local Sioux population

00:51:00 - Local animal populations

00:53:50 - Personal accidents and injuries

01:05:08 - Prairie Fires

01:12:08 - Introduction, Jake Kuiper of Prairie View, KS

01:12:26 - Parents immigrating from Holland

01:13:05 - Dutch nursery rhymes and proverbs

01:17:14 - Introduction to song sung by person from Great Bend, KS

01:17:53 - Song, "The Ship That Never Returned"

01:18:55 - Introduction, Bertha Van Newman of Prairie View, KS on June 20, 1962

01:19:33 - Family immigrating from Holland and homesteading in Kansas

01:22:48 - Dutch proverbs, riddles, poems, and superstitions

01:27:39 - Her grandfather and his death

01:29:51 - Community celebrations

01:32:21 - Introduction, Alice F. Kuiper of Prairie View, KS

01:32:33 - Song, "My name is Jan Johnson"

01:33:11 - Song, "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"