Interviews with Hilda Galster, Bertha Fetsch, Alvin Kreutzer, Father Leo F. Kelty, Joe Misry, Rudolph Oborny, L.W. Roberts, and Ida Walker., 1962-06-16

File — Box: MS 017-06, Folder: MS 017-06-15

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 15

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RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 15 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and Audio Cassette Tape

8 index cards - Fetsch, Marquita; Folklore of the middle west, 1962, No. 15; Folklore - Kansas; Folk-songs - Kansas; Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas; Galster, Hilda; Havens, Gloria; Oborny, Rudolph;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Hilda Galster, Bertha Fetsch, Alvin Kreutzer, Father Leo F. Kelty, Joe Misry, Rudolph Oborny, L.W. Roberts, and Ida Walker.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:01 - Introduction, Hilda Galster of Marienthal, KS (Interview is muffled)

00:00:10 - Personal history

00:00:56 - Bank Robbery and Fleagle gang living at their ranch

00:08:31 - Austrian folk verse

00:08:52 - Introduction, Bertha Fetsch of Marienthal, KS on June 16, 1962.

00:09:08 - "Indigestible Goat" a reading

00:12:15 - Introduction, Alvin Kreutzer of Marienthal, KS on June 16, 1962.

00:12:40 - Song, "You Are My Sunshine" on violin

00:14:00 - Unnamed Russian song on violin

00:15:08 - Song, "Marienthal is a Nice Little Town" vocal, in German

00:15:32 - Unidentified wedding polka from 1900 played on accordion.

00:16:22 - German wedding dance song, accordion

00:17:45 - Song, "Red Wing Polka," accordion

00:18:54 - Introduction, Father Leo F. Kelty of Marienthal, KS on June 16, 1962.

00:19:10 - Battle between the United States Army and local indigenous peoples

00:23:28 - Introduction, recording of Rudolph Oborny interviewing Joe Misry of Rogers, NE on December 4, 1952. Recording is of poor quality.

00:24:10 - Account of a skirmish between homesteaders and Indigenous Americans in 1876.

00:28:56 - Bohemian song, "When We Were Eating Crabs" played on accordion by Rudolph Oborny

00:30:50 - Untitled song, played on accordion.

00:32:24 - Introduction, L.W. Roberts of Quintin, KS interviewed by Gloria Havens

00:32:35 - A nest of snakes

00:36:17 - How to make a sod house

00:38:15 - Harvesting wheat

00:43:55 - Coming to Kansas by train

00:44:44 - Blizzard of 1886

00:45:55 - Gold mine in Kansas

00:48:36 - Breaking a leg

00:57:46 - Treatment for a snakebite

00:58:23 - Christmas customs

01:01:40 - Story about Mexican homesteaders (Recording quality degrades)

01:11:51 - Jack rabbits

01:13:25 - How to file a claim and rabbit hunting

The remainder of the tape is missing.