Interview with Gertrude Warren, Armenta Allison, and Amy Toepfer, 1962-05-09

File — Box: MS 017-07, Folder: MS 017-07-02

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 17

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RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 17 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 2 Audio Cassette Tapes

6 index cards - Allison, Jerry; Allison, Warren; Folklore of the middle west, 1962, No. 17; Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas; Terbovich, John B.; Toepfer, Amy;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interview with Gertrude Warren, Armenta Allison, and Amy Toepfer. The beginning of the tape is too quiet to hear and the overall recording quality is poor.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:01:14 - Superstitions about mud

00:04:30 - Trip to Kansas in a covered wagon

00:08:03 - Wolves attack their horses

00:10:02 - How they got their water

00:10:25 - Early schooling

00:11:12 - Games they played

00:11:35 - Their dugout

00:12:58 - More on the trip from Illinois to Kansas in a covered wagon

00:14:44 - Their wedding when she was 16 years old

00:15:31 - Opinion against child marriages

00:17:34 - Story about staying too long at a neighbor's house

00:19:03 - Attitude towards wearing shoes as a child

00:20:12 - Lynching a man from a railroad bridge

00:21:10 - Indigenous Americans and buffalo

00:24:18 - Pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing

00:26:40 - More about her wedding

00:27:45 - Song, "The Wedding of the Honey Bees" (vocal)

00:29:37 - Life on a Kansas farm

00:34:58 - Discussion of the name of the town

00:36:16 - Support for sundown laws

00:37:54 - Experiences as a meat-cutter

00:40:30 - Story about soldiers killing Indigenous Americans

00:44:06 - Killing of a dog

00:46:17 - Further villainy of the soldiers

00:48:10 - Story about a murder-suicide involving a father and his children

00:50:57 - Young man disappears for 40 years

00:54:09 - Sewing up an apprentice's pocket so he wouldn't stand with his hands in his pockets

00:55:27 - Baked possum, wild game, and preparing and preserving meat

01:00:51 - History of Adolphe and holding a claim

01:03:08 - Childhood games, activities, and Christmas celebrations

01:14:48 - Introduction, Amy Toepfer of Hays, KS. May 9, 1962.

01:15:09 - Volga-German superstitions related to the Kirghiz night raids

01:21:10 - Role of religious conviction in superstitions

01:22:44 - Boys planting trees on May 1 for their girlfriends

01:25:00 - Superstitions surrounding cemeteries

01:26:54 - Volga-German Clans