Interviews with Nathan W. Davis, Walter Bradley, Ruth Schropp, John Boyd, Ruth Munyon, and O.A. Whitney, 1963-02-03

File — Box: MS 017-07, Folder: MS 017-07-11

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1963 no. 02

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RT 398 F666m 1963 no. 02 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

10 index cards - Boyd, John; Bradley, Walter; Davis, Nathan W.; Folklore of the Middle West, 1963, no. 2; Folk-songs - Kansas; Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas; Hopson, Virginia; Munyon, Ruth; Schropp, Ruth; Whitney, O.A.;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Nathan W. Davis, Walter Bradley, Ruth Schropp, John Boyd, Ruth Munyon, and Oliver Asbury Whitney.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Introduction, Nathan W. Davis from Phillipsburg, KS on February 3, 1963

00:00:19 - Song, "Alphabet song", vocal

00:00:40 - Song, "Weevilly Wheat", vocal

00:01:14 - Information about play party games

00:01:48 - Song, "Miller Boy", vocal

00:02:06 - Song, "Skip to my Lou", vocal

00:02:30 - Poem, "Noah, Jonah, and Captain John Smith"

00:05:24 - Information about literaries

00:05:32 - Introduction, Walter Bradley of Agra, KS on April 17, 1963.

00:06:06 - Song, untitled square dance tune, fiddle and ukelele

00:06:58 - Song, untitled square dance tune, fiddle and ukelele

00:07:54 - Song, untitled square dance tune, fiddle and ukelele

00:09:03 - Song, untitled waltz, fiddle and ukelele

00:09:48 - Song, untitled square dance tune, fiddle and ukelele

00:10:47 - Introduction, Ruth Schropp of Phillipsburg, KS on May 22, 1963

00:11:10 - Song, "On the Banks of the Old Omaha", vocal

00:12:31 - Song, "A Waltz Promenade", vocal

00:13:24 - Introduction, John Boyd of Phillipsburg, KS on May 23, 1963

00:13:48 - Song, "Why the Possum's Tail is Bare?", vocal. (racist language)

00:15:52 - Introduction, Nathan W. Davis of Phillipsburg, KS on May 24, 1963

00:16:08 - Poem, "A district school far away"

00:18:23 - Poem, "Tom Twist"

00:22:28 - Poem, "I was a boy of seventeen"

00:25:28 - Poem, "Still sits the schoolhouse"

00:27:40 - Poem, "When I was just a'growing up"

00:28:25 - Story about a long poem

00:28:59 - Poem, "I've been off on a journey"

00:29:27 - Song, "State Capitols", vocal

00:31:52 - Introduction, Ruth Munyon of Phillipsburg, KS on May 25, 1963

00:32:09 - Song, "My Mother and Father Were Excellent Folks", vocal

00:33:42 - Introduction, Oliver Whitney of Phillipsburg, KS on May 26, 1963

00:34:01 - Song, "Old Dan Tucker", vocal

00:34:55 - Tall tale about bindweed

00:36:25 - Story about a trip to Lexington, Nebraska in August 1890

00:39:26 - Telephone lines coming to Phillipsburg and the 1905 tornado

00:42:32 - Life in the 1890s (diet, credit, civil war pensions)

00:43:51 - Tall tales told at the soldiers' reunion