Interviews with Burt Brumfield, Maxine Querbach, Roy Stanbaugh, Ed Hershler, Katie Schnetzer, Pat Halling, Barbara Howe, The Benishes, Emma Folck, William R. McFarland, and Brenda Greenwood, 1963-11-30

File — Box: MS 017-07, Folder: MS 017-07-13

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1963 no. 04

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RT 398 F666m 1963 no. 04 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 2 Audio Cassette Tapes

17 index cards - Benishes, The; Brumfield, Burt; Folklore of the Middle West, 1963, no. 4; Folk-songs - American; Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas; Greenwood, Brenda; Greenwood, Georgia; Halling, Pat; Hershler, Ed; McFarland, William R.; Potter, Gerald W.; Querbach, Mrs. John; Querbach, Marjorie; Querbach, Maxine; Spenser, Mrs. Bert; Stanbach, Ray; Stockes, Mrs. Amos;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Burt Brumfield, Maxine Querbach, Roy Stanbaugh, Ed Hershler, Katie Schnetzer, Pat Halling, Barbara Howe, The Benishes, Emma Folk, William R. McFarland, and Brenda Greenwood.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Introduction, Burt Brumfield of Jetmore, KS on November 30, 1963

00:00:17 - Kissing "pigeon fashion."

00:00:50 - Horse races

00:01:30 - Decoration Day (Memorial Day)

00:03:03 - School activities

00:03:26 - A blizzard hits during a literary

00:05:10 - Prairie fire

00:05:29 - Poem, "A Poor Married Man"

00:06:07 - Grandfather's work on the sabbath in Indigenous Americana and the resulting death of a cow

00:07:25 - Father's work on the sabbath and a subsequent cyclone

00:08:16 - Introduction, Maxine Querbach of Hanston, KS on December 21, 1963

00:08:30 - Story about an old bachelor

00:10:20 - Introduction, Roy Stanbaugh of Hanston, KS on December 30, 1963

00:10:36 - Story about the Dust Bowl

00:10:50 - Story about windy Kansas

00:11:14 - Story about "Louie the Robber" a modern day Robin Hood

00:12:18 - Story about older students chasing off the teacher

00:16:17 - Early smallpox treatments

00:17:22 - Introduction, Ed Herschler of Hanston, KS on January 4, 1963

00:17:44 - Blizzard of 1886

00:22:11 - Story of the Purple family murders in November of 1886

00:28:22 - Prairie fires

00:31:17 - Story about a 16-year-old female teacher being assaulted by local men

00:33:54 - Introduction, Katie Schnetzer, Pat Halling, and Barbara Howe of Hanston, KS on January 3, 1963

00:34:36 - Description of children's games. Some description is in German

00:39:19 - Ghost stories

00:41:25 - Song, untitled, vocal

00:41:59 - Song, "He Asked Me For a Date", vocal duet

00:43:17 - Song, "Sippin' Cider Through a Straw", vocal duet

00:46:37 - Song, "Let's Go Bowling on Bowling Green", vocal duet

00:47:36 - Introduction, Maxine Querbach of Hanston, KS

00:48:00 - Grasshopper swarms of the late 1800s

00:48:32 - Introduction, "The Benishes", a musical group playing in Orwell, KS on January 5, 1963

00:49:23 - Song, untitled square dance, fiddle and piano

01:06:13 - Introduction, Emma Folck of Little River, KS on January 1, 1964

01:06:30 - History of the Rhodes family in Rice County, KS in 1880

01:07:49 - Farm production in 1875 in Rice County, KS and the first courthouse

01:08:27 - Mother is bitten by a rattlesnake in 1879

01:09:38 - Pawnee Rock

01:10:00 - Story, "John Brown's Buddy"

01:11:14 - Staying overnight in Lindsborg, KS in 1905

01:12:29 - Early agricultural practices

01:13:15 - Introduction, William R. McFarland of Cimmaron, KS on November 29, 1963

01:13:37 - Song, "The Early Days", vocal and piano

01:17:56 - Song, "Fifty Years Ago," vocal and piano

01:22:50 - Song, "Oh, Those Christmas Days", vocal and piano

01:26:54 - Song, "Arkansas Valley" to the tune of "Red River Valley", vocal and piano

01:30:10 - Introduction, Brenda Greenwood and friends of Cimmaron, KS on November 29, 1963

01:30:31 - Song, "Cimmaron Schools" to the tune of "The Marine Hymn", vocal