Interviews with Mary Booth, Bertha Menhoff, Thomas Boyd Jimerfield, Sr., Truman Zieskie, and A.L. "Doc" Kennedy, 1963-09-04

File — Box: MS 017-07, Folder: MS 017-07-16

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1963 no. 07

Staff Only

RT 398 F666m 1963 no. 07 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 2 Audio Cassette Tapes

10 index cards - Booth, Mary; Folklore of the Middle West, 1963, no. 7; Folk-lore - Kansas; Folk-songs - Kansas; Hill, Jim; Jimerfield, Thomas Boyd, Sr.; Jimerfield, Tom, Jr.; Kennedy, A.L.; Monhoff, Bertha; Zieskie, Truman;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

Interviews with Mary Booth, Bertha Menhoff, Thomas Boyd Jimerfield, Sr., Truman Zieskie, and A.L. "Doc" Kennedy

00:00:00 - Introduction, Mary Booth on December 4, 1963 at Plainville, KS

00:00:21 - Indigenous Americans

00:02:07 - School days and early life

00:04:58 - Home remedies

00:05:25 - Introduction, Bertha Menhoff of Prairie View, KS on September 4, 1963

00:05:53 - Interview begins in progress. Discussion of relations with Indigenous Americans.

00:06:19 - Home remedies

00:13:09 - Songs and stories they've forgotten

00:14:13 - Weather wisdom

00:15:35 - Family history and life in the sod house

00:16:04 - Hairstyles and fashion

00:17:54 - Introduction, Thomas Boyd Jimerfield, Sr. of Morningside, MD on December 27, 1963

00:18:22 - Cheer, "Cannonball King"

00:18:44 - Poem, "At Naches Under the Hill"

00:22:29 - Poem, "The Cremation of Sam McGee"

00:26:12 - Poem, "The Face on the Barroom Floor"

00:30:10 - Poem, "The Dying Hobo"

00:30:55 - Poem, name unknown

00:32:48 - Poem, "The Gila Monster Route"

00:35:55 - Poem, "Punching cows"

00:37:13 - Interview with an unidentified woman. How Wamego was named

00:37:53 - Introduction, Truman Zieskie of Norton, KS

00:38:07 - Poem, unnamed war poem

00:39:22 - Poem, unnamed war poem

00:41:44 - Minstrel skit

00:43:44 - Minstrel skit

00:45:36 - Poem, unnamed

00:46:45 - Recording degrades and is unintelligible

00:48:39 - Introduction, A.L. "Doc" Kennedy of Lawrence, KS on January 3, 1964. This is a poor quality recording and is mostly unintelligible.

00:49:11 - Fourth of July celebrations

00:54:20 - Indigenous Americans present at the Fourth of July celebrations

00:55:41 - Lincoln assassination

00:57:17 - Quantrill's Raids

00:57:59 - His mother and her religion

00:59:41 - Literary societies

01:01:33 - First Christmas tree

01:04:17 - More stories about Quantrill

01:10:06 - Playing football at Madison Square Garden in 1901

01:16:08 - Football career starting at KU in 1895

01:24:26 - Various jokes