Interviews with Ralph and Birdena Coffeen, Gerasim and Elizabeth Vinaroff, Bertha Weeks, Kate Lee Ewing, Lizzie Opdyke, and Jerry Maxfield, 1971-09-30

File — Box: MS 017-10, Folder: MS 017-10-01

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1971 no. 02

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RT 398 F666m 1971 no. 02 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

10 index cards - Berry, Neva; Coffen, Birdena; Coffen, Ralph; Ewings, Kate Lee; Folklore of the Middle West, 1971, No. 2.; Folklore - Kansas; Kennedy, Doris; Maxfield, Jerry; Opdyke, Lizzie; Vinaroff, G.E.; Weeks, Bertha;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Ralph and Birdena Coffeen, Gerasim and Elizabeth Vinaroff, Bertha Weeks, Kate Lee Ewing, Lizzie Opdyke, and Jerry Maxfield

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Introduction, Birdena Coffeen

00:00:26 - Experience with Indigenous Americans

00:02:28 - Move to Kansas in 1854 and meeting the same Indigenous American man who had stayed with them previously in Illinois

00:03:28 - Story about a local man being adopted by the local Indigenous Americans

00:06:04 - Mother Beryl Hackett's autograph poems, written in 1889

00:07:56 - Interview with Ralph Arlie Coffeen

00:08:20 - Reading great-grandfather Gordon Coffeen's letters from 1850.

00:14:20 - Interview with Elizabeth Vinaroff

00:14:44 - Remedies for illness

00:16:26 - Heat for homes

00:18:48 - Food preservation

00:19:32 - Recipe: hot cabbage slaw

00:21:12 - Interview with Reverend G.E. Vinaroff

00:21:43 - Song, "I do not know why all around me", organ and vocal

00:23:02 - Interview, Bertha Weeks

00:23:21 - Remedies

00:25:24 - Falling through the ice

00:26:01 - Interview with Kate Lee Ewing

00:26:20 - Old stone house at 1534 N. Main in Russell

00:29:41 - E.W. Dirky, first man of Russell

00:33:41 - Three men hanged in 1894

00:40:59 - Interview with Lizzie Opdyke

00:41:27 - Dr. Hays and Rev. Fred Cox

00:43:43 - Dora Morrison, last surviving Rippon colonist

00:44:39 - Prairie fires

00:45:45 - Christmas

00:47:14 - Thanksgiving

00:48:14 - Interview with Jerry Maxfield

00:48:40 - Ghost Dance in the 1890s

00:55:22 - Folk tale about mosquitos

00:57:02 - Interview with Ralph Coffeen

00:57:27 - Grandmother Weaver's remedies