Interviews with Robert Wallace, Lucy Wasinger, Margaret Riedel and Alice MacDonald Wynn, 1971-10-24

File — Box: MS 017-10, Folder: MS 017-10-04

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1971 no. 05

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RT 398 F666m 1971 no. 05 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

7 index cards - Folklore of the Middle West, 1971, No. 5.; Folklore - Kansas; Potter, Gail; Riedel, Margaret; Wallace, Robert; Wasinger, Lucy; Wynn, Alice MacDonald;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Robert Wallace, Lucy Wasinger, Margaret Riedel and Alice MacDonald Wynn

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Introduction, Robert Wallace of Larned, KS

00:00:25 - General conversation

00:01:30 - Story about his cousin being killed by an intruder

00:06:47 - Strean crossing

00:09:00 - Bank robbery

00:10:17 - Hanging on the Solomon River

00:12:59 - Mother's candy store

00:15:17 - A drunk

00:17:51 - Hunting

00:24:55 - Neighbors

00:26:18 - Story about a burial

00:32:40 - Story about a bull

00:35:50 - Story about an automobile wreck in 1910

00:43:24 - Introduction, Lucy Wasinger of Hays, KS

00:43:41 - Story about her father finding a penny

00:45:06 - Introduction, Margaret Riedel of Hays, KS. This interview suffers from poor audio quality.

00:45:25 - Russian settlers

00:48:36 - Size of her family

00:51:00 - Coming to the United States

00:52:08 - Food and butchering

00:53:54 - Moving to Russia from Germany and experience with the Mongolians

00:54:53 - Great grandfather being taken captive by Mongolians

00:58:53 - Her father's death

01:00:58 - Conditions in Russia

01:04:24 - Englishmen living in Victoria

01:07:07 - Keeping meat and milk

01:09:10 - Description of Mongolians and her great grandfather's escape

01:11:05 - Harvest season

01:12:10 - French people living in German colonies

01:12:53 - Introduction, Alice MacDonald Wynn of Hays, KS

01:13:24 - Coming to America from Scotland in 1919

01:17:06 - Games played

01:22:03 - Stories