Interviews with Anna and Reuben Holzer, Lydia Steinle, Caroline and Ted Major, Fred Langhofer, George Heinitz, Walter Kaufman, Edward and LaVange Shiroky, Robert and Emma Malir, Joseph Cerney, and Ruby Peterson, 1971-10-24

File — Box: MS 017-10, Folder: MS 017-10-08

Identifier: MS 017- file MS 017-RT 398 F666m 1971 no. 09

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RT 398 F666m 1971 no. 09 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

12 index cards - Cheroki, Edward; Folklore of the Middle West, 1971, No. 9.; Folklore - Kansas; Heinitz, George; Holzer, Rubin; Kaufman, Alice Jean; Kaufman, Walter; Langhofer, Fred; Major, Ted; Malir, Robert; Morris, Amos; Steinly, Mrs. Ezra;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Anna and Reuben Holzer, Lydia Steinle, Caroline and Ted Major, Fred Langhofer, George Heinitz, Walter Kaufman, Edward and LaVange Shiroky, Robert and Emma Malir, Joseph Cerney, and Ruby Peterson

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Introduction to interviews with Anna and Reuben Holzer, Lydia Steinle, and Caroline and Ted Major

00:00:44 - Story of Anna Holzer's father in Russia

00:03:31 - Poem, "Down on that Kansas Farm"

00:05:13 - Riddles

00:06:33 - Autograph book verses

00:09:02 - Poem, "Dear Mr. Williams"

00:09:50 - "A Warm Weather Story" by J.H. Williams

00:11:33 - Lydia Steinle, story about her father, grinding grain, and ghosts

00:14:19 - Uncle and the ghost

00:15:47 - German poem

00:16:04 - German song

00:16:15 - German game

00:17:41 - German nursery rhyme about a colt

00:18:37 - German poem

00:19:05 - German poem

00:19:34 - Polka played on harmonica

00:20:27 - Waltz played on harmonica

00:21:19 - Interview with Fred Langhofer and George Heinitz of Dorrance, KS

00:21:42 - Entertainment of the 1930s and 1940s

00:24:28 - Predicting weather

00:31:13 - Introduction, Walter Kaufman of Russell, KS

00:31:16 - Remedies

00:33:17 - Introduction, Ed and LaVange Shiroky, and Robert and Emma Malir of Wilson, KS

00:33:33 - Czech holidays and celebrations

00:35:03 - Song, Schottische, piano

00:38:21 - Czech foods and customs

00:42:28 - Superstitions

00:43:25 - Folk dancing

00:44:30 - Sausage and head cheese

00:45:25 - Song, Beseda, piano

00:50:07 - Children's songs, vocal and piano

00:51:16 - "Song of Love", vocal and piano

00:52:11 - Introduction, Dr. Joseph P. Cerney of Russell, KS

00:52:22 - Biographical information

00:53:34 - Customs, Namesday

00:55:35 - Proverbs and sayings

00:56:05 - Czech legend

00:57:11 - Ruby Peterson of Kinsley, KS. Recording is difficult to understand

00:57:27 - Prairie fuel and games

00:58:23 - Butchering and other communal activities

01:01:31 - Homesteading in Kansas in the late 1870s, early 1880s

01:02:47 - History of Kinsley, KS