Interviews with Sarah Pearson, Effie May Sullivan, Sherry Lou Stephen, Clella Berry, Mrs. Fullbright, A.J. Ives and family, Otto Schook, Normandine Reese, and others., 1962-06-09

RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 18 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

9 index cards - Berry, Clella; Folklore of the middle west, 1962, No. 18; Fullbright, Mrs.; Ives, A.J.; Pearson, Sarah; Reese, Normadine; Schook, Otto; Stephen,Sherry Lou; Sullivan, Effie May;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Sarah Pearson, Effie May Sullivan, Sherry Lou Stephen, Clella Berry, Ella Brooks, A.J. Ives and family, Otto Schook, Normandine Reese, and others.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Recording begins with Sarah Pearson singing a song.

00:00:07 - Kansas, a poem. Recording is muffled but quality improves.

00:05:12 - Song, "Skip To My Lou" played on accordion

00:05:49 - Song, "The Lazy Polka" played on accordion

00:06:27 - Birth and the wagon train trip to Kansas

00:09:14 - Experience with Indigenous Americans

00:09:48 - Quality of recording degrades and is unintelligible

00:10:47 - Quality of recording recovers

00:11:36 - Marriage and life with her husband

00:14:07 - Moving from the dug-out to the soddie

00:15:00 - Trip to Oregon to bury her mother-in-law

00:16:50 - Unidentified female contributor, move to Kansas from Iowa in 1878 in a covered wagon.

00:17:53 - Homesteading in Norton County in 1879

00:18:05 - Family make-up and first school in 1887

00:18:52 - Difficulties of frontier life

00:19:27 - Marriage at the age of 20 and family life

00:20:48 - Raising chickens on the prairie

00:21:23 - Availability of medical care for sickness and childbirth

00:21:52 - Available entertainment

00:22:41 - Clella Berry, poem "When I drove my kiddies to town one day . . . "

00:23:22 - Poem, "The Old Wooden Rocker"

00:22:44 - Unidentified male contributor, the world's largest kite in 1899

00:29:12 - Sarah Pearson, 19th Kansas Cavalry volunteers rescuing two women from and Indigenous Americans in 1868.

00:34:35 - Homesteading near Logan, KS in 1878

00:35:44 - Ella Eileen Meadows Brooks, move to the United States from England in 1944 and life in England

00:38:08 - Experience in England during WWII

00:39:00 - Her parents and marriage to an American soldier

00:40:18 - Her children, the end of the war, and moving to the United States

00:42:40 - A.J. Ives and family singing "The Old Time Religion"

00:43:45 - Otto Schook, the stations of the cross

00:51:14 - Biographical information

00:51:40 - Normandine Reese and Others, ""Cinderella Dressed in Yellow"" (jump rope rhyme)

00:52:07 - "Mother, Mother, I am Ill" (jump rope rhyme)

00:52:35 - "Mother, Mother, Can I Go?" (jump rope rhyme)

00:53:15 - Untitled poem and jokes

00:53:46 - "Peas Porridge Hot" (jump rope rhyme)

00:54:03 - "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around" (jump rope rhyme)