Interviews with Samuel Orville Withers, Linnie Bell Withers, Debra Sue Dawkins, Dillie Doryl Rader, and Marth Kathreen Highland, 1962-06-10

RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 22 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

8 index cards - Dawkins, Debra Sue; Dawkins, Myrtice M.; Folklore of the middle west, 1962, No. 22; Folklore - Kansas; Highland, Mary Kathreen; Rader, Dillie Doryl; Withers, Linnie Bell; Withers, Samuel Orville;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Myrtice M. Dawkins, Linnie Bell Withers, Debra Sue Dawkins, Dillie Doryl Rader, and Marth Kathreen Highland

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:01 - Introduction, Samuel Orville Withers of Bucklin, KS on June 10, 1962

00:00:09 - Song, "It Came In My Window"

00:01:55 - Untitled song

00:02:20 - Introduction, Linnie Bell Withers on June 15, 1962

00:02:48 - The blizzard of 1886

00:05:41 - Introduction, Debra Sue Dawkins on June 15, 1962

00:06:12 - Jump rope rhyme, "Postman, Postman"

00:06:33 - Jump rope rhyme, "Cinderella Dressed in Yellow"

00:06:50 - Jump rope rhyme, "Down In The Valley"

00:07:15 - Jump rope rhyme, "I Like Coffee"

00:07:38 - Song parody, "My eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school"

00:08:27 - Introduction, Dillie Doryl Rader on June 15, 1962

00:09:03 - How songs are passed from generation to generation

00:10:19 - Song, "Might Near Like Soldier's Joy"

00:11:44 - Song, [title unclear]

00:12:46 - Song, "Up Jumped Trouble"

00:13:51 - Recording picks up in the middle of a song

00:14:56 - Narrator introduces the song "The Red Apple Rag" but the song was not recorded.

00:15:00 - Introduction, Mary Kathreen Highland on June 17, 1962

00:15:25 - Birth on a homestead in 1882

00:16:35 - Working for the Spearville Newspaper, as a teacher, and as a farmer

00:21:05 - Poem, "Kansas"

00:24:14 - Gardening in the early days versus today

00:27:23 - Poem, "Kansas Land" written by A.H. Farrell in 1888

00:34:25 - History of 100 years of teaching in the family

00:35:30 - Myrtice M. Dawkins reading from her grandmother, Ada M. Jackson's autograph book from 1882-1888