Interview with William Albert Earnest, 1965-05-15

RT 398 F666m 1965 no. 02 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

4 index cards - Earnest, Dolores; Earnest, William Albert; Folklore of the Middle West, 1965, No. 2.; Folklore - Kansas;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interview with William Albert Earnest of Hays, KS by Dolores Earnest on May 15, 1965 at Russell, KS

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:00:12 - Recording begins in progress. Poem, "The Woodpecker"

00:02:47 - Poem, "The Easter Lily"

00:04:04 - Poem, "If I Had a Donkey"

00:04:21 - Story, "The Lap Dog"

00:06:40 - Introduction to part two

00:07:18 - Poem, "Daniel Morton"

00:08:24 - Discussion about the civil war and Earnest family history

00:12:40 - Introduction to part three

00:13:13 - Russell County Literary Society

00:18:00 - Nursery rhyme, "Mary Had a Little Lamb" altered

00:18:38 - Poem, "What I Live For"

00:19:55 - Poem, "I want a man who will not smoke . . ."

00:20:36 - Poem, "My old rooster"

00:21:52 - Poem, "Girl in the looking glass"

00:22:45 - Poem, "Flora McGinsey"

00:27:53 - Opposing S.P. Dinsmoor at a local debate

00:34:30 - Poem, "A Roman Legend"

00:39:45 - Poem, "Peter and Thisby"

00:44:46 - S.P Dinsmoor and the Garden of Eden

00:51:11 - Russell County GAR encampments in the late 1880s

00:55:27 - Altercation between two former civil war soldiers

00:57:27 - Poem, "United at Last"

00:59:44 - Alva Stone

01:00:52 - Introduction to part four

01:01:17 - Original poem, "A philosophy of Life"

01:02:22 - Original poem, "The Presidents"

01:07:37 - Events through his life