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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1971_02

Publication Date

9-30-1971

Description

Interviews with Ralph and Birdena Coffeen, Gerasim and Elizabeth Vinaroff, Bertha Weeks, Kate Lee Ewing, Lizzie Opdyke, and Jerry Maxfield.
00:00:00 - Introduction, Birdena Coffeen
00:00:26 - Experience with Indigenous Americans
00:02:28 - Move to Kansas in 1854 and meeting the same Indigenous American man who had stayed with them previously in Illinois
00:03:28 - Story about a local man being adopted by the local Indigenous Americans
00:06:04 - Mother Beryl Hackett's autograph poems, written in 1889
00:07:56 - Interview with Ralph Arlie Coffeen
00:08:20 - Reading great-grandfather Gordon Coffeen's letters from 1850.
00:14:20 - Interview with Elizabeth Vinaroff
00:14:44 - Remedies for illness
00:16:26 - Heat for homes
00:18:48 - Food preservation
00:19:32 - Recipe: hot cabbage slaw
00:21:12 - Interview with Reverend G.E. Vinaroff
00:21:43 - Song, "I do not know why all around me", organ and vocal
00:23:02 - Interview, Bertha Weeks
00:23:21 - Remedies
00:25:24 - Falling through the ice
00:26:01 - Interview with Kate Lee Ewing
00:26:20 - Old stone house at 1534 N. Main in Russell
00:29:41 - E.W. Dirky, first man of Russell
00:33:41 - Three men hanged in 1894
00:40:59 - Interview with Lizzie Opdyke
00:41:27 - Dr. Hays and Rev. Fred Cox
00:43:43 - Dora Morrison, last surviving Rippon colonist
00:44:39 - Prairie fires
00:45:45 - Christmas
00:47:14 - Thanksgiving
00:48:14 - Interview with Jerry Maxfield
00:48:40 - Ghost Dance in the 1890s
00:55:22 - Folk tale about mosquitos
00:57:02 - Interview with Ralph Coffeen
00:57:27 - Grandmother Weaver's remedies

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Frontier & pioneer life, Homesteading, Recipes, Folk music, Folk songs, Indigenous people, Russell County (Kan.)

Rights

© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

Comments

For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

Language

eng

Interviews with Ralph and Birdena Coffeen, Gerasim and Elizabeth Vinaroff, Bertha Weeks, Kate Lee Ewing, Lizzie Opdyke, and Jerry Maxfield

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