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Dan Robinson

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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1971_07

Publication Date

11-26-1971

Description

Interviews with Harry and Helen Robinson, Elsie Berkey, and Maude Franklin.
00:00:01 - Introduction, Harry Robinson of Easton, KS on Thanksgiving Day, 1971 in Russell, Ks
00:00:33 - Millwood raids
00:01:36 - Lynching an African American man in Easton, KS in the 1890s
00:03:30 - Corn thief
00:04:45 - Easton Saloon
00:06:23 - Millwood Saloon
00:06:56 - Story about his grandfather
00:07:42 - Introduction, Helen Robinson
00:08:04 - Family stories
00:11:24 - Introduction, Elsie Berkey of Russell, KS on December 8, 1971
00:11:38 - Biographical information
00:11:53 - Proverbs
00:13:49 - Information about her family
00:14:55 - Recipes
00:15:57 - Family stories
00:20:58 - Games played
00:22:37 - Song, "Old Dan Tucker", vocal
00:24:03 - Childhood stories
00:37:23 - Marriage and children
00:48:22 - Church
00:54:16 - Square dancing
00:55:14 - Gathering walnuts
00:56:31 - Poem, "Remember when hippy meant big in the hips"
00:59:02 - Poem, "The Year of 1969"
01:05:46 - Christianity
01:07:58 - Introduction, Maude Franklin of Russell, KS
01:08:22 - Listening to William Jennings Bryan speak at a Chautauqua
01:09:39 - Personal memories of Tonkawa, Oklahoma
01:12:23 - Teaching school in 1919
01:13:39 - Chautauquas
01:15:12 - A skunk
01:17:09 - Her childhood as an only child
01:20:31 - Games and dances
01:24:16 - Wearing long underwear
01:27:16 - Remedies
01:30:57 - Horse and buggy
01:32:14 - Recipes
01:33:32 - More childhood stories
01:35:58 - Sayings and proverbs

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Frontier & pioneer life, Folk lore, Folk stories, Folk tales, Poetry, Religion, Rural schools, Crime, Lynching, Murder

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 Harry Robinson, Elsie Berkey, and Maude Franklin

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