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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1971_09

Publication Date

10-24-1971

Description

Interviews with Anna and Reuben Holzer, Lydia Steinle, Caroline and Ted Major, Fred Langhofer, George Heinitz, Walter Kaufman, Edward and LaVange Shiroky, Robert and Emma Malir, Joseph Cerney, and Ruby Peterson.
00:00:00 - Introduction to interviews with Anna and Reuben Holzer, Lydia Steinle, and Caroline and Ted Major
00:00:44 - Story of Anna Holzer's father in Russia
00:03:31 - Poem, "Down on that Kansas Farm"
00:05:13 - Riddles
00:06:33 - Autograph book verses
00:09:02 - Poem, "Dear Mr. Williams"
00:09:50 - "A Warm Weather Story" by J.H. Williams
00:11:33 - Lydia Steinle, story about her father, grinding grain, and ghosts
00:14:19 - Uncle and the ghost
00:15:47 - German poem
00:16:04 - German song
00:16:15 - German game
00:17:41 - German nursery rhyme about a colt
00:18:37 - German poem
00:19:05 - German poem
00:19:34 - Polka played on harmonica
00:20:27 - Waltz played on harmonica
00:21:19 - Interview with Fred Langhofer and George Heinitz of Dorrance, KS
00:21:42 - Entertainment of the 1930s and 1940s
00:24:28 - Predicting weather
00:31:13 - Introduction, Walter Kaufman of Russell, KS
00:31:16 - Remedies
00:33:17 - Introduction, Ed and LaVange Shiroky, and Robert and Emma Malir of Wilson, KS
00:33:33 - Czech holidays and celebrations
00:35:03 - Song, Schottische, piano
00:38:21 - Czech foods and customs
00:42:28 - Superstitions
00:43:25 - Folk dancing
00:44:30 - Sausage and head cheese
00:45:25 - Song, Beseda, piano
00:50:07 - Children's songs, vocal and piano
00:51:16 - "Song of Love", vocal and piano
00:52:11 - Introduction, Dr. Joseph P. Cerney of Russell, KS
00:52:22 - Biographical information
00:53:34 - Customs, Namesday
00:55:35 - Proverbs and sayings
00:56:05 - Czech legend
00:57:11 - Ruby Peterson of Kinsley, KS. Recording is difficult to understand
00:57:27 - Prairie fuel and games
00:58:23 - Butchering and other communal activities
01:01:31 - Homesteading in Kansas in the late 1870s, early 1880s
01:02:47 - History of Kinsley, KS

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Poetry, Folklore, Folk tales, Folk stories, Frontier & pioneer life, Superstitions, Folk music, Folk songs, Immigrants, Volga Germans, Traditional medicine

Rights

© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

Comments

For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

Language

eng, ger, cze

Interviews with Anna and Reuben Holzer, Lydia Steinle, Caroline and Ted Major, Fred Langhofer, George Heinitz, Walter Kaufman, Edward and LaVange Shiroky, Robert and Emma Malir, Joseph Cerney, and Ruby Peterson

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