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Identifier
RT398_F666m_1960_02
Publication Date
4-29-1960
Description
An interview with Wilbur S. Fry of Great Bend, KS regarding his experiences in Kansas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
00:00:36 - Personal background
00:01:22 - Country conditions around Great Bend
00:02:16 - School experiences, entertainments, and songs
00:03:41 - Two lynchings of Black men in Great Bend
00:04:52 - Christmas celebrations
00:06:30 - First ice cream
00:07:22 - Baby dies during a blizzard
00:08:30 - Church experiences
00:09:38 - GAR Hall
00:10:41 - African Americans in Great Bend
00:11:18 - Experiences after school, college, and career
00:12:32 - Wheat harvesting methods
00:16:00 - Square dances
00:17:32 - Salina YMCA songs
00:18:16 - Song, There's a really splendid town
00:18:42 - Song, There's a short, short, trail
00:19:14 - Song, What's the matter with Salina?
00:19:55 - Song, The YMCA
00:20:21 - YMCA campaign of 1915
00:20:42 - C.P Townsley founder of Great Bend Tribune newspaper, and his New Years custom
00:21:28 - Great Bend town infrastructure (sidewalks, streets, lights, and electricity)
00:23:20 - Shopping in Great Bend and means of travel
00:25:52 - Blizzard of 1886
Physical Description
reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation
Subject
African Americans, Lynching, Churches, Grand Army of the Republic, Hoisington (Kan.), Farming, Salina (Kan.), Young Men's Christian Association, Rush Center (Kan.)
Rights
© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University
Publisher
Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections
Collection
Repository
Recommended Citation
McDonald, Emerson, "Interview with Wilbur S. Fry" (1960). Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection. 33.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/33
Language
eng
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