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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1962_13

Publication Date

1-1-1962

Description

T. W. Wells - Lectures to Folklore of the Middle West class at Fort Hays Kansas State College in 1962.
The lecture begins in progress.
00:00:03 - Rural schools
00:01:38 - Pilot rock
00:02:59 - Rural school experience
00:15:12 - Indigenous American grave on Goose Creek
00:17:08 - The house on Goose Creek
00:19:51 - Planting trees on the homestead
00:21:32 - Description of the family homestead
00:22:24 - Trees on the homestead
00:26:31 - Encounters with snakes
00:30:27 - Chiggers and their treatment
00:33:44 - Headlice and their treatment
00:36:55 - Auditing an art class and art at Pilot Rock school
00:40:02 - Old thrashing machine
00:43:23 - Geese at Cheyenne Bottoms
00:45:34 - Language of folklore
00:46:08 - Games played as a child: Hide and go seek, pull away, dare base, Pennsylvania Dutch, base ball, Annie-over, wrestling, one-hole catch
01:05:26 - First day of school and school experiences
01:26:48 - Chinch bugs and the language of folklore
01:31:45 - Geese at Cheyenne Bottoms

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Goose Creek, Russell County (Kan.), Bunker Hill (Kan.), Frontier & pioneer life, Homesteading, Covered Wagons, Indigenous Americans, Dorrance (Kan.), Bunker Hill (Kan.), Tornadoes, Stanley Dalton, Mabel Vandiver

Rights

© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

Comments

For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

Language

eng

T. W. Wells - Lectures to Folklore of the Middle West class

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