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Identifier
RT398_F666m_1962_24
Publication Date
6-16-1962
Description
Interviews with Georgie B. Jackson of Lenora, KS on June 16, 1962 by Robert A. Smith.
00:00:28 - Organizing a school in 1887
00:01:42 - Description of sod house used for school building
00:03:05 - Description of school room and using a buffalo skull as a chair
00:06:34 - Learning the poem "Thanatopsis"
00:07:20 - Prairie fire threatens the school
00:10:51 - Rolling her sister down a hill in a barrel
00:14:32 - Father's harnessing experience
00:16:43 - 1889 Easter Sunday fire
00:20:35 - Unsolved murder
00:22:30 - Father guards against prairie fires
00:27:00 - Capturing desperados
New interview with unknown contributor
00:31:02 - Whistling, "Just a Song at Twilight"
00:32:26 - Interview. School certificates and teaching
00:36:11 - Whistling, "Listen to the Little Mocking Bird"
00:38:32 - Interview with Clarence Laizure of Hays, KS on July 31, 1961 at Hays, KS. This interview was split on the tape. It has been digitally rejoined into a single clip.
00:39:53 - Interview with Adam Brening of La Crosse, KS on June 11, 1962
00:40:20 - German song
00:42:50 - German song
00:44:34 - German song
00:47:33 - German song
00:51:02 - German song
Physical Description
reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation
Subject
Beloit (Kan), Decatur County (Kan.), Sod houses, Rural schools, Crime, Folk Music, Folk Songs, Rush County (Kan.), La Crosse (Kan.)
Rights
© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University
Publisher
Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections
Collection
Repository
Recommended Citation
Smith, Robert A. and Maxwell, Louise, "Interviews with Georgie Jackson, Clarence Laizure, and Adam Brening" (1962). Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection. 81.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/81
Language
eng, ger
Comments
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