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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1963_07

Publication Date

9-4-1963

Description

Interviews with Mary Booth, Bertha Menhoff, Thomas Boyd Jimerfield, Sr., Truman Zieskie, and A.L. "Doc" Kennedy.
00:00:00 - Introduction, Mary Booth on December 4, 1963 at Plainville, KS
00:00:21 - Indigenous Americans
00:02:07 - School days and early life
00:04:58 - Home remedies
00:05:25 - Introduction, Bertha Menhoff of Prairie View, KS on September 4, 1963
00:05:53 - Interview begins in progress. Discussion of relations with Indigenous Americans.
00:06:19 - Home remedies
00:13:09 - Songs and stories they've forgotten
00:14:13 - Weather wisdom
00:15:35 - Family history and life in the sod house
00:16:04 - Hairstyles and fashion
00:17:54 - Introduction, Thomas Boyd Jimerfield, Sr. of Morningside, MD on December 27, 1963
00:18:22 - Cheer, "Cannonball King"
00:18:44 - Poem, "At Naches Under the Hill"
00:22:29 - Poem, "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
00:26:12 - Poem, "The Face on the Barroom Floor"
00:30:10 - Poem, "The Dying Hobo"
00:30:55 - Poem, name unknown
00:32:48 - Poem, "The Gila Monster Route"
00:35:55 - Poem, "Punching cows"
00:37:13 - Interview with an unidentified woman. How Wamego was named
00:37:53 - Introduction, Truman Zieskie of Norton, KS
00:38:07 - Poem, unnamed war poem
00:39:22 - Poem, unnamed war poem
00:41:44 - Minstrel skit
00:43:44 - Minstrel skit
00:45:36 - Poem, unnamed
00:46:45 - Recording degrades and is unintelligible
00:48:39 - Introduction, A.L. "Doc" Kennedy of Lawrence, KS on January 3, 1964. This is a poor quality recording and is mostly unintelligible.
00:49:11 - Fourth of July celebrations
00:54:20 - Indigenous Americans present at the Fourth of July celebrations
00:55:41 - Lincoln assassination
00:57:17 - Quantrill's Raids
00:57:59 - His mother and her religion
00:59:41 - Literary societies
01:01:33 - First Christmas tree
01:04:17 - More stories about Quantrill
01:10:06 - Playing football at Madison Square Garden in 1901
01:16:08 - Football career starting at KU in 1895
01:24:26 - Various jokes

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Indigenous people, Folk medicine, Delaware tribe, Shawnee tribe, Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, William Clarke Quantrill 1837-1865

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 Mary Booth, Bertha Menhoff, Thomas Boyd Jimerfield, Sr., Truman Zieskie, and A.L.

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