Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection
 

Authors

Dolores Earnest

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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1965_02

Publication Date

5-15-1965

Description

Interview with William Albert Earnest of Hays, KS by Dolores Earnest on May 15, 1965 at Russell, KS.
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:12 - Recording begins in progress. Poem, "The Woodpecker"
00:02:47 - Poem, "The Easter Lily"
00:04:04 - Poem, "If I Had a Donkey"
00:04:21 - Story, "The Lap Dog"
00:06:40 - Introduction to part two
00:07:18 - Poem, "Daniel Morton"
00:08:24 - Discussion about the civil war and Earnest family history
00:12:40 - Introduction to part three
00:13:13 - Russell County Literary Society
00:18:00 - Nursery rhyme, "Mary Had a Little Lamb" altered
00:18:38 - Poem, "What I Live For"
00:19:55 - Poem, "I want a man who will not smoke . . ."
00:20:36 - Poem, "My old rooster"
00:21:52 - Poem, "Girl in the looking glass"
00:22:45 - Poem, "Flora McGinsey"
00:27:53 - Opposing S.P. Dinsmoor at a local debate
00:34:30 - Poem, "A Roman Legend"
00:39:45 - Poem, "Peter and Thisby"
00:44:46 - S.P Dinsmoor and the Garden of Eden
00:51:11 - Russell County GAR encampments in the late 1880s
00:55:27 - Altercation between two former civil war soldiers
00:57:27 - Poem, "United at Last"
00:59:44 - Alva Stone
01:00:52 - Introduction to part four
01:01:17 - Original poem, "A philosophy of Life"
01:02:22 - Original poem, "The Presidents"
01:07:37 - Events through his life

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Folk lore, Poetry, Russell County (Kan.), Genealogy, Samuel Perry Dinsmoor (1843-1932), Garden of Eden (Lucas, Kan.)

Rights

© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University

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Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

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Language

eng

Interview with William Albert Earnest

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