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Interviews with Mrs. Seth Hudson, Jessie Donne, Harvey Bobst, Winnie Campbell, and Ray C. Blackburn
Alice F. Kuiper
Interviews with Alice Kuiper, Mrs. Seth Hudson, Jessie Donne, Haw Boke, Winnie Campbell, and Ray C. Blackburn. The first half of the recording is missing.
00:00:00 - Recording begins in progress, Alice F. Kuiper, story about a pack-rat.
00:00:38 - Making shoes from buffalo trotters
00:01:48 - Introduction, Harvey Bobst of Almena, KS on June 16, 1962
00:02:08 - Song, "My Old Brown Pipe"
00:02:28 - Song, "All He Does Is Follow Them Around"
00:04:14 - Introduction, Alice F. Kuiper of Prairie View, KS on June 16, 1962
00:04:45 - Story of a pig sticking
00:06:21 - Introduction, Winnie Campbell of Prairie View, KS on June 16, 1962
00:06:48 - Poem, "The Lost Purse"
00:09:18 - Poem, "Somebody's Mother"
00:11:30 - Song, "The Old Musician and his Harp"
00:14:10 - Introduction, Ray C. Blackburn of Almena, KS 00:14:46 - History of Aim Cole, a Scout and early settler of Almena
00:17:12 - Finding a deceased Sioux leader on the prairie
00:22:33 - Cleaning buffalo skins in Almena
00:28:05 - Relations between the Sioux, the Cheyenne, and white homesteaders -
Interviews with Mrs. Smith, Jennifer Horton, Phillip Eugene JacKansason, Nellie Errington, and Louis T. Jacobi
Thomas E. Woodward, Bernice Johnson, and Helen Patterson
Interviews with Mrs. Smith, Jennifer Horton, Phillip Eugene Jackson, Nellie Errington, and Louis T. Jacobi.
00:00:15 - Interview with Mrs. Smith. Poor recording quality
00:01:09 - Current riding practice
00:01:44 - Working cattle round-ups
00:08:01 - People's attitude toward her riding
00:09:01 - Preference for calf-roping
00:09:10 - Story about a killing
00:11:05 - Location of ranch and its history
00:14:53 - Introduction, Warren Kent of Goodland, KS. June 27, 1962.
00:15:10 - Biographical information
00:17:44 - Incident with Indigenous Americans
00:26:10 - Robbers who stayed at the Bartholomew house
00:37:43 - More personal history
00:38:30 - Fight for the county records when Goodland became the county seat
00:42:46 - Introduction, Jennifer Horton of Atwood, KS. June 9, 1962
00:43:29 - Biographical information
00:44:02 - "Down by the river" jump-rope rhyme
00:44:32 - Untitled jump-rope rhyme
00:44:53 - Introduction, Phillip Eugene Jackson
00:45:13 - Song, "Your Cheatin' Heart" played on guitar
00:46:32 - Song, "The New Spanish Two-Step" played on guitar
00:47:27 - Introduction, Nellie Errington on June 9, 1962
00:47:50 - Accordion music
00:48:50 - Biographical information and musical background
00:50:06 - Definition of folk lore and folk music
00:51:26 - Song, "Bile 'em Cabbage Down"
00:52:09 - Black Americans and folk music
00:53:57 - Song, "Do Lord."
00:54:32 - Unidentified contributor, using a "mad stone" to cure hydrophobia (rabies)
00:57:03 - Introduction, Louis T. Jacoby of Agra, KS on June 9, 1962
00:57:50 - Song, "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" played on fiddle
00:59:00 - Song, "Lautenbach" or "Where o' Where Has My Little Dog Gone"
01:00:16 - Song, "Miss Brown Polka"
01:01:47 - Song, "Quadrille"
01:03:20 - Song, "A polka"
01:05:55 - Song, "The Jenny Lynd Polka"
01:07:04 - Song, "The Little Brown Jug"
01:07:42 - Song, "Quadrille"
01:08:28 - Song, "Old Time Tune"
01:09:24 - Song, "The Mockingbird"
01:11:03 - Song, "Little Red Hen"
01:11:48 - Song, "A jig"
01:14:44 - Song, "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
01:15:32 - Song, "Swiss Tune"
01:17:27 - Song, untitled
01:19:19 - Song, untitled
01:21:49 - Song, "Redwing Polka" -
Interviews with Nathan W. Davis, Walter Bradley, Ruth Schropp, John Boyd, Ruth Munyon, and O.A. Whitney
Virginia Hopson
Interviews with Nathan W. Davis, Walter Bradley, Ruth Schropp, John Boyd, Ruth Munyon, and Oliver Asbury Whitney.
00:00:00 - Introduction, Nathan W. Davis from Phillipsburg, KS on February 3, 1963
00:00:19 - Song, "Alphabet song", vocal
00:00:40 - Song, "Weevilly Wheat", vocal
00:01:14 - Information about play party games
00:01:48 - Song, "Miller Boy", vocal
00:02:06 - Song, "Skip to my Lou", vocal
00:02:30 - Poem, "Noah, Jonah, and Captain John Smith"
00:05:24 - Information about literaries
00:05:32 - Introduction, Walter Bradley of Agra, KS on April 17, 1963.
00:06:06 - Song, untitled square dance tune, fiddle and ukelele
00:06:58 - Song, untitled square dance tune, fiddle and ukelele
00:07:54 - Song, untitled square dance tune, fiddle and ukelele
00:09:03 - Song, untitled waltz, fiddle and ukelele
00:09:48 - Song, untitled square dance tune, fiddle and ukelele
00:10:47 - Introduction, Ruth Schropp of Phillipsburg, KS on May 22, 1963
00:11:10 - Song, "On the Banks of the Old Omaha", vocal
00:12:31 - Song, "A Waltz Promenade", vocal
00:13:24 - Introduction, John Boyd of Phillipsburg, KS on May 23, 1963
00:13:48 - Song, "Why the Possum's Tail is Bare?", vocal. (racist language)
00:15:52 - Introduction, Nathan W. Davis of Phillipsburg, KS on May 24, 1963
00:16:08 - Poem, "A district school far away"
00:18:23 - Poem, "Tom Twist"
00:22:28 - Poem, "I was a boy of seventeen"
00:25:28 - Poem, "Still sits the schoolhouse"
00:27:40 - Poem, "When I was just a'growing up"
00:28:25 - Story about a long poem
00:28:59 - Poem, "I've been off on a journey"
00:29:27 - Song, "State Capitols", vocal
00:31:52 - Introduction, Ruth Munyon of Phillipsburg, KS on May 25, 1963
00:32:09 - Song, "My Mother and Father Were Excellent Folks", vocal
00:33:42 - Introduction, Oliver Whitney of Phillipsburg, KS on May 26, 1963
00:34:01 - Song, "Old Dan Tucker", vocal
00:34:55 - Tall tale about bindweed
00:36:25 - Story about a trip to Lexington, Nebraska in August 1890
00:39:26 - Telephone lines coming to Phillipsburg and the 1905 tornado
00:42:32 - Life in the 1890s (diet, credit, civil war pensions)
00:43:51 - Tall tales told at the soldiers' reunion -
Interviews with Nellie Holtzinger, Alois B. Engel, Mildred Philip, and Ward Philip
Kenneth P. Engel
Interviews with Nellie Holtzinger, Alois B. Engel, Mildred Philip, and Ward Philip.
00:00:00 - Introduction. Tape has been recorded over loud music and so the introduction is difficult to understand.
00:00:33 - Interview with Nellie Holtzinger begins in progress. Life in early Ellis County.
00:01:38 - Prairie fires
00:03:59 - Raising animals, making sausage, food, and provisions
00:06:14 - Get-togethers, entertainment, and Christmas
00:07:01 - School, games, and Christmas
00:09:36 - Interview with Slois B. Engel of Ellis, KS begins in progress
00:09:39 - Rodeo and rattlesnakes
00:14:22 - Kenneth Engel on his motivations for recording these interviews
00:17:41 - Tuttle Ranch near McCracken and "How Charlie Came to Die"
00:22:43 - Story about a man who hanged himself [graphic content]
00:26:39 - Ancestors coming from Russia to America
00:31:10 - Interview with Mildred Philip begins in progress. 00:31:17 - Life in Hays and Munjor in the early 1930s
00:33:16 - Introduction, Ward Philip of Brownell, KS on March 27, 1970
00:33:36 - History of the Batell Ranch
00:36:56 - Use of root cellars
00:38:07 - Operation of the ranch and the ranch clock
00:40:29 - Water system
00:41:49 - Blizzard of 1931 near Victoria, KS
00:50:32 - Plight of the cows -
Interviews with Ralph and Birdena Coffeen, Gerasim and Elizabeth Vinaroff, Bertha Weeks, Kate Lee Ewing, Lizzie Opdyke, and Jerry Maxfield
Neva Berry and Doris Kennedy
Interviews with Ralph and Birdena Coffeen, Gerasim and Elizabeth Vinaroff, Bertha Weeks, Kate Lee Ewing, Lizzie Opdyke, and Jerry Maxfield.
00:00:00 - Introduction, Birdena Coffeen
00:00:26 - Experience with Indigenous Americans
00:02:28 - Move to Kansas in 1854 and meeting the same Indigenous American man who had stayed with them previously in Illinois
00:03:28 - Story about a local man being adopted by the local Indigenous Americans
00:06:04 - Mother Beryl Hackett's autograph poems, written in 1889
00:07:56 - Interview with Ralph Arlie Coffeen
00:08:20 - Reading great-grandfather Gordon Coffeen's letters from 1850.
00:14:20 - Interview with Elizabeth Vinaroff
00:14:44 - Remedies for illness
00:16:26 - Heat for homes
00:18:48 - Food preservation
00:19:32 - Recipe: hot cabbage slaw
00:21:12 - Interview with Reverend G.E. Vinaroff
00:21:43 - Song, "I do not know why all around me", organ and vocal
00:23:02 - Interview, Bertha Weeks
00:23:21 - Remedies
00:25:24 - Falling through the ice
00:26:01 - Interview with Kate Lee Ewing
00:26:20 - Old stone house at 1534 N. Main in Russell
00:29:41 - E.W. Dirky, first man of Russell
00:33:41 - Three men hanged in 1894
00:40:59 - Interview with Lizzie Opdyke
00:41:27 - Dr. Hays and Rev. Fred Cox
00:43:43 - Dora Morrison, last surviving Rippon colonist
00:44:39 - Prairie fires
00:45:45 - Christmas
00:47:14 - Thanksgiving
00:48:14 - Interview with Jerry Maxfield
00:48:40 - Ghost Dance in the 1890s
00:55:22 - Folk tale about mosquitos
00:57:02 - Interview with Ralph Coffeen
00:57:27 - Grandmother Weaver's remedies
The Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection consists of recordings created by Dr. Sackett and his graduate assistants between the years of 1954 and 1977. Dr. Sackett and his assistants interviewed immigrants, homesteaders, and other community figures in Kansas and beyond, with a specific focus on folk music and folk lore. Subjects covered include folk music, folk stories, immigration and homesteading in the late 1800s through early 1900s, relations with Indigenous Americans and other minorities, Volga-German music, language, and customs, along with a wealth of genealogical information. Some of the recordings include racially sensitive language and as well as accounts of hate crimes. Originally recorded on reel-to-reel media, the collection was migrated to cassette tape in the 1990s and then transferred to digital beginning in 2020. Many of the recordings were in poor condition. The access recordings presented here have undergone audio enhancement in order to improve the user experience where possible, though some recordings remain difficult to understand. Unaltered audio transfers are available for researchers on request. Dr. Sackett served in the Department of English at FHSU for 23 years and founded the Kansas Folklore Society. His research materials were transferred to the University Archives in 1992.
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