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Interviews with Samuel Orville Withers, Linnie Bell Withers, Debra Sue Dawkins, Dillie Doryl Rader, and Marth Kathreen Highland
Myrtice M. Dawkins
Interviews with Myrtice M. Dawkins, Linnie Bell Withers, Debra Sue Dawkins, Dillie Doryl Rader, and Marth Kathreen Highland. 00:00:01 - Introduction, Samuel Orville Withers of Bucklin, KS on June 10, 1962
00:00:09 - Song, "It Came In My Window"
00:01:55 - Untitled song
00:02:20 - Introduction, Linnie Bell Withers on June 15, 1962
00:02:48 - The blizzard of 1886
00:05:41 - Introduction, Debra Sue Dawkins on June 15, 1962
00:06:12 - Jump rope rhyme, "Postman, Postman"
00:06:33 - Jump rope rhyme, "Cinderella Dressed in Yellow"
00:06:50 - Jump rope rhyme, "Down In The Valley"
00:07:15 - Jump rope rhyme, "I Like Coffee"
00:07:38 - Song parody, "My eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school"
00:08:27 - Introduction, Dillie Doryl Rader on June 15, 1962
00:09:03 - How songs are passed from generation to generation
00:10:19 - Song, "Might Near Like Soldier's Joy"
00:11:44 - Song, [title unclear]
00:12:46 - Song, "Up Jumped Trouble"
00:13:51 - Recording picks up in the middle of a song
00:14:56 - Narrator introduces the song "The Red Apple Rag" but the song was not recorded.
00:15:00 - Introduction, Mary Kathreen Highland on June 17, 1962
00:15:25 - Birth on a homestead in 1882
00:16:35 - Working for the Spearville Newspaper, as a teacher, and as a farmer
00:21:05 - Poem, "Kansas"
00:24:14 - Gardening in the early days versus today
00:27:23 - Poem, "Kansas Land" written by A.H. Farrell in 1888
00:34:25 - History of 100 years of teaching in the family
00:35:30 - Myrtice M. Dawkins reading from her grandmother, Ada M. Jackson's autograph book from 1882-1888 -
Interviews with Sarah Pearson, Effie May Sullivan, Sherry Lou Stephen, Clella Berry, Mrs. Fullbright, A.J. Ives and family, Otto Schook, Normandine Reese, and Others
Sarah Pearson
Interviews with Sarah Pearson, Effie May Sullivan, Sherry Lou Stephen, Clella Berry, Ella Brooks, A.J. Ives and family, Otto Schook, Normandine Reese, and others.
00:00:00 - Recording begins with Sarah Pearson singing a song.
00:00:07 - Kansas, a poem. Recording is muffled but quality improves.
00:05:12 - Song, "Skip To My Lou" played on accordion
00:05:49 - Song, "The Lazy Polka" played on accordion
00:06:27 - Birth and the wagon train trip to Kansas
00:09:14 - Experience with Indigenous Americans
00:09:48 - Quality of recording degrades and is unintelligible
00:10:47 - Quality of recording recovers
00:11:36 - Marriage and life with her husband
00:14:07 - Moving from the dug-out to the soddie
00:15:00 - Trip to Oregon to bury her mother-in-law
00:16:50 - Unidentified female contributor, move to Kansas from Iowa in 1878 in a covered wagon.
00:17:53 - Homesteading in Norton County in 1879
00:18:05 - Family make-up and first school in 1887
00:18:52 - Difficulties of frontier life
00:19:27 - Marriage at the age of 20 and family life
00:20:48 - Raising chickens on the prairie
00:21:23 - Availability of medical care for sickness and childbirth
00:21:52 - Available entertainment
00:22:41 - Clella Berry, poem "When I drove my kiddies to town one day . . . "
00:23:22 - Poem, "The Old Wooden Rocker"
00:22:44 - Unidentified male contributor, the world's largest kite in 1899
00:29:12 - Sarah Pearson, 19th Kansas Cavalry volunteers rescuing two women from and Indigenous Americans in 1868.
00:34:35 - Homesteading near Logan, KS in 1878
00:35:44 - Ella Eileen Meadows Brooks, move to the United States from England in 1944 and life in England
00:38:08 - Experience in England during WWII
00:39:00 - Her parents and marriage to an American soldier
00:40:18 - Her children, the end of the war, and moving to the United States
00:42:40 - A.J. Ives and family singing "The Old Time Religion"
00:43:45 - Otto Schook, the stations of the cross
00:51:14 - Biographical information
00:51:40 - Normandine Reese and Others, "Cinderella Dressed in Yellow" (jump rope rhyme)
00:52:07 - "Mother, Mother, I am Ill" (jump rope rhyme)
00:52:35 - "Mother, Mother, Can I Go?" (jump rope rhyme)
00:53:15 - Untitled poem and jokes
00:53:46 - "Peas Porridge Hot" (jump rope rhyme)
00:54:03 - "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around" (jump rope rhyme) -
Interviews with Ted L. Pfannenstiel, Bernie Schaffer, Ruth Jacobs, and Josephine S. Jacobs
Anthony Axman and Patricia K. Hawk
Interviews with Ted L. Pfannenstiel, Bernie Schaffer, Ruth Jacobs, and Josephine S. Jacobs.
00:00:00 - Introduction, Ted L. Pfannenstiel of Munjor, Kansas on June 21, 1962
00:00:32 - Song, "Brautdusch"
00:03:18 - Introduction, Bernie Schaffer of Liebenthal, KS on June 21, 1962
00:03:38 - Song, "Du, du liegst mir am Herzen"
00:04:45 - Song, "Schoen Goode Nacht"
00:05:43 - Song, "Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey"
00:06:33 - Song, "Blood Song"
00:07:24 - Song, "True Love"
00:09:09 - Song, "Down in the Valley
00:12:26 - Song, "German Drinking Song"
00:13:15 - Song, "Pass Around the Bottle" (John Brown's Whiskey Bottle, racist language)
00:14:16 - Song, "Ten Little Bottles"
00:17:05 - German New Year's Wish
00:17:14 - Song, "Old Waltz"
00:18:30 - Introduction, Ruthie Jacobs of Hays, KS on June 7, 1962
00:19:01 - Cattle drive from Mexico to Abilene, KS
00:20:40 - Two riddles
00:21:18 - Story of grandfather's murder of an Indigenous American
00:22:22 - Story of uncle eating a skunk by mistake
00:23:22 - First coffin at Logan, KS
00:24:11 - Mother and father being robbed in Yellowstone Park
00:25:22 - Introduction, Josephine S. Jacobs of Hays, KS on June 7, 1962. Recording quality is poor.
00:25:40 - Song, "Catherine, Come With Me in the Fall" Sung in German with translation
00:27:17 - Song, "I am Pretty" Sung in German with translation
00:27:57 - Song, "Come In, Come In." Sung in German with translation
00:28:34 - Story of Indigenous Americans robbing mother's home (Recording cuts off before finish) -
Interviews with Viola Bodenhamer, Sylvia Youngs, Amy Smith, and Milton Holmes.
Marcene Smith, Sylvia Younger, and Grace Orr
Interviews with Viola Bodenhamer, Sylvia Youngs, Amy Smith, and Milton Holmes.
00:00:24 - Song, "Abdul Albulbul Amir" (Ivan Potschjinski Skavar)
00:03:18 - Song, "Frankie and Johnny"
00:06:21 - Song, "Rosewood Casket"
00:08:07 - Song, "Strawberry Roan"
00:12:07 - Sylvia Young introduction. This portion of the tape is of poor quality.
00:12:33 - Song, Unidentified. Piano and vocal
00:13:57 - Song, Unidentified. Piano and vocal
00:15:16 - Song, Unidentified. Piano and vocal
00:17:14 - Song, Unidentified, Accordion
00:18:02 - Song, Unidentified, Accordion
00:19:00 - Song, Unidentified, Accordion
00:20:08 - Introduction, Amy Smith
00:23:10 - Song, "Poor Raymond"
00:24:10 - Tanning hides
00:27:45 - Song, "In the Evening by the Moonlight"
00:28:25 - Song sung by Milton J. Holmes, "The Stern Old Bachelor" -
Interviews with Virge Lawson and William S. Markle
Marge Lawson
Interviews with Virge Lawson and William S. Markle.
00:00:00 - Introduction, Virge Lawson
00:00:10 - Making stone posts
00:08:21 - Interview becomes difficult to hear due to audio interference
00:23:32 - Audio quality improves. Discussion about limestone quarries
00:27:17 - Introduction, William S. Markle
00:27:37 - Memories of the Garden of Eden in Lucas, KS and S.P. Dinsmoor
00:41:55 - Personal history
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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