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Interview with Charles F. Miller, and John & Catherine Wolfram
Barbara Kenyon and Judith Blankenburg
An interview with Charles F. Miller and John & Catherine Wolfram regarding their experiences as homesteaders on the Kansas plains. Second half of the recording is muffled.
Interview with Charles F. Miller
00:00:48 - Coming to Kansas in 1886
00:02:58 - Graham County Kansas
00:04:37 - Schools in Graham County
00:07:28 - Literary Society
00:08:32 - Farming in Kansas
00:10:29 - Community events and church services
00:11:53 - Experiences as a school teacher
00:13:11 - Experiences as a County Surveyor
00:15:09 - Prairie fire of 1894
00:17:39 - Picnics and parties
00:19:00 - Teacher salaries
00:20:38 - Blizzards of 1886 and 1958
00:21:40 - Smallpox outbreak
00:23:38 - Interview with John and Catherine Wolfram
00:24:03 - Coming to Kansas in 1869
00:25:12 - Memories of Herndon, KS
00:26:30 - Life in a sod house
00:27:16 - Farming in western Kansas
00:28:49 - School experiences
00:32:03 - Churches
00:34:46 - Homelife
00:35:50 - Parties
00:37:40 - Types of entertainment
00:39:38 - Availability of stores
00:40:38 - 1902 Herndon Fire
00:42:08 - Transportation
00:47:26 - Celebrating Christmas -
Interview with Charlie I. Griffith, Lena Cox, and John B. & Lula M. Ray.
Lona Bower
An interview with Charlie I. Griffith, Lena Cox, and John B. & Lula M. Ray all of Norton, KS regarding their experiences growing up as homesteaders on the Kansas plains.
00:00:32 - John B. Ray, coming to Edmond, KS by railroad in 1885.
00:01:51 - Father's purchase of the Edmond general store and amusing anecdotes
00:05:19 - Sod houses in Norton County
00:06:07 - Prairie fires
00:07:06 - Trading in the country store
00:07:40 - Lula Ray introduction and family's homesteading in Jewell County
00:09:15 - Grasshopper plague in 1872
00:10:57 - Charlie Griffith, mosquitoes in a buffalo wallow
00:13:02 - Planting potatoes in a buffalo wallow
00:13:39 - Father's civil war service
00:16:15 - Family history
00:18:06 - Lena Cox, father's civil war service
00:19:55 - C.H. Griffith on medical remedies
00:21:23 - Availability of foods and dietary habits
00:22:58 - Cure for hiccups
00:23:22 - Breaking sod
00:24:06 - More on food availability and dietary habits
00:27:00 - Wedding customs
00:31:55 - Midwives
00:34:32 - Housing, building customs, dances, and music
00:36:32 - School experiences
00:38:14 - Box suppers
00:39:48 - Poem: My little sod shanty on the plains
00:41:35 - Rug weaving, bedding, and clothing
00:44:55 - Horse riding
00:48:25 - School experience
00:50:14 - Winters and blizzards
00:52:18 - Walker family in Edmond, KS in 1886
00:54:01 - Auntie Winnie Lanear, former African American slave
00:56:12 - Murder of John Landis
00:57:41 - Dust Bowl Era (1931-1939) -
Interview with Claude Wyman, Harry Moos, and Laveta Green
Claude Wyman and Samuel John Sackett 1928-2018
An interview with Claude Wyman, Harry Moos, and Laveta Green containing various songs and stories.
The beginning of this recording is missing.
00:00:00 - Claude Wyman, shoeing horses
00:04:26 - Farming near Radium, KS in 1916
00:10:04 - Marriage
00:11:08 - Breaking sod
00:13:56 - Jack rabbits
00:16:39 - Childhood games
00:20:13 - Making railroad ties
00:21:24 - Harry Moos, introduction to French fairy tales
00:22:32 - Story, The Spotted Bull
00:25:29 - Story, The White Cat
00:31:39 - Story, The Good Man of Butter or Old Marguerite
00:37:51 - Story, The Billy Goats Gruff and final remarks
00:38:28 - Laveta P. Green, introduction
00:38:53 - Song, To Make Her Old Man Go Blind
00:40:02 - Song, The Cat Came Back
00:41:11 - Song, Whistlin' Rufus
00:41:56 - Song, The Crickets Say
00:42:23 - Song, My Kitty
00:43:00 - Song, Little Bluebird In The Tree
00:43:54 - Song, Star Light, Star Bright
00:44:25 - Song, Poor Babes in the Wood
00:45:50 - Song, Oklahoma
00:47:50 - Song, Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane
00:50:09 - Song, It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
00:50:59 - Song, When I Was Single
00:50:21 - Song, Prisoner's Song
00:53:43 - Song, A Gay Caballero
00:55:15 - Song, My Darlin' Clementine
00:57:23 - Song, Charlie
00:58:23 - Song, Everybody's Happy
00:59:45 - Song, I Love Coffee
01:00:09 - Song, I Wish I Had a Nickel
01:00:24 - Song, Old Mrs. Shady
01:00:45 - Song, The Horses Running 'Round
01:01:07 - Song, She's a Darling
01:01:27 - Song, Little Willie
01:02:06 - Song, Grasshopper Settin On A Sweet potato Vine
01:02:28 - Song, Eighteen Miles From Wiggletown to Waggletown
01:02:50 - Song, A Young Lady From Nantucket
01:03:14 - Song, Green Gravel
01:03:39 - Song, Needles-eye
01:04:04 - Song, Somebody's Mad
01:04:19 - Song, Baby-o
Victoria Volga-German Wedding Dance 01:04:32 - Song, Brautdusch
01:07:21 - Song, Schottische: Put Your Little Foot
01:10:10 - Song, Polka -
Interview with Cleve and Debbie Weininger
Francis T. Ross
An interview with Cleve and Debbie Weininger regarding their experiences homesteading in Kansas and Nebraska during the sod house days.
00:01:05 - Living in a sod house
00:03:29 - Games played by children of the time including Baseball
00:03:55 - School experiences
00:05:30 - Indigenous Americans in Nebraska
00:06:45 - Farming experiences
00:14:08 - Fruit orchards
00:14:39 - Canning
00:15:55 - Vegetable gardens
00:16:45 - Windmills
00:17:18 - Rattlesnake hunting
00:20:17 - Halloween Prank
00:22:16 - Watermelon swiping
00:22:40 - Pranks
00:26:03 - Crime
00:33:01 - Superstitions
00:35:14 - Folk medicine
00:40:00 - Pranks at church camp meetings
00:43:10 - Change from horses to automobiles
00:49:40 - Church experiences
00:50:35 - Major changes of the past 50 years -
Interview with Don Hardesty, Louis Jacobi, Marguerite Youngquist, Grace Heim, Edna Lomax, and Louise Lomax
Helen Patterson and Sally Schnatterly
Interviews with Don Hardesty, Louis Jacobi, Marguerite Youngquist, Grace Heim, Edna Lomax, and Louise Lomax containing various songs and folk tales.
00:00:05 - Treatment for rabies
00:04:09 - Introduction, Louis Jacobi of Agra, KS on June 9, 1962
00:04:58 - Song on fiddle, "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
00:06:07 - Song, "Lauterbach"
00:07:22 - Song, "Miss Brown Reel"
00:08:53 - Song, "Quadrille"
00:10:20 - Song, "Polka"
00:12:58 - Song, "Jenny Lind Polka"
00:14:04 - Song, "Little Brown Jug"
00:14:39 - Song, "Quadrille"
00:15:52 - Song, "Quadrille"
00:16:21 - Song, [Name unintelligible]
00:17:53 - Song, "Irish Jig"
00:21:30 - Song, "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
00:22:26 - Song, "Swiss Tune"
00:22:50 - Song, "Quadrille"
00:24:19 - Song, "A Glide"
00:25:10 - Song, "Schottische"
00:26:46 - Song, "A Pretty Tune"
00:27:53 - Song, Unidentified
00:28:47 - Song, "The Redwing"
00:30:09 - Song, Unidentified
00:30:55 - Song, Unidentified
00:31:50 - Introduction, Marguerite Youngquist of Kensington, KS on June 10, 1962
00:32:07 - Song, "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"
00:32:35 - Introduction, Grace Heim of Oklahoma City, OK on June 16, 1962 in Franklin, Nebraska
00:33:10 - Ghost Story, "Do You Want To Shave?"
00:36:09 - Ghost Story, "Thump, Thump, Thump"
00:39:43 - Poem, "Monkey's Disgrace"
00:40:59 - Song, "Baby Bye, Here's a Fly"
00:41:52 - Song, "I'm a Man"
00:43:26 - Introduction, Marguerite Youngquist of Kensington, KS, on June 20, 1962
00:43:56 - Song, "A Man Named Birch"
00:45:14 - Introduction, Edna and Louise Lomax of Modoc, KS on April 20, 1962
00:46:07 - Song, Unidentified
00:47:06 - Song, Unidentified
00:47:55 - Song, Unidentified
00:50:23 - Song, "Skip To My Lou"
00:52:23 - Song, Unidentified
00:55:34 - Song, "Wayne County Bachelor"
00:58:45 - Song, Unidentified
01:01:10 - Song, Unidentified
01:03:51 - Song, Unidentified
01:06:39 - Song, Unidentified
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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