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Interview with Judge J.C. Ruppenthal of Russell, Kansas
Raymond L. Stacey
An interview with Judge J.C. Ruppenthal of Russell, KS regarding his life experiences.
00:01:32 - Father comes to America
00:04:26 - Going to Ohio
00:05:28 - Going to California
Going back to Philadelphia
00:13:08 - Moving to Kansas
00:26:17 - Lauterbach (German Ditty)
00:28:15 - Pastetchenkuchen(Patty Cake)
00:29:20 - Was rasselt mit dem stroh? (What's rattling the straw?)
00:30:26 - Herding cattle
00:33:15 - Neighbors
00:35:32 - Deer
00:36:13 - Experiences at KU 1890-1895
00:45:17 - Genealogical information -
Interview with Julia and Carl Norstrum
Helen G. Norstrum
An interview with Julia and Carl Norstrum regarding the old Swedish ways and customs. Recording includes Swedish language folk songs.
00:01:06 - Celebrating Christmas
00:08:46 - Schools in Sweden
00:11:51 - Celebrating Midsummer's Day (June 24th)
00:12:55 - Celebrating Easter
00:14:30 - Smorgasbord
00:15:43 - Song, "Nu är det jul igen" (Now Is Christmas Again)
00:16:11 - Song, "Alla Hava Synder" (We All Have Sins)
00:16:39 - Song, "Gubben Noach" (Noah's Ark)
00:17:24 - Carl Nostrum, Market Day in Sweden
00:18:43 - School experience
00:20:08 - Reading for the minister
00:20:53 - Traveling to America
00:23:11 - The Black Death in Sweden -
Interview with J.W. Hickman, Lois Abbot, Velma Goodbody, Mrs. E.D. Brenneman, Herman J. Tholen, Freda Desbian, and Amy Toepfer
Samuel John Sackett 1928-2018, Jerry White, and Darrell Munsell
Interview with J.W. Hickman, Lois Abbot, Velma Goodbody, Mrs. E.D. Brenneman, Herman J. Tholen, Freda Desbian, and Amy Toepfer. Recording includes a variety of old stories and songs along with food culture and Kansas history. Some parts of the recording are unintelligible.
00:00:00 - J.W. Hickman introduction
00:00:14 - Cattle business in Jewell County, KS
00:02:53 - Experience with Indigenous Americans
00:06:47 - Forts in Kansas in 1878 and Fort Larned
00:09:28 - Pawnee Rock
00:09:58 - Santa Fe Trail
00:10:28 - Trees in Kansas
00:15:26 - Louis Abbot introduction
00:15:58 - St. John, KS in 1898
00:17:40 - Life on the farm
00:19:40 - Schools
00:20:20 - Road conditions
00:20:37 - Churches
00:22:18 - Trees in St. John
00:22:58 - Local social and fraternal clubs
00:23:30 - Population of St. John
00:24:00 - Condition of the land and farming
00:25:14 - Oil business in St. John
00:26:18 - Physicians in St. John
00:27:31 - Song, "Babes in the Wood", sung by Velma Goodbody
00:29:35 - Mrs. E.D. Brenneman introduction
00:30:00 - Song, "Dying Cowboy" (Streets of Laredo) 00:32:42 - Song, "Charles Gateau" (The Murder of James Garfield)
00:34:10 - Herman J. Tholen introduction
00:35:01 - Song, "Babes in the Wood"
00:36:05 - Learning the song in 1898
00:37:01 - Cowboy or barroom song (Streets of Laredo)
00:38:41 - Story about Haverkamp of Grinnell
00:40:26 - Ellis county farmer going to Kansas City
00:41:33 - Volga German weddings in Ellis County
00:44:15 - Frieda Desbian and a story of a murder in Zurich
00:47:18 - Amy Toepfer introduction
00:47:44 - The young man who didn't say his prayers before going to the river and became bewitched
00:50:57 - Kugelsuppe (butter ball soup)
00:52:12 - Cherry tart
00:53:30 - German New Year's wish -
Interview with Kansas Homesteaders
Ronald G. Cooke
Interview with Kansas homesteaders. Interview begins with a woman speaking over a man.
00:00:20 - Troubles encountered on a cattle drive
00:06:45 - Recipe and process for wild grape wine
00:09:15 - Bootleggers
00:11:10 - Booger Red
00:12:38 - More stories about bootleggers
00:19:04 - Stagecoach routes and towns along those routes
00:21:24 - Plum bush Christmas tree
00:22:11 - Tornado story
00:28:05 - Story about a cow after a snow storm
00:28:30 - Tornado story
00:30:08 - Stories an old barber would tell
00:32:08 - Bill Horn
00:35:12 - Halloween and tic-tacking
00:36:38 - Playing tricks on Mr. and Mrs. Palmer
00:38:08 - Shivarees
00:40:34 - Encounters with Indigenous Americans
00:42:50 - Flowerpot Mound and Pawnee Rock
00:44:56 - Uncle Henry builds the first house in Dodge City
00:47:50 - Bachelor life on the prairie
00:54:05 - Prairie Dog John
01:01:22 - Early Aetna
01:06:42 - Coyote hunts
01:07:33 - Racoon hunts
01:09:11 - Funeral customs during the 1918 influenza epidemic
01:12:03 - The Moore family
01:15:05 - Superstitions
01:17:21 - Keyno Armstrong, an old stage driver and newspaperman in Lake City
01:19:05 - Stories about Uncle Fred
01:21:08 - Peace treaty in 1862 with Indigenous Americans -
Interview with Laura & Karl E. Carlson and Mr. & Mrs. August H. Schulte
Laura P. Carlson
An interview with Laura & Karl E. Carlson and Mr. & Mrs. August H. Schulte containing various songs and remembrances from rural western Kansas in the early 20th century.
00:00:55 - Family's arrival in Kansas in 1876
00:04:08 - Song, She Sailed in the Air with a Tulip on her Breast
00:04:40 - Song, Way Down in the Buttercup Meadow
00:08:16 - Song, Noah's Ark (Swedish Language Song)
00:08:45 - Carlson family arrival from Sweden and early family history
00:10:19 - The homestead
00:11:07 - Raising cattle
00:23:29 - Sod busting and farming
00:24:18 - Entertainment and Recreation: church, school, Literaries, parties, and dances
00:25:34 - Interview with August Schulte and wife introduction. Mr. Schulte was a stonecutter who helped build Picken Hall on the FHSU Campus in 1904. This area of the recording is difficult to understand
00:26:29 - Construction of Picken Hall
00:29:44 - Education in Salina
00:35:18 - Family history
00:37:17 - Marriage and education
The remainder of the tape is an unrelated recording of a casual conversation with a child. This portion of the recording has been omitted. The full tape, unedited, is available by request.
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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