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Interview of Father Lucius and Mother Flavia of the Process Church of the Final Judgement
Samuel John Sackett 1928-2018
An interview with Father Lucius and Mother Flavia of the Process Church of the Final Judgement in New Orleans, LA. Side two of this recording is unavailable.
00:00:05 - Mission of the Process Church
00:01:33 - Sacred versus secular names
00:02:43 - Personal background of Father Lucius (Christopher De Paul)
00:03:20 - Reasons for joining the Process Church
00:10:57 - Personal background of Mother Flavia
00:13:23 - Reasons for joining the Process Church
00:16:06 - Will the Process Church develop a rigid theology and subsequently stagnate?
00:20:28 - Apocalyptic beliefs
00:23:10 - Predictions of widespread famine in the 1970s
00:23:50 - Predictions of the destruction of California in the 1980s
00:24:32 - Theory vs. Practicality in the Process Church
00:31:22 - Background on Robert De Grimston Moore
00:31:17 - De Grimston's visions
00:35:29 - Process Church hierarchy
00:38:18 - Role of the Christian bible in the Process Church
00:43:14 - Process Church expansion in New Orleans in 1968
00:50:31 - Lord Shayne
00:53:30 - Emphasis on diet in the Process Church
00:56:40 - Church position on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs
01:01:34 - Church organization
01:02:36 - Size of membership -
Interview of George King
Norman E. Mai
An interview with George King of Hays, KS on May 13, 1962.
00:00:04 - Introduction and biographical information
00:04:39 - Career as a pharmacist
00:20:00 - Parents
00:22:06 - A shooting on the day of his mother's arrival from Germany
00:23:54 - Boot hill on 18th street in Hays and locally famous murders
00:26:39 - Discussion of photos shown to interviewers of local theatrical productions
00:33:09 - Local football
00:37:14 - James Farm
00:43:20 - Meeting Vice President Charles Curtis
00:48:53 - Law enforcement in the early days of Hays - Wild Bill Hickok
00:54:25 - Relations with Indigenous Americans
00:54:59 - Buffalo soldiers of the 9th Cavalry
00:57:06 - Storms and blizzards
00:58:02 - Robberies in old Hays
00:59:39 - Anecdote about bugs used for red coloring
01:02:00 - Prostitutes exhumed from Boot Hill (racist language)
01:07:53 - Parts in theatrical productions
01:10:11 - Hachmeier family and the 9th Cavalry (racist language)
01:13:16 - Charles Curtis and the experiment station
01:16:05 - Mary Middlekauff as a source
01:17:28 - Brother Charlie
01:17:45 - Social life in early Hays -
Interviews with Anna and Reuben Holzer, Lydia Steinle, Caroline and Ted Major, Fred Langhofer, George Heinitz, Walter Kaufman, Edward and LaVange Shiroky, Robert and Emma Malir, Joseph Cerney, and Ruby Peterson
Alice Jean Kaufman and Esther Morris
Interviews with Anna and Reuben Holzer, Lydia Steinle, Caroline and Ted Major, Fred Langhofer, George Heinitz, Walter Kaufman, Edward and LaVange Shiroky, Robert and Emma Malir, Joseph Cerney, and Ruby Peterson.
00:00:00 - Introduction to interviews with Anna and Reuben Holzer, Lydia Steinle, and Caroline and Ted Major
00:00:44 - Story of Anna Holzer's father in Russia
00:03:31 - Poem, "Down on that Kansas Farm"
00:05:13 - Riddles
00:06:33 - Autograph book verses
00:09:02 - Poem, "Dear Mr. Williams"
00:09:50 - "A Warm Weather Story" by J.H. Williams
00:11:33 - Lydia Steinle, story about her father, grinding grain, and ghosts
00:14:19 - Uncle and the ghost
00:15:47 - German poem
00:16:04 - German song
00:16:15 - German game
00:17:41 - German nursery rhyme about a colt
00:18:37 - German poem
00:19:05 - German poem
00:19:34 - Polka played on harmonica
00:20:27 - Waltz played on harmonica
00:21:19 - Interview with Fred Langhofer and George Heinitz of Dorrance, KS
00:21:42 - Entertainment of the 1930s and 1940s
00:24:28 - Predicting weather
00:31:13 - Introduction, Walter Kaufman of Russell, KS
00:31:16 - Remedies
00:33:17 - Introduction, Ed and LaVange Shiroky, and Robert and Emma Malir of Wilson, KS
00:33:33 - Czech holidays and celebrations
00:35:03 - Song, Schottische, piano
00:38:21 - Czech foods and customs
00:42:28 - Superstitions
00:43:25 - Folk dancing
00:44:30 - Sausage and head cheese
00:45:25 - Song, Beseda, piano
00:50:07 - Children's songs, vocal and piano
00:51:16 - "Song of Love", vocal and piano
00:52:11 - Introduction, Dr. Joseph P. Cerney of Russell, KS
00:52:22 - Biographical information
00:53:34 - Customs, Namesday
00:55:35 - Proverbs and sayings
00:56:05 - Czech legend
00:57:11 - Ruby Peterson of Kinsley, KS. Recording is difficult to understand
00:57:27 - Prairie fuel and games
00:58:23 - Butchering and other communal activities
01:01:31 - Homesteading in Kansas in the late 1870s, early 1880s
01:02:47 - History of Kinsley, KS -
Interviews with Anna Erskine and Martha Soliday
Phyllis Soliday
Interviews with Anna Erskine and Martha E. Soliday regarding their experiences homesteading in Kansas in the late 1800s.
00:00:31 - Personal history and move to Kansas
00:03:03 - Living in a dugout
00:04:52 - Watering cattle
00:06:51 - Cool house
00:07:15 - Farming and types of trees
00:09:10 - Moving to Kansas from Illinois
00:10:40 - Trouble with Cattlemen
00:11:35 - Move to Gray County from Greenwood County
00:12:39 - Prairie fires caused by trains
00:18:49 - Early Cimarron and feud between two hotels
00:22:45 - County seat fight
00:23:47 - Employment opportunities for women and pay
00:25:30 - Teachers and schools
00:26:51 - Women homesteaders and teaching in rural schools
00:31:31 - Other jobs and education
00:33:34 - Contested claim
00:34:04 - Working at the bank in Cimarron in 1906
00:38:35 - Her only vacation
00:39:40 - Pioneer diet
00:41:23 - Treatment for colds
00:42:25 - Clothing
00:43:20 - Moving a house from Cimarron
00:46:35 - Irrigation. Recording becomes difficult to hear
00:48:28 - School entertainment
00:51:03 - Games played at school
00:55:00 - Games, Miller Boy, Needle's Eye, and Post Office
00:59:34 - Prairie fires and tumbleweeds
01:00:28 - Snowstorms and teacher's duties
01:03:42 - Family's religious experiences. Recording quality improves.
01:08:07 - Singing school and music in the community
01:11:26 - Runaway buggy
01:13:55 - July 4, 1887
01:15:25 - Grasshopper swarms
01:16:19 - Pink lemonade
01:18:03 - Introduction to interview with Martha E. Soliday, July 9, 1961
01:18:36 - Family history and move from Tennessee
01:19:31 - Blizzard of 1886
01:21:00 - Moving from a dugout to a sod house then to Hutchinson
01:21:46 - First job
01:22:15 - Move back to Stafford County
01:22:41 - Indigenous Americans in Stafford County
01:24:15 - Romani people and Italian migrant workers
01:26:00 - Entertainment
01:27:39 - Song, "Man in the moon making cheese."
01:28:06 - Grandparents and parents
01:29:05 - Her wedding in 1910
The remainder of the recording is missing -
Interviews with Birdie Bell Wert Ford, Lelia Dell Kay, Bernice Fort, Marie Dahl, Glenn Wright, Lyndon L. McDougal, Kermit M. Greason, James D. Greason, William Rahe, Egla Olson, and Phillip Hanson
Mary Jane Hamill and Carrie Henrietta Tawney
Interviews with Birdie Bell Wert Ford, Lelia Dell Kay, Bernice Fort, Marie Dahl, Glenn Wright, Lyndon L. McDougal, Kermit M. Greason, James D. Greason, William Rahe, Egla Olson, and Phillip Hanson regarding their experiences in Kansas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
00:00:32 - Birdie Bell Wert Ford, traveling to Oklahoma in a covered wagon in 1907
00:03:33 - Remedy for warts
00:06:29 - Literaries
00:07:20 - Introduction, Lelia Dell Kay
00:07:43 - Mrs. Kay's wedding and shivaree in 1903
00:09:50 - Her children
00:10:09 - Her husband's death in 1907
00:10:31 - The horse and buggy wreck
00:11:36 - Pie suppers
00:12:38 - Introduction, Bernice Fort of Casper, Wyoming on December 25, 1961
00:13:02 - Songs of Stafford County, Kansas
00:13:11 - Song, "Two Babes in the Woods"
00:14:05 - Song, "Little Black Birdie"
00:14:41 - Song, "Leather Britches"
00:14:55 - Lelia Dell Kay, continuation
00:15:12 - Grandfather's contact with Indigenous Americans in Stafford County, KS
00:16:31 - Information regarding the continuation of the Lelia Dell Kay interview and poisoning a bob cat
00:17:21 - Introduction, Marie Dahl of Colby, KS on December 31, 1961
00:17:45 - Song, "Baby Bye"
00:18:21 - Introduction, Glenn A. Wright of McDonald, KS on January 11, 1962
00:18:45 - Square dancing
00:19:12 - Song, "Lady around the Lady"
00:20:52 - Song, "Out on the plains of Kansas" (The Dew-berry Song)
00:21:26 - Information about the preceding song
00:21:46 - Introduction, Lyndon L. McDougal of Atwood, KS on January 14, 1962
00:22:09 - Square dance call, "O jump up and never come down"
00:25:14 - Square dance call, "Birdie in the Cage"
00:26:26 - Square dance call, "Wave the Ocean"
00:28:06 - Square dance call, "Around that couple and take a little peek"
00:30:00 - Square dance call, "Indigenous American style"
00:31:10 - Square dance call, "All the company lead a lady"
00:32:59 - Square dance call, "The young fellows do it, deep, down"
00:34:17 - Introduction, Kermit and James Greason of Atwood, KS on January 17, 1962
00:34:38 - Song, "Winter Time"
00:35:05 - Song, "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More"
00:35:43 - Song, "Little 'Liza Jane"
00:36:10 - Song, "The Bulldog on the Bank"
The tape is degraded and the remaining portion of the Greason interview is missing. 00:36:46 - Song, "The Moon"
00:37:45 - Song, "Rock-a-bye Baby"
00:38:53 - Song, "Little Birdie"
00:39:26 - Song, "Cotton-eyed Joe"
00:39:42 - Song, "Put this Hat On Your Head"
00:40:04 - Song, "There was an old woman who lived on the moon"
00:40:24 - Song, "Introduction, William Rahe of Ludell, KS. The very beginning of the interview is degraded but quality improves.
00:40:56 - Song, "Du, du liegst mir am Herzen"
00:41:29 - Song, "Zu Lauterbach hab ich mein strumpf Verlorn"
00:41:51 - Song, "Darling Nellie Gray"
00:42:33 - Introduction, Egla Olson of WaKeeney, KS. Tape is degraded and difficult to understand. 00:42:29 - Song, "At The Cross"
00:44:17 - Song, "Jesus is Calling"
00:45:43 - Mrs. Olson's old hymnal from 1897
00:46:07 - Poem, "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"
00:47:55 - Introduction, Phillip Hanson of WaKeeney, KS.
00:48:10 - Poem, "Speak for yourself, John"
00:50:17 - Song, "Skip to my Lou" on accordion
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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