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Interviews with Burt Brumfield, Maxine Querbach, Roy Stanbaugh, Ed Hershler, Katie Schnetzer, Pat Halling, Barbara Howe, The Benishes, Emma Folck, William R. McFarland, and Brenda Greenwood
Marjorie Querbach, Gerald W. Porter, and Georgia Greenwood
Interviews with Burt Brumfield, Maxine Querbach, Roy Stanbaugh, Ed Hershler, Katie Schnetzer, Pat Halling, Barbara Howe, The Benishes, Emma Folk, William R. McFarland, and Brenda Greenwood.
00:00:00 - Introduction, Burt Brumfield of Jetmore, KS on November 30, 1963
00:00:17 - Kissing "pigeon fashion."
00:00:50 - Horse races
00:01:30 - Decoration Day (Memorial Day)
00:03:03 - School activities
00:03:26 - A blizzard hits during a literary
00:05:10 - Prairie fire
00:05:29 - Poem, "A Poor Married Man"
00:06:07 - Grandfather's work on the sabbath in Indigenous Americana and the resulting death of a cow
00:07:25 - Father's work on the sabbath and a subsequent cyclone
00:08:16 - Introduction, Maxine Querbach of Hanston, KS on December 21, 1963
00:08:30 - Story about an old bachelor
00:10:20 - Introduction, Roy Stanbaugh of Hanston, KS on December 30, 1963
00:10:36 - Story about the Dust Bowl Era (1931-1939)
00:10:50 - Story about windy Kansas
00:11:14 - Story about "Louie the Robber" a modern day Robin Hood
00:12:18 - Story about older students chasing off the teacher
00:16:17 - Early smallpox treatments
00:17:22 - Introduction, Ed Herschler of Hanston, KS on January 4, 1963
00:17:44 - Blizzard of 1886
00:22:11 - Story of the Purple family murders in November of 1886
00:28:22 - Prairie fires
00:31:17 - Story about a 16-year-old female teacher being assaulted by local men
00:33:54 - Introduction, Katie Schnetzer, Pat Halling, and Barbara Howe of Hanston, KS on January 3, 1963
00:34:36 - Description of children's games. Some description is in German
00:39:19 - Ghost stories
00:41:25 - Song, untitled, vocal
00:41:59 - Song, "He Asked Me For a Date", vocal duet
00:43:17 - Song, "Sippin' Cider Through a Straw", vocal duet
00:46:37 - Song, "Let's Go Bowling on Bowling Green", vocal duet
00:47:36 - Introduction, Maxine Querbach of Hanston, KS
00:48:00 - Grasshopper swarms of the late 1800s
00:48:32 - Introduction, "The Benishes", a musical group playing in Orwell, KS on January 5, 1963
00:49:23 - Song, untitled square dance, fiddle and piano
01:06:13 - Introduction, Emma Folck of Little River, KS on January 1, 1964
01:06:30 - History of the Rhodes family in Rice County, KS in 1880
01:07:49 - Farm production in 1875 in Rice County, KS and the first courthouse
01:08:27 - Mother is bitten by a rattlesnake in 1879
01:09:38 - Pawnee Rock
01:10:00 - Story, "John Brown's Buddy"
01:11:14 - Staying overnight in Lindsborg, KS in 1905
01:12:29 - Early agricultural practices
01:13:15 - Introduction, William R. McFarland of Cimmaron, KS on November 29, 1963
01:13:37 - Song, "The Early Days", vocal and piano
01:17:56 - Song, "Fifty Years Ago," vocal and piano
01:22:50 - Song, "Oh, Those Christmas Days", vocal and piano
01:26:54 - Song, "Arkansas Valley" to the tune of "Red River Valley", vocal and piano
01:30:10 - Introduction, Brenda Greenwood and friends of Cimmaron, KS on November 29, 1963
01:30:31 - Song, "Cimmaron Schools" to the tune of "The Marine Hymn", vocal -
Interviews with Carl T. Bode, Isabelle Fritschen, Joseph H. Hirt, Mary G. Hirt, and Minnie Campbell
Isabelle Fritschen
Interviews with Carl T. Bode, Isabelle Fritschen, Joseph H. Hirt, Mary G. Hirt, and Minnie Campbell. The recording includes a variety of German-language songs. The last half of the recording is dedicated to Minnie Campbell telling about her time working for Mother Bickerdyke. The first few minutes of the recording are missing.
00:00:13 - Song, The Messenger Bird sung by Joseph H. Hirt and translated by Isabelle Fritschen
00:01:35 - Song, Birdie in the Window, sung by Mary Gertrude Hirt
00:02:59 - Story of Peter John Thielen's experience in the Franco-Prussian War told by Joseph Hirt
00:05:27 - Grandfather's experience with wild cattle told by Isabelle Fritschen
00:07:31 - Carl T. Bode introduction
00:08:46 - Nursery rhyme about hands
00:09:09 - The Cuckoo and the Donkey
00:09:42 - Sleep Baby Sleep
00:10:24 - Golden Evening Sun
00:11:00 - Beautiful Moon
00:12:10 - My Homeland
00:13:50 - Minnie Campbell Introduction
00:14:05 - Experiences as Mother Bickerdyke's secretary
00:14:35 - Mother Bickerdyke's 81st birthday celebration in Bunker Hill, KS
00:19:59 - Mother Bickerdyke's portrait
00:23:55 - How Lydia Foster, Mother Bickerdyke's Black maid came to live with her.
00:26:34 - Mother Bickerdyke's death
00:29:34 - Mother Bickerdyke's burial in Galesburg, Illinois
00:30:28 - Working for Mother Bickerdyke
00:34:01 - Going to School as a student of James Bickerdyke, Mother Bickerdyke's son
00:35:26 - Decline of Bunker Hill, KS
00:37:15 - Russell stealing the county seat from Bunker Hill
00:38:09 - Closing of the Dorrance, KS bank
00:39:00 - Mother Bickerdyke's personality
00:42:34 - Experience with Nina Brown Baker author of Cyclone in Calico
00:48:24 - Mother Bickerdyke Home for Widows and Children in Ellsworth, KS
00:51:13 - Post script -
Interviews with Charles E. Wood and the Golden age Club
Charles W. Wood and Samuel J. Sackett
Interviews with Charles E. Wood and the Golden age Club on May 5, 1963 by Charles W. Wood.
00:00:16 - Introduction regarding his birth in Kentucky in 1892 and his work in the coal mines as a young teenager.
00:01:20 - Description of the coal mines
00:04:30 - Length of career as a coal miner
00:05:26 - John L. Lewis and Union benefits
00:08:20 - Working conditions
00:11:06 - Specifics of the job
00:12:53 - Mining accidents, cave-ins, and a gas explosion in 1910
00:15:23 - Death of Shirley Kittinger in a cave-in
00:16:34 - Strikes
00:18:59 - Types of coal and details about the mines
00:24:40 - Various jobs he's held
00:25:00 - Timbering and "the squeeze"
00:27:06 - Flood of 1937, working conditions, and salary
00:31:10 - Interview with the Golden Age Club on March 18, 1963 in Hays, KS by Samuel J. Sackett
00:31:30 - Mingled discussion
00:32:03 - A version of the town naming of Wamego, KS by Mrs. Frank Holcomb of Hays, KS
00:33:27 - Irish relatives coming to visit in Kansas
00:35:17 - Mingled discussion
00:37:03 - Using the moon phase and the zodiac to make farming decisions
00:39:33 - William D. Walburn, experiences moving to Kansas from Oklahoma in a covered wagon in 1897.
00:46:33 - Weather predictions
00:48:01 - Reading fortunes in coffee grounds and tea leaves
00:51:41 - Using bread board scrapings to choose a wife
00:52:54 - Recipe for "board fish"
00:53:39 - Stone posts, stone houses, and the stone museum
00:57:04 - Mingled discussion
00:59:24 - Mule jokes
01:02:15 - Fish stories
01:04:13 - Mingled discussion 01:08:31 - Making hominy
01:08:42 - Mingled discussion -
Interviews with Charley King, Barbara Hall Maricle, Vern Kear, Sherry Smith, Elizabeth Stoskopf, Martha Margheim, Verna Schneider, Edith M. Hill, Master John Sackett, Rose Arnold, Olga Elizabeth Luschen Dennis, and Clarence Loredstsch
Kathleen L. Pickering, Mary Ellen Chance, Beth Boger, Samuel John Sackett, Alice Meeker, Dixie Dodd, and Louise Maxwell
Interviews with Charley King, Barbara Hall Maricle, Vern Kear, Sherry Smith, Elizabeth Stoskopt, Martha Markheim, Verna Schneider, Edith M. Hill, Master John Sackett, Rose Arnold, Olga Elizabeth Luschen Dennis, and Clarence Loredstsch.
The first tape is missing. Content begins with the partial interview of Olga Elizabeth Luschen Dennis.
00:00:00 - Family in Russell County (partial)
00:01:02 - Meeting her husband for the first time
00:02:32 - Girlhood experiences and reminiscences
00:03:50 - Pre-recorded History of Fort Larned
00:07:04 - Unknown speaker, Kit Carson's killing of a mule he mistook for an Indigenous American
00:10:46 - Buffalo Bill Cody
00:13:03 - Stories about the Kiowa
00:16:06 - Woodland Tribe in Pawnee County, KS
00:18:24 - Quivira Tribe in Pawnee County, KS
00:21:46 - Exhuming Indigenous remains in 1958
00:23:16 - Woodland Tribe pottery
00:27:32 - Dog skeleton
00:33:57 - Woodland Tribe weapons
00:35:42 - Woodland Tribe ornamentation
00:39:05 - Introduction to interview with Clarence Loredstsch by Louise Maxwell. This portion of the recording is muffled and difficult to understand.
00:39:43 - Fort Fletcher
00:45:30 - Graves and landmarks -
Interviews with Charlie Bruntzle, Eugene Campbell, Jeanne Marie Latas, Elva Jean Latas, and Doris J. Sassman
Elva Jean Latas, Sara Ann Johnson, and Max A. Hilgers
Interviews with Charlie Bruntzle, Eugene Campbell, Jeanne Marie Latas, Elva Jean Latas, and Doris J. Sassman.
00:00:05 - Charlie Bruntzel, Song, "Rip Van Winkle Was a Lucky Man"
00:02:56 - Song, "Deep Down in My Heart"
00:05:31 - Song, "Back In Western Kansas Where I Was Born"
00:10:00 - Jeanne Marie Latas reciting jump rope rhymes, "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear"
00:10:22 - "Cinderella"
00:10:33 - "Andy Pandy"
00:11:08 - "Johnny"
00:11:26 - "Cups and Saucers"
00:11:36 - "Fruit cake, cupcake"
00:12:02 - "Teacher, teacher"
00:12:15 - "Cinderella"
00:12:28 - "Ice Cream Soda"
00:13:46 - "One two, buckle my shoe"
00:14:18 - "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I caught a fish alive"
00:14:44 - "A, B, C, D, twirl with me"
00:15:20 - Nursery game, "Making Cake"
00:16:48 - Nursery rhyme, "This little piggy"
00:17:13 - ABC's from a teacher's manual
00:18:29 - Rhyme about the months of the year
00:19:52 - Rhyme about writing numbers
00:21:35 - Introduction, Doris J. Sassman of Garden City, KS
00:22:02 - Story about the ghost of a train engineer
00:22:52 - Song, "Charles Guiteau" unidentified man
00:24:17 - Flatt and Scruggs recording, banjo and vocal, "Mrs. McKinley"
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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