United States, Massachusetts, Northfield
· 1938
· 12 pages
Recorded by: Dunnell, Mr. G. O., Wilder, Robert
Name: Robert Wilder Assignment: Northfield Title: Living Lore 0, Topic: The Hay, Grain, and Feed Man of Northfield Dunnell Ur. Dunnell, with the aid of a helper, was replacing old ties on the spur railroad track that served his coal bunkers. "Yer see that place down there?" he asked, with an expansive wave of his hand in the direction of a, gully that the railroad had partly filled. "Well, the first public water works that taey was in this town stood there. "Though, I don't know as you'd…
Massachusetts, Northfield, United States
· 1939-06-15
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Dunnell, Mr. G. O., Wilder, Robert
STATE Massachusetts NAME OF WORKER Robert Wilder ADDRESS Northfield, Massachusetts DATE June 15, 1939 SUBJECT Living Lore NAME OF INFORMANT G. O. Dunnell ADDRESS Northfield, Massachusetts Name Robert Wilder Title The Study of Living Lore Paper 11 Assignment Northfield Topic G. 0. Dunnelle Bay. Grain and Feed Man It was a warn June day with soft white clouds floating lazily in the sky and a gentle breeze ruffling the maples. Mr. Dunnell was lounging at ease in, front of his hay, grain and feed…
United States, Massachusetts, Northfield
· 1939-06-12
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Dunnell, Mr. G. O., Wilder, Robert
Mr. G. 0. Dunnell Hay. Grain Ana_E21.4_Mala Paper 12 STATE MASSACHUSETTS NAME OF WORKER ROBERT WILDER ADDRESS NORTHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS SUBJECT LIVING LORE NAME OF INFORMANT G. O. DUNNELL ADDRESS NORTHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS DATE OF INTERVIEW June 12, 1939 Name: Hobert Wilder Assignment: Northfield Title: Living Lore Topic: 9. 9. Dunn911 Hay, Grain and Feed _Man raper 12 I was working in the little plot that we call "the garden" putting in some squash seeds when Mr. Dunnell happened by on his…
United States, Massachusetts, Northfield
· 1939-06-12
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Dunnell, Mr. G. O., Wilder, Robert
Mr. G. O. Dunnell Hay. Grain and Feed Man paper 13 STATE MASSACHUSETTS NAME OF WORKER ROBERT WILDER ADDRESS NORTHFIELD, MASSALliubETTS SUBJECT LIVING LORE DATE OF INTERVIEW June 19, 1939 NAME OF INFORMANT G. 0. DUNNELL ADDRESS NORTHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS Name: Robert Wilder Assignment: Northfield Title: Living Lore Topic: G. 0. Dunnell Halr, Grain and Feed Man Paper 13 "Young people these days ain't what they used ter be," said Mr. Dunnell, dealing himself a hand of his favorite solitaire from…
Massachusetts, Northfield, United States
· 1939-07-10
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Dunnell, Mr. G. O., Wilder, Robert
(430 3? r. G.O. .11unnell Hay, Grain and Feed kan Paper 14 STATE kASSAChUSETTS oF 'idORKER ROBERT WILDER A:DDRESb NORTHFILL', kASSAOhlia_:TTS SUBjEoT LIVING LORE KALE OF INFORLANT G.O. DUMNELL ADDRESS NORTHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS -1 Name: Robert Wilde': Assignment: Northfield Title: 'Living Lore Topic: G.U. Dunnell hay, Grain and Feed Man Paper 14 Jim Carter, local potentate of a well known secret fraternity had peen chatting with us in ir. Dunnell's office. Jim's a good hearted soul, out pretty…
Massachusetts, Northfield, United States
· 1939-07-10
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Dunnell, Mr. G. O., Wilder, Robert
7/7/27 Mr. G.O. Dunnell hay, Grain and Feed Man STATE iALE .1F WORKER ADDRESS SU3cECT NALLE F IMFORL4INT AJDRESS Paper 15 MASSACHUSETTS ROBERT WILDER NORTHFIELD, IlitSSAChUSETTS LIVIG LORE, DUNITELL NORThFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS Name: Robert Wilder Title: Livink Lore Assignment: Northfield Topic: G.O. Dunnell-hay, Grain and Feed Ian Paper 15 I stopped in to ask kr. .iAinnell if he would like to go along with me on an errand to Lake Pleasant, our "resort" lake beyond killers, Falls. mr. Lunneil's…
Northfield, United States, Massachusetts
· 1938
· 11 pages
Recorded by: Dunnell, Mr. G. O., Wilder, Robert
Names Robert Wilder Title: Living Lore Assignment: Northfield Topic: B.O. Dunnell, Hay, Grain Feed Man Paper 16 kr. Dunnell was engaged in twisting a length of wire about the nob that operated the door of his piping hot heating stove in the little shack by the railroad track that serves as an office for his coal, feed and fertilizer business. "I'm trying to make a handle out of this, he said. "The nob gets so plaguey hot that I burn my thumb and finger every time I open the stove door. It…
United States, Massachusetts
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Wilder, Robert
Yankee Folk YANKEE MERCHANT 'They ain't been brought up right" Every young feller I've hired acts just like that when you try to tell them anything. Dunno whether it's true in other towns or not. I don't expect a young feller to know everything when I hire him. They's a It of tricks to handling a sack of grain and coal chutes and things. A feller can tucker his self all out doing things they's an easier way to do. I try to tell 'em and they act insulted. It don't make so much difference what…
Northfield, United States, Massachusetts
· 1938
· 28 pages
Recorded by: Wilder, Robert
-1. Name: Robert Wilder I Assignment: Northfield Town Meeting Government (Government by Farce) Chapter One The Town Meeting The Town Hall was so well heated that you could smell the odor of hot paint. A. huge *air tight* stove at the rear of the hall sitting on a worn square of zinc nailed to the floor was the source of the holocaust. This stove had a long and rickety pipe suspended by wires over the center aisle of the hall, the end of which disappeared through a mildewed cherub that…
United States, Massachusetts, Northfield
· 1939-01-13
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Cragg, Mr. M. T., Wilder, Robert
1";)) Connecticut Valley Yankee Farmer M. T. Cragg A son of generations of Connecticut Valley farmers STATE Massachusetts KAUE OF WORKER. Robert Wilder ADDRESS Northfield, Massachusetts DATE January 13, 1939 SUBJECT Living Lore NAME OF INFORMANT M. T. Cragg ADDRESS Northfield, Massachusetts Mr. Cragg lives in the section of Northfield known as "The Mountain", on an old farm where he was born and his father before him. His lean, gaunt frame is stooped, believig its great height, his face is…
Northfield, United States, Massachusetts
· 1939-06-12
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Mankowski, Mr. [?], Wilder, Robert
Paper 2 STATE MASSACHUSETTS NAME OF WORKER ROBERT WILDER ADDRESS NORTHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS DATE June 12, 1939 SUBJECT LIVING LORE, NAME OF INFORMANT MR. MANKOWSKI ADDRESS NORTHFIELD, MASSACmubETTS Name Robert iilder Title Living Lere Paper 2 Assignment Northfield Topic Mr. Mankowski It". Mankowski settled down against the showcase in the cool interior of the "Red Front" for a little chatting. Mr. Mankawski doesn't usually "chat" easily or without reason, but this morning he seemed in a…
Nebraska, Ogallala, United States
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Jacobs, Lemoyne, Jollensten, Bessie
lab Ns_ 0.41. NAME OF WORKER T;railAki. ADDRESS... )11..*.P.RIbrs. DATE SUBJECT Folklore KANE AND ADDRESS OF INFORMANT....kranl jac°19 Lemoyne Jacobs after whom Lemoyne man justly names, vas born March 5, 1853 near Cameron, Vest VirciLia. L. Jacobs vas a structural worker in his 7011ns days, and hu worked in a lumbar op in Eichigan. e also had been in vverytat, east of the rissruri River. On seeing ens of Oren JIAds, pictures in an issue of an agrioulturist nagazine, rupitE; cattle, and…
Knox County, Nebraska, United States
· 1938-05-14
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Anderson, Harley, Winchell, Mrs. W. P.
p TOM A Oirounotancif of ',tom*, JAIL OF WORKER......*41044,404411446.0... a a a wiDDREL1.440110,0.446.• DATE.......)00.)44.19#0 tUDJFCT• Mingo 4304141116 1 Bawd mid address of informant Nis. W. F. linaths11, Verdigro, I. Date and time of interview Nov. 14, 1916 940 1.11...-440 P.I. 3. ?Lao* of interview 10 milss moot of Verdigre 4. Name and addicts of person, if any, who put you in touoh with informant NO body 6. ALMO and address of persons if any, omsompanying you None 6. Dosoription of…
Nebraska, Niobrara, United States
· 1939-01-28
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Anderson, Harley, Larsen, Louis
Week No, Item Ndt Words percent Received Accredited Do Not Write In This Spade FORM A Circumstanies of Interview NAME OF WORKER Harley Anderson ADDRESS Niobrara, Nebr. DATE January 28, 1939 SUBJECT Farm Holiday songs 1. Name and address of informant Louis W. Larsen 2. Date and time of interview Jan. 28, 1939, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 3. Place of interview At his farm ten miles east of town 4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant Noratz Kemp, Niobrara, Nebraska 5.…
Knox County, Nebraska, Niobrara, United States
· 1938-11-17
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Anderson, Harley, Houston, E. A.
"v- Cirounstanoes of Illterview MANE OF e0FIEN•••••••.firktoffittitif .ADDRESSMOrtrio.f0t. DATE fgat.16.1414, SUB•INCT..MCAILT9141111. 1. Name and address of informant B. A. Houston, NiObrara* Neb. 2. Date and time of interview Nov. 11* 1936 1 P. N6 to 4 PA. 3. Plaos of interviow In Niobrara at B. A. Houston's offioe 4. Name and addross of person, if any, cho put you in touoh with informant Everett J. Houston 6* Name and address or person, if any* aoodmpanying you None 6* Description of room*…
Silver City, United States, New Mexico
· 1937-07-02
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Totty, Frances E.
Frances E. Totty Box 677 Silver City, M. itords 860 July 2, 197 Subject Indians PICHARD ;ND —ILWM H. FEISLE'S— Indian Relic Collection illiaTn t1 Eeisle was lam at bhawnee Mission, Kansas in 18420 the first white child to be born in li-ansas. Mr. eisle is now the oldest Odd Fellow in the world. In 1862 he first entered as Vegas driving d yoke of oxen. Mr. Leisle had dealt with the Indians ever since, and can give some remarkable facts. He has never had been in any conflicts with the Indians…
United States, New Mexico
· 1937-12-03
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Totty, Frances E.
C 6 `2r. wordsj-e IltarCeS7. Totty -*IA^ 7 1937 The Alma Missacre ^lir family left eman ,Texas Sept,22, 1879 for Arizona where one of my uncles was supposad to be living le came by Deming where we were warned that the Indians were out and we"-Aad better not go by Cookes Peak one of the Indians favorite places of attact. Yy father never havirc, had spy dealirr with any i.rdians ,was not afraid of the Indians and came on by the Peek luck was.apparent17 with us for a bin. snow storm care qp ,and…
United States, New Mexico
· 1937-12-03
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Totty, Frances E.
117111110411 Dec. 3, 3, 1937 The Alms Massacre Our family left Sherman, Texas Sept., 1879 for Arizona, where one of my uncles was supposed to be living. We came by Deming where we were warned that the Indians were out and we had better not go by Cookels Peak, one of the Indians favorite Places of attack. My father never having had any dealing with any Indians, 'as not afraid of the Indians and cane on brythe Peek; luck was apparently with um for a big snow storm came up„ and we never saw an…
Quemado, United States, New Mexico
· 1936-06-18
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Vaden, Clay W.
4C- tr\-C-1.4. JUN 18193G Clay V. Vaden, Field Triter, rrojectCC-1700.3" QueLlado, =mins 02 LIDCOLD TOLD 77:11/eboroY rovan'o INather Vr.,c "reoldent'c rcxtner In the pioturecctue little villace of iallcborot lifer rcr-ico, there lived until a few ye=o co 4L-0.• 1./ .71:1-oboth rernCon 11111, Caudate:: of tillia i. Earndon, -.1.artner. the mei a brother vcre itIontified 'with that locality cl.nco the ormation o rierry, County, 1:30:70 t3t,..n forty year.° aro. then in a reninicoent mod ran…
United States, Quemado, New Mexico
· 1936-09-16
· 1 page
Recorded by: Padilla, Dr. Felipe, Vaden, Clay W.
SEP 1 61936 0Lar w. %den, Yield iter 0550.700 311 qUerlalos NAM* MESICAll MY COMM BY APA I IAMB loday 'Moro livee up a picturesque canyon six males southeast of Omens& one a our. most reliable pioneer itexican Citizens, Ors ftlipe Padilla, mho ma born May Mill6CC, one who lived for guar years at the original pito of 0usmado, nom emeaseats ran*, five males east of the %spent location of the tow. At that time tbc place mac celled 11 Mu oaarm40, The tomcats established in 18%, and Mr. Padilla ham…