| Title | Oral history interview with Unidentified Woman [Transcript] |
| Publisher | Utah Historical Society |
| Date | 1987-05-11 |
| Access Rights | Utah Historical Society |
| Date Digital | 2024-05-02 |
| Spatial Coverage | Lapoint, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5777061/lapoint.html |
| Subject | Coal stoves; Death; Fathers; Friends; Games; Janitors; Mothers; Personal narratives; Pull-ups; Recess; School buses; School custodians; Schoolhouses; School lunches; Spelling ability; Teachers; Lapoint (Utah); Naples (Utah); Vernal (Utah); Uintah County (Utah) |
| Description | Oral history interview by Lapoint Elementary School sixth grade class with an unidentified woman. Topics include: The appearance of her first 4-room schoolhouse; Games she played at recess; How each of the rooms was heated with a coal stove; The death of her father when she was a toddler; Helping with her mother's school janitor work; Wearing long stockings; Walking a mile each direction to get to and from school until 5th grade; Riding the bus to middle school and high school; Having two grades in each classroom; Studying reading, writing, and arithmetic; Her mother's help with spelling; Not having school lunch available until fifth or sixth grade; Bringing lunch from home; Friends at school; Being a champion "chinner" (pull-ups); and names of teachers. |
| Collection Number and Name | Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002 |
| Type | Text |
| Genre | oral histories (literary works) |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Extent | 3 leaves |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | |
| Source | Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002 |
| Scanning Technician | Michelle Gollehon |
| Metadata Cataloger | Amy Green Larsen |
| ARK | ark:/87278/s625dbb1 |
| Setname | dha_uhsoh |
| ID | 2535950 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s625dbb1 |