| Title | Oral history interview with Marian Christenson by Diana Spencer [Transcript] |
| Creator | Christenson, Marian; Spencer, Diana |
| Publisher | Utah Historical Society |
| Date | 2010-03-23 |
| Access Rights | Utah Historical Society |
| Date Digital | 2024-02-13 |
| Spatial Coverage | Sevier Valley, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5546670/sevier-valley.html |
| Subject | Agricultural colonies; Alfalfa; Brown, Benjamin, 1885-1939; Carpentry; Chickens; Chores; Christmas; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Cisterns; Cream; Dairy cows; Eggs; Elementary schools; Family; Farms; Friends; Games; Ghost towns; Grain--Harvesting; High school; Home building; Ice skating; Immigrants; Japanese American families; Jewish Agricultural Society; Large family; Oats; Parents; Personal narratives; Piano; Playground; Reading; Santa Claus; School buses; Schoolhouses; Siblings; Sugar beet; Steam-engines; Tractors; Well water; Wheat; Clarion Colony (Utah); Sanpete County (Utah) |
| Description | Oral history interview by Diana Spencer with Marian Christenson. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, growing up in a large family with a three room house on a farm in Clarion, Utah and education; Growing sugar beets; Not having electricity or a telephone; Listening to the Radio; Getting indoor plumbing; Raising chickens; Selling cream; Attending grade school in Clarion and high school in Gunnison, Utah; Riding the school bus; Her brother driving the school bus when he was a senior in high school; Relationships with Japanese and Jewish families in Clarion; The Utah Poultry Producers; Reading and playing the piano; Playing games with friends; Attending church; Swimming in the irrigation ditch; Ice skating; Marriage;Building a house in Gunnison; and seeing the houses moved away from Clarion |
| Collection Number and Name | Mss B 2028 Clarion Call: Echoes Near and Distant, Bitter and Sweet Oral History Project |
| Type | Text; Sound |
| Genre | oral histories (literary works) |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Extent | 15 leaves; 36:19 |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | |
| Source | Mss B 2028 Clarion Call: Echoes Near and Distant, Bitter and Sweet Oral History Project |
| Scanning Technician | Michelle Gollehon |
| Metadata Cataloger | Amy Green Larsen |
| ARK | ark:/87278/s6rde3ct |
| Setname | dha_uhsoh |
| ID | 2496776 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rde3ct |