Oral history interview with Stella Richards by Elizabeth F. Sowards [Transcript]

Oral history interview by Elizabeth F. Sowards with Stella Richards. Topics inlcude: Teaching third and fourth grade; Attending school in Naples and Salt Lake City; Living with an Aunt and Uncle in Salt Lake, Attending LDS College for High School; Her Grandfather being in the first pioneer company that came to the Salt Lake Valley after Brigham Young; Visiting Yellowstone; Attending the Univeristy of Utah; Teaching school in Union, Maeser; Jensen, and Davis; Moving from Ashley to Naples for safety; Outlaws; Living in a one-room house; Limited clothing; Participating in parades; Dirst roads and traveling by horse and buggy; Taking grain to the mill for flour; Large families; Siblings and other family relations; Celebrating Christmas without a tree; Presents of candy, nuts, and oranges; Having a community Christmas dinner and program in Ashley; Dance halls and Church buildings; Petticoats; The death of a friend; Relations with the Native Americans; Pageants; Crepe Paper costumes; Her father's employment as a school teacher and a mail carrier; Raising chickens and cows; Outdoor ice houses to store food; Making icecream; Daughters of Utah Pioneers book publications; Making soup on a pot-belly stove at school for students; Bricks for the bank being delivered by parcel post; Travel times with a horse and buggy; Missionary Service; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Making handcart props for an Oregon Trail pageant; The influenza epidemic of 1918-1919; Changes in clothing styles and skirt lengths; Sewing; Church leadership; Teaching school for fourty years; Mutual Improvemenmt Association; Prophecy; Electric lights; Steinaker Dam; The oil industry; Joseph Smith, Jr.; Learning to drive an automobile; and buying her first car.