| Title |
Oral history interview with Edna Bjerregaard by Diana Spencer [Transcript] |
| Creator |
Bjerregaard, Edna; 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; Chickens; Children; Chores; Church; Cream; Dairy cows; Dirt roads; Eggs; Elementary schools; Family; Farms; Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, 1906-1971; Friends; Ghost towns; Grain--Harvesting; Gunnison (Utah); High school; Home building; Immigrants; Japanese American families; Jewish Agricultural Society; Large family; Marriage; Music; Mutual Improvement Associations; Operas; Parents; Personal narratives; Piano; Plays; Primary Association (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints); Reading; Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints); Santa Claus; School buses; Schoolhouses; Siblings; Sugar beet; Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Association; Well water; Clarion Colony (Utah); Sanpete County (Utah) |
| Description |
Oral history interview by Diana Spencer with Edna Bjerregaard Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, and growing up in a large family with a three room house on a farm in Clarion, Utah; Growing sugar beets; Not having electricity or running water; Raising chickens; Selling cream; Attending elementary school in a two-room schoolhouse in Clarion and high school in Gunnison, Utah; Riding the school bus; Relationships with Japanese and Jewish families in Clarion; The Utah Poultry Producers; Visiting the theater to see plays and operas; seeing Philo T. Farnsworth put on a show; Reading and playing the piano; Spending time with friends; Attending church and M.I.A. dances; Marriage and moving; 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 |
11 leaves; 40:03 |
| 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/s6d1qjs9 |
| Setname |
dha_uhsoh |
| ID |
2496774 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d1qjs9 |
