Title |
Oral history interview with Alice Furman Woll by Judith E. Woll [Transcript] |
Creator |
Woll, Alice Furman; Woll, Judith E. |
Publisher |
Utah Historical Society |
Date |
2010-08-10 |
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; Apprentice; Baking; Brown, Benjamin, 1885-1939; Carpentry; Chickens; Colonization; Cooking; Cowboys; Elementary schools; Family; Farms; Gardening; Ghost towns; Grain--Harvesting; Hard work; Immigrants; Jewish Agricultural Society; Jews, Russian; Motion pictures; Mountains; Parents; Personal narratives; Politics; Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905; Siblings; Ukraine; Water use; Wheat; Yiddish language; New York City (N.Y.); Philadelphia (Pa); Clarion Colony (Utah); Sanpete County (Utah) |
Description |
Oral history interview by Judith E. Woll with Alice Furman Woll. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, being born on a farm in Clarion, Utah; Being to young to remember Clarion herself but hearing stories about her family's experience with Clarion; Her parents immigration from Ukraine after the Russo-Japanese War; Her father joining the Jewish Agricultural Society; Her father's love of Cowboys Movies; Her family's move to Clarion in 1911 with two older brothers; Alice's and her younger brother's birth in Clarion, Her oldest brother attending the grade school in Clarion and being taught Yiddish; Her mother feeling confined by the mountains surrounding her; Reasons for disbanding the Jewish Agricultural Society; The lack of money and water to sustain the farms; Her family's return to New York in 1916; Living in a Jewish community; and feeling special to be born out west and have an American name |
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 |
20 leaves; 58:27 |
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/s6vrgpjs |
Setname |
dha_uhsoh |
ID |
2496780 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vrgpjs |