Agricultural colonies; Alfalfa; Automobiles; Baseball; Bishops; Brown, Benjamin, 1885-1939; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Clerks; Cream; Dairy farms; Dances; Elementary schools; Family; Farms; Friends; Ghost towns; Grain--Harvesting; Grandfathers; High school; Home building; Immigrants; Irrigation; Japanese American families; Jewish Agricultural Society; Jews, Russian; Oats; Parents; Personal narratives; Religion; Siblings; Sugar beet; Steam-engines; Tractors; Union Pacific Railroad Company; Well water; Wheat; Philadelphia (Pa); Clarion Colony (Utah); Sanpete County (Utah)
Description
Oral history interview by Diana Spencer with Allen John Frandsen. 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; Attending elementary school in a two-room schoolhouse in Clarion; Taking music lessons; Stories about the Jewish Colony and their trouble with farming; His father's service as the Bishop of the Clarion Ward; Protecting the Clarion cemetery; Pumping good well water to his farm; Selling his property to a dairy farmer; When cars cars came into use; Relationships with Japanese and Jewish families in Clarion; His father's work for the railroad and buying a steam engine thrasher for harvesting; Thrashing for the neighbors; Different chores around the farm; Playing baseball with friends on Sunday afternoons; Building a house in Centerfield; 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
Image/MovingImage
Genre
oral histories (literary works)
Format
video/mp4
Extent
1:04:24
Language
eng
Rights
Source
Mss B 2028 Clarion Call: Echoes Near and Distant, Bitter and Sweet Oral History Project
