Oral history interview with Marian Christenson by Diana Spencer [Transcript]

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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
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