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
Image/MovingImage
Genre
oral histories (literary works)
Format
video/mp4
Extent
36:19:00
Language
eng
Rights
Source
Mss B 2028 Clarion Call: Echoes Near and Distant, Bitter and Sweet Oral History Project
