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 |