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
Image/MovingImage
Genre
oral histories (literary works)
Format
video/mp4
Extent
58:27:00
Language
eng
Rights
Source
Mss B 2028 Clarion Call: Echoes Near and Distant, Bitter and Sweet Oral History Project
