Agricultural colonies; Alfalfa; Brown, Benjamin, 1885-1939; Chickens; Children; Chores; Church; Cream; Dairy cows; Dirt roads; Eggs; Elementary schools; Family; Farms; Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, 1906-1971; Friends; Ghost towns; Grain--Harvesting; Gunnison (Utah); High school; Home building; Immigrants; Japanese American families; Jewish Agricultural Society; Large family; Marriage; Music; Mutual Improvement Associations; Operas; Parents; Personal narratives; Piano; Plays; Primary Association (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints); Reading; Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints); Santa Claus; School buses; Schoolhouses; Siblings; Sugar beet; Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Association; Well water; Clarion Colony (Utah); Sanpete County (Utah)
Description
Oral history interview by Diana Spencer with Edna Bjerregaard Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, and growing up in a large family with a three room house on a farm in Clarion, Utah; Growing sugar beets; Not having electricity or running water; Raising chickens; Selling cream; Attending elementary school in a two-room schoolhouse in Clarion and high school in Gunnison, Utah; Riding the school bus; Relationships with Japanese and Jewish families in Clarion; The Utah Poultry Producers; Visiting the theater to see plays and operas; seeing Philo T. Farnsworth put on a show; Reading and playing the piano; Spending time with friends; Attending church and M.I.A. dances; Marriage and moving; 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
40:03:00
Language
eng
Rights
Source
Mss B 2028 Clarion Call: Echoes Near and Distant, Bitter and Sweet Oral History Project
