Oral history interview with Unidentified Woman [Transcript]

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Title Oral history interview with Unidentified Woman [Transcript]
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1987-05-11
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-05-02
Spatial Coverage Lapoint, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5777061/lapoint.html
Subject Coal stoves; Death; Fathers; Friends; Games; Janitors; Mothers; Personal narratives; Pull-ups; Recess; School buses; School custodians; Schoolhouses; School lunches; Spelling ability; Teachers; Lapoint (Utah); Naples (Utah); Vernal (Utah); Uintah County (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Lapoint Elementary School sixth grade class with an unidentified woman. Topics include: The appearance of her first 4-room schoolhouse; Games she played at recess; How each of the rooms was heated with a coal stove; The death of her father when she was a toddler; Helping with her mother's school janitor work; Wearing long stockings; Walking a mile each direction to get to and from school until 5th grade; Riding the bus to middle school and high school; Having two grades in each classroom; Studying reading, writing, and arithmetic; Her mother's help with spelling; Not having school lunch available until fifth or sixth grade; Bringing lunch from home; Friends at school; Being a champion "chinner" (pull-ups); and names of teachers.
Collection Number and Name Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 3 leaves
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s625dbb1
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535950
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s625dbb1
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