Oral history interview by Diana Spencer with Shirley Peterson. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, moving to a farm in Clarion, Utah at the age of twelve, and education; Her grandmother's work as a midwife in Clarion and delivering two babies of Russian families; Her grandfather's bakery in Cedar City; Going to school with Japanese American children; Trading farm land with another family; Marriage and moving to Las Vegas; Her grandfather making soup for people daily during the 1989-1919 Influenza Epidemic; Selling eggs and milk; Having the old farmhouse burnt down for fire training; and her mother driving the school bus to Gunnison for a short period of time.
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
24:41:00
Language
eng
Rights
Source
Mss B 2028 Clarion Call: Echoes Near and Distant, Bitter and Sweet Oral History Project
