| Title | Oral history interview with Allen John Frandsen by Diana Spencer [Transcript] |
| Creator | Frandsen, Allen John; 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; Automobiles; Baseball; Bishops; Brown, Benjamin, 1885-1939; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Clerks; Cream; Dairy farms; Dances; Elementary schools; Family; Farms; Friends; Ghost towns; Grain--Harvesting; Grandfathers; High school; Home building; Immigrants; Irrigation; Japanese American families; Jewish Agricultural Society; Jews, Russian; Oats; Parents; Personal narratives; Religion; Siblings; Sugar beet; Steam-engines; Tractors; Union Pacific Railroad Company; Well water; Wheat; Philadelphia (Pa); Clarion Colony (Utah); Sanpete County (Utah) |
| Description | Oral history interview by Diana Spencer with Allen John Frandsen. 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; Attending elementary school in a two-room schoolhouse in Clarion; Taking music lessons; Stories about the Jewish Colony and their trouble with farming; His father's service as the Bishop of the Clarion Ward; Protecting the Clarion cemetery; Pumping good well water to his farm; Selling his property to a dairy farmer; When cars cars came into use; Relationships with Japanese and Jewish families in Clarion; His father's work for the railroad and buying a steam engine thrasher for harvesting; Thrashing for the neighbors; Different chores around the farm; Playing baseball with friends on Sunday afternoons; Building a house in Centerfield; 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 | 28 leaves; 1:04:24 |
| 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/s6f26c27 |
| Setname | dha_uhsoh |
| ID | 2496778 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6f26c27 |