| Title | Oral history interview with Alice Furman Woll by Judith E. Woll [Transcript] |
| Creator | Woll, Alice Furman; Woll, Judith E. |
| Publisher | Utah Historical Society |
| Date | 2010-08-10 |
| 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; 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 | Text; Sound |
| Genre | oral histories (literary works) |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Extent | 20 leaves; 58:27 |
| 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/s6vrgpjs |
| Setname | dha_uhsoh |
| ID | 2496780 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vrgpjs |