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 |