Archive Record
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Object Name |
Recording, Audio |
Scope & Content |
Interview by Christine Kelly of Violet Stahl Kelly (b. 11/28/1910), daughter of Glen & Golden Philippi Stahl. Digital copy available --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start time Subject 00:00:00 called "Poppy" all her life 00:00:45 birthplace, parents, siblings (brother died at 7 from diphtheria) 00:03:33 jobs (still does nursing), hobbies 00:05:05 early life (chores, discipline, games, visiting cousin would ride a horse standing up, hired hand kept wrecking tires) 00:08:56 transportation (wrecked the truck going up a hill) 00:11:41 church (walked three miles to a Methodist church) 00:12:00 clothing (rolled long underwear up above knees so kids at school wouldn't see) 00:12:54 church activities (Baptist, but no churches nearby) 00:14:25 school (had "geography matches" and "history matches") 00:16:14 women's rights 00:16:40 World War I (armistice, uncles coming home on leave) 00:17:32 parents "thought Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the greatest guys that ever came down the pike" 00:17:52 World War 2 (friend killed at Pearl Harbor) 00:18:52 courtship 00:19:31 Great Depression 00:20:57 marriage, honeymoon 00:21:30 children (first child had no middle name) 00:23:00 past versus present (slower pace vs. conveniences--hygiene) 00:23:53 hair (first perm after high school, kept hair in two braids) 00:25:14 fashion trends 00:26:32 present versus past (grandchildren) 00:28:13 population of the US in 1925: "I don't know, maybe 2 million" 00:28:48 bought most things from catalogues ("never heard of a mall back then") 00:29:45 grew most of their own food (no fridge or ice box) 00:32:08 house (spring pump, fireplace in every room) 00:33:35 never got a telephone, but got a crystal set radio 00:35:06 giant chestnut tree at elementary school 00:35:56 went water skiing |
Date |
1981 |
Object ID # |
2013.25.522 |
Length of Interview |
00:37:06 |
Manuscript Collection # |
z.Audio |
Source |
Gift of S. Duane Kauffman |