Oral history interview with Audrey Den Herder and Alydia De Vries , 1978 July 10.

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Oral history interview with Audrey Den Herder and Alydia De Vries , 1978 July 10.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181208404

Audrey Den Herder and Alydia De Vries discuss their family history and Dutch origins, the acquisition and inheritance of the farm; farmhouses built from sod, wood and homemade concrete blocks; planting trees to claim the land (tree claims); apple orchards and walnut groves; the arrival of the railroads; grain and dairy farming; domestic work on the farm; teaching at a country school near Sioux Center, Iowa; a scarlet fever outbreak; college life at Hope College in Holland, Michigan; livestock including sheep, goats, cattle, hogs and chickens; family members who served in World War I; and the death of Audrey's husband.

Transcript: 51 leavesSound recording: 1 reel to reel tape

Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa State Historical Society

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Earthwatch-SHSI Oral History Project.

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"Folklife in Rural Iowa" was an oral history project conducted in the summer of 1978 and funded by Earthwatch, a national organization encouraging public participation in field research. Interviewers worked in 2 teams under the direction of field director Rebecca Conard and assistant field director Michael Mendelson. Peter Harstad, director of the State Historical Society of Iowa, served as the project's principal investigator. From the description of Oral history interviews of the E...

De Vries, Alydia, b. 1906,

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Den Herder, Audrey, b. 1936,

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Wallace, Max

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Hope College

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Conard, Rebecca

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