Oral history interview with Gerald and Faye Goodwin, 1978 July 13.

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Oral history interview with Gerald and Faye Goodwin, 1978 July 13.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181369204

Gerald and Faye Goodwin discuss family history; acquisition and inheritance of the farm; their marriage celebration and chivaree; the country school they attended; agricultural machinery and farm operations; livestock; soil conservation; exchanging eggs and cream for groceries; the Farmers' Holiday controversy; chautauquas and other social events; threshing rings; amusements they enjoyed as youth; prairie fires; prohibition; electricity; etc. The collection also includes a photocopy of a holograph History of Summit #2 (school) from 1875 to 1966.

Transcript: 31 leaves.Sound recording: 3 sound cassettes.

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...

Summit School No. 2 (Correctionville, Iowa)

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Mendelson, Michael

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Goodwin family.

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Conrath, Elaine,

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Goodwin, Faye, b. 1915,

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Goodwin, Gerald S., b. 1910,

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