Oral history interview with J. Bruce and Georgette Haddock, 1975 July 17.

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Oral history interview with J. Bruce and Georgette Haddock, 1975 July 17.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190792995

The Haddocks discuss the purchase of the Woodbury County, Iowa farm after the Civil War and inheritance of the land by later generations; trapping fish in the farm's stream; drainage problems and solutions; raising cattle; the gradual mechanization of the farm; the switch from general farming to specialized farming; hog confinements; local bands and musicians, folk songs and school music programs including band contests; flooding, droughts and dust storms; Georgette's teaching experience; the consolidation of the Hornick and Holly Springs school systems; butchering hogs and making sausage; the Depression; the Farmers Holiday and farm strikes; cutting cottonwood trees; preserving meat; and the Spirit Lake massacre.

Transcript: 25 leaves.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette.

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...

Haddock, J. Bruce, b. 1909,

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Haddock, Georgette, b. 1914.

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Wallace, Mary Jo,

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Mendelson, Michael

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Haddock family.

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