Oral history interview with Willard Fee , 1978 July 19.

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Oral history interview with Willard Fee , 1978 July 19.

Willard Fee discusses family history; homesteading; purchasing "railroad land"; the costs of farm upkeep; land values; hiring farm help; raising hogs and hog diseases; struggles during the Depression; preventing soil erosion and weed control. Included with the transcript are copies of two letters written by Fee's grandmothers which describe family members and activities.

Transcript: 7 leavesSound recording: 1 reel to reel tapeLetters: 10 leaves

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SNAC Resource ID: 7066107

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...

Fee, Willard, b. 1912,

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Snider family.

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Fee family.

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Conard, Rebecca

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Conrath, Elaine,

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