Oral history interview with Miriam and John Nye, 1978 July 26.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with Miriam and John Nye, 1978 July 26.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226239964

The Nyes discuss family history; Miriam's years as a college student at Buena Vista and Morningside Colleges; limited job and education opportunities for young women; teaching in rural schools; John's turkey farming business; improvements to the farmland; livestock predators (foxes, coyotes, owls); deadly effects of severe weather on livestock (hailstorms, blizzards); Miriam's career as a columnist for the Sioux City Journal and occasional contributor to The Iowan and the Annals of Iowa; and the couple's courtship during European tours (second marriage for each of them).

Transcript: 11 leavesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

Iowa State Historical Society

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7079316

Iowa State Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Earthwatch-SHSI Oral History Project.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mm74v4 (corporateBody)

"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...

Morningside College (Sioux City, Iowa)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wf0j91 (corporateBody)

Buena Vista College

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61p3mq1 (corporateBody)

Nye, John A., b. 1911,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67t5msx (person)

Conard, Rebecca

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68921w7 (person)

Nye, Miriam Hawthorn Baker, b. 1918,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62z94p4 (person)

Shaw, Alpha B. (Alpha Beatrice), 1912-2002

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g1qx4 (person)