Oral history interview with Rachel Hodgin, 1978 July 28.

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Oral history interview with Rachel Hodgin, 1978 July 28.

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Rachel Hodgin discusses family history and land acquisition; her elementary school years at a Friends school and her year at the Stavanger Boarding School; some of the history of the Stavanger school and the Stavanger Monthly Meeting; her family's Norwegian heritage; the history and establishment of various Friends Meetings; struggling to raise her young children after the death of her husband at an early age from typhoid fever; foods that she and her family ate while she was growing up; and the effects of World Wars I and II on her community, including the fate of conscientious objectors.

Transcript: 22 leaves.Sound recording: 1 reel to reel tape.

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...

Stavanger Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Marshall, Iowa)

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Mendelson, Michael

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Hodgin, Rachel, b. 1892,

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Conard, Rebecca

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