Oral history interview with Henry and Bernice Eberly, 1978 August 1.

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Oral history interview with Henry and Bernice Eberly, 1978 August 1.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232360903

The Eberlys discuss the arrival of his family in Iowa; tales about Indians and a nearby community called Whiskey Creek; dairying; the milk strike; his relatives' life in a cave before the farmhouse was built; basketball; music and Lawrence Welk's band; dances; land inheritance; land values; preventing soil erosion; their wedding and shivaree; Christmas celebrations; and her family's German heritage. Included with the transcript is a newspaper article describing the Eberly Cemetery.

Transcript: 20 leaves.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette.

Iowa State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7097728

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...

Conard, Rebecca

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Eberly Cemetery (Woodbury County, Iowa)

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Eberly, Bernice Doris, b. 1910,

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Eberly family.

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Paullson family.

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Eberly, Henry A., b. 1907,

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Whitman, Sylvia, 1961-

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