Oral history interview with Charlie and Thelma Mae Wahl, 1978 August 2.

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Oral history interview with Charlie and Thelma Mae Wahl, 1978 August 2.

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Charlie and Thelma discuss the farm's origins; the construction of the farm house and barn; droughts and prairie fires; raising cattle and marketing beef and dairy products; the establishment of a Church of the Brethren on the farm property; family history, anecdotes and tragedies; Charlie's grandfather's horse; the influx of corporate farms into Iowa; crops; soil erosion and conservation and the Soil Conservation Service; geology of the area including glacial remnants; and Charlie's auxiliary plumbing business.

Transcript: 49 leavesSound recording: 1 reel to reel tape

Iowa State Historical Society

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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...

Wahl, Charlie Strohn, b. 1913,

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Conard, Rebecca

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Harris, Kathy

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Wahl, Thelma Mae, b. 1916,

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United States. Soil Conservation Service

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Reports were prepared by various engineers with the Soil Conservation Service. From the description of Reports of a land management survey, Navajo Indian Reservation, 1930-1938. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31277347 Formed in 1935, the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) was an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Its function was to promote and lead efforts to protect against soil and watershed degradation as part of a broader concern fo...