Oral history interview with Charles B. Eno, 1978 August 4.

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Oral history interview with Charles B. Eno, 1978 August 4.

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Charles Eno discusses his grandfather's acquisition of the Buena Vista County farm; family history; the economic issues of the family farm; trapping and fishing; farming with horses; feeding cattle; the Depression; the Farm Holiday movement; Roosevelt's farm programs; soil conservation practices; corn planting practices; Henry Wallace; prohibition, Templeton rye, moonshine and bootleggers; rural schools and school consolidation; and social events such as dances, band concerts, chautauquas and shivarees.

Transcript: 27 leaves.Sound recording: 2 sound cassettes.

Iowa State Historical Society

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