Oral history interview with Horace Boies Hawthorn, 1978 August 7.

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Oral history interview with Horace Boies Hawthorn, 1978 August 7.

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Horace Hawthorn primarily discusses his philosophical ideas and research that he conducted for a text on rural sociology. However he also talks about his education at Iowa State, the University of Iowa and Wisconsin University; his years as a supply pastor for rural churches; financing the publication of his books with farm income; and government's responsibility for ensuring that farmers could earn a living from their farms.

Transcript: 4 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...

Hawthorn, Horace Boies, b. 1889,

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

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Conard, Rebecca

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