Oral history interview with Carney and Mary Thompson, 1978 August 9.

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Oral history interview with Carney and Mary Thompson, 1978 August 9.

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The Thompsons discuss family history; the Mapleside School near Primghar, Iowa and Mary's experiences teaching there; the Mapleside and other Friends meetings; Carney's family's immigration to Paullina, Iowa from Norway; farm chores; renting and buying farmland; the cost of fertilizer and pesticides; nutrition research conducted during World War II; conscientious objectors; and the deaths due to illness of two of their adult children.

Transcript: 16 leavesSound recording: 2 sound cassettes

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...

Conard, Rebecca

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Thompson, Mary Hobson, b. 1895,

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Thompson, Carney, b. 1890,

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Ongley, Elizabeth A.

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