An interview with Geneva Sweet / Geneva Sweet ; Michael Maniscalco, interviewer. 2008.

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An interview with Geneva Sweet / Geneva Sweet ; Michael Maniscalco, interviewer. 2008.

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An interview of Geneva Sweet conducted by Michael Maniscalco for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and the Illinois State Museum. Topics discussed include Franklin, Ill.; crops; farm house; one room school house; blacksmithing, old time courts, corn shucking time; Waverly Ill.; Star Store; E. Leroy Sweet; REA (Rural Electric Association); gender roles; garden; and canning.

1 data disc (45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 23 photos.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

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Maniscalco, Michael

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United States. Rural Electrification Administration

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Illinois State Museum

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Sweet, Geneva, 1911-

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Geneva Hart was born on Aug 28, 1911 and now lives on her husband's family farm three miles north of Franklin, Ill. She rents out the majority of the land, but has retained sixty acres for planting corn. Geneva's mother, Claira Bell, was a school teacher who taught school in one room school houses in and around Franklin during the early 1900's. Her father, W.C. "Will" Hart, was a blacksmith as well as a judge in Franklin. Geneva still remembers her father holding court on the front lawn of their...

Sweet, E. Leroy.

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