In this interview Keith Baeth discusses his parents coming to settle in the Malta Flats area; challenges of living in a family with twelve children; his father's work running the Ferry near Warland; moving to Libby; going to work for the J. Neils Company after high school; service during World War II as an Air Force Gunner; his wife Kitty Read Baeth; cultural and social life in Libby including changes over time; his work as a carpenter for J. Neil Company and later as a cabinet maker; work opportunities in Libby...timber, railroad, vermiculite; water and air quality in Libby and changes over time; the Zonolite Company; various uses of vermiculite in town; his work building a conveyor belt on a bridge across the Kootenia river for the vermiculite; working with vermiculite building houses in the 1950s; moving to Spokane when J. Neils Lumber was sold to St. Regis Company in 1960s; returning to Libby to work for school district with buses and building/grounds; and his diagnosis of having asbestosis. (OH 1992)
