Union County Oral Histories
Narrator:
Van Blockland, Mildred
Record ID:
2007.1.25
Interviewer:
Summers, Carol
Interview Place:
La Grande, OR
Transcriptionist:
Pilling, Heather
Abstract:
This interview contains memories related to a wide range of subjects, some of which include: Eastern Oregon Normal School, orchestras, dairy and agriculture, canning, reading, pageants, and music lessons.
Audio:
People:
Gekeler, Catherine
Gekeler, Dora
Gekeler, Fannie
Gekeler, George
Gekeler, Lorena
Gekeler, Minnie
Gekeler, Nellie
Gekeler, Pearl
Hanson, Helen
McMullen, Lyle
Miller, Florence
Miller, Gladys
Moliter, Dr.
Reynolds, Lillian
Spencer, Bob
Summer, Carol
Van Blockland, Mildred Catherine Spencer
Wells, Lillian
Subjects:
Agricultural machinery & implements
Animals
Apple trees
Bands
Banjos
Barbershops
Baseball
Blackboards
Blizzards
Canning & preserving
Carpentry
Churches
Families
Gardening
Great Depression
Instruments, Musical
Livery stables
Markets
Mills
Orchestra
Outhouses
Pageants
Pianos
Poems
Poetry
Quarantines
Reading
Recesses
Report cards
Schools
Sewing
Smoke houses
Threshers
Tractors
Typhoid fever
Universities & colleges
Search Terms:
Back woods
Bacon
Birthdays
Blockland Brothers
Blue Mountain Grange
Botulism
Bread
Butchering
Butter
Caterpillar
Cattle
Cereal grains
Chickens
Christmas program
Cottage cheese
Cotton stockings
Cow
Cream cans
Cream of wheat
Curlers
Dish towels
Eastern Oregon College
Eastern Oregon Normal School
Eggs
First Christian Church
Flour
Ford
Fuller brushes
Garters
Gekeler Lane
Hereford
Hide and Seek
Hitching post
Home birthing
Homeless
Horses
Ice cream
Isinglass
Island City
Kid curlers
Lard
Liberty School
Library books
Lou Gehrig's disease
Lunch box
Mandolin
McAlister
Methodists
Mincemeat ham
Mower
Mudroom
Oatmeal
Oilcloth
Old Town
One—horse buggy
Organ
Palmer Mill
Permanants
Piano lessons
Rake
School clothes
Separator
Slates
Spencer Boys
State exams
Stockings
Store bought
Tag
Tramps
Typhoid
University of Oregon
University of Washington
Violin
Voice
Washing
Wheat
Woodstove
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