Interview with Fannie T. Taylor, Eunice Schubert, and Martin A. Stites

An interview with Fannie T. Taylor, Eunice Schubert, and Martin A. Stites regarding their experiences in rural western Kansas in the early 20th century. Recording includes various poems and folk songs. 00:00:32 - Early experiences in Bourbon County, KS 00:01:12 - Remedies 00:01:54 - Games 00:03:13 - Animals 00:03:46 - Sunday School and Church 00:04:09 - Snakes 00:04:32 - Turkeys 00:04:43 - Harvest 00:06:27 - School experiences and entertainment 00:08:48 - Sunday visits 00:09:21 - Learning about Crawfish 00:09:35 - Preserving food 00:10:03 - Cars 00:10:35 - Relationship with neighbors 00:11:28 - Spelling bees and ciphering matches 00:13:01 - Clothing 00:13:36 - The barn and chores 00:14:50 - Predicting weather 00:16:22 - Proverbs and sayings 00:17:17 - Nursery rhymes 00:17:58 - Picking blackberries and finding baby skunks 00:20:41 - Eunice Schubert, making molasses and taffy parties 00:22:55 - Making sauerkraut 00:24:07 - Playing split proverbs 00:25:27 - Martin S. Stites introduction 00:25:52 - Biographical information and early memories of life on a homestead 00:28:53 - Flood on Sugar Creek in 1878 00:31:26 - Singing experiences 00:33:13 - Moving west in 1886 00:36:33 - Building log cabins and establishing a farm 00:38:12 - Outbreak of typhoid fever in Boulder County, CO 00:38:52 - Move to Graham County, KS in 1910 00:41:20 - Introduction to songs 00:41:48 - Song, Give the Boy a Chance 00:45:08 - Song, Paper of Pins 00:47:00 - Introduction to song 00:47:13 - Song, I Wish I Had My Nickel Back 00:48:32 - Introduction to song 00:48:50 - Song, My Mama Told Me 00:49:15 - Song, My Little Gray Kitty 00:51:06 - Song, The Hunting Song 00:53:10 - Poem, Kansas Land 00:54:28 - Reading, Hans Stufienheimer and His Family Troubleshttps://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/1038/thumbnail.jp