Second oral history with Stanley Greene, in three parts
Title
Second oral history with Stanley Greene, in three parts
Date
1/11/76
Description
Full audio file. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 1 - Introduction. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 2 - Belgian Weddings (entire community participates). Tape 3, Side 1, Part 3 - Few superstitions in Belgian community. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 4 - Irish put out milk for wee people. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 5 - Passed land from father to son. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 6 - Migration to cities of those who didn't continue farming. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 7 - Necessary tasks for those on the farm. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 8 - Shingle making and selling. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 9 - Agriculture of first settlers (fruit trees - apple, plum, grape). Tape 3, Side 1, Part 10 - Dairying then took over but has faded now. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 11 - Baudhuin family history. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 12 - Few land contracts nowadays. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 13 - Farming customs - Building structure (brick houses, log houses). Tape 3, Side 1, Part 14 - Distinctive, close-knit structure of Belgian family and community. Tape 3, Side 1, Part 15 - Star on Bel
Tape 4, Side 1, Part 1 - Healings at the Spiritualist Church. Tape 4, Side 1, Part 2 - Belgian foods - pie, tripe. Tape 4, Side 1, Part 3 - Political Customs - Pole erection for an elected candidate (beer pole). Tape 4, Side 1, Part 4 - Campaign procedures (example Judge Frank Grass). Tape 4, Side 1, Part 5 - Belgian political structure very successful; examples of successful county officials and businessmen.
Subject
Agriculture
Architectural Survey
Architecture
Barns
Baudhuin Family
Beerpole
Brewing
Brice, Sister Adele
Brick Houses
Chapels
Copperhead
Dairying
Farm Life
Food
Food - Belgian Pie
History
Kermis
Land Titles - Registration & Transfer
Local Government
Political Parties
Rural - Urban Migration
St. Nicholas Day
Shingles
Superstition
U.S. History - Civil War
Vietnamese Conflict 1961
Weddings
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Source
Recollection Wisconsin
Relation
Type
sound
References
https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/3X64GVUXYVTMA8R
Collection
Citation
“Second oral history with Stanley Greene, in three parts,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed August 16, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/40403.
Added by Rebecca Keyel

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