Jeanquart, Mrs. Hattie Oral History Interview - Full Interview

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Jeanquart, Mrs. Hattie Oral History Interview - Full Interview

2/14/1976

Full audio file.

The quality of this tape in terms of factual information is not very high, but the feeling and mood of what it was like to be a "Belgian woman on the farm" is very clear. What Mrs. Jeanquart says and doesn't say discloses her way of life and attitudes, which may or may not be common to many farming women.

Tape 1, Side 1, Part 1 - Introduction. [never recorded] Tape 1, Side 1, Part 2 - Women's work on the farm (milking). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 3 - Care of animals (Horses, colts, pigs, sheep). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 4 - Knitting with raw wool from their own sheep. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 5 - Mrs. Jeanquart driving the tractor in the field. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 6 - Mrs. Jeanquart's children on the farm (ages they left). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 7 - The women helped with planting and haying. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 8 - Double duty for women: in the field and in the home. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 9 - Acreage of the farm. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 10 - Crops planted (peas, oats, rye, barley, wheat, corn). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 11 - Dried peas hauled and sold at Forestville. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 12 - Farm structures built before Mrs. Jeanquart arrived. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 13 - Social gatherings (quilting, barn raising). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 14 - Dr. Kerscher - local doctor. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 15 - Children seldom

Aged

Architectural Survey

Childbirth

Courtship

Family

Field Crops

Food

Kermis

Kerscher, Dr. Edward

Knitting

Namur School

Rural Schools

Single Women

Social Gatherings

Summer Kitchen

Women's Duties

Recollection Wisconsin

English

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text

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