Miller, Mrs. Marie Oral History Interview - Full Interview

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/bb2115e0a8df55d095817aa32bdac351

Title

Miller, Mrs. Marie Oral History Interview - Full Interview

Date

9/12/1975

Description

Full audio file. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 1 - Introduction. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 2 - Circumstances of parent's arrival in 1892. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 3 - Father's employment--first fisherman, later works with railroad. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 4 - Learning English. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 5 - Parent's attitudes toward citizenship. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 6- Mother assists with births--incident with naming of child. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 7 - Relatives in neighborhood. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 8 - Truck gardening, selling route. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 9 - Family eats first crops; a favorite meal. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 10 - Which vegetables raised; leak soup a staple. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 11 - Grandmothers--dress, language, activities. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 12 - Sign of cross before cutting bread. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 13 - Cheese balls. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 14 - Wheat from grain cars and potato peels cooked for pigs. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 15 - Raising pigs. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 16 - Holidays not big events in fam

Subject

Agriculture
Architecture
Belgium - Description & Travel
Belgium - Economic Conditions
Canning & Preserving - Industry & Trade
Childbirth
Citizenship
Clothing & Dress
Dairy Products
Domestic Animals
Family
Fishermen
Food
Games
History
Holidays
Kermis
Knitting
Religion
Shoes, Wooden
Social Gatherings
Superstition
Truck Farming
Walloon Language
Weddings
Witchcraft

Source

Recollection Wisconsin

Language

English

Relation

Type

sound
text

References

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.BelgOHmm1

Citation

“Miller, Mrs. Marie Oral History Interview - Full Interview,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed November 13, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/8247.

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