Grace Leavitt Iman Interview, February 17, 1978
Iman, GraceView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryGrace Iman discusses her childhood attending Sleeping Child School in Ravalli County. She recalls some of her classmates as well as the box socials that her school hosted. Iman remembers everyday thin…
Emma Van Blaricom Freeze Interview, circa 1978
Freeze, EmmaView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryEmma Freeze talks about her childhood experiences and memories at the Roll School and in the Bitterroot Valley during the early 1900s. She talks about her first teacher as well as specific classmates…
Edna Johnson Thomas Interview, circa 1978
Thomas, EdnaView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryEdna Johnson Thomas recounts her career as a school teacher in the Bitterroot Valley for 42 years during the early to mid-20th century. She describes the difficulties of being a 19-year-old woman teac…
Margaret Woolaghan Nelson Interview, circa 1978
Nelson, MargaretView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryMargaret Woolaghan Nelson describes her childhood in the Bitterroot Valley, Montana, during the early 1900s. She recalls her family moving to the valley from Butte, Montana, due to her father’s poor h…
Anne Keeling Woodruff Interview, circa 1978
Woodruff, AnneView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryAnne Keeling Woodruff describes her experiences attending the Fairplay School in Ravalli County, Montana, during the early 1900s. She briefly discusses her parents’ origins and how they ended up in Mo…
Golda Lewis Penner Langley Interview, circa 1978
Langley, GoldaView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryGolda Langley discusses her career as a school teacher in rural Montana during the early to mid-20th century. She recalls her students for each year that she taught at different schools throughout Mon…
Frank Rummel and Nina Rummel Interview, circa 1978
Rummel, Frank, Rummel, NinaView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryFrank Rummel describes the Fairplay School, also known as the Dutch Hill School, in Ravalli County, Montana. He talks about the teachers who worked there and the school programs that were available wh…
Anne Keeling Woodruff Interview, circa 1978
Woodruff, AnneView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryAnne Keeling Woodruff discusses attending the Fairplay School in the early 1900s in the Bitterroot Valley. She describes box socials and the how young men jockeyed to buy the teacher’s box. She talks…
Nick Kramis Interview, circa 1978
Kramis, NickView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryNick Kramis describes his early life and education in the Charlos Heights School, a one-room school in the Bitterroot Valley, Montana, during the early 1910s. He recounts the struggles of being a seco…
Kathryn Holloron Gibbons and Maxine Holloron Interview, February 17, 1978
Gibbons, Kathryn, Holloron, MaxineView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryKathryn Gibbons and Maxine Holloron recall their childhood days in the early 1900s in the Corvallis area. They speak about their neighbors and classmates, recounting arguments they would get into with…
Jeannette Summers Johnson Interview, circa 1978
Johnson, JeannetteView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryJeannette Summers Johnson discusses her experiences as a schoolgirl in the late 1800s in the Bitterroot Valley as well as her family’s history. She recalls attending the one-room Skalkaho School and r…
Elizabeth Rose Babbitt Interview, February 17, 1978
Babbitt, Elizabeth RoseView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryElizabeth Babbitt speaks about her experiences growing up in rural Montana in the early 1900s, as well as her life as a school teacher traveling around Montana. She recounts her parents’ stories of ho…
Felsi Boldt Interview, circa 1978
Boldt, FelsiView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryFelsi Boldt describes her parents’ move from Germany to Hamilton in 1899 to homestead in the Bitterroot Valley, Montana. Boldt remembers the logging her father did on their homestead. She recalls atte…
Edna Johnson Thomas Interview, circa 1978
Thomas, EdnaView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryEdna Johnson Thomas recalls her career as a school teacher in the Bitterroot Valley, teaching at Hamilton Heights, Etna School, and Corvallis in the early to mid-20th century. She describes the diffic…
Bessie K. Monroe Interview, circa 1978
Monroe, Bessie KView Full Item in University of Montana-Missoula. Mansfield LibraryBessie K. Monroe recalls the origins of the Darby School in the Bitterroot Valley in 1888, which was originally housed in a homesteader’s cabin. She talks about the first teachers at the school as wel…
Forbes Robbins Interview, February 17, 1978
Robbins, ForbesView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryForbes Robbins reminisces about growing up in the Bitterroot Valley in the early 1900s and attending the Rye Creek School. He recalls the early days of the schoolhouse, and how it expanded and was ren…
Fern Severns and Sadie Summers Interview, circa 1978
Severns, Fern, Summers, SadieView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryFern Severns and Sadie Summers talk about attending the Como School in the Bitterroot Valley, Montana, during the early 1900s. They recall the classmates and teachers who were a part of the school as…
Edna Brooks Giesy Interview, February 17, 1978
Giesy, EdnaView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryEdna Giesy discusses how her family settled in Montana in the late 1800s and started ranching. She tells stories about about her uncles, aunts, and mother growing up and getting married. Giesy speaks…
Clark Grey Interview, circa 1978
Grey, ClarkView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryClark Grey discusses his family history and his early education at the Canyon Creek School in the Bitterroot Valley, Montana, during the early 20th century. He describes how his parents moved from Ana…
Byron Thrailkill and Mabel White Thrailkill Interview, circa 1978
Thrailkill, Byron, Thrailkill, MabelView Full Item in University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield LibraryByron Thrailkill and Mabel Thrailkill discuss their experiences attending one-room schools in the early 1900s in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. Byron Thrailkill speaks about the Fairview School and reme…