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XOE_CPNWS0235SkagitOHP Guide to the Skagit County Oral History Project records 1962-1979 Skagit County Oral History Project records Finding aid prepared by CPNWS staff Western Washington University, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies © 2012

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XOE_CPNWS0235SkagitOHP Skagit County Historical Society Skagit County Oral History Project records 1962-1979 5 microfilm reels This is a collection of microfilmed copies of oral history interview transcripts. The interviews were conducted by the Skagit County Historical Society between 1962 and 1979. Topics covered include social life, historical change, politics, agriculture, fishing, and timber. Collection materials are in English.

This is a collection of microfilmed copies of oral history interview transcripts. The interviews were conducted by the Skagit County Historical Society between 1962 and 1979. Topics covered include social life, historical change, politics, agriculture, fishing, and timber.

This collection is entirely in microfilm format. Original recordings and transcripts were maintained by the Skagit County Historical Society.

The collection is open to the public (appointments highly recommended for access to microform reader).

The Skagit County Historical Society and Museum in LaConner, Washington, houses the original interview audio recordings and transcripts.

Skagit County Oral History Project records, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA 98225-9123.

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Skagit County (Wash.)--History--Sources Skagit County (Wash.)--Social life and customs--History--Sources Agriculture--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Canned fish industry--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Depressions--1929--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Education--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Fisheries--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Frontier and pioneer life--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Logging--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Mines and mineral resources--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Distilling, Illicit--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Mountaineering--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Norwegian Americans--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Pioneers--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Prohibition--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Prospecting--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Prostitution--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Smuggling--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Tribes--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources World War, 1939-1945--Washington (State)--Skagit County--History--Sources Oral Histories 1 RIII-1, a & b Nora Hastie (Year of Birth: 1877) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Homesteading, Schools, Anacortes, Edison. Notes: Two tapes and one transcript. 1 RIII-2 Iver Youngquist (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-3 Alfred Polson [Mrs. Al Polson] (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Fir Island, Brown's Slough, Polson Farm 1 RIII-4 Nell Quackenbush (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Telephone Co. - owner/operator/repairman/lineman 1 RIII-5 Museum Cornerstone interviewed by: unknown Undated 1 RIII-6 Mary O'Loughlin, Lou Valentine, Lillian O'Loughlin Wall (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-7 Fred March (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-8 William Good [Mrs. William Good] (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) Subjects: Homesteading, Fir Island, came west in 1895 1 RIII-9 Leo Whitney (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-10 Anna Callahan Woodruff (Year of Birth: 1870) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Fredonia, Whitney, March's Point, Indians 1 RIII-11 Hamilton Old-Timers (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) 1 RIII-12 Joshua Green (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) 1 RIII-13 Joshua Green (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-14 Morris Johnson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-15 H. G. Pulsipher (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript, Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-16 Mrs. H. G. Pulsipher (Year of Birth: 1892) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Birdsview, Concrete, Equality Colony 1 RIII-17 Raymond Conn (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) 1 RIII-18 William Gill (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-19 Ethel Van Fleet Harris (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Indians, Sedro-Woolley, to Skagit in 1880 1 RIII-20 Mrs. Motz Hamilton (Year of Birth: 1873) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Hamilton, Schools, Disease, Churches, Rivers 1 RIII-21 Mrs. E. G. Stewart [Mrs. E. S. Stewart] (Year of Birth: 1863) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) Subjects: Mt. Vernon, Riverside, Railroad, Maritime 1 RIII-22 Irene Schumaker (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) Subjects: Edison area, Edison Catholic Church 1 RIII-23 Ebba Hamburg [Mrs. Ebba Olson] (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Mt. Vernon, First Baptist Church, B. N. L. Davis 1 RIII-24 Gar Green (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) 1 RIII-25 Mrs. George Bernhoft (Year of Birth: 1894) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Avon, Homesteading, 1890s Depression 1 RIII-26 Mrs. Charles Olson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Pleasant Ridge, Fir Island, LaConner 1 RIII-27 Ira Savage (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Notes: One tape and transcript including interview and instructions on running tape machine, the latter only on tape 1 RIII-28 Francis Tillinghast (Year of Birth: 1886) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) Subjects: Padilla, Florence, LaConner, Maritime 1 RIII-29 J. O. Rudene (Hazel Hartman reading his records) (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) 1 RIII-30 Lyman Gathering (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-31 Eva McGlinn Jenne (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Midwifery, Hotels, LaConner, Schools, Indians 1 RIII-32, a, b Martha Parker (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) Subjects: Homesteading, Coupeville, Mt. Vernon Notes: Two tapes and one transcript 1 RIII-33 Glenn Stover (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) 1 RIII-34, a, b Andy Loft (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Two tapes and one transcript RIII-34 Martin Sampson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Notes: Included on last half of tape "b"; not transcribed 1 RIII-35 George Hopley (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-36 C. S. Phillips (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel 1 RIII-37 James Ovenell (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) 1 RIII-38 Jack Davis (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) 1 RIII-39 Harriet Wade Rowley (Year of Birth: 1880) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Pioneer nurse of the Skagit Valley 1 RIII-40 Francis Davis Hayton (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Reel-to-reel (time not listed) Subjects: Whidbey Island, Grandfather came west in 1845 1 RIII-41 Vera Cornelius Moa (Year of Birth: 1895) interviewed by: unknown April 20, 1962 Format: Transcript (7 pages), Cassette (25 min.), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Family history Restrictions: none 1 RIII-42, T 1, 3-5 Mark Gilkey (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock July 15, 1977; July 22, 1977; November 4, 1977; January 11, 1978; March 30, 1978 Format: Transcript (162 pages), Cassette (7 hours 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Edison, Gilkey Towing, Hunting, Wobblies, Sporting girls of Edison, Card game dealer in Skagit County, Founding of Bow Hill, Gumboat Jimmy, One-eyed Mary, Lucille - Anacortes madam, Equality, Colony, Mining, Ox logging, Rum running Notes: Three tapes and four transcripts, including four interviews Restrictions: none 1 RIII-43 Clara and William Propst (Year of Birth: 1891) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock July 21, 1977 Format: Transcript (59 pages), Cassette (1 hour 40 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early history of Anacortes, Canning, Canneries, Traps, Fishing, Fish pirates, Shingle Mills Restrictions: none 1 RIII-44 Effie Leyde (Year of Birth: 1893) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock July 21, 1977 Format: Transcript (4 pages), Cassette (30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Granddaughter of pioneer John Pike (of Seattle), Columbia School (attended), Early Guemes, Eden Ranch life, Recipes for smoking salmon Restrictions: none 1 RIII-45 Edna Moe (Year of Birth: 1905) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger July 29, 1977 Format: Transcript (8 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Anacortes, School teacher, Chasing fires, Father ran cannery where she worked as a child Restrictions: none 1 RIII-46 Alice Newland (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger July 29, 1977 Format: Transcript (10 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Anacortes, School teacher in Anacortes, University of Washington physics degree, Father ran lumber mill and was a well known safety engineer Restrictions: none 1 RIII-47 Helen Loop (Year of Birth: 1895) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock August 8, 1977 Format: Transcript (26 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Anacortes, Childhood at Point Roberts, Guemes, Samish Island, Edison, Chinese, Holidays Restrictions: none 1 RIII-48 Minnie Studebaker (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock August 8, 1977 Format: Transcript (26 pages), Cassette (1 hour 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: moved to Skagit County in 1923, Immigration from Missouri, Indian life, Colville Indian Reservation, Life on a stump ranch Restrictions: none 1 RIII-49, T 1-3 Clara and Gar Green (Year of Birth: 1905 [Clara]) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock August 5, 1977; September 2, 1977; January 13, 1978 Format: Transcript (89 pages), Cassette (4 hours 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Skagit Valley, Pole logging, Rodeos, Cowboys, Pioneer home/family life, Homesteading in Alberta, Montana Notes: Two tapes and three transcripts, dates don't quite match Restrictions: none 1 RIII-50 George and Tillie Coble (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock August 10, 1977 Format: Transcript (32 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Equality Colony, Gilkey's, Edward P. Morrow's house, Bellingham [Noram?], Cooking, Came from Eastern Tennessee Restrictions: none 2 RIII-51, T 1 , 2 Glee Davis (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock 10, 31 aug 1977 Format: Transcript (78 pages), Cassette (6 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Coming upriver, Homesteading, Goodell's Landing, Ruby Creek washout, Miner's Hotel, D. Kinsey, Early mining, Family history Notes: Three tapes and two transcripts, interviewee restrictions lifted tape only 2 RIII-52 Oleah Heise (Year of Birth: 1890) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock and Bill Weaver August 10, 1977 Format: Transcript (39 pages), Cassette (1 hour 45 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Diking, Conn School, Skagit Flats, Husband at Neah Bay and in service of Kaiser Wilhelm Restrictions: none 2 RIII-53 Freda Lipke (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock August 15, 1977; August 23, 1977 Format: Transcript (3 pages), Cassette (3 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Anacortes, Swedish families, Chinese in the canneries Restrictions: none 2 RIII-54 Bess Conn Fields Rogers (Year of Birth: 1900) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock August 16, 1977 Format: Transcript (42 pages), Cassette (1 hour 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Edison, Parents, Indians, Graveling roads, Farm life, Edison Bank Robbery Restrictions: none 2 RIII-55 Martha Gail Bishop (Year of Birth: 1892) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger August 17, 1977 Format: Transcript (18 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early telephone operator, grocery store owner, Coming west from Iowa, Seattle fire of 1889, Early remembrances of Seattle and Everett Restrictions: none 2 RIII-56 Mae Sparks (Year of Birth: 1890) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger August 17, 1977 Format: Transcript (17 pages), Cassette(30 min on side 2 of RIII-55), Reel-to-reel Subjects: West from Arkansas in 1917, D. Kinsey portrait, Clearing for farm in Lyman, Husband was a bucker Restrictions: none 2 RIII-57 Maud Dever Hopley (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger August 17, 1977 Format: Transcript (21 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Running egg farm while husband was away, Tug boating, Oyster business, Atlanta settlement, Samish Island Restrictions: none 2 RIII-58 Pearl Park (Year of Birth: 1896) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock August 23, 1977 Format: Transcript (14 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Indians, Cannery work, entertainment, Gaches mansion, Childhood on Fir Island, LaConner, Basket Socials Restrictions: none 2 RIII-59 George Loop (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger August 23, 1977 Format: Transcript (21 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Early Samish, Threshing, Sack sewer, Working on an orchard farm Restrictions: none 2 RIII-60, a , b Fred Martin (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger August 25, 1977 Format: Transcript (57 pages), Cassette (1 hour 45 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Homesteading, Schooling, Legislative career Notes: One tape and two transcripts, interviewee restrictions lifted tape only 2 RIII-61, T1a, b-2 Rona Pressentin (Year of Birth: 1888) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger August 25, 1977; January 13, 1978 Format: Transcript (64 pages), Cassette (2 hours 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Rockport, Upper Skagit River Area Notes: One tape and three transcripts, dates don't match Restrictions: none RIII-62 Alle Rozema (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock August 30, 1977 Format: Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Wagon maker apprentice, Shipyard work in Holland, Immigration after WWII to Canada - then to US Notes: not transcribed Restrictions: none 2 RIII-63 Mr. and Mrs. Arne Johnson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock August 31, 1977 Format: Transcript (41 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Farming in Edison, Norwegian community, Cultural development of Norwegian people in the US Notes: Interviewee restrictions - see authorization Restrictions: tape only 2 RIII-64 Bert Pressentin (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock September 2, 1977 Format: Transcript (19 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Pressentin family hotel, Early Rockport Restrictions: none 2 RIII-65 Bertha Schumaker (Year of Birth: 1890) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 7, 1977 Format: Transcript (17 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Edison's first telephone operator, Early Edison area Restrictions: none 2 RIII-66, T 1-2 Charles Dinsmore (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock September 7, 1977; March 3, 1978 Format: Transcript (66 pages), Cassette (2 hours 40 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Marine, Policeman in Pike Street Market during Prohibition and the Depression, Bartender, Boston Notes: Two tapes and two transcripts Restrictions: none 2 RIII-67 Oliver Larsen (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 8, 1977 Format: Transcript (17 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Mills, Injuries and accidents, Sawyer, First truck driver to bring in 40-lb crates of tree-ripened fruit to the Skagit Valley 2 RIII-68 Jake Worline (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 13, 1977 Format: Transcript (40 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early threshing around the Samish Flats, Bow, Use of donkeys in the woods, Logging accidents, Immigration trains Restrictions: none 2 RIII-69 Jim McLean (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 13, 1977 Format: Transcript (39 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Cattle ranching, Trapping, WWI, Early Oregon wheat farming Restrictions: none 2 RIII-70 Joe Mears (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 14, 1977 Format: Transcript (13 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Early lime kilns, Roche Harbor, Mills and fish plants of Anacortes, Ice creamery and snack bar Restrictions: none 2 RIII-71 Edna Breazeale (Year of Birth: 1895) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock September 14, 1977 Format: Transcript (31 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Bayview and its settlers, Padilla, Taught in a one-room schoolhouse at Padilla, Teaching, Schooling, University of Washington, Indians at Bayview Restrictions: none 2 RIII-72 Verna Wells (Year of Birth: 1896) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 15, 1977 Format: Transcript (10 pages), Cassette (1 hour 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Music, Education, Theater in Anacortes, Silent movies, Indian music transcription Restrictions: none 2 RIII-73 Mary P. Larsen (Year of Birth: 1901) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 16, 1977 Format: Transcript (56 pages), Cassette ( 2 hours 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Homesteading on the Upper Skagit, Early Schools, School teacher for 50 years, Horses, Farm life Restrictions: none 2 RIII-74, T1-2 Franklin Thomas (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock September 16, 1977; December 15, 1977 Format: Transcript (41 pages), Cassette (3 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Sailboat Katy Thomas, Built by father and uncles, used to smuggle in Chinese and Opium Notes: Two tapes and two transcripts Restrictions: none 2 RIII-75 Harvey Hopley (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 19, 1977 Format: Transcript (39 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Samish Island, Homesteading, Schools, Tugboating, Oystering, Pilings for dikes, Booming to Edison from Gilkeys, Body hunt in the wreck of the Bahada Restrictions: none 2 RIII-76 Alan Tingley (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock September 20, 1977 Format: Transcript (58 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours) Subjects: Tugboating on the Skagit River, Indians, The Skagit River itself Restrictions: none 2 RIII-77 Frank Maddox (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 21, 1977 Format: Transcript (53 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early logging, Equipment and camera carrier for D. Kinsey, Fiddling during the Depression, Donkey engineer for thirty years. Restrictions: none 2 RIII-78 Sophie P. Johnson (Year of Birth: 1906) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock September 21, 1977 Format: Transcript (31 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early School teacher in Skagit Valley, WWII POW in Germany Restrictions: none 2 RIII-79 Otto Peterson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Jim Harris September 23, 1977 Format: Transcript (42 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours) Subjects: Early business ventures, Stage company, Automobile dealerships, Store owner, Moonshining Restrictions: tape only 2 RIII-80 Hazel and A. K. Tracey (Year of Birth: 1912) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Jim Harris September 23, 1977 Format: Transcript (23 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours) Subjects: Early Marblemount, Schools, Working on the dam Restrictions: none 2 RIII-81 Bill Bessner (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock September 26, 1977, September 30, 1977 Format: Transcript (68 pages), Cassette (2 hours 45 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Pile driving for Fidalgo Island Packing Co., Working on a fish tender, Gilkeys, Red Reece, Rum running, Fish Pirates, Chinese, Fisherman's Packing Corporation, Guemes Island, Cod fishing, Guemes Ferry, Charlie Cann, Sporting Girls Restrictions: none 2 RIII-82 Eva LeMaister (Year of Birth: 1886) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 27, 1977 Format: Transcript (26 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Homesteading, Early Guemes, Childhood on Guemes, Canneries of Anacortes, Afraid of the Chinese that worked in the boarding house kitchens. Restrictions: none 2 RIII-83 John Pinelli (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 28, 1977 Format: Transcript (43 pages), Cassette (2 hours 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Logging, Donkeys, Rigging, Early Hamilton, Homesteading at Hamilton. Restrictions: none 2 RIII-84 Frank and Edna Porter (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 28, 1977 Format: Transcript (30 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Logging, Rockport, Early homestead on the Skagit River at Rockport, Came west when 3 days old Restrictions: none 2 RIII-85, T1a, b-2 Jim A. Clark, Sr. (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger September 29, 1977; February 17, 1978 Format: Transcript (101 pages), Cassette (2 hours 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Farming, Hunting, Horses, Food, Crops, Tools, The Skagit River, Recipes, Cures, Moonshining, Stills, Prohibition, Moonshine recipes. Notes: One tape and three transcripts Restrictions: none 2 RIII-86 Iola Bazinet (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock October 3, 1977 Format: Transcript (24 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Midwifery, Early Marblemount, Family life, Childhood on the Upper Skagit River Restrictions: none 2 RIII-87 Charles Hertz (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock October 3, 1977 Format: Transcript (19 pages), Reel-to-reel (45 min) Subjects: Life in the Equality Colony, Getting his first job in a mill, Being on Public Assistance in 1915, Indians, Early Bow-Edison area Restrictions: none 2 RIII-88 Maybell Jensen (Year of Birth: 1889) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger October 6, 1977 Format: Transcript (23 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Farming, Schooling, Pleasant Ridge, Childhood in Ridgeway, Horses, Parents were from England, Father was Jeremiah Thompson, cf. 1906 History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties Restrictions: none 2 RIII-89 Sylvia Grimbley (Year of Birth: 1910) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock October 7, 1977 Format: Transcript (6 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Growing up in Sauk Valley region Restrictions: none 2 RIII-90 Archie Grimbley (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock October 7, 1977 Format: Transcript (27 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Tugboating on the Skagit River, Captain Elwell, Childhood on a stump farm in Burlington Restrictions: none 2 RIII-91 T. B. Morrison (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock October 10, 1977 Format: Transcript(34 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Morrison Mill, Fidalgo Lumber and Box Company Restrictions: none 2 RIII-92 Conrad Shoemaker (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger October 10, 1977 Format: Transcript (18 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Saw filing, Bucking, Coming west from Nebraska Restrictions: none 2 RIII-93 Cora Hassan (Year of Birth: 1890) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger October 10, 1977 Format: Transcript (12 pages), Reel-to-reel (45 min) Subjects: Early Clear Lake area, Childhood years at Clear Lake, Related to the Kimbles (Mt. Vernon founders) Restrictions: none 2 RIII-94 Anna L. Noteboom (Year of Birth: 1887) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger October 11, 1977 Format: Transcript (25 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Coming west, Early Skagit Valley History, Early childhood. Restrictions: none 2 RIII-95 Milo Coffelt (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock October 12, 1977 Format: Transcript (14 pages), Cassette (1 hour 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Detailed description of working on early mail boats that ran to the San Juan Islands, Anacortes Mariners Pageant, Chinese Restrictions: none 2 RIII-96, T1-2 Tinnia Burns Young (Year of Birth: 1884) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Pearl White October 10, 1977; February 2, 1978 Format: Transcript (80 pages), Cassette (3 hours 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Homesteading on the Skagit River, First set nets on the river, Joe Young, French Canadian, Shingle bolter Notes: One tape and two transcripts, dates don't match Restrictions: none 2 RIII-97, T1-2 Margaret A. Lee (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock October 14, 1977, November 18, 1977 Format: Transcript (55 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours 15 min) Subjects: Fishing the North Fork of the Lower Skagit River Notes: Two tapes and two transcripts, dates don't match Restrictions: none 2 RIII-98 Orval A. Fox (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock October 14, 1977 Format: Transcript (39 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Barber history (52 years), Singing for the dances in the 1920s, Experience with the Tarheels, Early Mt. Vernon, Logging camp adventures Restrictions: none 2 RIII-99 Karl Lindall (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger October 13, 1977 Format: Transcript (32 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Rockport, Homesteading, Logging, Heavy machinery on the dam, Moonshining, Work ethics and unionization, Donkeys and steam engines Restrictions: none 2 RIII-100 Ruth Brown (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger October 14, 1977 Format: Transcript (19 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Bay View area, Some information on Alaska Restrictions: none 3 RIII-101 Anna and Charles Dibble (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Pearl White October 14, 1977 Format: Transcript (38 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Homesteading, Five years on the Sauk River Restrictions: none 3 RIII-102 Claude E. Speer (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock November 28, 1977 Format: Transcript (38 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Columbia School, Rum running, Hobo camp, Little Chicago, Squealer Mathison, Depression, Food Riot, 1916 Flu epidemic, Codfish schooner Fanny Dutard Restrictions: none 3 RIII-103 Hans C. Jensen (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock October 19, 1977 Format: Transcript (16 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Diking, Nursery work, Early Fir Island Restrictions: tape only 3 RIII-104, a , b Norman Hamburg (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger October 19, 1977 Format: Transcript (66 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Settling in LaConner, Sterling, Mt. Vernon, Early bicycles, Ford machine shop, 42 gears, Skagit snag boats, Steam River, Snags, Accidents Notes: One tape and two transcripts Restrictions: none 3 RIII-105 Markus Johansen (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock October 20 [1977] Format: Transcript (33 pages), Cassette 1 hour 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Anacortes glass factory, Anacortes Water, Light, and Power Company engineer, Early schooling, Saw mills Restrictions: none 3 RIII-106 Mrs. Hurst Riggs (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger October 20, 1977 Format: Transcript (21 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Homesteading, O'Brien family, Marblemoount, Post mistress for twenty years Restrictions: none 3 RIII-107 Martin Sampson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Hazel Hartman August 1, 1961 Format: Transcript (number of pages not listed), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Indian history, language, and songs 3 RIII-108 Rangnar [Rangar] Peterson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock October 26, 1977 Format: Transcript (20 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Equality Colony, Farming, Blanchard area Restrictions: none 3 RIII-109 Marjorie R. Voth (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger October 26, 1977 Format: Transcript (43 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours) Subjects: Skagit Indians, Pioneer Jackman, Tribal culture and history, Shaker church, Indian burial, Herbal cures, Marriage of Marjorie Voth's grandmother Restrictions: none 3 RIII-110, a , b J. Lee Lindemood (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock November 1, 1977 Format: Transcript (57 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early diking, Floods, Farming, Circuses, Working for the visiting shows in Mt. Vernon Notes: One tape and two transcripts Restrictions: none 3 RIII-111 Leonard R. Everett (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock November 2, 1977 Format: Transcript (31 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: History of the Cement Company in Concrete, 'Pegleg' Everett Restrictions: none 3 RIII-112 Frances Rivord (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger November 7, 1977 Format: Transcript (23 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Coming west from North Carolina, Early Sedro-Woolley, Early widowhood, Nine children Restrictions: none 3 RIII-113 Mary Luvera (Mrs. Paul Luvera) (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock November 9, 1977 Format: Transcript (35 pages), Cassette (45 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Discussion of John Barbarovich, early settler, Farming on Sinclair Island Restrictions: none 3 RIII-114, T1a,b,c-2a,b Guy Powell (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock November 9, 1977, February 24, 1978 Format: Transcript (182 pages), Cassette (6 hours 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Concrete, Packers, Indians, Shakers, Gambling, Bars, Sporting Girls, Cock fights, Politics, Hunting, Shaker church, Indian dugouts, Moonshining, The concrete plant, Bootleging Notes: four tapes and five transcripts Restrictions: none 3 RIII-115 P. H. Dunlap (Bud) (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock November 10, 1977 Format: Transcript (21 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Early farming, Threshing, Diking, Steamboats, LaConner area Restrictions: none 3 RIII-116 Alice Jensen (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger November 11, 1977 Format: Transcript (31 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: West from Tennessee, Pleasant Ridge School, Early LaConner, Carpentry, Dressmaking Restrictions: none 3 RIII-117 Bessie Charawell Jarboe Koudal (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Jean Sickler June 12, 1979 Format: Transcript (25 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Goat Island, Fort Whitman, Transportaiton to and from school and church by boat, Early LaConner, WWI, WWII Restrictions: none 3 RIII-118, a , b Charles E. Benedict (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock November 15, 1977 Format: Transcript (61 pages), Cassette (2 hours 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Oxen and horse logging, Donkeys in logging, Saw filing, Social security, Labor unions, Organization of the IWW Notes: two tapes and two transcripts Restrictions: none 3 RIII-119 Phil M. Iverson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Mike Rust November 15, 1977 Format: Transcript (45 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours) Subjects: Flood of 1932, Diking commissioner, Early farming, Clearing land on Fir Island, Norwegian community Restrictions: none 3 RIII-120 Nellie B. Tiscornia (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock November 16, 1977 Format: Transcript (26 pages), Cassette, Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Equality Colony, Edison school, Basketball and track teams, Logging cook, Flunkey Restrictions: none 3 RIII-121 Stella M. Long (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock November 17, 1977 Format: Transcript (41 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Food, Healing, Living, Grandmother's role as a teacher, Boarding at the Tulalip Indian School, Face and body painting, Seeking the Holy Spirit Restrictions: none 3 RIII-122 Col. G. E. Reed (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger November 17, 1977 Format: Transcript (6 pages), Cassette (30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Logging, Pharmacy Restrictions: none 3 RIII-123 Ed Stafford (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Jim Harris November 18, 1977 Format: Transcript (13 pages), Cassette (2 hours 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Coming west from North Carolina to Rockport, Welcomed by Skagit Bill, Sporting houses of Concrete Restrictions: none 3 RIII-124 Carl R. Olin (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock November 21, 1977 Format: Transcript (16 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Cedardale, Loading hay into the barn, IWW and their effects on logging Restrictions: none 3 RIII-125 Lloyd R. King (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger November 29, 1977 Format: Transcript (43 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours 30 min) Subjects: Arrival in Concrete, Working on the Baker River and Shuksan Railroad for the Concrete plant, working in the woods and for the Forest Service, Mining, Prospecting, Forest fires, Trail work Restrictions: none 3 RIII-126, a , b Marion O. Berentson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock November 29, 1977 Format: Transcript (71 pages), Cassette (2 hours 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Mill accidents, Japanese snubbers, Lumber piler, Early Edison, Norwegian community, Riding rails with an IWW card, Politics in his and his children's lives (Duane) Notes: Two tapes and two transcripts Restrictions: none 3 RIII-127, a , b Edwin A. Kittila (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock November 29, 1977 Format: Transcript (70 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: History of the Finnish settlement, Lake McMurray area, Neighbors, Scandalous school teachers, Farming, Logging, Saunas Notes: one tape and two transcripts Restrictions: none 3 RIII-128 John Hedlund and Carl Anderson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger November 30, 1977 Format: Transcript (35 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Immigration from Sweden, Early farming on the Skagit Valley Flats, Depression years, Farm machinery and technology Notes: Editor's note: the first part of interview RIII-129 is on side 2 of this tape (Carl Anderson) Restrictions: none 3 RIII-129 Carl A. Anderson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger November 30, 1977 Format: Transcript (19 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Harmony School, Childhood spent in Skagit County, Early dairy farming, Hop houses, Farm technology, Migrant Indians Notes: Editor's note: the first part of interview RIII-129 is on side 2 of this tape (Hedlund/Anderson) Restrictions: none 3 RIII-130, a , b Orvia F. Parker (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger November 30, 1977 Format: Transcript (66 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours 30 min) Subjects: Cod fishing, the Wawona schooner of the Robinson Fish Company of Anacortes in the 1930s, Details of the ship, Dory, How to fish, Wildlife, Crew, Captain Notes: Two tapes and transcripts Restrictions: none 3 RIII-131, T1 a , b -2 Roland L. Lewis (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock December 1, 1977, January 20, 1977 Format: Transcript (62 pages), Cassette (3 hours 20 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Equality Colony, Julia Haroldson, Early Edison, Samish Island Murder, Father was the cook in a logging camp on Samish Island Notes: two tapes and three transcripts Restrictions: none 3 RIII-132 Kathleen Sharpe (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger December 7, 1977 Format: Transcript (24 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours) Subjects: Origins of the Ervine and Sharpe families, Teaching at the Rosario school, Sharpe settlement on Fidalgo Island Restrictions: none 3 RIII-133 Vashti Hooper (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger December 13, 1977 Format: Transcript (25 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Rockport area, Farming, Schools Restrictions: none 3 RIII-134 Mary O'Loughlin (and Lillian) (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock December 15, 1977 Format: Transcript (7 pages), Reel-to-reel (45 min) Subjects: Early LaConner, Farming, School teaching, Cokedale school, Bellingham Normal Restrictions: none 3 RIII-135 Alice Nelson Deierlein (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger December 16, 1977 Format: Transcript (29 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Logging, Father ran the mill, Childhood years in Montbourne-Big Lake area Restrictions: none 3 RIII-136 John Uitto (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock December 20, 1977 Format: Transcript (30 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: IWW, Finnish settlement, Laplanders, Sumas socialism Restrictions: none 3 RIII-137 Ethel E. Bjork (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock December 20, 1977 Format: Transcript (19 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Edison history (a great deal), Dances, Events, Pregnancy Restrictions: none 3 RIII-138 Carolyn Spencer and Grace Conner (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger December 29, 1977 Format: Transcript (13 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Oxen logging, Skid road, Dogfish oil Restrictions: none 3 RIII-139 Mamie Mumford (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock January 11, 1978 Format: Transcript (33 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Thornwood Logging Camp, Growing up in logging camps, Music in the camp, Cooking for the men, Death of high rigger husband Restrictions: none 3 RIII-140 Signe Ashland and Levina Johnson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock January 17, 1978 Format: Transcript (39 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Fish traps, Fishing, Midwifery, Swedish immigrants, Women gillnetters, Crab fished to send daughter to college Restrictions: none 3 RIII-141 Jean Forrest (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock January 17, 1978 Format: Transcript (41 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours) Subjects: Burden's hop farm on March's Point, Basket socials, Harry Rickaby, Minnie Burden Restrictions: none 3 RIII-142 Mary T. Luvera (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock January 18, 1978 Format: Transcript (19 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 45 min) Subjects: Preserving foods, Home remedies for burns and other ailments, Early fishing, Family life, Recipes, the Luvera grocery store Restrictions: none 3 RIII-143 Annie Brunzel (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock January 23, 1978 Format: Transcript (22 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Anacortes, Schools, Fourth of July celebrations Restrictions: none 3 RIII-144 Elmer Vogt (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock January 30, 1978 Format: Transcript (48 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Fish trapping for 18 years, Mail boat through the San Juans, Rum runners, boat building, Reef net boats, History of logging wheels at the Skagit County Historical Museum in LaConner 3 RIII-145 Jalmer I. Moe (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger February 3, 1978 Format: Transcript (47 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours) Subjects: Logging, Railroad engineer for the English Logging Company, General explanation fo railroad terminology, Identified several pictures taken by D. Kinsey Restrictions: none 4 RIII-146 Herbert J. Woodfield (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger February 6, 1978 Format: Transcript (34 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Bayview, Logging in Bayview, The English Logging Company, Sporting houses of Anacortes and Sedro-Woolley, Boats Restrictions: none 4 RIII-147, a , b Bert Jones (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock February 7, 1978 Format: Transcript (64 pages), Cassette (2 hours 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Fish pirating, Bootlegging, Rum smuggling, Cannery work, Fishing, Mike Demopolis, Anna Curtis Notes: two tapes and transcripts Restrictions: none 4 RIII-148 William J. Beale (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock February 8, 1978 Format: Transcript (29 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Fishing at Neah Bay, Grandfather Beale was the first settler of Fidalgo Island 185?, 40 years at the Anacortes post office Restrictions: none 4 RIII-149 Bartol Lovric (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock February 9, 1978 Format: Transcript (8 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Mostly about Yugoslavia, Receiving naval architect training in Yugoslavia, Building family shipyard, Shipyard under communism, Discussion of boats recently built Notes: Tape is in Slavonian Restrictions: none 4 RIII-150, a , b Harry Bjerstedt (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger February 8, 1978 Format: Transcript (53 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Swan Bjerstedt's (his father) homesteading on Oly Marsh, Diking, Draining, Horse logging, Farming the peat bog flats, Sporting houses of Sedro-Woolley Notes: one tape and two transcripts Restrictions: none 4 RIII-151 Eva G. Feldt (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock February 10, 1978 Format: Transcript (16 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Early Whitney area, Childhood years at Whitney, Fourth of July celebration spent in Anacortes, Homesteading in Alberta Restrictions: none 4 RIII-152 Alma O'Connor and Ethel Thompson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock February 14, 1978 Format: Transcript (52 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Growing up at Van Horn, Working at the Depot's restaurant, Phone company, Nell Quackenbush, Floods of the Skagit River Restrictions: none 4 RIII-153 William (Bill) Mason (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger February 16, 1978 Format: Transcript (23 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Superintendent of the English Logging Company Restrictions: none 4 RIII-154 Prudence A. Hattie (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock February 16, 1978 Format: Transcript (32 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Equality Colony, Box socials, Homesteading in Alger Restrictions: none 4 RIII-155 Mary McLeod (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger February 17, 1978 Format: Transcript (20 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Childhood at Skiyou, Ran the dance hall and store at Marblemount, Bought and ran the old Pressentin Hotel Restrictions: none 4 RIII-156, a , b Emil Yougquist [Youngquist] (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger February 21, 1978 Format: Transcript 56 pages), Cassette (2 hours 20 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early farming, Homesteading, Dairy breeding, Diking, Draining Notes: two tapes and transcripts Restrictions: none 4 RIII-157 Estelene Martin Pearson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock February 23, 1978 Format: Transcript (11 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Telephone operator in Burlington in 1916, Worked during WWI in a sawmill with other women Restrictions: none 4 RIII-158 Margaret Clair Young (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock February 23, 1978 Format: Transcript (14 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Munks family, RN training, Earlier settlers of the Similk area, Fourth of July celebrations in Anacortes Restrictions: none 4 RIII-159 J. H. Hulbert, Sr. (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger February 23, 1978 Format: Transcript (4 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Floods, Diking, Draining, Farming, Holsteins Restrictions: none 4 RIII-160 Reuben R. Boyd (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger February 23, 1978 Format: Transcript (52 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Logging, Lokey firing, Running donkey, Card rooms, Bootlegging Restrictions: none 4 RIII-161 Herbert S. Rolph (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock February 28, 1978 Format: Transcript (38 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Working as a lumber grader, the Anacortes Lumber and Box Company, the WPA, Wobblies, Beekeeping Restrictions: none 4 RIII-162 Mr. and Mrs. Bill Henry (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 2, 1978 Format: Transcript (28 pages), Reel-to-reel (2 hours) Subjects: Prohibition, Tennessee immigrants, Hound dogs Restrictions: none 4 RIII-163, T1 a , b - 6 Albert V. Ginnett (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock March 1, 1978 Format: Transcript (115 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Ginnett homestead on Fidalgo Island, the Western Union, Mining, Bootlegging, Anacortes booms and busts, Indians, Rosario beach, Canneries, Shipbuilding Notes: one tape and four folders containing transcripts, 2 copies of T 1 a , b Restrictions: none 4 RIII-164 George Erickson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 1, 1978 Format: Transcript (53 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Homesteading on the flats, Avon, Pleasant Ridge, Early farming, Diking, Draining, Horses, Milk route, Machinist in Everett, Witness to Verona and Wobbly massacres Restrictions: none 4 RIII-165 Edith Robinson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 8, 1978 Format: Transcript (30 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: Sid Chee, Chinese, Robinson's Salmon Cannery, Chinese cannery workers, Early Anacortes, Salina, Dances, the Rhododendron Festivals RIII-166 Esther Culver (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 10, 1978 Format: Reel-to-reel (30 min) Subjects: Early information on the Edison and Allen areas Notes: Transcript missing Restrictions: none 4 RIII-167 May Elizabeth Tucker Ploeg (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 13, 1978 Format: Transcript (14 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Homesteading on the Nooksack, Cold cures, Family memories of aunts and uncles, May is a cousin of Darius and Tabitha Kinsey -- he worked for them in their darkroom in Seattle for a year. Restrictions: none 4 RIII-168 Ruth Shrewsbury Running (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 15, 1978 Format: Transcript (25 pages), Reel-to-reel (45 min) Subjects: Growing up in Sedro-Woolley, Early pioneers, Dances, History of the Shrewesbury family Restrictions: none 4 RIII-169 Mae Richmeyer (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 15, 1978 Format: Transcript (27 pages), Cassette (1 hour 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Birdsview, Darius Kinsey, Nell Quackenbush Restrictions: none 4 RIII-170 Albert H. Bingham (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 16, 1978 Format: Transcript (22 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Bingham Family Bank, Prohibition, Dollar Road Restrictions: none 4 RIII-171 Jess A. Knutzen (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 16, 1978 Format: Transcript (44 pages), Cassette (1 hour 45 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Family history, Dairy farming in Skagit Valley, Tule horse shoes, Threshing, Floods, Dikes, Drainage, Soil, Peat fires Restrictions: none 4 RIII-172 Blake R. Thompson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 16, 1978 Format: Transcript (12 pages), Reel-to-reel (30 min) Subjects: Brickyards, Drainage, Tile factory, Big Rock, 1916 to 1929 Restrictions: none 4 RIII-173 Marie Jurkovich (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 17, 1978 Format: Transcript (29 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Working in the canneries of Anacortes, Recipe for preserving sardines, Life in Yugoslavia Restrictions: none 4 RIII-174 Marion and Worth B. Knapp (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 16, 1978 Format: Transcript (53 pages), Cassette (1 hour 45 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Anacortes and Guemes, Knapp's Machine Shop, First Ford dealership, the Chinese in Anacortes Restrictions: none RIII-175 Levina Johnson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 20, 1978 Format: Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Notes: no transcript 4 RIII-176 Rodney E. Gray (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger and Barbara Heacock March 22, 1978 Format: Transcript (32 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Truck logging, Blanchard Mill, Darius Kinsey, Mack versus other trucks. He has been hauling for 74 years and is still going at 90 years of age. Restrictions: none RIII-177 Marcy Chemalis (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 23, 1978 Format: Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Concrete, Mining, Marble Creek, Marblemount, Rocky Creek, Married and came to Skagit County in 1919, Big Lake, Logging, Indians, Prohibition, Bootlegging, Card rooms, Midwives Notes: no transcript, only an outline Restrictions: none 4 RIII-178 Bess Conn Fields Rogers and Mark Gilkey (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Elva Mary Giard June 20, 1978 Format: Transcript (38 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early Edison area, Gilkey towing, Family remembrances - the Gilkeys and the Conns are related Restrictions: none 4 RIII-179, a , b Maurice Splane (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 28, 1978 Format: Transcript (62 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Sedro-Woolley Iron Works, Machine shops, Working on logging locomotives, Upper Skagit River Game Department, Blacksmithing in logging camps Notes: one tape and two transcripts Restrictions: none 4 RIII-180 Charles and Nellie Marquart (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 28, 1978 Format: Transcript (12 pages), Cassette (30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Equality Colony, Early Edison and Blanchard area, Blanchard Mill, Shingle weaver, Accidents, Attended school at the Colony Restrictions: none 4 RIII-181 Will C. Fisher (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 29, 1978 Format: Transcript (52 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Hook tender for the English Logging Company and other logging companies, IWW, Dairy farming, Drainage, Steelheading, Cider making, Moonshining Restrictions: none 4 RIII-182 Ellis and Lillian Andrews (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 30, 1978 Format: Transcript (52 pages), Cassette (1 hour 45 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: 1916 snow, Summit Park, Grandfather was an early Cypress Island settler Restrictions: none RIII-183 Will F. Fisher (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 30, 1978 Format: Reel-to-reel (1 hour 30 min) Subjects: Immigration west from Kansas, Threshing machinery, Horses, Thoroughbred racing Notes: no transcript, only an outline Restrictions: none 4 RIII-184 Henry Tjersland (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 31, 1978 Format: Transcript (41 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Steamboats, Threshing, Clearing land, Diking, Flailing cabbage, Horses, Chinese, Evergreen Hotel at Conway, Prison Rock Quarry Restrictions: none 4 RIII-185 Dollie Gilkey (Mrs. Dave) (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock March 31, 1978 Format: Transcript (14 pages), Reel-to-reel (45 min) Subjects: Born during the flood of 1894, Gilkey Towboat Company, the Interurban Restrictions: none 4 RIII-186 Eben Bennett (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger March 31, 1978 Format: Transcript (50 pages), Cassette (1 hour 40 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Threshing, Dairy farming, the San Francisco Earthquake was felt on the Skagit River ice Restrictions: none 4 RIII-187 Dorothy A. Stewart (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger April 4, 1978 Format: Transcript (24 pages), Cassette(40 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Floods of 1909, 1916, 1921, Predicting floods by the weather, Early Riverside, Witnessed the 1903 Trainwreck. Restrictions: none 4 RIII-188 Ora and Alice Higgs (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger April 5, 1978 Format: Transcript (16 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour) Subjects: West to Edison in 1937, Threshing, Horses, Breeding saddle horses, Shingle bolt speeder car, Worked with Reuben R. Boyd Restrictions: none 4 RIII-189 Maynard C. Collier (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger April 5, 1978 Format: Transcript (34 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 40 min) Subjects: West from Minnesota with the Trafton family, Early Anacortes, Pile driver for the Fidalgo Island Packing Company, Mill accidents, Farming, Dairying Restrictions: none 4 RIII-190 Ralph McKibben (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger April 6, 1978 Format: Transcript (18 pages), Reel-to-reel (40 min) Subjects: Threshing, Horses: Trotters, Pacers, and Standardbreds Restrictions: none 5 RIII-191 John Ball (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Peter Hefflefinger April 6, 1978 Format: Transcript (30 pages), Reel-to-reel (1 hour 20 min) Subjects: Ball family in Skagit County, Bayview Ridge, Fredonia, Burlington Iron Works Restrictions: none 5 RIII-192 George Peth (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Elva Mary Giard June 26, 1979 Format: Transcript (45 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Informative discussion of Skagit Valley in the early days, Father was John Peth, Sr., Peth acquisition of land through financing others Restrictions: none 5 RIII-193 Nina B. Hurley (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Elva Mary Giard June 27, 1979 Format: Transcript (34 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: LaConner, Sedro-Woolley, Taught by Mary Purcell Restrictions: none 5 RIII-194 James Pedley Kean (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Elva Mary Giard July 12, 1979 Format: Transcript (37 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Mt. Vernon, Early businesses, Schools, Skagit River Restrictions: none 5 RIII-195 Milton Morrison (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Donna Holt March 1, 1976 Format: Transcript (3 pages), Cassette (10 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Depression, WWII Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-196 Roy Miller (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Kathie Naier January 1, 1974 Format: Transcript (14 pages), Cassette (30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Transportation, Farming, Entertainment, Circus, Decaptra, Kerosene lamps, Childhood, Silk, WWI, Environmental issues, Early theater, Radio, Dancing, Baseball, Streetcars Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-197 Richie Arlene King (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Kristi King January 22, 1976 Format: Transcript (3 pages), Cassette (5 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Schools, Alger, Bow, Marjorie Dorsey Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-198 Dee and James Snowden (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Kelly Snowden October 15, 1975 Format: Transcript (15 pages), Cassette (30 min) Subjects: LaConner, Farming, University, Mt. Baker climb, Family history, School, Dances, Avon Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-199 Bea Gardner (Mrs. Herb) (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Gretchen Caldwell January 1, 1975 Format: Transcript (3 pages), Cassette (5 min) Subjects: Entertainment, University of Washington Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-200 Joseph Leland Parker (Year of Birth: 1905) interviewed by: John Hughes May 28, 1905 Format: Transcript (9 pages), Cassette (15 min) Subjects: Mt. Vernon, Family history, Cattle business, Grocery stores, Indians, Depression, Fires, Sports, Recreation, School, Maritime Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-201 Carroll Anderson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Teresa Eschbach and Susan Moore May 1, 1975 Format: Transcript (9 pages), Cassette (1 hour) Subjects: LaConner history, Dikes, Floods, School, Gaches family and mansion Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-202 Victor Bushart (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Bob Junquist spring 1974 Format: Transcript (6 pages), Cassette (15 min) Subjects: Entertainment in early days, Depression, Schools, Stores Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-203 Virginia Moen (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Jeanne Cushman April 2, 1974 Format: Transcript (4 pages), Cassette (5 min) Subjects: March's Point, Pleasant Ridge, Fir Island, Rexville, Schools, Lutherans Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-204 Mrs. Ed Poppe (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Kathy Stowell March 17, 1976 Format: Transcript (5 pages), Cassette (10 min) Subjects: Schools, Avon Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-205 , 206 Frank McCormick (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Brian Hager May 27, 1905 Format: Transcript (17 pages), Cassette (45 min) Subjects: Farming, Mt. Vernon, Telegraphy job, Mining Notes: one transcript Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-207 Mabel Roseland Gansberg (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Jeff Cobb and Dave Elliot November 1, 1974 Format: Transcript (10 pages), Cassette (30 min) Subjects: Teaching, Depression, War, Entertainment Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-208 Margaret Maupin (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Julie Stewart May 28, 1905 Format: Transcript (10 pages), Cassette (30 min) Subjects: Mt. Vernon, Farming, Skagit River freezing, Flood Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-209 Thomas Crumrine (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Randy Crumrine June 10, 1975 Format: Transcript (3 pages), Cassette (5 min) Subjects: 1930s Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-210 William Burger (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Carl Coley May 27, 1905 Format: Transcript (11 pages), Cassette (30 min) Subjects: Roads, Schools, Depression, Logging Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-211 Clara Soler (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Chris Soler June 4, 1974 Format: Transcript (14 pages), Cassette (30 min) Subjects: Stanwood, Farming, Diking, Hobos, Automobile accidents, Scandinavians Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-212 Carl Johnson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Scott Allquist January 20, 1975 Format: Transcript (6 pages), Cassette (15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Housing, Schools, Grocery store Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-213 Kathleen Eruine Sharp (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Betsy Henshaw November 9, 1973 Format: Transcript (8 pages), Cassette (25 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Anacortes, Schools, Mr. Sharpe as county commissioner Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-214 Jack [Bill?] and Darlene Pickler (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Unknown March 26, 1976 Format: Transcript (8 pages), Cassette (30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: School, Flood, Mt. Vernon Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-215 Jack Sicklesteel (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Unknown March 26, 1976 Format: Transcript (9 pages), Cassette (30 min) Subjects: Mt. Vernon, WWII, Towing job Restrictions: none 5 RIII-216 Jack Wollan (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Terry Faber October 28, 1975 Format: Transcript (13 pages), Cassette (30 min) Subjects: Conway, Depression, Schools, Flood, Sternwheelers, Logging, Hunting fowl Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-217 Jack Benston (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Brian Hatcher, Steve Mackey, Ryan Johnson May 26, 1905 Format: Transcript (14 pages), Cassette (30 min) Subjects: Burlington, Sedro-Woolley, Streetcars, Interurban, Floods, Darigold, Fires, Logging, Hunting, Canneries Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-218 Karl Lindall (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Unknown October 1, 1973 Format: Transcript (4 pages), Cassette (25 min) Subjects: Typhoid fever epidemic, Mining, Farming Restrictions: none 5 RIII-219 William C. Moore (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Steve Schroder Undated Format: Transcript (38 pages), Cassette (2 hours) Subjects: Baker Lake area, Prospecting, Mountaineering, Joe Morovit Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-220 Susan and Brice Franklin (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: interviewee's daughter Undated Format: Transcript (15 pages), Cassette (30 min) Subjects: Schools, Baking, Movie made in Mt. Vernon, Sternwheelers, Flood, Logging, Smallpox epidemic Restrictions: none - Easton Project Donation 5 RIII-221 Anne Ferwerda Richards (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Deryl Walls Undated Format: Transcript (33 pages), Cassette (time not listed) Subjects: Work as seamstress, clothing designer, painter, dollmaker, owned clothing store/gallery in Mt. Vernon Restrictions: none 5 RIII-222 Alice Walker Hanson (Year of Birth: 1910) interviewed by: Deryl Walls November 19, 1979 Format: Transcript (13 pages), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Indians, Gypsies, Bayview, Prohibition, illegal alcohol, electricity, Depression, Childbirth, Floods, Entertainment Restrictions: none 5 RIII-223 Harry Johnson (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Deryl Walls November 27, 1979 Format: Transcript (27 pages), Cassette(1 hour 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Farming, Floods, Diking, Kidnapping, Prohibition, Logging, Roads, Medicine, Schools, Early Days 5 RIII-224, 1-2 a , b John Peth (Year of Birth: 1901) interviewed by: Deryl Walls and Dave Van Meer December 3, 1979 Format: Transcript (87 pages), Cassette (4 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Moonshine, Indian burial grounds, Sullivan Grove, Edison, Farming - dairy, beef, pig, seed, potato, sheep, horse, Depression, Founded Skagit State Bank, Early Days, County Burials, Cooking, LaConner, Conway, Olympia Marsh, Life in Texas, Childhood stories, Blacksmithing, Equality Colony, Floods, Diking, Logging, Mules, Anacortes, WWII, Indian canoes, Lumber business, Rodeos Notes: four tapes and three transcripts Restrictions: none 5 RIII-225 Mervin and Joy Benham (Year of Birth: 1902) interviewed by: Deryl Walls December 7, 1979 Format: Transcript (31 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Newspaper publishing, Logging and lumber mills, Floods and dikes, Schools, Settlement of Walker Valley (South Clear Lake), Interurban Railroad, Depression, Farming, Community Entertainment, 4H Clubs, Indians, Home remedies, President Taft Restrictions: none 5 RIII-226, a , b Milo Moore (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Deryl Walls, Karen Dalan February 6, 1980 Format: Transcript (61 pages), Cassette (2 hours), Reel-to-reel Subjects: LaConner politics, Fire department, Fishing, Fisheries Department - local, state, federal, Marshall Plan, Greek, Korean,and Japanese fisheries, Korean War, WPA, Prohibition, Dikes, Depression, Courthouse, Hatcheries, Indian fishing treaties, Nuclear power, Mining, Fish traps, River ferries Notes: two tapes and transcripts Restrictions: none 5 RIII-227 Paul Wells (Year of Birth: 1904) interviewed by: Deryl Walls February 8, 1980 Format: Transcript (29 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: LaConner, Mt. Vernon, Pharmacist, Drugs, Medicines, Home remedies, Prohibition, Depression, Floods, Crime, WWI, Circuses, Schools, Transportation, Dikes, Telephones, Ann and Dr. Richards Restrictions: none 5 RIII-228 Bill and Edith (Welts) Moore (Year of Birth: 1902) interviewed by: Deryl Walls February 11, 1980 Format: Transcript (19 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: LaConner, State Constitution, Mt. Vernon, Entertainment, Daily life, President Taft, Indians, Ethnic groups, Darius Kinsey, Churches, Skagit River - jams, floods, Depression, Seattle, Electricity, Kidnapping Restrictions: none 5 RIII-229, a , b William Alvord (Year of Birth: 1904) interviewed by: Deryl Walls, Karen Dalan February 14, 1980 Format: Transcript (52 pages), Cassette (1 hour 35 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Family history, Floods, Schools, Prohibition, Indians, Fishing, Depression, LaConner, Fish Pirates, WWI, Influenza epidemic, Ethnic settlements, Police work, Medical care, Home remedies, Homesteading, Dairy farming, Childhood, Floods, Refrigeration, Logging camps Notes: one tape and two transcripts Restrictions: none 5 RIII-230 Roberta Moore Nelson (Year of Birth: after 1918) interviewed by: Deryl Walls, Karen Dalan February 22, 1980 Format: Transcript (32 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Family history, Fishing and fish traps, Farming, Bridges, Medical care, Civic life, Local Politics, Liquor control, Tulip show, Naval air base, Fidalgo allied arts, LaConner, WWII, Swinomish Indians, basket weaving, canoe racing Restrictions: none 5 RIII-231 Dorothy Gibbons Siegfried (Year of Birth: 1904) interviewed by: Deryl Walls, Karen Dalan March 6, 1980 Format: Transcript (15 pages), Cassette (1 hour 15 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: LaConner, Local businesses, Clubs, Civic life, Bridges, Telephone, Indians, Prohibition, Family history, Home remedies, Winters Restrictions: none 5 RIII-232 Josephine Hanaford Spratley (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Deryl Walls March 19, 1980 Format: Transcript (20 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Move west from Kansas, Family history, Daily life, Chataquas, Cars, Lumber camp, Pow-wows, Schools, Medical care, Influenza epidemic, University of Washington, Local businesses, Chinese, Depression, Floods, Swinomish Indians, Mt. Vernon, Snowstorms, Interurban Restrictions: none 5 RIII-233 Minnie Gallacher Waugh (Year of Birth: 1877) interviewed by: Deryl Walls March 26, 1980 Format: Transcript (23 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Telephone, Schools, Swinomish Indians, Farming, Depression, LaConner, Family history, Entertainment, Daily life, Smallpox epidemic, Floods, Hops Restrictions: none 5 RIII-234 Viola Dolittle Cameron (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Deryl Walls March 28, 1980 Format: Transcript (25 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Murder, Schools, Indians, Wars, Prohibition, Floods, Dikes, Epidemics, Pest house, Clubs, Move west from Kansas, Mt. Vernon, Local businesses, President Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Pioneering, Local politics, Depression, Interurban, Postal service, Churches, Cars Restrictions: none 5 RIII-235, a , b Louis E. Humphrey (Year of Birth: 1911) interviewed by: Dana Dhams, Bill McGuinness, Karen Dalan May 1, 1980 Format: Transcript (30 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Burlington, Family history, Homesteading, Mt. Vernon, LaConner, Swinomish Indians, Pioneer Picnic, Immigration from Sweden, Electricity, Local businesses, Cars, Church meetings, Circus Days, Milk cooperatives, Transportation, Interurban, Burlington family names, High school teacher names Notes: two tapes and transcripts Restrictions: none 5 RIII-236 Ralph W. Nelson (Year of Birth: 1906) interviewed by: Dana Dhams, Karen Dalan May 15, 1980 Format: Transcript (44 pages), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Immigration from Norwaty, LaConner local businesses and buildings and municipal issues, Floods and dikes, Snowstorms, Schools, Farming, Politics, Transportation, Fish traps and gillnetting, Indians, Scandinavian population, Boeing's first airplane, Electricity, Entertainment, Depression, Fraternal orders, Unions, WWII, Canneries, Fires, Prohibition, Food Restrictions: none 5 RIII-237 Lila Wallace Auckland (Year of Birth: 1912) interviewed by: Dana Dhams May 20, 1980 Format: Transcript (33 pages), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Family history, Immigration west, Schools, LaConner buildings and businesses, Indians, Entertainment, Clubs, Childhood, Smoking, Trains Restrictions: none 5 RIII-238 Hubert E. Crosby (Year of Birth: 1902) interviewed by: Dana Russo June 26, 1980 Format: Transcript (21 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early theatre in Anacortes, Mt. Vernon, Seattle Restrictions: none 5 RIII-239 James P. Kean (Year of Birth: 1904) interviewed by: Dana Russo July 14, 1980 Format: Transcript (27 pages), Cassette (1 hour 30 min), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Mt. Vernon, Barbershop, Childhood, Milk companies, Floods and dikes, Money, School, Entertainment, Fires, WWII, Depression, Equality Colony, Trains, Logging, Snowstorm Restrictions: none 5 RIII-240 Alger A. Moberg (Year of Birth: 1888) interviewed by: Dana Russo August 8, 1980 Format: Transcript (13 pages), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Immigration from Minnesota, Early Mt. Vernon, Local businesses, Early movies, Bridges, Alger, Water supply, Dikes and floods, Schools, Entertainment Restrictions: none 5 RIII-241 Louis Humphrey (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Dana Russo August 5, 1980 Format: Transcript (13 pages), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Early theatre, Musical accompaniment, Transportation, Film exchanges, Stage shows, Vaudeville, Radio Restrictions: none 5 RIII-242 Walter Blade (Year of Birth: 1880) interviewed by: Dana Russo August 26, 1980 Format: Transcript (9 pages), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Family history, Immigration from Scandinavia, Blacksmith shop, Car dealership, Early LaConner, Local businesses, Keystone Theatre, Schools, Newspaper Restrictions: none 5 RIII-243 Alger A. Moberg (Year of Birth: 1888) interviewed by: Dana Russo August 27, 1980 Format: Transcript (8 pages), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Mt. Vernon local businesses, Seattle student life, Alaska-Yukon Exhibit, Camping at Rosario, Trains, Floods, Coal, Entertainment, Snowstorms Restrictions: none 5 RIII-244 John Tursi (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: Keith Wiemerslage, David Van Meer Undated Format: Transcript (19 pages), Cassette (time not listed), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Depression, Civilian Conservation Corps, Meals, Accommodations, Daily routine, Deception Pass, Komo Kulshan Ranger Station, Fire fighting, Snowstorms, Anacortes Restrictions: none RIII-245 Genevieve Ball (Year of Birth: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Cassette (time not listed) Notes: no transcript 5 RIII-246 Al and Martha Covert (Year of Birth:: unknown) interviewed by: Barbara Heacock Undated Format: Transcript (10 pages), Cassette (1 hour), Reel-to-reel Subjects: Weyerhauser lumber mills, Strikes, Mill management, Lumber grading Notes: Cassette and reel-to-reel probably available under RIII-42. See catalog card Restrictions: none RIII-247 Edison History (Year of Birth:: unknown) interviewed by: unknown Undated Format: Cassette (time not listed) Notes: By Irene Schumaker and Friends, Feb. 19, 1991 for Oral History Section