• Age: 79
• Interview Date: 7/20/1975
• Interviewer: Rosalyn L. Bone, University of Illinois at Springfield
• Interview Length: 63 minutes Sit Down Interview
• County: Mason
• Hal Ringland was born in Forest City, Illinois in 1896 and has spent most of his life on a farm. Hal recalls farm life, one room rural schools, the Great Depression, his part time job as a mail carrier and raising and trading horses. 

Mr. and Mrs. Hal Ringland, 50th Wedding Anniversary, 1969Hal Ringland, retiring after 43 of substitute mail carrying in Kilbourne, Ilinois, 1973