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SEGMENT: FAMILY BACKGROUND, LAND, & CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Audio duration 10:31
19th Century Settlers Did Not Live on Prairie: duration 00:24
Attending a One-Room Schoolhouse: duration 00:29
SEGMENT: CHILDHOOD ACTIVITIES, CHILDHOOD WORK, & FAMILY ACTIVITIES: Audio duration 10:06
Trapping on Way To School: duration 01:01
When Its Too Hot - Cultivate by Moonlight: duration 00:54
Childhood Work: Raking Hay & Carrying Wood: duration 00:36
Always Wanted to be a Farmer: duration 00:35
Sunday Activities: Church, Meals, Visiting, but No Baseball: duration 00:48
Radio: From Amos & Andy to the WLS Farm Program: duration 00:50
SEGMENT: FARMING DURING GREAT DEPRESSION, LAND ACQUISITION, & HIRED HELP: Audio duration 10:35
Mother's Work, Sister's Work & A Married Man: duration 00:56
Surviving the Great Depression: duration 02:13
Starting Out: Loans, Buying Grandfather's Land, & Tenant Farming: duration 01:19
Horses, Plows, & Tractors: duration 00:49
The War Years: An Extra House for the Hired Help: duration 00:35
Farming During WWII: Crops, & Equipment: duration 01:16
SEGMENT: FARMING DURING WWII, FARM EQUIPMENT, & NEIGHBORS: Audio duration 11:14
Going to Town to Trade Eggs: duration 00:49
Farm Work in the 1940's: Work Before Breakfast & After Dinner: duration 01:19
Picking Corn & Cooperating with Neighbors: duration 01:25
The Farm Bureau: duration 01:03
SEGMENT: FARM EQUIPMENT, FARM BUSINESS, & LAND ACQUISITION: Audio duration 09:07
Post-WWII Changes in Farming: duration 01:27
Over-Production, Land Boom, & Over-Borrowing: duration 01:22
Agricultural Activities: Necessity of Continuing Education & Farm Magazines: duration 00:57
Effect of Vietnam War on Farm Prices: duration 00:41
SEGMENT: NEIGHBORS, LIVESTOCK, & FARM EQUIPMENT: Audio duration 10:22
"Earlier You Go, the More Neighborly People Were": duration 01:28
"Seed Sold Through Livestock": duration 00:58