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Chargement... OLD TIMER'S TALES OF OREGON: AN ORAL HISTORYpar John Taylor
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Old Timer's Tales of Oregon is a chronicle of a bygone age in southern Oregon, told by the people who lived in it. This is a world in which a boy brings a gun to school to protect his sister from a cougar and in which a family built their own home sawn out of the woods with their own hands. Through personal interviews, John and Joy Taylor have compiled an oral history of six of the older residents of the Grants Pass area. In their own words, these old timers tell the stories of their lives, from childhood memories to marriage, children, World War II and beyond. Their experiences run the gamut from the everyday to the extraordinary. History is made, interpreted and recorded by ordinary people. Every family has its own story, and recent life-changing events have made it even more important for these stories to be recorded for future generations. As times change more radically than ever before, these family accounts document life events against the background of time and place. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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There are the usual, but interesting stories of early day logging, forestry and homesteading. One of the more amusing to me stories consisted of a report of a neighbor who held ‘pig drives', taking them to market in the same way another might have a cattle drive.
There are also more unusual stories of Mary Paetzel, an environmentalist who made her living collecting pollen, and of Victor Gardener, craftsman of over 400 violins, violas and cellos.
The subjects were quite interesting, but as I often wish with oral histories, I would have like a bit more editing. ( )