Minnesota Farm Economy Oral History Project: Interview with Gary Hansen

Titles: Minnesota Farm Economy Oral History Project: Interview with Gary Hansen (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Mr. Hansen was born in Hartland, Minnesota and moved to Ellendale, Minnesota after World War II. He graduated from high school in Ellendale. He attended Waldorf College and Wartburg College, leaving school after his junior year. He returned home and accepted job at the Northwestern Bank of Owatonna. He has been a banker with the Farmers State Bank of Hartland for 30 years. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Changes in Hartland since the 1950s; community involvement and spirit; the rural crisis in the 1980s--immediate and long term effects; involvement in the mediation process; working with Federal (FDIC) examiners; debt: purchasing equipment, income tax, liquidation, foreclosure; personal and professional relationship with community members; changing banking practices and attitudes; educational preparation for farming; interest buydown; practices which favor the debtor; defining the family farm; history of the bank; the future of Hartland.

Dates

• 03/27/1989 - 05/12/1989 (Audio interview conducted 3/27/1989 and video interview 5/12/1989.) (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Hansen, Gary
• interviewer: Robertson, Margaret A.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 76
• Accession Number: AV1988.167.6
• Accession Number: AV1999.261.2

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota Farm Economy Oral History Project' <OH 76>

Quantity: 2 hour sound cassette 30 pages transcript 1.33 hours videocassette

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: moving images
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 100 minutes length

Subjects

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