Minnesota Environmental Issues Oral History Project: Interview with Edward M. Hall

Titles: Minnesota Environmental Issues Oral History Project: Interview with Edward M. Hall (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Hall is a native of Frontenac, Minnesota, and attended Antioch and Hiram Colleges. He served in the merchant marines during World War II and then began a journalism career which included stints with the Newark Evening News, NBC News, and Time magazine. In 1974, he founded the Rainy Lake Chronicle. He also wrote "Drumbeat", a book which describes life in the northwoods. He retired from full time newspaper work in 1983. Hall had a life long friendship with Ernest Oberholtzer and was active in the Ernest C. Oberholtzer Foundation. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: His background; his friendship with Ernest Oberholtzer; childhood visits to Rainy Lake; canoe trips and visiting Ober's Indian friends; observations of Indian life; Ober's relationship to Sigurd Olson; the last years of Ober's life; Will Zimmerman; lobbying in Washington; Ober's legacy as conservationist; and Edward Backus. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: Hall also participated in the Katherine Bakeless interview of February 6, 1987.

Dates

• 02/05/1987 - 02/08/1987 (Interviews conducted 2/5/1987, 2/6/1987, and 2/8/1987.) (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Robertson, Margaret A.
• interviewee: Hall, Ted

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 58
• Accession Number: AV1988.99.9

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota Environmental Issues Oral History Project' <OH 58>

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassette 40 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 180 minutes length

Subjects

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