The Red River Floods of 1997 Oral History Project: Interview with Karen Knighton

Titles: The Red River Floods of 1997 Oral History Project: Interview with Karen Knighton (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Karen Knighton was born in North Carolina and spent most of her time in that state through her college years. In 1970 she and her husband, Don Knighton, moved to the Moorhead area for Don's job as a professor of economics at Moorhead State University. They bought a home on North Terrace in north Fargo, North Dakota, in 1991 after living in homes near Wolverton and south Moorhead, Minnesota. Their Fargo home in the Oak Grove neighborhood was located about 150 feet from the west bank of the Red River. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: The events of flooding around her home; subsequent flooding of the Oak Grove neighborhood in mid-April; flood-fighting efforts of the faculty and students of Moorhead State University in Oak Grove as well as other parts of Fargo-Moorhead; and the circumstances behind her and her husband's decision to give up their North Terrace home after the flood.

Dates

• 09/23/1997 - 06/23/1997 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Knighton, Karen
• interviewer: Shoptaugh, Terry L.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 57
• Accession Number: AV1999.66.17

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'The Red River Floods of 1997 Oral History Project' <OH 57>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 43 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 80 minutes length

Subjects

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