Minnesota Environmental Issues Oral History Project: Interview with Katherine L. Bakeless

Titles: Minnesota Environmental Issues Oral History Project: Interview with Katherine L. Bakeless (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Bakeless is a native of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and received her degree from the Bloomsburg State Normal School. She studied piano at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and also received private instruction in London and Salzburg. She taught piano in private schools in New York and New Jersey and in her New York City studio. In 1920 she married John Bakeless. For over forty years she resided in Seymour, Connecticut. Mrs. Bakeless is the author of Story Lives of Great Composers, Story Lives of American Composers, Birth of a Nation's Song, Glory Hallelujah, and In the Big Time. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Her background; her friendship with Ernest Oberholtzer; social life at Rainy Lake; canoe trip and visit with Oberholtzer's Indian friends. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: Oberholtzer's friend, Ted Hall, also participates in the interview. A separate interview with Ted Hall is part of the project series.

Dates

• 02/06/1987 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Robertson, Margaret A.
• interviewee: Bakeless, Katherine Little

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 58
• Accession Number: AV1988.99.2

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 18 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 70 minutes length

Subjects

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