Star Island Oral History Project

Titles: Star Island Oral History Project (Supplied title)

Description: Star Island is a 1,163-acre island in Cass Lake, Minnesota. Most of the island is part of Chippewa National Forest, but since 1909 privately owned cabins have been built along the island's shoreline, primarily as summer residences. The Star Island Oral History Project consists of two sets of audio interviews with the island's residents and video footage of the area. The first audio set, done in 1976, deals mostly with the history of the island and its community. The second audio set, done in 1985 as part of interviewer Carol Ryan's doctoral dissertation on the development and history of the summer community, examines why people returned to the island year after year and generation after generation, and looks at meanings that residents saw in the island. The 1995 video includes scenes of Star Island and its environs, on the water and off, of the cabins, residents, and guests. It also includes an interview with the Mosedales transcribed in the video log.

Dates

• 1976 - 1995 (Interview dates: 1976 (audio), 1985 (audio), and 1995 (video)) (Creation)

Interviews

• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with N. William Hines, Jr.' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Raymond E. "Brick" Mattison' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with David White' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Betty Jo Zander' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Herman Garmers and Tony Garmers' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with John LaLonde' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Richard Lambert' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Donald W. Harstad' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Thomas Recht' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with John Ruckmick' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Tom Walmsley' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Phyllis Larson' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Elizabeth Blankenship' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Einar Oberg' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Helen Drake' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Einar Oberg' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Dorothy Dostal' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Norman William Hines, Sr.' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Thomas E. Keefe' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Nadine Ide' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Charlene Miller' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Early History of Unistar and Star Island' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Audrey Marsh' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Ralph Canine' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Harvey Breckenridge' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Winworth Williams' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Peter Schuck' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Jane Rice' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Geological Origins of Star Island and Cass Lake' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Val Bentrup' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with John Mosedale and Anne Mosedale Cowie' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with William Anderson' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Margaret Amberg' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Suzanne Batten' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Judith Burton' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Martha Stevens Burton' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Annabelle Diehl Bush' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Mignon Caswell' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Caswell' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Barbara Chilcott' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Gilbert Coen' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Wilbur Coen' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Michael Creevy' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Nancy Davidson' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Raymond A. Davis' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Louise Donkersgoed' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Harry Flansburg' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Ellen Guice' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Letitia Haecker' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Lou King' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Beatrice Lambert' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with William Lloyd' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Curtis Lund' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with James Marsteller' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with E. Ross and Mary Martin' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Shirley Martin' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Mary McBride' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Mugg' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Charles "Chick" Orthwein' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Marjorie Rist' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Carol Ryan' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Schneider' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with B. Warner Shippee' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Margaret Silknitter' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Marion Smith' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Lawrence Steefel' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Rev. Ronald Taylor' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Grant Utley' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Starr Wagler and John Starr' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Virginia "Cissy" Orthwein Wheelock' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Barbara Wintermote' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Elizabeth Wolfe' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Lucille Woodruff' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Barbara Adams' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with R.H. "Bing" Batten' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Lorene and Harold Bender' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Judith Flansburg Burton and Robert Burton' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Mignon Caswell' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Barbara Chilcott' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Anne Mosedale Cowie' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Billie and Ray Davis' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Richardson Dougall' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Helen Buckner Drake' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Letitia Haecker' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Marcia Haecker' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with N. William Hines, Jr.' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Richard Lambert' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Phyllis Ann Larson' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Houghton Lohn' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Lillian Lohn' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Shirley Martin' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Rodger McBride' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Priscilla and Jim Meeks' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Connie Olson' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Marjorie Martin Rist' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Jane and John Ruckmick' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Warner Shippee' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Martha Stevens' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Merle and Ron Taylor' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Virginia "Cissy" Orthwein Wheelock' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Sydna and Foster Woodruff' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, videocassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Video History' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Philip Schmidt' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Connie and Philip Schmidt' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Alfred Nier' <OH 48>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Star Island Oral History Project: Interview with Alfred Nier' <OH 48>

Creation

• interviewer and interviewee: Ryan, Carol Crawford
• interviewer: Keefe, Kathy
• interviewer and interviewee: Hines, Jean
• interviewer: Mosedale, Betty
• interviewer: Ryan, Denis
• interviewee: Adams, Barbara
• interviewee: Amberg, Margaret
• interviewee: Anderson, William
• interviewee: Batten, Reginald H.
• interviewee: Batten, Suzanne
• interviewee: Bender, Lorene
• interviewee: Bender, Harold
• interviewee: Bentrup, Val
• interviewee: Blankenship, Elizabeth
• interviewee: Breckenridge, Harvey K.
• interviewee: Burton, Judith Flansburg
• interviewee: Burton, Martha Stevens
• interviewee: Burton, Robert
• interviewee: Bush, Annabelle Diehl
• interviewee: Canine, Ralph
• interviewee: Caswell, Mary
• interviewee: Caswell, Mignon
• interviewee: Chilcott, Barbara
• author: Clagett, Alicia
• interviewee: Coen, Gilbert
• interviewee: Coen, Wilbur Jr.
• interviewee: Cowie, Anne Mosedale
• interviewee: Creevy, Michael H.
• interviewee: Davidson, Nancy Sherwood
• interviewee: Davis, Billie
• interviewee: Davis, Raymond A.
• interviewee: Donkersgoed, Mary Louise
• interviewee: Dostal, Dorothy
• interviewee: Dougall, Richardson
• interviewee: Drake, Helen Buckner
• interviewee: Flansburg, Harry F.
• interviewee: Garmers, Dr. Herman
• interviewee: Garmers, Tony
• interviewee: Goltz, Grant
• interviewee: Guice, Mary Ellen
• interviewee: Haecker, Letitia
• interviewee: Haecker, Marcia Wolfe
• interviewee: Harstad, Donald W.
• interviewee: Hines, Norman William Jr.
• interviewee: Hines, Norman William Sr.
• interviewee: Ide, Nadine
• interviewee: Keefe, Thomas E.
• interviewee: King, Mary Lou Kenworthy
• interviewee: LaLonde, John
• interviewee: Lambert, Beatrice
• interviewee: Lambert, Richard
• interviewee: Larson, Phyllis Ann
• interviewee: Lloyd, William
• interviewee: Lohn, Houghton
• interviewee: Lohn, Lillian
• interviewee: Lund, Dr. Curtis J.
• interviewee: Madison, Les
• interviewee: Marsh, Audrey
• interviewee: Marsteller, James
• interviewee: Martin, E. Ross
• interviewee: Martin, Mary
• interviewee: Martin, Shirley
• interviewee: Mattison, Raymond E.
• interviewee: McBride, Mary
• interviewee: McBride, Rodger W. Sr.
• interviewee: Meeks, Jim
• interviewee: Meeks, Priscilla
• interviewee: Miller, Charlene
• interviewee: Mosedale, John
• interviewee: Mugg, Mary
• interviewee: Nier, Alfred
• interviewee: Oberg, Einar
• interviewee: Olson, Connie
• interviewee: Orthwein, Charles F.
• interviewee: Recht, Thomas
• interviewee: Rice, Jane
• interviewee: Rist, Marjorie Martin
• interviewee: Ruckmick, Jane
• interviewee: Ruckmick, John
• interviewee: Schmidt, Connie
• interviewee: Schmidt, Philip C.
• interviewee: Schneider, Mary
• interviewee: Schuck, Peter
• interviewee: Shippee, B. Warner
• interviewee: Silknitter, Margaret
• interviewee: Smith, Marion
• interviewee: Starr, John
• interviewee: Steefel, Lawrence D.
• interviewee: Taylor, Merle
• interviewee: Taylor, Rev. Ronald
• interviewee: Utley, Grant
• interviewee: Wagler, Mary Starr
• interviewee: Walmsley, W. Thomas
• interviewee: Wheelock, Virginia Orthwein
• interviewee: White, David
• interviewee: Williams, Winworth
• interviewee: Wintermote, Barbara
• interviewee: Wolfe, Elizabeth
• interviewee: Woodruff, Foster
• interviewee: Woodruff, Lucille

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 48
• Accession Number: AV1995.33

Holding Type: Oral History - Project

Quantity: 1 project 118 hours sound cassette 3 hours videocassette 1708 pages transcript

Format

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

Subjects

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