Itasca State Park Oral History Project: Interview with Elon and Alma Cary

Titles: Itasca State Park Oral History Project: Interview with Elon and Alma Cary (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Elon Cary served as a clerk and "jack-of-all-trades" at Itasca from 1932 to 1942. He was also a pilot. Alma Cary was his wife. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: His personal background; entry into the forestry department as a clerk; transfer to Itasca; division of parks and forestry; dynamite accident; park sawmill; budget shortages; being responsible for the entire park; Wegmann; animals, elk in particular; an incident with a bear; buffalo; deer; TRA; the first living quarters; Harold Lathrop; establishment of Bear Paw; selling minnows; selling ice; mowing; the telephone system; the sewage system; maintaining the roads and cabins; winter responsibilities; garbage; pageants; feeding the deer; plowing the road; deer hunting; getting rid of the elk; Felix the Moose; Douglas Lodge; Peace Pipe Springs; Forest Inn; patrolling Itasca in private cars; minnows; paid vacation.

Dates

• 09/14/1993 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Cary, Elon
• interviewee: Cary, Alma
• interviewer: Rieger, Amy K.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 102
• Accession Number: AV2003.42.3

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Itasca State Park Oral History Project' <OH 102>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 41 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 110 minutes length

Subjects

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