Itasca State Park Oral History Project: Interview with Alvin and Dorothy Katzenmeyer

Titles: Itasca State Park Oral History Project: Interview with Alvin and Dorothy Katzenmeyer (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Alvin Katzenmeyer lived and visited near the park since the 1920s and his wife, Dorothy, had been there since the mid-1940s. He was a former park worker and she was a local postmistress. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Changes in mail service in the area; frequent changes in park managers; the building of Highway 200; changes in the mammal population in the park; deer hunting in the park; changes in the habits of visitors and the resulting closing of resorts; demise of bus service to the park; advent of interpretive services; anecdotes about Dobey, Sauer, Luschen, and Korth families; reforestation issue.

Dates

• 07/20/2000 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Katzenmeyer, Alvin
• interviewee: Katzenmeyer, Dorothy
• interviewer: Thoma, Ben

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 102
• Accession Number: AV2003.40.7

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 1.5 hours sound cassette 9 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 20 minutes length

Subjects

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