Itasca State Park Oral History Project: Interview with Veronica and Frank Wethern

Titles: Itasca State Park Oral History Project: Interview with Veronica and Frank Wethern (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Veronica and Frank Wethern both worked in the park in the 1970s. Frank worked in maintenance at Douglas Lodge and Veronica worked in the gift shop. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Overview of their work experiences; Ben Littlecreek and selling Indian artifacts in the shop; wages in the 1970s; changes to the north entrance; fees versus a free park; changes in boat landings; the history of boat landings in the park; park versus wilderness issues; crowd management issues.

Dates

• 08/10/2000 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Wethern, Frank
• interviewee: Wethern, Veronica
• interviewer: Thoma, Ben

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 102
• Accession Number: AV2003.40.17

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 7 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 15 minutes length

Subjects

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