Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Jack O'Konek and Hazel O'Konek

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Jack O'Konek and Hazel O'Konek (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Jack and Hazel O'Konek lived almost all of their lives in Hill City, Minnesota. They were both born around 1906. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: They jointly discuss their early lives and traveling around the surrounding area of Hill City; roads, railroads, and river transportation; how the community of Hill City changed from being very tight to being much less so; Jack's father being a lumberjack; Jack's responsibility with the family farm; cows and cattle Tuberculosis; Christmas as a child; coming to Hill City because of the land boom in the 1920s; raising a family; mill work; working for the Heath brothers in Swatara; the struggles finding full time employment and paying for food; loggers who came to the area in the 1880s and 1890s; eloping because Jack was a Catholic and Hazel a Methodist; the history of the town of Swatara.

Dates

• 12/02/1975 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewee: O'Konek, Hazel
• interviewee: O'Konek, Jack

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.33

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Forest History Oral History Project' <OH 142>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 19 pages transcript 1 sound disc

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:41:34 running time

Subjects

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