Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Alice Olson and Bergit Anderson

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Alice Olson and Bergit Anderson (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Alice Olson was born in Annandale, Minnesota in 1895. She spent much of her life in Bigfork, Minnesota. Bergit Anderson was born in Oklee, Minnesota in 1898. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life in Bigfork; being some of the earliest homesteaders to the area; other early settlers; comparing Bigfork to Deer River or Bemidji; Native Americans in the area and Busticogan; how farming took a while to get started, and how that affected them growing up; canning and root cellars; itinerant preachers; different settlements around Bigfork, including those from the Red River Valley and those who came straight to Bigfork from Norway; the Rajala family; the school as the center of the community; Rahier family and their dances; camping in the 1920s and 30s; dealing with mosquitoes; Bergit Anderson's life. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: Bergit Anderson had a solo interview with John Esse as part of the same Forest History project.

Dates

• 09/22/1976 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewee: Olson, Alice
• interviewee: Anderson, Bergit

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.34

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassette 27 pages transcript 1 sound disc

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:48:21 running time

Subjects

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