Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Bill Rajala

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Bill Rajala (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Bill Rajala was born in 1909 near Bigfork, Minnesota. He and his family had a considerable influence on the logging industry in the Bigfork area. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family; homesteading near Bigfork; his father's mining career and surviving a cave-in; townships and communities nearby; farming and logging in the area; impressions of Grand Rapids; fishing; having to walk everywhere before the roads came in; logging pine near Bigfork after World War II; other early homesteaders near Bigfork; the sauna as a main source of entertainment early on in Bigfork; family; logging camps; loneliness of log driving; mosquitoes and dealing with them; dealing with expenses such as groceries.

Dates

• 09/23/1975 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewee: Rajala, William

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.38

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 32 pages transcript 1 sound disc

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:32:06 running time

Subjects

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