Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Veda Scholta

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Veda Scholta (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Veda Scholta was born in 1896 in Dassel, Minnesota. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life and going to school; the early days of International Falls; Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 in Minnesota; living around timber wolves; getting married; day to day living in International Falls in the 1920s; nearby logging operations; cooking in a camp; Indians living in the area; churches in International Falls; dealing with mosquitoes with smudge pails and cheesecloth; picking blueberries and canning; suicides in the Black River area and loneliness that goes along with homesteading.

Dates

• 02/08/1977 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewee: Scholta, Veda

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.42

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

• 00:56:10 running time

Subjects

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