Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with John Sirotiak

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with John Sirotiak (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: John Sirotiak was born in 1894 in North Slovak, later Czechoslovakia. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life; leaving North Slovak and coming to the United States; the difficulty of learning English in Minneapolis; moving to northern Minnesota and becoming a logger and sawyer; living in logging camps; clothing, and shaving in camp; camp food; entertainment in the camps; lumberjacks taking breaks to go into various towns in northern Minnesota; ice roads, horses, and log runs; "Jew Employment" agencies finding jobs for lumberjacks; difference in pay working manual labor jobs in Minneapolis versus working in the woods; getting married and starting a dairy farm in Itasca county; logging in North Dakota.

Dates

• 09/10/1975 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewee: Sirotiak, John

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.43

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 27 pages transcript 1 sound disc

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:55:52 running time

Subjects

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