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Topics discussed: Farm life in Slayton, (late 19th century to present); Great Depression; Farm Holiday Association; Rural Electrification Association

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Major Subjects Discussed: Farmers in the early days of Redwood Falls, MN. (1920's-30's); New Deal farm programs; Influence of University of Minnesota; REA - Rural Electrification Association; School board experiences in Redwood Falls (1930's). Slides, negatives, contact sheets.

Content Description

Four tapes and a collection of papers delivered at the Regionalism and Ethnicity Conference, sponsored by the Minnesota Humanities Commission and the Southwest State University History Department. Participants included David L. Nass, Thaddeus Radzialowski, Donald Sofchalk, Maynard Brass, Lew Hudson, Carl and Amy Narvestad, Pat Andrzejek, Art Vermeersch, Carleton Qualey.

Scope and Contents Major Subjects Discussed: Cost and attendance of college (1930's); Teaching in rural school Lyon County (1930's); Horsedrawn buses; REA - Rural Electrification Association in Lyon County (1930's); Early electrical appliances; Protective Land Use Association; Attacks on and support of public power districts; Farm Holiday Association; Disadvantages of country schools (1930's) when compared to today's consolidated school districts. Ku Klux Klan in Lyon County. Audio recording on reels,...

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Farm life in Tyler, Minnesota, during the late 19th century; Ivanhoe Times,1906-1951; Nonpartisan League {S.C. Townley); Prohibition; Farm Holiday Association

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Farmers Union; Farm Holiday Association; Impressions of New Deal; Service in Minnesota State Legislature (1935, 1937); REA-Rural Electrification Association; Includes 12 slides of interview