Interview with George Bere
| Description: |
An interview with George Bere who was age 33 at the time of the 1937 Ohio River Flood. At the time he worked at his brothers grocery store on 7th and Meigs Avenue. The interview tells of moving his family up the hill to his home, where they lived during the flood and were surrounded by the flood waters. The thumbnail of George Bere was found in the 1920 Jeffersonville High School Yearbook. For images of what our interviewee experienced, copy the following link to Mud, Sweat, and Tears at the Indiana State Library in your web browser. (http://cdm16066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16066coll24/searchterm/MudSweatTears1937/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/order/title) In addition, The Ohio Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1937, Report of Relief Operations of the American Red Cross may be found at catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001743009 |
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| Origin: | 1983-06-28 |
| Created By: |
Bere, George; Day, Stephen |
| Contributor(s): |
Winston, Vaughn, technical assistant; Jackson, Larry, technical assistant |
| Publisher: |
Jeffersonville Township Public Library |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll12/id/1 |
| Collection: |
Jeffersonville Township Public Library |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/; |
| Subjects: |
Floods--Indiana--Clark County Floods--Ohio River Valley Floods Oral history |
Further information on this record can be found at its source.
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