Interview with Ruth Susan Nagel Vorgang

Description:	A high school senior at the time of the flood, Ruth Susan Nagel Vogang tells of her adventures as she and her sister were separated from their parents and sent to first to Charlestown and then north with an uncle to Indianapolis during the flood. She rode the box cars, sitting on a crate and holding someone elses baby during the trip. Both Ruth and her husband James Girard Vorgang were known by their second names. The thumbnail image was located in her senior high 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)
Origin:	1983-08-24; 2019-11-25
Created By:	Vorgang, Ruth Susan Nagel, Nelson, Earl
Contributor(s):	Winston, Vaughn, technical assistant; Jackson, Larry, technical assistant; Kuhlenschmidt, Eden, transcript
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll12/id/21
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

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