Interview with Norris Mode

Description:	Oral History interview with Norris Emerson Mode. Mr. and Mrs. Mode were living on Maple Street in 1937. High water forced them from their home and into the home of a friend, Charles Clark. 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) The thumbnail picture of Norris Mode was taken from the Jeffersonville High School Yearbook of his senior year. Mr. Mode provides details of floating in the flood waters in a mortor box, getting typhoid shots, cleaning his home, the devastation brought to local merchants and automobiles left parked in the streets.
Origin:	1983-08-31
Created By:	Mode, Norris; 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/8
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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