Pieces of our lives : folk arts in Vermillion County, Indiana

Description: Published transcripts of oral history interviews. Includes: Barbara Aimone, first generation American and Italian cook par excellence; Joe Airola, Italian immigrant, coal miner, and sausage maker, the man responsible for the Immigrant Square on Ninth Street in Clinton; Arlow Brazeal, fisherman and net maker; Russ Fortner, woodcarver, wooden spoons and ax handles are his specialty; Esther Hollingsworth, long-time Universal resident, storyteller and quilter; Randy Joy, ginseng hunter; Irma Pesavento, remembers Clintons years as a booming mining town; Bill Walthall, maple syrup maker, Thelma Wickens, farm wife
Origin: 2006-01
Created By: Rawles-Heiser, Carolyn, editor; Ludden, Keith, interviewer
Contributor(s): With support from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts
Publisher: Indiana Arts Commision (Indianapolis, Ind.); Printed by Clinton Color Crafters.
Source: http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/clinton/id/887
Collection: Clinton Public Library
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Copyright: Copyright Undetermined
Subjects: Oral history
Clinton (Ind.) -- history
Folk art -- Indiana -- Vermillion County
Vermillion County (Ind.) -- Social life and customs
Cookery (Pasta)
Italian American women
Cookery, Italian
Mining
Miners
Coal mining
Fishermen
Wood-carving
Sewing
Storytelling
Maple syrup
Hollingsworth, Esther, 1918-2000
Wickens, Thelma, 1899-
Brazeal, Arlow, 1913-2000
Fortner, Russ, 1906-
Aimone, Barbara, 1911-1999
Airola, Joe R., 1896-1987
Walthall, Bill, 1914-
Pesavento, Irma
Agriculture
Social life
Domestic life
Business & Industry
Labor
Natural Resources
People
Religion

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