Jean & Stiner Ringsage (b. 1905)
Residence: Park; Alberta; British Columbia
Occupation(s): Farm wife; teacher; nurse's aide
Family Origin: Moved to Idaho with husband in 1933
Interviews
Jean & Stiner Ringsage Interview #1, 10/5/1976
- Topics:
- Parents' backwoods marriage. Her isolated childhood. Women's culture. Single teachers' social life. Laboring in Alberta; subsistence farming near Wainwright. His father's healing powers. Pleasures of city living, 10-5-76 5.5 hr 149p
- Duration:
- 5:45:35
- Interviewer:
- Sam Schrager
- Keywords:
- Native Americans accidents babies banks birth control books businesses childhood clothing crops dances dating death divorce doctors education families family life education farming fighting fires friendships holidays homemakers hospitals housekeeping immigrants isolation log cabins marriage miners mines mining newspapers nursing orchards politics reading religion rural communities sewing sports teachers trapping voting women women's rights world wars writing
- Locations:
- Park Alberta British Columbia Prince Edward Island Vancouver
Download MP3 Original Transcript
Jean & Stiner Ringsage Interview #2, 10/19/1976
- Topics:
- Struggle on Alberta farm in the twenties. Choice of life as a farm wife. Her religious awakening. Contrasts between Idaho and Alberta. Ukrainians in Alberta. Birth control information. Portland in World War II. 10-19-76 5.9 hr 172p
- Duration:
- 6:03:18
- Interviewer:
- Sam Schrager
- Keywords:
- Ku Klux Klan accidents babies birth control books childhood children churches citizenship clothing construction customs dances death families family life education farming homesteads illness immigrants isolation languages marriage politics poor presidents religion sewing teaching threshing winter women world wars
- Locations:
- Park Alberta British Columbia Prince Edward Island Vancouver Central Ridge
Download MP3 Original Transcript
Jean & Stiner Ringsage Interview #3, 11/7/1976
- Topics:
- n/a
- Duration:
- 2:56:35
- Interviewer:
- Sam Schrager
- Keywords:
- Great Depression Native Americans birth control dances families farming hunting illness marriage medicine nurses presidents religion smoking threshing winter women
- Locations:
- Park Canada Central Ridge
Download MP3 Original Transcript
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Jean & Stiner Ringsage (b. 1905)", Latah County Oral History Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/ringsage_jeanandstiner.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.