Theresa Lothspeich and Sylvan Loegering
Recorded
August 23, 2010
01:21:09
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Id:
MBY006855
Description
Theresa Lothspeich, 76, talks with brother Sylvan Loegering, 71, about their memories of growing up on a farm with 12 other siblings.Subject Log / Time Code
SL remembers when a tornado came and blew down their barn except for one corner, where a mare and her colt were huddled and somehow survived unscathed
TL & SL discuss the division of labor on the farm between the genders: girls did housework and boys worked the fields (once they were old enough).
SL remembers his first day of high school and getting picked on a lot until he put a sleeper hold accidentally on one of his tormentors
TL reflects on leaving home to finish high school; school showed her that there was more to the world than just the farm
TL & SL talk about their careers as adults
Participants
- Theresa Lothspeich
- Sylvan Loegering
Venue / Recording Kit
Tier
Partnership
Partnership Type
OutreachKeywords
- 1/4 of land
- 14 child families
- 50th wedding anniversaries
- acres
- Agnes Mikesh
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- Angela Olson
- Annette Bruns
- Arla Whittich
- artisan wells
- barley farming
- Barns
- Benson, ND
- butchering
- Canning
- Chicken
- chicken coops
- college
- Cows
- craft, skills, and procedures
- cream
- dates
- Dennis Loegering
- division of labor
- doctor house calls
- driving horses
- dry land farming
- economic beliefs and practices
- Eggs
- Electricity
- Family Traditions
- Fargo, ND
- farms chores
- Field work
- First day of school
- Florence Wegan
- geese
- George Loegering
- good students
- Herman Loegering
- hogs
- honesty
- house cleaning
- housework
- Ice
- illness
- income taxes
- innovators
- Jerome Loegering
- Julia Tschider
- large farm families
- Leonard Loegering
- lying
- making ends meet
- Mary May Loegering
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- Money
- moving houses
- Paul Loegering
- people skills
- personal experiences
- phone lines
- Pigs
- playing
- pneumonia
- popular kids
- preserving food
- Rebels
- religious beliefs and practices
- Rosella Jangula
- Sargent, ND
- Saving money
- Scholarships
- school day memories
- school fights
- School Plays
- schoolyard games
- sleeper holds
- small houses
- smart alecks
- snow storms
- social beliefs and practices
- St. Francis Academy
- storing food
- Taxes
- team of horses
- The Art Sage
- tornadoes
- Washboards
- washing machines
- wheat farming