Rachel King and Cynthia Gleason
Recorded
June 7, 2022
Archived
June 7, 2022
40:53 minutes
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Id:
atl004650
Description
Rachel King (46) interviews her mother Cynthia "Cindy" Gleason (70) about Cindy's family history in the upper Midwest and Canada.Subject Log / Time Code
Rachel (R) asks Cindy (C) to talk about where she was born and her siblings. C also starts to provide family history on her maiden name "Grennier."
C talks about her family's connection to Canada and Minnesota.
C talks about a trip back to Canada in 1995 to see a farm her family started in the early 20th century and meeting a Grennier relative at the Welcome Center.
C talks about how her grandfather moved to Canada from the U.S. and became a baker, but returned to Milwaukee in the early 1920s due to a recession in Canada.
C talks about her father going to school in Black Hawk, Canada and a one-room cabin her grandparents built there.
C describes the physical aspects of the cabin and surrounding grounds that she saw on her 1995 trip.
C talks about her father trapping minks as a young boy to help support his family.
R asks C to tell "The Thanksgiving Story" about C's father.
C talks about how her father's job as a caddy as a boy back in Milwaukee helped his father get a job doing upholstery work at The Nash Motor Company.
R asks C how C's father met C's mother.
Participants
- Rachel King
- Cynthia Gleason