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Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Kanza Days
The following musical pieces and readings were performed, Overture Steel Across the Plains, Wind People (Rails End) Coronodos, (Iron horse) Quest for…
Chautauqua Assembly in Winfield, Kansas
Chautauqua Assembly - Kansas
Brief synopsis of the history of Winfield Chautauquas, held in Island Park from 1887-1924, with dates and times of current programs. This program,…
Winfield Founders
Robinson, W. C.
An epistolary autobiography of W. C. Robinson to his nephew, Dr. William L. Stidger, Copley M. E. Church, Professor of Homiletics, Boston University,…
Chautauqua Assembly in Winfield, Kansas
Chautauqua Assembly - Kansas
Men in discussion at the Assembly, seated next to tents in Island Park
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Fox, Lizzie
Lizzie Fox shared memories of her family living in Douglass, KS dating back from 1896. When she married in 1919 her and her husband moved to…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Caton, Louise
Louise shared the story of her parents emigrating to Winfield, KS from Boston, MA around 1885. Her father suffered from asthma, so they thought this…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Fuller Bender, Lucille
Lucille Fuller Bender shared memories of her grandparents when they were settlers around 1870-1879 in the Winfield area. She also shared her memories…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Headrick, Lucy
Lucy shared the story of her traveling to Hackney by train from Tennessee in 1910 with her mother and siblings. Her family had a homestead 7 miles…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Dunn Gardner, Mary
Edna shares the memories of her mother who came from Indiana and her father who came from Ireland to settle in Cowley County, KS. Edna shares stories…
Mary Carttar Hartley
Hartley, Mary Carttar
1948 letter, written in reply to elementary student, Mary Carttar, from children's author E. B. White.