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Tape Index/Summary for Geneva Skaug Minute: 0-3: Childhood Memories: whooping cough, mother's ilness, brushing mother's hair, mother's speech to children when she's dying, mother's funeral, carriage goes in ditch, 4 years old 3-4.5: Mother's Illness: Bright's Disease, no dialysis, youngest child born 6 month's before mother's death, effect of childbirth on illness, 11 children, mother 46 when died 4.5-5.5: Aunt Mary Payne: 97 when died, 5 children, had only radio in family, listened to Amos and Andy, lived in Athens, GA 5.5-7: Geneva's Family: 11 children, 5 boys and 6 girls, Edith left in charge after mother's death, Boys- Ornar, Edgar, Oscar, Charles, Jimmy Girls- Edith, Esther, Ruth, Isadora, Geneva, Nora (Mashburn) 7-11: Movement of Family: House where mother died, farm, memories of fire at brother's house, memory of fire on roof of family house, Negro woman, mad dog and horse, Aunt Rosie's, Alexander Place, Place by creek, Nicholson Place 11-12.15: School Memories: Taught to read by older brothers and sisters 12.15-14: Father's Employment: worked away from horne, farm didn't work out, railroading, farming, goes to Ohio for work in a glass factory 14-16.5: Travels of Charles & 16.5-23: Florida: Oscar: Aunt Rosie's, Archer Grove School memories Father finds work, moves family, Ford touring car, duplex with father's sister, history of father, Uncle Melvin, malaria fever 23-29: Athens: 29-37: Memories of Aunt Rosie's: Jimmy's work, no school, Hurricane memories, Father's loos of money in stock market crash, Father's character, Aunt Rosie as doctor, mumps Easters, riding stallion, nicknames of family members, Charles as doctor, haunted house, closeness of family 37-~9: Father's accident: Father falls while inspecting building, lives 39-42: Move to Calif.: but never well, move to Atlanta, doctor suggests dry climate no money, carnpouts on road, arrive Easter Sunday 1932, memories of beautiful colors, Courtyard house, move to Bundy Drive 42-45: 1933 Earthquake: memories of sidewalk humping, turning off gas, Bing Crosby, Long Beach, cousin, feels sisters should leave CA 45-48: Trip to Calif.: 48-49: Meets husband: went with daughter, Oscar's pig ranch, memories of glimpsing Washington, walnut tree, 34 years in Northwest CA marriage, middle of Depression, work~as carhop, Don can't find work, Uncle's newspaper in Wisconsin 49-52.5: Wisconsin: 1 room apartment, pot-bellied stove, waitress, promoted to cashier, move to Madison to open dqnut shop, Don takes over, business fails, D~~rs philosophy, waitressing 52.5-56.5: Don's work: Wisconsin insurance company as bookkeeper, move to Chicago, memories of John McArthur 56.5-59.5: Don's ambitions: buys insurance company, can't pay claims, commissioner shuts them down, $50,000 in debt in 1953, all 3 children 59.5-62.5: Memories of John McArthur: Indicted for mail fraud 62.5-66.5: Divorce: Don's drinking. extramarital affairs 66.5-76.5: Life with Alcoholic: Geneva's role, threats, mean to children, bill collectors, abuse of children, saves money, moves out, Don's threats, marriage counselor, abuse of Geneva 76.5-80.5: Divorce Trial: Don doesn't show up, boss supportive, 80.5-85.5: Loses Job: 85.5-90; Education: garnished wages company closes, overqualification, works as bookkeeper, loan officer, robberies CA high school, real estate law, UW, interest in marine biology, Clint leaves, living atmosphere, money, jobs, lonliness 90-91.5: Ken in Vietnam: worst year of life, didn't know what was 91.5-94: Singlehood: 94-101.5: 2nd Husband: 101.5-104: Wedding: 104-109: Retirement: 109-112: Expectations: 112-115.5: Happiness: happening, Ken's return, Clint's wandering, proximity of children, lonliness church, single's club, dance at Elk's club Viggo Skaug, met at luau, Policeman's dance, deep sea fisherman, dinner and dancing, Peppy, disagreement, going steady, marriage proposal blue dress, no honeymoon, resides at his house, Norway, Viggo's mother reluctant, nothing to do, found current house, fix up, garden, memories of Aunt Rosie's, tomato worm didn't expect this way of life, loan for house, move to house, house fix ups grandchildren, husband, dancing, Sons of Norway, Christmases and Thanksgivings 115.5-124.75: Restaurant: baked pies, couldn't leave children, trade 124.75-129: Clint: 129-130.5: Charles Story: of home for restaurant, coal furnace, menu, memories of Mary Baxter, basketball team hired to help, fired, Clint as babysitter, blackberry jam, life on Lake, the West, prefers West beauty of the West
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Title | Skaug, Geneva Oral History Interview, 1988 |
Interviewer | Wildung, Kristine |
Date | 1988-10-29 |
Description | 131 minute oral history with Geneva Skaug, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. Her childhood was filled with illness and family disasters. She married but had to move around a lot due to unemployment; her first husband had a drinking and became abusive until she took her children and left him. She moved out west, worked hard as a loan agent and in a research lab, put her children through college, and retired with her second husband. |
Subject | Housewives; Internal migration; Employment |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Union County--Blairsville; North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Clarke County--Athens; North and Central America--United States--California--Los Angeles County--Los Angeles; North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua220b03f21 |
Source | Is found in Archives 220, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua220.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files, and then converted to flv files for online display. Print documents were scanned to 300dpi pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua220b03f21_Abstract |
Full Text | Tape Index/Summary for Geneva Skaug Minute: 0-3: Childhood Memories: whooping cough, mother's ilness, brushing mother's hair, mother's speech to children when she's dying, mother's funeral, carriage goes in ditch, 4 years old 3-4.5: Mother's Illness: Bright's Disease, no dialysis, youngest child born 6 month's before mother's death, effect of childbirth on illness, 11 children, mother 46 when died 4.5-5.5: Aunt Mary Payne: 97 when died, 5 children, had only radio in family, listened to Amos and Andy, lived in Athens, GA 5.5-7: Geneva's Family: 11 children, 5 boys and 6 girls, Edith left in charge after mother's death, Boys- Ornar, Edgar, Oscar, Charles, Jimmy Girls- Edith, Esther, Ruth, Isadora, Geneva, Nora (Mashburn) 7-11: Movement of Family: House where mother died, farm, memories of fire at brother's house, memory of fire on roof of family house, Negro woman, mad dog and horse, Aunt Rosie's, Alexander Place, Place by creek, Nicholson Place 11-12.15: School Memories: Taught to read by older brothers and sisters 12.15-14: Father's Employment: worked away from horne, farm didn't work out, railroading, farming, goes to Ohio for work in a glass factory 14-16.5: Travels of Charles & 16.5-23: Florida: Oscar: Aunt Rosie's, Archer Grove School memories Father finds work, moves family, Ford touring car, duplex with father's sister, history of father, Uncle Melvin, malaria fever 23-29: Athens: 29-37: Memories of Aunt Rosie's: Jimmy's work, no school, Hurricane memories, Father's loos of money in stock market crash, Father's character, Aunt Rosie as doctor, mumps Easters, riding stallion, nicknames of family members, Charles as doctor, haunted house, closeness of family 37-~9: Father's accident: Father falls while inspecting building, lives 39-42: Move to Calif.: but never well, move to Atlanta, doctor suggests dry climate no money, carnpouts on road, arrive Easter Sunday 1932, memories of beautiful colors, Courtyard house, move to Bundy Drive 42-45: 1933 Earthquake: memories of sidewalk humping, turning off gas, Bing Crosby, Long Beach, cousin, feels sisters should leave CA 45-48: Trip to Calif.: 48-49: Meets husband: went with daughter, Oscar's pig ranch, memories of glimpsing Washington, walnut tree, 34 years in Northwest CA marriage, middle of Depression, work~as carhop, Don can't find work, Uncle's newspaper in Wisconsin 49-52.5: Wisconsin: 1 room apartment, pot-bellied stove, waitress, promoted to cashier, move to Madison to open dqnut shop, Don takes over, business fails, D~~rs philosophy, waitressing 52.5-56.5: Don's work: Wisconsin insurance company as bookkeeper, move to Chicago, memories of John McArthur 56.5-59.5: Don's ambitions: buys insurance company, can't pay claims, commissioner shuts them down, $50,000 in debt in 1953, all 3 children 59.5-62.5: Memories of John McArthur: Indicted for mail fraud 62.5-66.5: Divorce: Don's drinking. extramarital affairs 66.5-76.5: Life with Alcoholic: Geneva's role, threats, mean to children, bill collectors, abuse of children, saves money, moves out, Don's threats, marriage counselor, abuse of Geneva 76.5-80.5: Divorce Trial: Don doesn't show up, boss supportive, 80.5-85.5: Loses Job: 85.5-90; Education: garnished wages company closes, overqualification, works as bookkeeper, loan officer, robberies CA high school, real estate law, UW, interest in marine biology, Clint leaves, living atmosphere, money, jobs, lonliness 90-91.5: Ken in Vietnam: worst year of life, didn't know what was 91.5-94: Singlehood: 94-101.5: 2nd Husband: 101.5-104: Wedding: 104-109: Retirement: 109-112: Expectations: 112-115.5: Happiness: happening, Ken's return, Clint's wandering, proximity of children, lonliness church, single's club, dance at Elk's club Viggo Skaug, met at luau, Policeman's dance, deep sea fisherman, dinner and dancing, Peppy, disagreement, going steady, marriage proposal blue dress, no honeymoon, resides at his house, Norway, Viggo's mother reluctant, nothing to do, found current house, fix up, garden, memories of Aunt Rosie's, tomato worm didn't expect this way of life, loan for house, move to house, house fix ups grandchildren, husband, dancing, Sons of Norway, Christmases and Thanksgivings 115.5-124.75: Restaurant: baked pies, couldn't leave children, trade 124.75-129: Clint: 129-130.5: Charles Story: of home for restaurant, coal furnace, menu, memories of Mary Baxter, basketball team hired to help, fired, Clint as babysitter, blackberry jam, life on Lake, the West, prefers West beauty of the West |
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