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TAPE SUMMARY OF ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH MRS. ADALINE KEENER TAPE 1 Side 1 0-4 4-10 10-11 11-16 16-23 23-30 30-34 34-35 Remembers her parents and brothers and sisters, her family. Talks of childhood. She was born in Oklahoma, but the family moved to Idaho when she was eight years old. The family made their own entertainment--the children played together, read in the evenings. She was fond of Little Women. The house in Oklahoma was made of sod. Moved from Oklahoma to Kansas to Idaho. Does not remember there being much religious training before moving to Idaho. In Idaho there were the fire and brimstone type ministers that frightened her. Feels that there must have been some early training but cannot remember it. She began her education in Idaho in a one room schoolhouse with one teacher and about 10-12 students. Had a male cousin that was the same age, so always someone else in her class. Walked four miles to school. Enjoyed history and spelling. Won awards for her spelling. Finished the eighth grade. Remembers school in winter months. The superintendent, a woman, would ride in on horseback. Out of school during the warm months. Had a small enclosure built over a natural spring to keep foods cold. Cooking done on a wood stove. Had rough floors that were scrubbed so often that they became smooth. Braided rugs made for the floors. All heating done by wood. The house in Idaho had three bedrooms. Always had others to share her room with. Always two to each bed. First beds remembered were large pillowcases filled with straw covered by a comforter. Their home was always clean. Clothes washed on a board. After she married had no electricity so did the wash on a board. Her one chore, as a child, was keeping the oil lamps clean. Did not like that job. Had recess at school. Always was a loner. No girls her own age around very often. Entertained herself by watching the others or reading. The younger ones thought she was rough in her play. There were boys her age at school, but boys and girls did not play together then. Grew up very naive. Knew there were things that were "no-nos11 • Not advanced as children are today. Never heard mother or father say a dirty word around the children. Parents did not drink or smoke. Her father had a moustache that he would shave and then grow back again, never had a beard. Did not have the chance to go on to high school. Would have had to board at Grangeville, and the family could not afford it. After the eighth grade stayed home and helped her mother. 35-39 39-42 42-50 50-52 52-55 TAPE 1 Side 2 0-10 10-12~ Moved from Wichita, Kansas to Joseph, Idaho on the train. The first time she remembers seeing Negros., They were in the train station listening to a fight on the raidio. They were loud and boisterous and scared her. Were met in Grangeville by an uncle and taken to Joseph. Her mother's parents and sister were living there. Does not remember much about the train ride. Brought food with them. One time father had to go get food when the train made a stop. They were excited to get food from another state. Rented a house in Joseph, Idaho. Father farmed and had cattle. All helped in caring for the animals and had other chores. After her marriage, she had to keep up a garden. Met her husband by being thrown together at potluck dinners and dances. He was twelve years her senior. Dating was so different then. No set pattern--just drop by. It was a "getting used to one another" type of relationship. He asked her father for her hand in marriage. Her father knew how she felt and accepted. Easier to get to know one another then. They were neighbors. His name was Price Keener. They were the same height and weight when they married. He had cattle and hogs with a nice home. Did not take anything with her into the marriage, money was scarce. Just moved in with her husband. Were married on January 3, 1925 in Grangeville, Idaho. Had a new dress; he was in a suit. Honeymooned in Grangeville for a few days. He passed away. Did not go to doctor until really sick. She moved to Cottonwood for the children to go to high school. He stayed at the ranch. He got sick, saw the doctor in Grangeville, and got medication. Was in a coma for six weeks. Doctors said it was a liver disease, but he did not respond to the treatments. She believes it may have been cancer. Was 37 years old when her husband died. David is the oldest son and was 17 when his father died. Soon afterwords, she signed for him to go into the Navy. Otherwise he would have been drafted into the Army. Had boot camp at Farragut. Served on the destroyer Sullivan named for the five brothers that died. Sent to the South Pacific. Not hurt physically in the war, but scarred all the same. Went out for the first time for nineteen months, then out again. Stayed in the Navy for three years. World War II effected her in that it took her sons away. Was in Cottonwood at the time. Not much to do to help the war effort but give blood. She could not do that. Sent packages to David, like fruitcake. Three of her sons were in before the war was over. Had her own house in Cottonwood, so the children could get their educations. 12~-24~ Held many different types of jobs. Cooked for thrashers, did house cleaning for neighbors. 35 cents-an-hour was the rate. Went to the bakery to work. Asked for and got 50 cents-an-hour. Husband died in 1943. She worked at the bakery for sixteen years. Quit for health reasons--had blood clot near her heart and the doctors did not want her doing heavy work. Stayed in apartment in Grangeville. Saw in the Want Ads that a sorority house at Washington State University needed a cook. Applied for and got the job. Began November 11, 1959. Learned a lot at this job. The sorority rented her a room in one of the halls on campus. Stayed with the Chi Omegas until 1964 when her health failed again. Got small apartment in Grangeville and stayed with youngest daughter's (Marie) children while Marie worked. Kept sleeping rooms for awhile in 1970 until she moved to Lewiston to stay with her sister. Finally moved to the apartment where she is now. Did some food demonstrations for Rosauer's in the Meat Department until her health worsened again. 24~-28 During World War I were in Joseph. The flu was going around. Was like a dream--the war did not seem real. Were so isolated that the news was slow to get to them. Heard about the celebration when the Armistice was signed. Joseph was very isolated, like a colony alone. 28-36 Married during the Depression and lived in Cul-de-Sac. No one had money. Had a garden. Traded vegetables for wheat which was ground into flour. Sold eggs and butter for money to buy clothes. Ate own meat, vegetables, fruit. Bought Indian land in Cul-de-Sac that had fruit trees on it. 36-40 Had a mid-wife come in when the children were born in Joseph. While in Cul-de-Sac had a doctor for the births. Then went back to Joseph and had land and cattle. 40-41 Her mother died of cancer while she was in Cul-de-Sac, so she raised some of her brothers and sisters. 41-46 Remembers the first time she saw a black in the train station in Kansas. Noticed them because they were loud and excited about the fight they were listening to on the radio. There were no blacks in the neighborhoods where she lived. Saw Chinese and Japanese when she was older. Were Indians in Cul-de-Sac, but they kept to themselves. Did not hear about the Japanese Internment Camps of World War II until recently. Remembers seeing the film about Sullivan brothers as guests of the theatre because her son was serving on the destroyer named for them. 46-48 Went to the theatre quite a bit. Children could get in for 11 cents. Marie, her youngest, loved the movies and would see the ones she liked several times. 48-50 50-54 54-55 55-58 TAPE 2 Side 1 0-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12 Doesn't feel different as a woman from the West. It is all she has ever known--living in the West. Only thing she is bitter about is not being able to go further than the eighth grade for school. Still, she believes that she got a better education up to the eighth grade than kids do now. Describes her mother as being a very gentle person. However, she did not prepare them for what was to come in life. Remembers that her mother worried when she did not menstrate at an early age. Had a very rough idea of sex, but was really very naive about it all. Felt her mother was a good mother, she just did not know how to talk to her children about sex. For menstration used boiled rags to protect the clothing. Feels that was hygenically better that what we have now. Birth control was available, but no one discussed it. Abortion was not an option. Wonders if having so many children was good for the child. They got no individual attention. Felt that if she had remarried after her husband died, then it would have created problems. There was no place in the family, with teen-aged boys, for a step-father. Did date a man after husband had been dead for three years--a widower with a nice car. They had fun, got along well, dated for five years. He would not marry someone who was not a Catholic, and she would not give up her religion for a man. He was Henry Hattrop, a German Catholic. She is too independent for her own good. Needs to let others do for her. ·Her family is willing to help her; she just has to let them. Speaks of daughter, Joyce, being helpful. Is different from her daughter, Marie. Their situations are so different. Marie has security with a nice home and a husband who is still around. Their personalities are very different. She likes to stay busy and has always been that way, while Marie is comfortable staying home with her pets. She is differnt from her granddaughter, Terri. Terri is very wrapped up in her work. Sees the need for Terri to go on for her Master's degree. Accepted Terri's plans to travel to Japan. Worried about her while she was gone. Felt she was too far away when things, such a death in the family, occurred. Felt she would have been helpful at home at this time. Can identify with some of the changing roles of women in American society. But, feels that women are too anxious to prove themselves to men. Have to prove that women are as good 12-14 14-17 as men. She is not interested in proving a point. Believes abortion should be up to the individual. Why is abortion such an issue? The happiest time in her life was when the family was small, and the children were dependent on them. They were a single unit. Then children grow up and things change. The hardest times for her were the first few years that her husband was gone. Wonders if she had not had the five children what her life would have been like. Would she have done anything constructive with her life? She is, most generally, a happy person.
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Title | Keener, Adaline & White, Marie & Terri Oral History Interviews, 1990 |
Interviewer | Oswald, Tina A. |
Date | 1990-05-08 |
Description | 92 minute oral history with Adaline Keener, 132 minute oral history with Marie White, and 86 minute oral history with Terri White, all conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. Adaline Keener discusses her childhood at home with her family and her education as a child. She married, lived on a ranch with her husband until he died then she moved to Cottonwood so her sons could attend high school. She discusses World War II's effect on her family, the Depression and what jobs she held throughout her life. Marie White discusses her childhood living on a ranch, domestic chores done by women and field work done by men, her early education, and no sex education from her parents. She discusses her marriage and her children, raising them differently then how she was raised. She worked on and off though out her whole life to help support her family but believes that women need an education, marriage, then a career. Terri White discusses her childhood with her family: very family orientated and education was important. She discusses the roles her parents had in the family, the expectations of her as a child, and the many different religious aspects of her life. She went to college and loved the experience; she believes that a woman does not need to marry to be happy and that women can be independent. |
Subject | Working mothers; Housewives; Ranches; Employment; Religious education |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Idaho--Idaho County--Cottonwood; North and Central America--United States--Idaho--Nez Perce County--Joseph; North and Central America--United States--Oklahoma; North and Central America--United States--Idaho--Idaho County--Grangeville; North and Central America--United States--Idaho--Latah County--Moscow; North and Central America--United States--Idaho--Clearwater County--Orofino; North and Central America--United States--Montana--Silver Bow County--Missoula |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
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Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua220b05f32 |
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 | ua220b05f32_Abstract - Adaline Keener |
Full Text | TAPE SUMMARY OF ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH MRS. ADALINE KEENER TAPE 1 Side 1 0-4 4-10 10-11 11-16 16-23 23-30 30-34 34-35 Remembers her parents and brothers and sisters, her family. Talks of childhood. She was born in Oklahoma, but the family moved to Idaho when she was eight years old. The family made their own entertainment--the children played together, read in the evenings. She was fond of Little Women. The house in Oklahoma was made of sod. Moved from Oklahoma to Kansas to Idaho. Does not remember there being much religious training before moving to Idaho. In Idaho there were the fire and brimstone type ministers that frightened her. Feels that there must have been some early training but cannot remember it. She began her education in Idaho in a one room schoolhouse with one teacher and about 10-12 students. Had a male cousin that was the same age, so always someone else in her class. Walked four miles to school. Enjoyed history and spelling. Won awards for her spelling. Finished the eighth grade. Remembers school in winter months. The superintendent, a woman, would ride in on horseback. Out of school during the warm months. Had a small enclosure built over a natural spring to keep foods cold. Cooking done on a wood stove. Had rough floors that were scrubbed so often that they became smooth. Braided rugs made for the floors. All heating done by wood. The house in Idaho had three bedrooms. Always had others to share her room with. Always two to each bed. First beds remembered were large pillowcases filled with straw covered by a comforter. Their home was always clean. Clothes washed on a board. After she married had no electricity so did the wash on a board. Her one chore, as a child, was keeping the oil lamps clean. Did not like that job. Had recess at school. Always was a loner. No girls her own age around very often. Entertained herself by watching the others or reading. The younger ones thought she was rough in her play. There were boys her age at school, but boys and girls did not play together then. Grew up very naive. Knew there were things that were "no-nos11 • Not advanced as children are today. Never heard mother or father say a dirty word around the children. Parents did not drink or smoke. Her father had a moustache that he would shave and then grow back again, never had a beard. Did not have the chance to go on to high school. Would have had to board at Grangeville, and the family could not afford it. After the eighth grade stayed home and helped her mother. 35-39 39-42 42-50 50-52 52-55 TAPE 1 Side 2 0-10 10-12~ Moved from Wichita, Kansas to Joseph, Idaho on the train. The first time she remembers seeing Negros., They were in the train station listening to a fight on the raidio. They were loud and boisterous and scared her. Were met in Grangeville by an uncle and taken to Joseph. Her mother's parents and sister were living there. Does not remember much about the train ride. Brought food with them. One time father had to go get food when the train made a stop. They were excited to get food from another state. Rented a house in Joseph, Idaho. Father farmed and had cattle. All helped in caring for the animals and had other chores. After her marriage, she had to keep up a garden. Met her husband by being thrown together at potluck dinners and dances. He was twelve years her senior. Dating was so different then. No set pattern--just drop by. It was a "getting used to one another" type of relationship. He asked her father for her hand in marriage. Her father knew how she felt and accepted. Easier to get to know one another then. They were neighbors. His name was Price Keener. They were the same height and weight when they married. He had cattle and hogs with a nice home. Did not take anything with her into the marriage, money was scarce. Just moved in with her husband. Were married on January 3, 1925 in Grangeville, Idaho. Had a new dress; he was in a suit. Honeymooned in Grangeville for a few days. He passed away. Did not go to doctor until really sick. She moved to Cottonwood for the children to go to high school. He stayed at the ranch. He got sick, saw the doctor in Grangeville, and got medication. Was in a coma for six weeks. Doctors said it was a liver disease, but he did not respond to the treatments. She believes it may have been cancer. Was 37 years old when her husband died. David is the oldest son and was 17 when his father died. Soon afterwords, she signed for him to go into the Navy. Otherwise he would have been drafted into the Army. Had boot camp at Farragut. Served on the destroyer Sullivan named for the five brothers that died. Sent to the South Pacific. Not hurt physically in the war, but scarred all the same. Went out for the first time for nineteen months, then out again. Stayed in the Navy for three years. World War II effected her in that it took her sons away. Was in Cottonwood at the time. Not much to do to help the war effort but give blood. She could not do that. Sent packages to David, like fruitcake. Three of her sons were in before the war was over. Had her own house in Cottonwood, so the children could get their educations. 12~-24~ Held many different types of jobs. Cooked for thrashers, did house cleaning for neighbors. 35 cents-an-hour was the rate. Went to the bakery to work. Asked for and got 50 cents-an-hour. Husband died in 1943. She worked at the bakery for sixteen years. Quit for health reasons--had blood clot near her heart and the doctors did not want her doing heavy work. Stayed in apartment in Grangeville. Saw in the Want Ads that a sorority house at Washington State University needed a cook. Applied for and got the job. Began November 11, 1959. Learned a lot at this job. The sorority rented her a room in one of the halls on campus. Stayed with the Chi Omegas until 1964 when her health failed again. Got small apartment in Grangeville and stayed with youngest daughter's (Marie) children while Marie worked. Kept sleeping rooms for awhile in 1970 until she moved to Lewiston to stay with her sister. Finally moved to the apartment where she is now. Did some food demonstrations for Rosauer's in the Meat Department until her health worsened again. 24~-28 During World War I were in Joseph. The flu was going around. Was like a dream--the war did not seem real. Were so isolated that the news was slow to get to them. Heard about the celebration when the Armistice was signed. Joseph was very isolated, like a colony alone. 28-36 Married during the Depression and lived in Cul-de-Sac. No one had money. Had a garden. Traded vegetables for wheat which was ground into flour. Sold eggs and butter for money to buy clothes. Ate own meat, vegetables, fruit. Bought Indian land in Cul-de-Sac that had fruit trees on it. 36-40 Had a mid-wife come in when the children were born in Joseph. While in Cul-de-Sac had a doctor for the births. Then went back to Joseph and had land and cattle. 40-41 Her mother died of cancer while she was in Cul-de-Sac, so she raised some of her brothers and sisters. 41-46 Remembers the first time she saw a black in the train station in Kansas. Noticed them because they were loud and excited about the fight they were listening to on the radio. There were no blacks in the neighborhoods where she lived. Saw Chinese and Japanese when she was older. Were Indians in Cul-de-Sac, but they kept to themselves. Did not hear about the Japanese Internment Camps of World War II until recently. Remembers seeing the film about Sullivan brothers as guests of the theatre because her son was serving on the destroyer named for them. 46-48 Went to the theatre quite a bit. Children could get in for 11 cents. Marie, her youngest, loved the movies and would see the ones she liked several times. 48-50 50-54 54-55 55-58 TAPE 2 Side 1 0-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12 Doesn't feel different as a woman from the West. It is all she has ever known--living in the West. Only thing she is bitter about is not being able to go further than the eighth grade for school. Still, she believes that she got a better education up to the eighth grade than kids do now. Describes her mother as being a very gentle person. However, she did not prepare them for what was to come in life. Remembers that her mother worried when she did not menstrate at an early age. Had a very rough idea of sex, but was really very naive about it all. Felt her mother was a good mother, she just did not know how to talk to her children about sex. For menstration used boiled rags to protect the clothing. Feels that was hygenically better that what we have now. Birth control was available, but no one discussed it. Abortion was not an option. Wonders if having so many children was good for the child. They got no individual attention. Felt that if she had remarried after her husband died, then it would have created problems. There was no place in the family, with teen-aged boys, for a step-father. Did date a man after husband had been dead for three years--a widower with a nice car. They had fun, got along well, dated for five years. He would not marry someone who was not a Catholic, and she would not give up her religion for a man. He was Henry Hattrop, a German Catholic. She is too independent for her own good. Needs to let others do for her. ·Her family is willing to help her; she just has to let them. Speaks of daughter, Joyce, being helpful. Is different from her daughter, Marie. Their situations are so different. Marie has security with a nice home and a husband who is still around. Their personalities are very different. She likes to stay busy and has always been that way, while Marie is comfortable staying home with her pets. She is differnt from her granddaughter, Terri. Terri is very wrapped up in her work. Sees the need for Terri to go on for her Master's degree. Accepted Terri's plans to travel to Japan. Worried about her while she was gone. Felt she was too far away when things, such a death in the family, occurred. Felt she would have been helpful at home at this time. Can identify with some of the changing roles of women in American society. But, feels that women are too anxious to prove themselves to men. Have to prove that women are as good 12-14 14-17 as men. She is not interested in proving a point. Believes abortion should be up to the individual. Why is abortion such an issue? The happiest time in her life was when the family was small, and the children were dependent on them. They were a single unit. Then children grow up and things change. The hardest times for her were the first few years that her husband was gone. Wonders if she had not had the five children what her life would have been like. Would she have done anything constructive with her life? She is, most generally, a happy person. |
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