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Eva Mae Hendrickson 19 March 2003 Washington State University Interviewed by Barbara L. Aasen Side A. 000-007 007-018 018-044 045-096 096-120 120-144 144-159 159-186 Introduction Blank Born in Moscow, Idaho to Leon and Mae Nelson Cay at the old Gritman Hospital. Eva Mae was their only child, she had lots of aunts and uncles in the area, but none of her cousins lived nearby. Family home was in the far comer of three school districts, therefore she attended school in Moscow, during bad weather, such as in the winter she remained in town over night with her aunt and uncle. Otherwise she caught a ride into town and went to the relative's house for lunch. Special events include the Maypole; mothers made organdy dresses for their daughters to match their ribbons. Organdy probably cost fifteen cents a yard at the time. Attended the brand new Russell School, began in first grade. Teacher had to show her now much fun it was to play with other children. They played organized games on playground, examples are "Here We come Gathering Nuts in May," and "Farmer in the Dell," there was no adult supervision of the games nor on the playground itself. Eva Mae's first garden at age three and a half or four years old, she estimated her age, because the family moved from A Street in Moscow to a ranch in December of 1928. "Always, put our cream in the front of the case," her mother told her when they delivered butter and cream to the grocery store. Though her father often had a hired man, whom he paid room and board and the fellow's tobacco, Eva Mae also helped out on the ranch. Her first paid job was for her uncle, for twenty-five cents per week, she helped to pull loose hay to the bam. A penny bought a lot of candy at the "Old Lady's," a store in a two story house on Third Street in Moscow, Idaho. At the age of six years, Eva Mae drove a team of horses pulling a grain wagon into Moscow, following her father's lead wagon. 186-210 210-218 219-235 236-245 245-267 267-379 379-389 389-424 Once at the granary, her father encouraged her to bring the load on up the ramp. "I could do it," she explained on the tape. "Milking was difficult for me, so mother and I made a deal, if I fed the cows and cleaned the barn, mother milked." Mother could produce milk in the bucket so fast; there was six inches of foam on the top. "I knew exactly how to throw manure out that hole without making a mistake," she said. A Saturday chore was cleaning the chicken house. Her first pair of coveralls and the only spanking she ever received from her mother. She still prefers dresses to this day. She attended Sunday school at the Swedish Lutheran Church. As a child she was never lonesome, playing by herself on the ranch. Favorite toys were paper dolls, and one summer she had a bum lamb to care for. She liked to cook, as well. 2 She never washed dishes by herself, she and her mother did them together. The dishpan sat on the back of the wood stove. Water had to be hauled in a barrel a distance of two long blocks to the house. Cream separators disks had to be washed everyday, and scalded. The family cured their own bacon and hams, to freshen them (removing the excess salt), the procedure was to pour fresh milk on the meat and heating it on the stove, and then the milk was poured off. Her cooking error was salting the ham after it was cooked. To bake you checked the heat with your hand. When canning pints of com, the water had to be continually boiling in the water bath for four hours. Her mother threw pine on the fire to quicken the fire and fir to reduce the heat. Her mother and grandmother spoke Swedish on the party line, so neighbors probably though they were talking about them. Eva Mae said, "she knew what they were talking about, although she could not speak Swedish herself." Half the kids left the schoolyard to go to the Grand Opening of Dr. Robinson's new drugstore, they stood in a line which blocked Third Street, between Washington and Main, to receive a free ice cream cone. Back at school they were called to the office and reprimanded by the principal. 424-458 458-494 494-522 522-537 538-569 570-606 606-648 649-668 668-724 725-738 Side B 007-033 Autumn of 1936, the family moved, the new house had a water pump in the house and d c current, so they could had electric lights, but no electric appliances. Before that her mother kept a salt shaker next to the kerosene lamp to put out fires. 3 First time riding the school bus to school. In the winter she rode her horse to a meeting place and the bus driver took the children to school in a bobsled from there. That winter, the weather was so bad; the children missed three weeks of school. Eva Mae began stamp collecting that winter, as an educational project. She still collects stamps today. When she was fourteen she was hired by a neighbor to rake a hundred acres of peas, when it was time to be paid, she told the neighbor, her father told her not to take and pay for the job. The neighbor was to apply her pay towards what her father owned him. When Eva Mae needed money for something, her parents gave her what she needed, never more than she needed. When she was in third grade, still at Roosevelt school, the children were very involved in politics, they wanted to know who was a Democrat and who was a Republican. Eve Mae had no idea which she was her parents did not discuss politics at home. More on canning and wood splitting. The first fresh strawberries she ate each year gave her hives. She said it was common at the time for lots of people to get hives from foods they were not used to. How the family took care of a hundred chicks each spring. By the first of July, fryers would be ready for the table. Even though peaches and huckleberries are tasty, you get tired of a steady diet of them. Grandparents are so important, children can learn so much from them. Blank When she entered high school, she decided to take the so called hard courses, because she planned to go to college. These course included geometry and chemistry. She wanted to be an airline hostess, but she was 033-050 050-057 057-066 066-072 072-097 097-123 124-138 138-146 146-167 168-187 too short, therefore she determined to go to the University of Idaho and study home economics. During her senior year, the students heard President Roosevelt announce the bombing of Pearl Harbor on the intercom system. Some ofthe boys' plans changed, but hers did not, she was still able to go to college. She attended college but did not finish, she preferred to make money, wanted to buy her mother a refrigerator. Worked for a mail order religion. She did typing and hauled mail to the post office. At the age of twenty-four, she decided to get married, her husband owned the ranch were she still lives today. Her husband, Martin, was thirteen years older than she was, so they decided to start their family as soon as possible. Her husband went to the doctor for a physical before making the decision; they wanted to make sure he was in good health before starting their family. People often did not live past sixty back then, Martin lived to be ninety-one. Her pregnancies and deliveries were very easy. Labor felt like the flu to her, which became a family joke. 4 The couple decided to limit their family and only had two sons, because education was important to them and they wanted to be able to give that to their children. Eva Mae gives more information on her childbirths. Her husband bought her the new Westinghouse Twins, a washer and dryer, no wet diapers were going to hang around their house. Her husband spoiled her she said. Her contributions to the family business, were taking care of the home and children, along with cooking for the hired men. Eva Mae was joiner; she belonged to the federated Women club, taught Sunday school, and was a 4-H leader. Thoughts on the empty-nest syndrome, she was always grateful her children were ready for the next step in life. The boys earned their college money by working on the ranch during the summer, but it also meant more hired men worked on their ranch. The family combined family trips with business trips while the boys were still residing at home. 188-194 195-207 208-229 229-250 251-271 272-283 283-291 292-307 307-325 325-359 359-378 382-436 436-488 489-508 508-511 5 Eva Mae and her husband, Martin went to Denmark to see his relatives, (his parents were from there). From there they traveled to Sweden, so Eva Mae could visit the area her grandparents were from. The purchase of a vacation horne, and the family's entertaining at that horne. Eva Mae and her husband loved to fish. How she learned to drive and her first drivers license at sixteen. Social events she enjoyed with her husband. They enjoyed local dances and tea dances in Spokane, plus their pinochle club and picnics. She worked split shifts at the Garfield Post Office for twenty-five years, retired in 1990. Between 10 am and 1 prn, she made dinner for Martin and their hired men; she was also able to keep her laundry up during this same time. Quilting and quilting clubs. Riding a horse was a necessity in her youth and her father always insisted she ride bareback. Not only could she change a tire by herself, she could repair the tire on the spot. She gives the directions on how that was done. Discusses rationing during World War II, and how it affected farm families with hired men to feed. Discussion on nylon stockings, silk stockings, and colored lotion for the legs during World War II and wearing made over dresses to college. She discuses the "vintage correct" quilt top she is making, from quilting squares from her auntie, her mother's and her own dresses from the 1930s and 40s. "Multi-tasking," baking and laundry are combined activities. Sex education and preparation for her first menstrual period. Eva Mae took swimming lessons at the then new Moscow swimming pool built by the WP A. She reflects on luxuries versus necessities. 512-569 570-628 629-649 650-665 658-736 736 Available birth control methods and her choices. Discuses her exposure to people from minority groups, they were always welcome in her home. Surprise dinner guests were a frequent experience on the ranch. How the ranch functioned and the crops they grew. Her decision, to place the ranch in the Crop Reserve Program (CPR), has resulted in more wildlife on the ranch. End of Side B 6
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Title | Hendrickson, Eva Mae Oral History Interview, 2003 |
Interviewer | Aasen, Barbara |
Date | 2003-04-22 |
Description | 94 minute oral history with Eva Mae Hendrickson, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). As an only child, she talks about her early life, raised on farm near Moscow, Idaho. She went to University of Idaho, married and raised her family on a farm near Moscow, Idaho. She worked outside the home while raising her children. |
Subject | Rural women; Farm life; Working mothers |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Idaho--Latah County--Moscow |
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 | ua262b05f57 |
Source | Is found in Archives 262, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua262.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. Print documents were scanned to pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Full Text | Eva Mae Hendrickson 19 March 2003 Washington State University Interviewed by Barbara L. Aasen Side A. 000-007 007-018 018-044 045-096 096-120 120-144 144-159 159-186 Introduction Blank Born in Moscow, Idaho to Leon and Mae Nelson Cay at the old Gritman Hospital. Eva Mae was their only child, she had lots of aunts and uncles in the area, but none of her cousins lived nearby. Family home was in the far comer of three school districts, therefore she attended school in Moscow, during bad weather, such as in the winter she remained in town over night with her aunt and uncle. Otherwise she caught a ride into town and went to the relative's house for lunch. Special events include the Maypole; mothers made organdy dresses for their daughters to match their ribbons. Organdy probably cost fifteen cents a yard at the time. Attended the brand new Russell School, began in first grade. Teacher had to show her now much fun it was to play with other children. They played organized games on playground, examples are "Here We come Gathering Nuts in May," and "Farmer in the Dell," there was no adult supervision of the games nor on the playground itself. Eva Mae's first garden at age three and a half or four years old, she estimated her age, because the family moved from A Street in Moscow to a ranch in December of 1928. "Always, put our cream in the front of the case," her mother told her when they delivered butter and cream to the grocery store. Though her father often had a hired man, whom he paid room and board and the fellow's tobacco, Eva Mae also helped out on the ranch. Her first paid job was for her uncle, for twenty-five cents per week, she helped to pull loose hay to the bam. A penny bought a lot of candy at the "Old Lady's," a store in a two story house on Third Street in Moscow, Idaho. At the age of six years, Eva Mae drove a team of horses pulling a grain wagon into Moscow, following her father's lead wagon. 186-210 210-218 219-235 236-245 245-267 267-379 379-389 389-424 Once at the granary, her father encouraged her to bring the load on up the ramp. "I could do it," she explained on the tape. "Milking was difficult for me, so mother and I made a deal, if I fed the cows and cleaned the barn, mother milked." Mother could produce milk in the bucket so fast; there was six inches of foam on the top. "I knew exactly how to throw manure out that hole without making a mistake," she said. A Saturday chore was cleaning the chicken house. Her first pair of coveralls and the only spanking she ever received from her mother. She still prefers dresses to this day. She attended Sunday school at the Swedish Lutheran Church. As a child she was never lonesome, playing by herself on the ranch. Favorite toys were paper dolls, and one summer she had a bum lamb to care for. She liked to cook, as well. 2 She never washed dishes by herself, she and her mother did them together. The dishpan sat on the back of the wood stove. Water had to be hauled in a barrel a distance of two long blocks to the house. Cream separators disks had to be washed everyday, and scalded. The family cured their own bacon and hams, to freshen them (removing the excess salt), the procedure was to pour fresh milk on the meat and heating it on the stove, and then the milk was poured off. Her cooking error was salting the ham after it was cooked. To bake you checked the heat with your hand. When canning pints of com, the water had to be continually boiling in the water bath for four hours. Her mother threw pine on the fire to quicken the fire and fir to reduce the heat. Her mother and grandmother spoke Swedish on the party line, so neighbors probably though they were talking about them. Eva Mae said, "she knew what they were talking about, although she could not speak Swedish herself." Half the kids left the schoolyard to go to the Grand Opening of Dr. Robinson's new drugstore, they stood in a line which blocked Third Street, between Washington and Main, to receive a free ice cream cone. Back at school they were called to the office and reprimanded by the principal. 424-458 458-494 494-522 522-537 538-569 570-606 606-648 649-668 668-724 725-738 Side B 007-033 Autumn of 1936, the family moved, the new house had a water pump in the house and d c current, so they could had electric lights, but no electric appliances. Before that her mother kept a salt shaker next to the kerosene lamp to put out fires. 3 First time riding the school bus to school. In the winter she rode her horse to a meeting place and the bus driver took the children to school in a bobsled from there. That winter, the weather was so bad; the children missed three weeks of school. Eva Mae began stamp collecting that winter, as an educational project. She still collects stamps today. When she was fourteen she was hired by a neighbor to rake a hundred acres of peas, when it was time to be paid, she told the neighbor, her father told her not to take and pay for the job. The neighbor was to apply her pay towards what her father owned him. When Eva Mae needed money for something, her parents gave her what she needed, never more than she needed. When she was in third grade, still at Roosevelt school, the children were very involved in politics, they wanted to know who was a Democrat and who was a Republican. Eve Mae had no idea which she was her parents did not discuss politics at home. More on canning and wood splitting. The first fresh strawberries she ate each year gave her hives. She said it was common at the time for lots of people to get hives from foods they were not used to. How the family took care of a hundred chicks each spring. By the first of July, fryers would be ready for the table. Even though peaches and huckleberries are tasty, you get tired of a steady diet of them. Grandparents are so important, children can learn so much from them. Blank When she entered high school, she decided to take the so called hard courses, because she planned to go to college. These course included geometry and chemistry. She wanted to be an airline hostess, but she was 033-050 050-057 057-066 066-072 072-097 097-123 124-138 138-146 146-167 168-187 too short, therefore she determined to go to the University of Idaho and study home economics. During her senior year, the students heard President Roosevelt announce the bombing of Pearl Harbor on the intercom system. Some ofthe boys' plans changed, but hers did not, she was still able to go to college. She attended college but did not finish, she preferred to make money, wanted to buy her mother a refrigerator. Worked for a mail order religion. She did typing and hauled mail to the post office. At the age of twenty-four, she decided to get married, her husband owned the ranch were she still lives today. Her husband, Martin, was thirteen years older than she was, so they decided to start their family as soon as possible. Her husband went to the doctor for a physical before making the decision; they wanted to make sure he was in good health before starting their family. People often did not live past sixty back then, Martin lived to be ninety-one. Her pregnancies and deliveries were very easy. Labor felt like the flu to her, which became a family joke. 4 The couple decided to limit their family and only had two sons, because education was important to them and they wanted to be able to give that to their children. Eva Mae gives more information on her childbirths. Her husband bought her the new Westinghouse Twins, a washer and dryer, no wet diapers were going to hang around their house. Her husband spoiled her she said. Her contributions to the family business, were taking care of the home and children, along with cooking for the hired men. Eva Mae was joiner; she belonged to the federated Women club, taught Sunday school, and was a 4-H leader. Thoughts on the empty-nest syndrome, she was always grateful her children were ready for the next step in life. The boys earned their college money by working on the ranch during the summer, but it also meant more hired men worked on their ranch. The family combined family trips with business trips while the boys were still residing at home. 188-194 195-207 208-229 229-250 251-271 272-283 283-291 292-307 307-325 325-359 359-378 382-436 436-488 489-508 508-511 5 Eva Mae and her husband, Martin went to Denmark to see his relatives, (his parents were from there). From there they traveled to Sweden, so Eva Mae could visit the area her grandparents were from. The purchase of a vacation horne, and the family's entertaining at that horne. Eva Mae and her husband loved to fish. How she learned to drive and her first drivers license at sixteen. Social events she enjoyed with her husband. They enjoyed local dances and tea dances in Spokane, plus their pinochle club and picnics. She worked split shifts at the Garfield Post Office for twenty-five years, retired in 1990. Between 10 am and 1 prn, she made dinner for Martin and their hired men; she was also able to keep her laundry up during this same time. Quilting and quilting clubs. Riding a horse was a necessity in her youth and her father always insisted she ride bareback. Not only could she change a tire by herself, she could repair the tire on the spot. She gives the directions on how that was done. Discusses rationing during World War II, and how it affected farm families with hired men to feed. Discussion on nylon stockings, silk stockings, and colored lotion for the legs during World War II and wearing made over dresses to college. She discuses the "vintage correct" quilt top she is making, from quilting squares from her auntie, her mother's and her own dresses from the 1930s and 40s. "Multi-tasking," baking and laundry are combined activities. Sex education and preparation for her first menstrual period. Eva Mae took swimming lessons at the then new Moscow swimming pool built by the WP A. She reflects on luxuries versus necessities. 512-569 570-628 629-649 650-665 658-736 736 Available birth control methods and her choices. Discuses her exposure to people from minority groups, they were always welcome in her home. Surprise dinner guests were a frequent experience on the ranch. How the ranch functioned and the crops they grew. Her decision, to place the ranch in the Crop Reserve Program (CPR), has resulted in more wildlife on the ranch. End of Side B 6 |
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