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Title	Lucille Mason Interview
Date	1979-05-24
Interviewee	Mason, Lucille
Description	Interview by Kass Friend as part of Washington Women's Heritage Project . Interview topics include : Geographic Locations: Freedonia (located between Burlington and Anacortes), Skagit County, Mount Vernon Subjects: Begins with Mason's memories of her grandparents (German Immigrants), migration from New Jersey to Inglewood, Washington with 13 children in 1889 near Lake Sammamish. Tells about transportation to Seattle by boat. Uncle settled in what was Freedonia, between Burlington and Anacortes. Mother (dressmaker), Father (teacher), home schooling, home made clothing, memories of one room school house and having her father as her teacher, education in Skagit County, Mount Vernon, women's higher education, discussion about women's colleges, teaching botany, micro-biology while raising a child, being pregnant while teaching: unusual. Discussion of tension during WWII when schools attendance was down because west coast so close to Japan. Discusses "box socials", fundraising for charity, sex education, attitudes about sex, birth control, incest, pre-marital relations, monetary discrimination for female teachers, suffrage amendment, voting rights, alternatives women's roles, discussion about life pre welfare, charity, poor farm, women's social customs, talks about her relationship with son, David Mason - former Fairhaven College professor.
Listen to Audio	Audio available online. Click here to listen to interview clip 1: http://media.wce.wwu.edu/cpnws/WWHP/MasonL19790524-1a.mp3 (46:34) Click here to listen to interview clip 2: http://media.wce.wwu.edu/cpnws/WWHP/MasonL19790524-1b.mp3 (22:33) Click here to listen to interview clip 3: http://media.wce.wwu.edu/cpnws/WWHP/MasonL19790524-2a.mp3 (42:12) Click here to listen to interview clip 4: http://media.wce.wwu.edu/cpnws/WWHP/MasonL19790524-2b.mp3 (12:03)
Transcript	Full transcript available at : http://west.wwu.edu/cpnws/findingaids/cpnws/Transcripts/WWHP/MasonL19790510transcript.pdf
Contributors	Friend, Kass
Collection Name	Washington Women's Heritage Project records
Repository	Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
Additional Information	For more information about this resource, contact the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA 98225-9123. Tel: (360) 650-7747. Please cite the Identifier name/number.
Document Type	oral histories (document genres)
Language	Materials entirely in English.
Digital Collection	Washington Women's History Consortium- Oral Histories
Digital Format	Audio cassette recording (three tapes, 60 minutes each) digitized as 44.1kHz (16 bit) WAV file (Archival Copy), with access copy saved in mp3 format.
Date of Digital Object	2007-03-22
Identifier	MasonL19790524
Grant Project	Funding to digitize this resource was made available by a grant from the Washington State Legislature to the Washington Women's History Consortium.
Publisher	Published by the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Rights	Permission to publish or display this resource must be obtained from the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University.
Subject	Women--Washington (State)--History--Sources
Geographic Subject	Washington (State)

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