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Title	Betty Treese Interview
Date	1980-07-07
Interviewee	Treese, Betty
Description	Interview by Kathryn Anderson as part of Washington Women's Heritage Project . Interview topics include : Geographic Locations: Mountainview, Sumas, Ferndale, Tacoma, Washington; Kansas; Texas; Kentucky Subjects: Family memories, Nooksack Valley, farming in Everson and Mountainview, Everson social life, homesteading, cooking, logging, railway transportation between Bellingham Normal School and Wickersham. Poverty, homelessness, transient workers, fishing, picnics, childbirth, property, fruit orchards, animal husbandry, cedar stumps, milking cattle, fruit sales to Ferndale canneries, berry picking, water resources, wells, threshing, Sumas Mountain, early automobiles, inter-generational life, food preparation, 1918 flu epidemic, war bonds, school memories, PTA, mother was township treasurer, office equipment, labor and household chores, literacy, grange, 1924 election caucus, shingle mills, Ferndale High School, Carnation plant, school activities, Old Settler’s Picnic, Great Depression, WWII, husband’s work: shipyards, construction, Columbia Valley Lumber Company, Red Cross, socialization, community activities, childrearing, reminisces about apathy and lack of values of youth in 1980, country living, hunting, fishing, clam digging.
Listen to Audio	No audio available.
Transcript	Edited transcript available at : http://west.wwu.edu/cpnws/findingaids/cpnws/Transcripts/WWHP/Treese19800707transcriptEDIT.pdf
Contributors	Anderson, Kathryn
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	pdf
Date of Digital Object	2007-06-04
Identifier	Treese19800707
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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