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Title	Wave Verkist Interview
Date	1980-07-08
Interviewee	Verkist, Wave
Description	Interview by Kathryn Anderson as part of Washington Women's Heritage Project . Interview topics include : Geographic Locations: Ferndale, Lynden, Bellingham, Marietta, Mt. Baker, Washington . Subjects: Native American Indian and white settler relations, household chores and activities, writing career-Puget Sounder and Bellingham Herald, occupations-secretary, teaching, marriage, homesteading, wildlife, overwhelming nature, old growth forests, music, Normal school, farming, animals, clearing land, fruit harvesting, selling fruit to fish cannery in Ferndale, primitive water and heating conditions, children’s jobs, threshing, airplanes, WWII, gardening, food preparation, camping, Lummi-Stomish, Indian woman midwife/doctor, discrimination against Native Americans, minorities, school subjects, novel writing, Great Depression, her children’s occupations, rest homes . Organizations: PTA, Old Settlers Picnic, Grange.
Listen to Audio	Audio available online (edited version)online. Click here to listen to interview clip 1: http://media.wce.wwu.edu/cpnws/WWHP/VerkistW19800708-1a.mp3 (30:45) Click here to listen to edited interview clip 2: http://media.wce.wwu.edu/cpnws/WWHP/VerkistW19800708-1bEDIT.mp3 (21:22) Click here to listen to edited interview clip 3: http://media.wce.wwu.edu/cpnws/WWHP/VerkistW19800708-2aEDIT.mp3 (29:01)
Transcript	Edited transcript available at : http://west.wwu.edu/cpnws/findingaids/cpnws/Transcripts/WWHP/Verkist19800708transcriptEDIT.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	Audio cassette recording (two tapes, 60 minutes and 30 minutes) digitized as 44.1kHz (16 bit) WAV file (Archival Copy), with access copy saved in mp3 format.
Date of Digital Object	2007-05-03 and 2007-06-04
Identifier	VerkistW19800708
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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