Someone forgot to push the record button. It was the first taped interview with Betty Bowden at Kingsley Middle School. Mistakes happen when you’re teaching kids how to record oral histories.
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Someone forgot to push the record button. It was the first taped interview with Betty Bowden at Kingsley Middle School. Mistakes happen when you’re teaching kids how to record oral histories.
In honor of Veterans Day, I thought I’d share Jack Reamer’s story. Jack, 87, participated in the Kingsley Elders Project and was interviewed by two seventh-grade boys.
In the Navy Stanley Holzhauer was trained as a member of a "Beach Party." Their purpose was to land with assault troops, direct traffic, help take care of the wounded and blow up boats that got stuck on the beach.
This month the Elders Project explores our history in cherry harvesting. Marie Veliquette, Bruce McLachlan and Janet Morrison, local farmers, were interviewed by Elk Rapids junior high and high school students.
I chose Julia Pascoe for the second round of Elders Project interviews in Elk Rapids for a selfish reason. She grew up in the house my wife and I live in. Where Stone Circle is now, was her dad, John Rutherford’s cornfield.
I could fill this entire edition of the newspaper with war stories collected with the help of Kingsley and Elk Rapids students. The hard part was paring my column to three poems. There will be more here over the months.