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Oral History Interview with Marguerite Sammons Voges, September 9, 2000 transcript

Oral History Interview with Marguerite Sammons Voges, September 9, 2000

Interview with Marguerite Sammons Voges from Hunt, Texas. The interview includes her stories of growing up in Hunt, including the floods of 1932 and 1978, and the lives of farmers in Kerr County.
Date: September 9, 2000
Creator: Bethel, Ann & Voges, Marguerite Sammons
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ensemble: 2000-03-09 - Seamus Y2K

Concert presented at Lyric Theater at the Murchison Performing Arts Center.
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: Seamus
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Arwin Bowden, March 9, 2000 transcript

Oral History Interview with Arwin Bowden, March 9, 2000

Interview with Arwin Bowden, a marine during World War II. He begins by discussing his training in San Diego and New Zealand before the Battle of Tarawa. He describes being wounded in the battle, the casualties he saw, and being shipped back to Pearl Harbor for treatment before joining the battle of Saipan. He describes ancedotes about Japanese killing themselves rather than surrendering, eating food from a garden watered from rainwater running down from outhouses, the wages he made, and the time he had leave.
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Bowden, Arwin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History