Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Erkkila, Sulo

Item

Title
Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Erkkila, Sulo
Description
2 sound files, digital, MPEG3 file
The following names and terms were used in this interview: Kalasjari, Sikkakyla, Hautamaki, Cheves, Miss Rowley, Muna, Barry, MacNerny, Leonard Johnson, Pulkka, Fitxgibbons, Poole, Helsinki, Dr. Pomeroy (Herb), Young's farm, Ahola, Rowe, George Einar Ray, Waino Band, Sylvester Ahola, Andrew Jacobson, Miss Sherburne, Miss Hayden, Rockport Band, Wainola Hall, Finn hops, Bay View Brotherhood, Puuko, Pulli.
Linda Brayton and David Masters, principal oral historians; Interviewer:Linda Brayton(4/11/1978)
TRACKS:1. Mr. Erkkila's family background -- 2. The Finnish sauna, a family business -- 3. Learning English in school -- 4. Working in the quarries, mother's employment -- 5. Raising food for the family, hard work done by women, no longer any dairy farms on Cape Ann -- 6. Finnish music, Mr. Erkkila's musical background -- 7. Finnish dances, costumes -- 8. Immigration, dates, stonecutter's consumption -- 9. Groups that immigrated to area, Temperance Society, Lutherans, Socialists -- 10. Rink Hall, Workingmen's Hall (New Hall) -- 11. Family learned Finnish, trip to Finland -- 12. Sports in Lanesville, dance halls -- 13. Finnish names, meanings, Finnish language classes, end of Waino Band -- 14. Socialists in Lanesville and Rockport -- 15. The Finnish family structure, saunas -- 16. Finnish bakeries, grocery store.
Originally issued on sound cassettes and transferred to compact discs.
Contributor
Institution: Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library
Coverage
Massachusetts--Essex (county)--Ann, Cape
Creator
Erkkila, Sulo, Interviewee
Brayton, Linda, Interviewer
Date
1978
Format
audio/mpeg
image/jpeg
Language
eng
Publisher
[Gloucester, Mass] : Sawyer Free Library
Subject
Anecdotes
Manners and customs
Finnish Americans
Emigration and immigration
Oral history
Type
sound recording-nonmusical
Sound recordings
Original Format
1 sound disc : digital, stereo
Extent
4 3/4 in.