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- Poet Gerry LaFemina talks about his move from New York to Grayling, MI, teaching at Kirtland Community College, the purpose of writing about adolescence, his book "Graffiti heart," and how he started translating Turkish poems, LaFemina is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-02-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Poet Robert VanderMolen talks about transitioning from being a community college teacher into a painter, teaching and writing, his reading habits, his writing style, and how Michigan factors into his writings. VanderMolen is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-10-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Rocky recalls moving to Lansing at age 15 from Kentucky and being hired in June 1963, working ten and eleven hour shifts, participating in a wildcat strike in 1966 over gloves and receiving discipline. Rocky joined management in 1968 and discusses his relations with UAW officials. He built a replica of the Fisher Coach for a parade. Rocky comments on being transferred to Oldsmobile in 1985 following the corporate reorganization to BOC.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-05-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Setsuko Thurlow describes working in a military office as a high school student at the time of the Hiroshima bombing. She talks about surviving and escaping and helping many refuges. She also explains how she came to Canada with her Canadian husband and has worked tirelessly to promote disarmament education. She says that she was ultimately awarded "The Order of Canada" for her persistent advocacy for non-nuclear peace in both Japan and Canada.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In her radio program The Old-Timers, Esther Dean Nyland interviews prominent Grand Haven citizens about their earliest memories of the area. In this second interview, Bronsema recalls the purchase Mr. Sprick's Livery and his own moving and storage business. He goes into further detail about the families who lived in the neighborhood around Elliot Street. Some of the family names mentioned are: Pellegrom, Keelers, Raymond, Fisher, Schippers, Baker, Stokes, Brower, Nedervelt, and Vanhoff. He also tells the story about wild mustang horses arriving in Grand Haven for sale.
- Date Issued:
- 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- John Ringelberg grew up in Grand Haven in the neighborhood surrounding Seventh and Columbus Streets. He recalls the different businesses in the area, including the meat markets his father Henry owned and operated through the years. As a youngster, John worked on a local celery farm as well as in the meat market, attended a Christian school and church services conducted through the medium of the Dutch language. He gives a detailed description of the route the original US Highway 31 took through town and recalls when Columbus and Washington Streets were paved, sharing the story of the role his father played in that job. John also describes the method of relocating a house in the old days and the conversion of industry to war-time production in Grand Haven. Lastly, he recounts the Andaste and SS Milwaukee shipwrecks of 1929.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Russell Alberts talks about working at REO Motor Car Company, in Lansing, MI, from 1928 to 1939. Alberts describes conditions in the plant, his jobs, pay, benefits, and hours, before unionization and the great strides made by workers after the big labor strike of 1937 and the Lansing Labor Holiday. He also talks about the REO Clubhouse, the radio station, REO products and making experimental vehicles for the American military. Alberts' wife, Eva Alberts, describes her work in the REO Navy Department during the war and both discuss an accidental death in the plant and the safety issues which plagued the manufacturer for decades. The interviewer is Shirley Bradley. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-04-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ollie (Allie) Tysman was a veteran of World War I and fought in France. Prior to the war, he enlisted in Co. F in 1913 and served on boarder patrol in Texas. In this interview, Ollie tells many stories about his fellow servicemen. He also discusses the birth of the American Legion Post in Grand Haven. After the war, Ollie became a commercial fisherman in the Grand Haven area.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In this installment of "Know your city" Dr. Willis Dunbar profiles the graduating classes of four Kalamazoo area schools. Principal Garrett DeVries of Kalamazoo Christian School, Principal Roy Brian of State High School, and Principal Eugene Thomas of Kalamazoo Central High School discuss their graduates, highlighting colleges the students plan to attend and their accomplishments while in high school, both athletically and academically.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-06-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former soldier and Hmong immigrant Kao Xiong recounts his role in the Laotian Civil War and his subsequent escape to the to Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, where he spent five years. He recalls what it was like to meet and marry his wife in the camp, the pain of separation from family and friends when they emigrated to Michigan and the difficulty of adjusting to a new way of life. Part 2 of 3.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection