Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Gordon Wilson Oral History |
Collection |
ADKX Library: Audio Collection |
Object Name |
Tape, Magnetic |
Narrator's name |
Gordon Wilson |
Interviewer |
Marge Lamey |
Scope & Content |
Wilson is interviewed by his daughter and talks about life in the hamlet of Redford in Clinton County and in Lake Placid in the early 1900s. Wilson was born during the large forest fire of 1903. He talks about his parents' and grandparents' working at a lumber camp operated by Fred Johnson, a jobber for J & J Rogers Co. Later his family lived on the Charles Green farm near Lake Placid. He eventually worked at the Stevens House in Lake Placid. |
Call Number |
T7-106, T7-107, T7-108 |
Catalog Number |
2017.083.0020 |
Date |
1972 |
Digital File |
Click here to read the interview transcript. |
Notes |
Three copies in various formats: 3 reel-to-reel tapes (T7-106,107, and 108) in audio cabinet 3 CDs (T7-106,107, and 108) in audio cabinet 12 .wav files in LibMedia drive Transcription also saved in LibMedia. Transcription of this interview was made possible by a grant from the Lake Placid Education Foundation. |
Search Terms |
Farm life.; J & J Rogers Company.; Lake Placid (N.Y.); Lumber camps--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains.; Redford (N.Y.); Steven' House (Lake Placid, N.Y.); |
People |
Wilson, Gordon Lamey, Marge |
Recording media |
1" Open Reel |
Length of Interview |
49 minutes |
Media quantity |
3 |