Audio Recordings of Anna Pape Dieckhoff's Memories

 

The following is a list of the recordings made by Anna Pape Dieckhoff of her memories of life on the Pape farm and the Concordia area, as well as a few other memorable events.

 

Click on the MP4 link for a particular subject to play or download a video slide show with titles and occasional photos.  The MP3 links are used to access the audio only files.  The last pair of links in the list allow one to access the entire set of clips as a single large file.  Note that this last audio file is in a bookmarked M4B file format.  This can be played in QuickTime (free program) in which one can click on a bookmark to jump to a particular segment.


 

No.

Name

With photos

Audio only

Length (mm:ss)

Description

Updated

1

Anna’s naming & family

MP4

MP3

01:24

Anna introduces herself, her family and how she came to be named.

 

2

Grandpa’s early life

MP4

MP3

03:58

Jacob's childhood in Germany, voyage to the US, and early life in Arkansas and Washington.

 

3

Grandpa dislikes cucumbers

MP4

MP3

00:41

Why Jacob disliked cucumbers.

 

4

Long-legged friend, Jacob

MP4

MP3

00:59

Jacob's letters to Maria.

4/23/2015

5

Summer & winter kitchens, Bushwhackers

MP4

MP3

03:42

Location of kitchens and encounters with the bushwhackers.

 

6

Ella Schlesselman

MP4

MP3

02:30

Anna Schlesselmann is slighted and her sister Ella's home on Hamburger Hill.

 

7

Pyloric stenosis

MP4

MP3

00:33

Children with pyloric stenosis.

 

8

Aunt Martha’s picket fence

MP4

MP3

00:48

The jars on Aunt Martha's picket fence.

 

9

Mice for the cats

MP4

MP3

01:01

Gathering mice on the hay wagon and feeding the cats.

 

10

Cold winter nights

MP4

MP3

01:02

Cold winter nights in the Pape home.

 

11

Christmas

MP4

MP3

04:42

The excitement of Christmas.

 

12

Walking to school

MP4

MP3

04:27

The trip from home to school.

 

13

Final exam grade school

MP4

MP3

00:47

Preparing for the eighth grade final exams.

 

14

Wishbook

MP4

MP3

01:45

Shopping from the mail-order catalog

 

15

(deleted, duplicate)

 

 

 

 

 

16

Oldtime wall-to-wall carpet

MP4

MP3

02:01

Carpeting in the house.

 

17

Outhouse stories

MP4

MP3

03:39

Life with outdoor plumbing.

 

18

Homemade soap, Eggs

MP4

MP3

03:31

Making homemade soap at the Schlesselmanns, eating eggs.

 

19

Farm animals & pasture, Fruit trees & nuts

MP4

MP3

06:57

Caring for farm animals, the pasture, pond, plane landing, fruit and nut trees.

 

20

Finding the calf

MP4

MP3

00:55

Where to look for a lost calf.

 

21

Ducks

MP4

MP3

01:08

The flock of ducks fly away.

 

22

Hatching eggs (nature’s way)

MP4

MP3

01:53

Hatching eggs as nature would.

 

23

Cultivator

MP4

MP3

00:38

Riding the back of the cultivator.

 

24

Fodder, hay, & threshing

MP4

MP3

00:46

Working the fields.

 

25

Threshing day

MP4

MP3

04:20

Feeding and milking cows, preparing the food, and threshing day.

 

26

Molasses

MP4

MP3

02:11

Making molasses.

 

27

Pecans & dried peaches

MP4

MP3

01:43

The pecan tree and drying fruit.

 

28

Cows & sheep

MP4

MP3

01:58

The cattle and stitching.

 

29

Sheep

MP4

MP3

03:44

Caring for the sheep and other topics.

 

30

Sheep wool

MP4

MP3

00:47

Preparing the sheep skins.

 

31

Corn shucking, featherbeds

MP4

MP3

03:17

Shelling corn, saving seed corn, making pillows and featherbeds.

 

32

Ground corn

MP4

MP3

00:36

Grinding the shelled corn.

 

33

Corncob pipes

MP4

MP3

01:15

Growing corn for corncob pipes.

 

34

Horses & mules

MP4

MP3

00:39

Comparing horses and mules.

 

35

Horses

MP4

MP3

01:44

Controlling the horses.

 

36

Arthur loses class ring

MP4

MP3

01:25

The search for Arthur's lost class ring.

 

37

Flora’s sewing

MP4

MP3

01:28

Flora/s sewing skills.

4/23/2015

38

Silver wedding anniversary

MP4

MP3

06:54

Surprise silver wedding anniversary celebration.

 

39

Norbert Stuenkel sick-Funeral

MP4

MP3

02:17

Norbert Stuenkel's illness and funeral.

 

40

Louis dating, Engine shed

MP4

MP3

02:27

Louis goes dating, buildings on the farm, going for a drive in the car

 

41

Schlesselmann’s water

MP4

MP3

00:38

Drinking water at Schlesselmanns

 

42

Squirrel, Red sky in morning

MP4

MP3

00:59

Feeding a squirrel, German saying about "Red sky"

 

43

Dort in a storm

MP4

MP3

05:48

Stormy trip to Oklahoma in the family Dort.

 

44

Elmer and rooster, Louis & Cornelia quarrel

MP4

MP3

02:10

Elmer attacked by rooster, Louis disappears after quarrel with Cornelia.

 

45

Edwin and Anna first met

MP4

MP3

11:41

Anna meets Edwin Dieckhoff.

 

46

Edwin, Louis, Anna flew the coop

MP4

MP3

03:45

Three children leave home.

 

47

Elmer’s grades

MP4

MP3

03:10

Why Elmer's grades dropped off.

 

48

Depression years

MP4

MP3

05:48

Life during the depression.

 

49

Arthur in Oklahoma

MP4

MP3

04:43

Arthur's family in Oklahoma.

 

50

WWI and WWII

MP4

MP3

04:14

Various memories of the wars.

4/23/2015

51

Victory garden

MP4

MP3

00:36

Growing a victory garden.

 

52

Bobby born, News of Elmer

MP4

MP3

01:55

News of Elmer's death arrives when Bob Dieckhoff is born.

4/23/2015

53

Elmer’s cemetery in Italy

MP4

MP3

01:07

Visiting Elmer's grave in Florence, Italy.

4/23/2015

54

Grandpa & Flora speaking Low German

MP4

MP3

01:04

Jacob and Flora have a discussion in Low German (unintelligible).

 

55

Family deaths

MP4

MP3

02:32

Death's of the brothers and sister.

 

56

Wonderful Memories

MP4

MP3

02:01

Summary.

4/25/2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full recording

MP4

M4B

02:18:01

All segments (very large file).

4/25/2015