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Oral History Interview with Gretchen Legler and Ruth Hill, July 14, 2015

Description: Interview with Gretchen Legler from Salt Lake City, Utah, and her partner Ruth Hill, from Woburn, Massachusetts, both homesteaders. Legler and Hill discuss their respective families, upbringing, their interest in animals and the environment, the influence of their families, traveling to Anatarctica, Alaska, and other places, meeting one another and developing a relationship, returning to New England and developing a farm, neighbors and the local community, and slaughtering and the ethics of mea… more
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Date: July 14, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Hill, Ruth & Legler, Gretchen
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Doris Groves, July 14, 2014

Description: Interview with Doris Groves, a homesteader from Pequannock, New Jersey. Groves discusses growing up, school, her first marriage, moving to Maine, discovering Scott and Helen Nearing's work and meeting Helen, her second marriage and children, purchasing a stead, the family's lifestyle, the Good Life Center, gender, vegetarianism, and the Nearings.
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Date: July 14, 2014
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Groves, Doris
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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