Interviewer:
Schmitigal, Kathryn
Copyright Note:
Author/Interviewee:
Frankovich, Beverly
Publication Date:
2004-04-03
Description:
Beverly Warner Frankovich, born in 1927 in Raber, spoke about her family home and the big rooms the family used in it. Her father worked in the lumber camps and Lime Island coal dock and her mother taught school for a time on Lime Island. Beverly was the second youngest of eleven children. She speaks about feeding chickens and turkeys. For fun, they would go skiing and sledding and in the summers she went to swimming in the St. Mary’s River. “Things were very prosperous in them days,” she explains, “But you always got a new dress or shoes.” She played on the first women’s basketball team in DeTour.
Descriptive Note:
Documenting childhood in the rural Eastern Upper Peninsula, the Goetzville Oral History Collection Project, recorded thirteen stories of individuals who grew up in the region during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. The project, which took place in the spring of 2004, was funded by the Michigan Humanities Council and Raber Township, and was performed by Kathryn Schmitigal, with Barbara Schmitigal.
Title:
Interview with Beverly Frankovich