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Unit 01 Young Alberta Voris

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Title	Alberta Voris oral history interview [audio]
Interviewee	Voris, Alberta, 1898-1987
Interviewer	Addis, Mabel
Description	Oral history interview of Alberta Voris, a native of Somers, NY. She discusses her family's history including her early childhood on the family farm. The family farm was also the site of Hallock's Mill and now is a residential community called Somers Chase.
Subject.TGM	Childhood & youth Family Farm life Teachers Students Schools
Subject.AAT	oral histories
Personal Name	Voris, Alberta, 1898-1987
HRVH Topic	Agriculture Education Work & Labor
Language	eng
Resource Type	Sound
Source	Mabel Addis Oral History Collection
Publisher.Digital	Somers Historical Society
Date.Digital	2013
Digital Collection	Mabel Addis Oral History Collection
Holding Institution	Somers Historical Society
Contact Information	P.O. Box 336, Somers, NY 10589 (914) 277-4977
Rights	This item may be used for educational and research purposes only. Contact organization for publications use

Title	Unit 01 Young Alberta Voris
Description	Begins unit 01 is actually unit 08 and is continuing discussion about Mrs. Voris working on farm. Probably didn't run a mill but took children there in evening while father ran it.; Ms. Voris reminisced walking to school at old schoolhouse and teacher George Cubby, also District Superintendent. talks about attending school in one room school house in Lincolndale; remarked 4 students in school; also speaks of Tompkins store, later belonging to George Supple, groceries, kerosene, candy, grain all sold in store; near railroad station and down track from Borden Milk Factory. father sold 100 cans milk daily to factory; Lincolndale rr station; old station was bagging and loading apples and fruit; recalls picking up chestnuts and hickory nuts that father sold in NYC ; opened savings accounts with money for kids at Home Savings Bank in White Plains; doesn't recall activities in Somers because she grew up in Lincolndale and went to Lincolndale school; Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Butler assessors and her mother wrote assessment books at home; meetings held in Tompkins Hall; community's reaction to Lincoln Hall, not too favorably ; recalls father saying what happens to taxes if someone buys a large parcel
Subject.AAT	oral histories
Language	eng
Resource Identifier	Unit 01 Young Alberta Voris.mp3
Publisher.Digital	Somers Historical Society
Date.Digital	2013
Format Digital	audio/mpeg
Contact Information	P.O. Box 336, Somers, NY 10589 (914) 277-4977
Rights	This item may be used for educational and research purposes only. Contact organization for publications use

Alberta Voris oral history interview [audio]

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