First oral history with William Clabots (part 1 of 2)

University of Wisconsin-Madison Oral History Program
Lynn McAuley, Interviewer | BelgOHwc1
Belgian-American Research Collection

00:00:04 - Introduction

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00:00:39 - Birth.

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00:00:50 - Family History.

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00:01:07 - Mother's family.

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00:01:38 - Flemish Language.

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00:02:08 - Schooling at Water Division School (how it got its name).

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00:03:15 - Church.

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00:03:43 - Shopping practices in his childhood.

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00:05:00 - Trips to Green Bay.

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00:05:18 - A typical day on the farm.

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00:05:41 - Lumber Camp experiences (He started going to the camps in 1912).

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00:06:48 - Railroad was used in his day to transport logs (No floating logs down the river).

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00:07:22 - How the lumber camps looked.

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00:08:18 - Buildings in the camps.

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00:08:39 - Pay for work in the camps.

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00:09:02 - Oct.-Mar. season in the camps.

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00:09:59 - Transportation to the camps.

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00:10:12 - Recreation in the camps.

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00:10:24 - A typical day in the camps.

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00:11:10 - Lunch in the woods.

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00:12:29 - Number of men in the camps.

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00:12:41 - Railroad ties (comparison of prices then and now).

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00:13:50 - Food in the camps.

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00:14:45 - Quitting time each day.

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00:15:23 - World War I.

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00:15:28 - He was working for Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee making ammunition for England when the war broke out.

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00:16:05 - Nationality of the factory workers.

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00:16:39 - 18 cents per hour working in the factory.

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00:17:02 - Military training in Battle Creek.

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00:17:29 - Shipped out to France.

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00:18:59 - He was in the railroad engineers in France (not the trenches).

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00:20:08 - Return from the war.

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00:20:16 - Work after the war.

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00:21:19 - Marriage at age 41.

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00:21:48 - Bought the farm from his parents.

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00:22:08 - Purchase of milking machine.

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00:22:27 - Hand milking versus machine milking.

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00:23:13 - Has five children.

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00:23:34 - Retirement.

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00:25:23 - Flemish Celebrations.

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00:25:31 - Flemish Kermis held on Humboldt Road in a tavern and hall (Rainbow Gardens).

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00:26:13 - Flemish and Walloons attend Kermises.

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00:26:25 - Preble Kermis on July 9 at Holy Martyrs of Gorkum Congregation.

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00:28:12 - Foods.

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00:30:35 - Mr. Clabots' son took over the farm.

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00:30:50 - Haying practices today.

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00:31:37 - Early Haying practices.

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00:32:50 - Plowing when he farmed.

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00:33:13 - Changes in farming.

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Collection Link: Belgian-American Research Collection