Full audio file. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 1 - Introduction: background information on St. Michael's Church at Misere. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 2 - Why St. Michael's Church was built in its location - land was donated. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 3 - In recent years there were only about 30 families who attended St. Michael's. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 4 - The relationship between St. Michael's and St. Hubert's at Rosiere. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 5 - Names of the priests who served St. Hubert's and St. Michael's. Sometime a priest from St. Norbert Abbey in DePere would come out to Misere to say mass. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 6 - Description of the services at Misere. She and some others attended whichever church had mass at the most convenient time, but some people would only attend St. Michael's. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 7 - How the church looked in her youth (St. Michael's). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 8 - Misere had a choir - Louis Bahrain sang there for many years. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 9 - Services were discontinued about 3 years ago. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 10 - Her growing up years in Rosiere at the corner of County highways C and X in a big stone house (which still stands). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 11 - Description of the LeGrave family farm - started by Mrs. LeMense's grandfather (Alexis LeGrave). Her father and uncles all lived with their families on the home farm until they paid for separate farms for each one. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 12 - The advent of electricity on the farm. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 13 - Washing clothes before electricity. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 14 - Indoor plumbing. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 15 - Her father's occupations after selling the farm. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 16 - Inheritance practices - especially the "bond of support" as a means of transferring property. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 17 - Childbirth practices - there was a doctor in her family. Therefore, he always attended the births, which took place at home. All of her children were born in hospitals, however. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 18 - Women's work on the farm - since her family had no boys, the girls had to do all of the work normally done by boys. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 19 - Education for girls - high school was considered very advanced for a girl. All of the girls in her family (four of them) attended the Door-Kewaunee Normal School in Algoma and boarded there. At that time the teaching course was only one year. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 20 - Procedure for the care of unmarried adults and the elderly. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 21 - Hope chests and quilting among the women. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 22 - Walloon language - description of her childhood home in Walloon. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 1 - More Walloon description of her family. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 2 - "Potato Song" in Walloon. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 3 - Her teaching experiences - she taught grades 1-4 in the two-room schools at Lincoln and Misere. Description of a day at school. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 4 - Walloon language difficulties when children entered school. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 5 - Library services for the schools. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 6 - Day care for her children when she taught. Women's occupations in general.
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