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Record Id:10367112 (Australian Library Collections) permalink
Author:McLaren, Margaret H.
Title:[Folkloric recording: Margaret McLaren (nee Edge) speaks about growing up in Ecklin in 1940s and 1950s and life as a dairy farmer's wife] [sound recording] / [Interviewer: Helen O'Shea].
Published:1989.
Description:3 tape reels (ca. 98 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 7 in.
Playing Time:013800
Series:Helen O'Shea's oral history project
Summary:Margaret McLaren speaks about growing up in Ecklin; local dances; Presbyterian Fellowship Association; celebrating birthdays and Christmas; bushfires; cracker night; domestic chores; children's games; sporting activities; social activities; agricultural shows; funerary traditions; her husband; her kitchen tea; her wedding; managing both a family and farm work; her children; her involvement with community organisations; their farm; the weather; local properties and families.
Notes:Working duplicate and cassette copies made.
Part of a collection of recordings made by Helen O'Shea in the township of Ecklin South, Victoria in 1989 and 1990. The recordings aim to reveal the social fabric of life in a small rural community between 1900 and 1988.
Recorded at Cooriemungle, Vic. on 4 November 1989.
Subjects:McLaren, Margaret H. -- Interviews.
McLaren, Margaret H. -- Childhood and youth.
Farmers' spouses -- Victoria -- Interviews.
Country life -- Victoria -- Ecklin South.
Games -- Victoria.
Ecklin South (Vic.) -- Social life and customs.
Ecklin South (Vic.) -- History.
Other Authors:O'Shea, Helen.
Access Conditions:Access open for research use; written permission required for public use during lifetime of collector.
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Libraries that have this item:National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (1347325) ORAL TRC 2439/52

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