Every summer in Washington DC the Smithsonian Institution puts on a big Folklife Festival cultural show in the National Mall. They feature cultures and countries from all around the USA and the world. As it happened, Wisconsin’s 150th anniversary as a state was 1998, and Wisconsin was one of the featured cultures that year. Continue reading Robert Siegel and the Polish polka band from Wisconsin
Audio from Claude Warren
Deborah (Warren) Schwarz came up with some great old recordings from Grandpa Warren. Click to play the MP3 files. If you need a copy of the MP3 files let me know.
This first one is “Hopeful Aspects of Racial Conflict” by Claude Warren. Released: 1957.
\"Hopeful Aspects of Racial Conflict\" - Claude Warren
Next we have “This is my Life”.
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Dick Warren interviewed Betty in 1994.
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And finally, a 1957 interview with Paul Jones on segregation. Mr Jones was a black Birmingham parole officer for the juvenile court.
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Clean Temp Starter
We were at a beer festival in Fond du Lac Wisconsin serving out some of our local brewery’s samples, along with our own home made beers and meads, when a slightly intense gray haired gentleman in a beer-themed baseball cap tottered up to us and intoned “Clean. Temp. Starter.”
Then he nodded and looked as if he had delivered the secrets of the universe, waiting for us to acknowledge the blessings of his bountiful wisdom. Continue reading Clean Temp Starter
Claude Warren in the South and Martin Luther King Jr
Friday, Jan. 20th, 1956
Continue reading Claude Warren in the South and Martin Luther King Jr
Mary Warren’s speech
Mary Warren’s speech
Peacemakers In Troubled Times May 24, 1936
Rev. Warren in California
April 22, 1954
Have put in a month and a half as parish minister at Manhattan Beach Community Church.
Betty’s Stories
GROWING UP IN THE PARSONAGE
by Betty Warren
Tarzon of the Jungle, Thuva, Maid of Mars,Journey to Center of the Earth by Edgar Rice Burroughs, were some of the great engines that powered the imagination of the youngster in the Parsonage. She had already been exploring the Universe with her father, the young minister. Continue reading Betty’s Stories
Dick – 1945
Dearest All June 15, 1945
Now it is my time to put to use ye olde carbon copy. As long as I have so much to say to all of you I thought I would try it. The only trouble is that my hunt and peck style is making this letter an all night affair and at ten cents an hour I will soon go broke, but I shall go bravely on and ——you shall receive a bill. Continue reading Dick – 1945
1953 Journal
January 1 – New Year’s Eve – Union Communion Service at Rockton Methodist Church – sermon CWW
January 4 – Communion Service Continue reading 1953 Journal
Jennie Lake’s Notebook
Memos from Jennie L. Clarks notebook
To Father and Mother on their sixty third anniversary of their marriage. Continue reading Jennie Lake’s Notebook