Detail View: Wood River Valley Oral Histories: Jeanne Lane Oral History.

Title: 
Jeanne Lane Oral History.
Creator: 
Jeanne Lane 1921-2000.
Identifier: 
OH 0037 LAN
Description: 
The OraThis oral history interview was conducted by Dorothy Thomas; transcribed by Barbro Wood; and edited by Shirley Tallackson, Sandra Hofferber, and Clara Spiegel.
Description: 
Jeanne tells the tale of The Community Library and the Gold Mine and how it all works together. Jeanne was a charter member of The Community Library at the time of the interview which was taken in December of 1983. Topics of discussion include original treasury amount of $17 (one dollar from each original member ) in 1954; mention of work at the Gold Mine; various ideas for fuund raising, successful fund raising and construction of current library building, early days of the Home Tour fund raising event; Miriam Breckenridge and her oral history interviews with early sheep herding operators as the impetus for the development of the library's Regional History Department.
Subject, Topical: 
Libraries. 1950s. Ketchum
Subject, Organization: 
Community Library Association, Inc.
Contributor: 
Interviewer:Deanne Thompson .
Format: 
audio/mpeg
Type: 
Oral history sound recording Transcription available; Indexed.
Coverage, Spatial: 
Ketchum (Idaho)
Rights: 
No restrictions. Copyright laws and fair use laws apply.