Growing Up There 1:25–1:47
Linda, what was it like growing up in the store? The store was our third parent. I could make change before I could ride a bike. My brother and I counted washers into little paper bags for a penny a bag. And the smell, e…
Family life
3 segments from 2 interviews touch on this subject.
Interview with Dorothy Pearce and Linda Whitlock
Interview with Harold Vickers
Family Beet Roots 0:21–1:27
The coffee is plenty. Let's start at the beginning. When did your family come to Alder Creek? My grandfather came out in 1927, one year after the town incorporated. He'd been dry farming wheat down by Holbrook and heard …
Closing Reflection 3:24–3:47
The fall of 1974, after the canal breached that spring. Everybody was behind, everything was mud, and the Ostergard boy, Glen, he's the fire chief now, or was. He organized it, so we dug each other's beets in a big rotat…