Interviewer
May Vallance
Files
Description
Anne Keeling Woodruff describes her experiences attending the Fairplay School in Ravalli County, Montana, during the early 1900s. She briefly discusses her parents’ origins and how they ended up in Montana, then moves on to her time in school, remembering each of her teachers. Woodruff talks about the expansion of the Fairplay School as well as the pranks the children played on their teachers and the activities they participated in, such as musicals. She recalls how classrooms functioned with teachers teaching multiple grades at the same time and in the same room, and she details the different teaching styles of each of her teachers.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Fairplay School; Ravalli County, Montana; Education, Montana; Schoolhouses, rural; Homesteading schools; Bitterroot Valley, Montana
Original Date
1978
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Bitterroot Historical Society Oral History Project, OH 120, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula
Digital Publisher
University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library
Rights
Copyright to this collection is held by the interview participants and by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collections: (406) 243-2053 / library.archives@umontana.edu
Oral History Number
OH 120-001b
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
1 sound cassette (01:00:00 min.) analog + 1 transcript (6 p.: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
00:22:57 minutes
Local Filename
OH_120_001_b.mp3; OH_120_001_b.pdf
Citation
Woodruff, Anne, "Anne Keeling Woodruff Interview, circa 1978" (1978). Bitterroot Historical Society Oral History Project. 11.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/bitterrootvalley_oralhistory/11