The following transcripts are from a series of interviews conducted by Diane Gum in the spring of 1967.  The interviews were conducted at the home of Antoinette Deutsch Nufer on Sixth Avenue in Dodge City, Kansas.  Diane used an old reel-to-reel tape recorder she borrowed from her brother.  As an English major at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas, she conducted the interviews to collect data for her classes.  Her classes were named ‘Kansas Folklore’ and ‘Radio and Television Production’.  With the data she gathered she produced three radio shows for her class.  They were named ‘Memories of the Dust Bowl Days’, ‘Courtships of the Early 1900’s’, and ‘The Changing Faces of Western Kansas’.

            The interviews are with Antoinette Nufer and Lydia Ehrlich Eichman.  They were interviewed separately but in the same sitting.  During the interviews there are other people present sometimes carrying on their own conversation.  They occasionally contributed to the interview, but this sometimes makes the recording very hard to hear and understand.  This contributes to the incomplete transcript below.  The one background person I can identify is Leah Nufer Harms, Antoinette’s daughter.  And this is only because Antoinette addresses her directly.

I’ll use the following notations:  

______              - (underlines)  This means I could not understand what was said.

????                 - (a series of question marks) This means I think this is what was said.  If there is just one question mark then it is used as punctuation.

(…)                   - (parenthesis) When ever there is text in parenthesis, it represents my notes as clarification to the transcript.

Antoinette Nufer Interview                    Lydia Eichman Interview