Growing up on a Windsor Farm: an interview with Anne Wittenzellner Drake
Disc, Compact
August 5 2009 (Date manufactured/created)
CD containg the .wav format data file, archival CD copy of an oral history interview with Anne Wittenzellner Drake conducted by WHS staff member Connie Thomas on August 5, 2009 at the Society. The recording consists of three discrete files, the first is 152.04 minutes long; the second is 5.50 minutes, and the third is .38 minutes. Both parties signed the WHS Oral History Release Form on that date. Anne allowed the interviewer to photocopy a Wittenzellner family memory book created by her neice Karen O'Brien Johnston. The interview includes Drake's memories of growing up in the Deerfield section of Windsor during the 1930s and 1940s. Anne's parents Max and Marie Wittenzellner were immigrants from Germany. Her father worked at a brewery in Hartford and did some commercial shad and eel fishing on the side. Her mother managed the family farm on Midian Avenue; they grew and preserved an array of fruits and vegetables, cut hay, and sold poultry and eggs. Anne describes her home and chores, schooling, recreational activities, volunteering as a WWII air raid warden, working as a telephone operator, and the difficulties of the post-war housing shortage. She offers some of her views regarding the changes she has seen as a life-long resident of Windsor. M:\Oral Histories09.033_DRAKE the wav files, transcript, digital photo images.
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