OH068: White; male; age: 67 (old); education: college; community type: village
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: OH068 (3:16)
Full Interview (Tape 1255-S1).
Content:
00:25 Arthur the Rat
03:50 Family history—six generations of father's family—marriages, children, military service, slave holding, land purchase. Story of mother's relative b. 1490 in England
14:40 Johnson's Island—Confederate prison
16:10 Battle of Lake Erie—Commodore Perry
18:00 Local lighthouses—Marblehead
20:45 Lake Erie—description, difference between Erie and Huron, proposed dredging in Michigan with sludge to be dumped into Lake Erie, attempts being made to stop the dredging
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