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Mary Dimick Oral History Interview

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Title

Mary Dimick Oral History Interview

Description

In this interview, Mary Dimick begins by explaining her daughter’s friendship with Ulysses Grant McAlexander, a celebrated OAC figure and war hero from World War I. She then describes her childhood in Sellwood, Oregon, and her memories of the people she encountered from the Siletz Indian Reservation. She also discusses her feelings about the reservation system.

Next, Dimick describes how people felt about nature and the environment when she was a child, her experiences camping in Oregon, and the culture of disposability that she feels has developed since her youth. She explains why she never learned to drive and how she gets around without a car. From there, Dimick describes her use of pesticides in her garden and shares her perspective on the conflicts in Oregon between environmentalists and timber interests. She recalls her son’s experience of working in a lumber mill and the dangers that he and other workers faced from metal spikes placed in trees by environmentalists.

As the interview nears its conclusion, Dimick describes how the Depression affected Corvallis and the decisions Oregon State College was forced to make in order to retain its faculty. Finally, she describes her health and what she does to live well as a nonagenarian.

Creator

Mary Dimick

Source

Horner Museum Oral History Collection (OH 10)

Publisher

Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries

Date

May 27, 1991

Contributor

Molly K. McFerran

Format

Digitized Audiocassette

Language

English

Type

Oral History

Identifier

oh10-dimick-mary-19910507

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewer

Molly K. McFerran

Interviewee

Mary Dimick

Location

Dimick residence, Corvallis, Oregon

Original Format

Audiocassette Tape

Duration

0:39:46

OHMS Object

Interview Format

audio

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