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Bess Vickers interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 1297609
Format AudioAudio
Author
Vickers, Bess, 1927-
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1995. 
1 sound cassette (ca. 68 min.) : analog, mono. 
Series

Women of the land oral history project

Summary

Vickers speaks of problems due to the lack of rain, the 1980s drought, hardship on the farm, her family, her background as teacher, her learning experience on the farm, being flexible according to the weather, breeding goats, analysing goats' behavior, shearing goats for cashmere, testing fleece measurements, growing crops, her family.

Notes

Part of a collection of 33 interviews with rural women for the book "Women of the land".

Project conducted in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Has accompanying photograph.

Recorded at Carcoar, N.S.W. on Wednesday 22 March 1995.

DCM record; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (typescript, 30 leaves.) 
Subjects Vickers, Bess, - 1927- - Interviews.  |  Rural women - Australia - Interviews.  |  Rural women - Australia - Social conditions.  |  Women in agriculture - Australia.  |  Droughts - Economic aspects - New South Wales.  |  Goats - Breeding - Australia  |  Kashmir goat - Breeding - New South Wales.  |  Wool measurement.  |  Carcoar (N.S.W.) - Biography.
Other authors/contributors Bowden, Ros  |  Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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