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Muriel Dick interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 1416241
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Dick, Muriel, 1921-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 1995 
1 sound cassette (ca. 37 min.) : analog, mono. 
Series

Women of the land oral history project

Summary

Dick, a farmer, speaks of growing up, her marriage to an older man from a farming background, their move to the country, raising her two children, how she and her husband established a small dairy herd, the breadth of her farm and family chores, importance of her role as bookkeeper, learning more practical farming skills from farming courses and instruction from Dept. of Agriculture advisors, her interest in empowering other women running farms, her involvement in a program which is an extension of Women on Farms, her love of daily challenges and her philosphy of life.

Notes

Preservation, working duplicate and cassette copies made.

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 near Garfield, Vic. on 5 April 1995.

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

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (typescript, 19 leaves) 
Subjects Dick, Muriel - 1921- - Interviews.  |  Women on Farms Gathering.  |  Women in agriculture - Australia.  |  Rural women - Australia - Social conditions.  |  Rural women - Australia - Interviews.  |  Farmers' spouses - Victoria - Garfield Region - Social conditions.  |  Women farmers - Victoria - Garfield Region.  |  Garfield Region (Vic.) - Biography.
Other authors/contributors Bowden, Ros, Interviewer  |  Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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