Lorna Rickert interviewed by Frances Rush in the Social history of Polio oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 6104191
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Rickert, Lorna, 1915-, interviewee
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- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 2012
- 3 sound files (ca. 165 min.)
- Series:
- Social history of Polio oral history project.
- Summary:
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Lorna Jane Rickert, born 20 March 1915, speaks about her family background; her grandparents and their home in Nobby; her siblings; family mealtimes; Rudd’s Pub; playing sport; singing with her father; grain and dairy farming; kerosene lighting; her ‘glory box’; her handcrafted items in Sr. Kenny Memorial House; the family home; schooling; Sunday School; the Great Depression; swaggies; sulkies; travelling to school by train; polio epidemics; Sr. Kenny and her work; Nobby Country Women’s Association (CWA); her fear of polio; working in Dan Brodie Store; memories of WWII; marriage to Clarence Rickert; life on a grain farm; her 5 children; changes in Nobby; personal interest in gardening, art, sewing and CWA; community and official attitudes to Sister Kenny; introduction of polio vaccines; fundraising for and building of Sister Kenny Memorial House; memorabilia donated to the Sister Kenny collection; the book ‘And they shall walk’ by Sister Kenny; Sister Kenny’s funeral in Nobby in 1952; Order of Australia for contribution to the community and polio in 2010.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 17 July 2012 in Nobby, Qld.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary (8 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Farmers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Rush, Frances, 1962-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Social history of Polio oral history project.
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