Video Interview with Violet Burke
Document Type
Book
Interviewer
Marty Blackson
Files
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Description
Violet (Vi) Burke talks about growing up in a household with twelve kids and being the middle child. Her family were farmers and she learned to enjoy farm life at an early age. She also discusses finishing high school in Ellensburg after her family moved away. She became a nanny for a local family to be able to finish her senior year of high school. She discusses her love of music and singing. SHe talks about how she met her hisband and their life farming together and the people they would meet and work with. Vi was born in 1926 and has lived most of her life in the upper Kittitas county area on her farm off Teanaway road. She has three sons.
Publication Date
8-18-2022
Recommended Citation
Burke, Violet, "Video Interview with Violet Burke" (2022). Roslyn, Cle Elum, and Ronald Oral History Interviews. 133.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/roslyn_history/133
Publisher
Central Washington Archives and Special Collections
Subject
Teanaway River, oral history, Kittitas County, farming
Rights
Educational use only, the creator retains copyright and information is provided here for educational use only.
Language
English
Spatial Coverage (for ex: Ellensburg, WA)
Kittitas County, WA
Format
mov