Sydney Weedon Templeton (1894-1994) oral history
Description
- Track 12, Transcript p. 30-33
- Transcription
- Creators
- Templeton, Sydney Weedon, 1894-1994, Interviewee
- Adler, Rhea Saul, 1906-1990, Interviewer
- Media Type
- Audio
- Image
- Text
- Item Type
- Audiocassettes
- Description
- Interview with Sydney Weedon Templeton by Rhea Adler in June, 1976.
ABSTRACT:
Locale of childhood from 1895 presently lives in Scarsdale, NY
Family lived in Wilmette Father commuted to Chicago from Llewelyn Park Station
House built for Weedon family by a local carpenter, surrounded by fields, unpaved streets
First motor cars on Hill St. (now Maple)
Wild flowers bloomed profusely then
Cows, abattoir on Isabella; Horse-drawn carts and carriages
Grocery orders taken in person - delivered later the same day
Laundry man injured by a run-away horse
Mother Weedon's school --Public school routes traveled, all wooded, wooden sidewalks, spring wild flowers grew under them, walked
High School at New Trier - rode trolley or bicycled
Typhoid fever, dress alterations, Anniversary, gardening, chickens, ducks, rabbits, root cellar, baking
Swimming in Lake Michigan
Reading Elbert Hubbard - bookbinding
Oil lamps - gas lights - mantles, electricity
Art, Hull House - Jane Addams --"The Cow" , framing, Van Gogh, Nova Scotia, Ginger Hill
Amy and husband, botanists; Dorothy and husband - trip to visit sisters
Winifred Weedon - Vivian Weedon
Carleton Washburne, Winnetka system - book publishing
Victoria's jubilee,Father's trip to England - his mother grew up at Court - Hardy
family
- Place of Publication
- Wilmette, Illinois
- Date of Original
- June, 1976
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Templeton, Sydney Weedon
- Local identifier
- R977.31 TE
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Date
- 1976
- Copyright Holder
- Wilmette Public Library
- Copyright Holder Contact Information
- 1242 Wilmette Ave.
Wilmette, IL 60091
U.S.A. - Contact
- Wilmette Public LibraryEmail:refdesk@wilmettelibrary.info
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