Central Washington University
Everyday Farm Life in the Moxee Valley 1915-1950: Historical Ethnography
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis study collected oral histories of those who lived or worked in the Moxee Valley, within the greater Yakima Valley of Washington State from 1915-1950. It documents and records the historical and cultural processes of farm life and its evolution for people living in this foremost hop-growing region of the United States. The larger goal is to characterize the community and social processes for use as primary source documentation to create historically accurate programs at the Gendron Hop Ranch-Living History Farm near Moxee. Nineteen participants were interviewed. Topics addressed in the study include farming in the Valley, the household, roles and work, the community and hop harvest. To date, no other study has collected this history.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science (MS)
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Cultural and Environmental Resource Management
- Year dc:date.available
- 2016
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Towner, Terri
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Kathleen Barlow
- Nancy Hultquist
- Karen Blair
Subjects
dc:subject × 28- Moxee Valley
- Hops
- French
- Dutch
- hop-growing
- farming
- social processes
- Moxee community
- Moxee social processes
- Yakima Valley history
- everyday farm life
- Moxee history
- Yakima history
- oral history
- cultural processes of farm life
- historical processes of farm life
- farm life evolution
- community evolution
- Agricultural Education
- Cultural History
- Human Geography
- Museum Studies
- Other History
- Physical and Environmental Geography
- Public History
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Social History
- United States History
Rights
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/597
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1595