Mike Burchak Index - Side 1

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Mike Burchak Index - Side 1 Introduction 0-1 1 Born 191 2 What Mike Remembers About His Mother (Anne Burchak) 1 2-1 9 10 children 20-44 Home remedies for illness 4 5-57 Anne lives in log cabin at

1 Mike Burchak Index - Side 1 Introduction Born What Mike Remembers About His Mother (Anne Burchak) children Home remedies for illness Anne lives in log cabin at Fowler Creek Coal oil lamps Anne's home crafts Anne's Recipes Recipes Root cellars Poltevietza Bobalika More on poltievetza Canning Honey Butter/Cottage cheese Marketing cheese Butter and WW II Horse team runs away in Cle Elum Burchak Neighbors Anderson family/ski course/champion skiing from Norway Biers family Roseburg family K 0 Lund family/sold land to Bur_chak Nelson family and Nelson Siding Other families What Mike Remembers About His Father- Paul Burchak skills/traces migration to the farm Father tests black powder- 2 kids burned-one died. rules at the dinner table. musical talent/mike plays the accordion. coal mining days. logging days automobile resourcefulness-makes own farm tools/

cuts ties for N.P. and cord wood. 679-699 Father s brother passes at Fowler Creek What life was like growing up on the farm. 700-71 5 Life on the farm in 1917.

2 cuts ties for N.P. and cord wood Father s brother passes at Fowler Creek What life was like growing up on the farm Life on the farm in History of the Burchak farm Mat Anderson built 1st bldg./k.o. Lund builds others Where home got its water Chores on the farm Gardening activities on the farm Describes the root cellar Seeding by hand/source of seed Horses on the farm. 946-End

Mike Burchak Index -- Side 2 Mike Describes His Life At Fowler Creek 0-3 1 Haying and the hand bailer. 3 2-3 8 Tractors and plows. 3 9-40 Size of the farm.

3 Mike Burchak Index -- Side 2 Mike Describes His Life At Fowler Creek Haying and the hand bailer Tractors and plows Size of the farm Why farming changes Salting the hay Cutting and bucking hay Animals on the farm Marketing the produce-nwi Co./Fassero/Safeway Hog and cow prices in the 1930s Sheep in the area-john Douglas. Mike Describes Gardening Activities Home use and marketing surplus Planting by signs/health plants Preserving food/barrels/canning/root cellar Woods as a food source Weather and seasons snow More on Fowler Creek History Events Which Changed Fa-rming Highline Canal-sells milk to crews WW 11-prices/rationing Great Depression-money and job shortage/prices Inventions On The Farm Coming of Electricity Tractors-Bailers Prohibition Era Mike's Trapping History Why trap/starts at age What animals are trapped Most valuable and rare animals Identifies other trappers in the area Trapper's cabins--ole and Swede Trapper stories-mike catches trout in trap/traps skunk and kicked out of school Skills needed to trap Describes the habits on animals Different animal colors Wolves in the area.

564-704 How to prepare different animal hides/prime pelt 7 0 5-7 53 When to trap/where to sell hides.

4 How to prepare different animal hides/prime pelt When to trap/where to sell hides best year-- see slide on documented sale Rules for trapping--conservation--county and state game department--information on each trap Trapping territory/where Mike trapped Packing animals/scents used 942- End

Mike Burchak Index--Side 3 Trapping con't 0-5 7 Impact of mink farms/wild animals as pets/mink prices.

5 Mike Burchak Index--Side 3 Trapping con't Impact of mink farms/wild animals as pets/mink prices. Schools in the Fowler Creek Area Size of Fowler Creek School What happened to Fowler School Teachers at Fowler School Memories-Lunch/Tree house/sports/school day I Teacher's duties Names of students at Fowler Classroom management--teaching/discipline Programs at Fowler--Ski course/basket socials Ski Course-Where--Who built it.--when--where kids got their skies.--prizes Number of families on Fowler Creek. Fishing and Hunting Fishing at 1st and Little Creek/size of limits Deer& Elk limits/when elk arrive/ducks Lodges Slavic lodges/paper/marie comments/dances Transportation Horse & buggy/plowing snow/grading roads/train at Nelson Siding/airplane Car /gas stations/licenses/speed limits/lantern on Mike's car/uses for model T engines on the farm. lndians Cle Elum Fire Logging Mining John John Strum Clymer Clymer paints Mike's Home for Post Magazine March 23, 1957 issue. Closing

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