Code,518047
Speaker,Rebecca Jones
Date,10/27/11
Interviewer,Carolyn Conklin
Abstract,"Rebecca Jones is an interpretive ranger with the National Park Service at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. This interview was conducted to get information about the history of different park sites, including the Ohio & Erie Canal, the Everett Road Covered Bridge (with contra dancing), and the Frazee House."
Tags,"Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio & Erie Canal, dances, Everett Road Covered Bridge, Hell's Half Acre, Canal Visitor Center, Brandywine Falls, Frazee House"
Special Notes,"around minute 8:13, I had to cut off the recording while a train went by the building. The same question is picked up immediately afterwards."
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0,"What is the contra dance, how it got its name,"
1,"the dance today, how dancers practice the dance"
2,history and how the contra dance came to the valley
3,how to do the contra dance
4,dance forms
5,the caller
6,"types of music during the dance, specific numbers of beats"
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8,"Everett Road Covered Bridge dance, signficance and history, how used today"
9,history of dancing and street dances in Everett
10,variety of people currently interested in the dance
11,importance of wood floors
12,"influence of the Ohio & Erie Canal on life in the valley, changes in property values and income"
13,new people and languages come to the valley
14,"prices for grain skyrocket, more money for farmers and easier transportation"
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16,"ideas and goods flowing by front door, world gets smaller and bigger; how the canal worked, locks, etc."
17,"""elevator for boats"""
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24,building the aqueducts and contracts for pieces of the canal
25,"Hell's Half Acre name, Canal Visitor Center"
26,"Moses Gleeson and the history of the canal visitor center, reputation for speak-easy and prostitution"
27,"Brandywine Falls history, industry that developed around the falls"
28,falls rediscovered in 1930s and made into artists' colony and used for electric company
29,Frazee House history; Stephen Frazee moving to the valley
30,"building the brick house before the canal came through, federal style house as sign of prosperity, struggles building the house on their own"
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33,very little structural changes to the house in all this time
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