Abstract
Jean Call traces several generations of her family's life in the Cuyahoga Valley. She recalls her mother Metta Roberts Point's years teaching at the one-room Ira School, her grandfather Nathaniel Point's career as a clarinetist who taught Benny Goodman and played for silent films and at the Palace and Loew's theaters, and her husband Charles Call's work as Chief of the Ohio Division of Reclamation and locally well-known square-dance caller in Everett. Call describes many of the people, farms, and institutions that defined valley life before park establishment — the Howe family (including Nina Howe Stanford, raised in the Point household, and Abby Howe Shepard, the Ira postmistress and printing-press operator), the Cranz, Bender, Hine, Bobeck, and Jaite families, Howe Meadow, the Grace Reynolds house, Hine's Apple Orchard, the Ira post office and rail platform, the long-vanished cheese factory, and the Everett dance hall that now serves as a ranger station.
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Interviewee
Call, Jean (interviewee)
Interviewer
Rosser, Arrye (interviewer); Farinacci, Ashley (participant)
Project
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Date
8-15-2016
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
153 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Jean Call interview, 15 August 2016" (2016). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 343022.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1427
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