This series of interviews with members of the Cleveland Hiking Club, conducted in 2017, covers a number of topics relating to the history of the club, outdoor recreation and the natural environment, and members' recollections of hikes in the Cleveland Metroparks and Cuyahoga Valley National Park, as well as other parks and natural landscapes in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and nationally and internationally. The Cleveland Hiking Club is one of the nation's oldest and largest organizations of its kind, dating to 1919 and now counting more than 1,000 members.
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View the Cleveland Hiking Club collection on Cleveland Voices, the official home of the Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Cleveland Voices includes improved support for mobile devices, social media sharing, and printing, as well as interactive transcripts, user guides, and more.
Submissions from 2018
Bob Kimmelfield interview, 21 November 2018
Bob McLaughlin interview, 06 June 2018
Dave and Denise Tobiasz interview, 29 May 2018
Jeanne Henry interview, 24 January 2018
Marcia Steffen interview, 24 March 2018
Marilyn and David Richards interview, 16 February 2018
Mary Ann and Robert Warner interview, 21 February 2018
Norma Delp interview, 28 March 2018
Robert DiVincenzo interview, 01 July 2018
Submissions from 2017
Barb Appel interview, 09 November 2017
Blanche Vanis interview, 11 June 2017
Bob and Joyce Maruna interview, 09 August 2017
Carol and Fred Jarosz interview, 24 July 2017
Cecil Dobbins interview, 24 November 2017
Chris Rettig interview, 21 July 2017
Clare Coulis interview, 18 April 2017
Diane Soukup interview, 12 July 2017
Dick and Darlene Wiegandt interview, 24 August 2017
Don Hoffman interview, 29 June 2017
Dorothy Ipavec interview, 24 January 2017
Earl Waltz interview, 03 November 2017
Eloise and Cedric Plavney interview, 06 July 2017
Gail Broughton interview, 14 June 2017
Gayle Zipay interview, 11 April 2017
Jane Hill interview, 14 July 2017
Jean and Paul Ruck interview, 24 April 2017
Jeanette DeSimone interview, 08 August 2017
Jeff Lennartz interview, 13 April 2017
Jerry James interview, 13 July 2017
Jim Sprague interview, 13 April 2017
John and Rita Gabrovsek interview, 10 November 2017
Kathy Wilmer interview, 07 July 2017
Ken Howard interview, 04 May 2017
Lee and Carol Schiemann interview, 20 August 2017
Linda Heiden and John Heidenreich interview, 21 April 2017
Loretta Taggart interview, 07 November 2017
Mary Baldwin interview, 11 June 2017
Matilda Varga interview, 06 August 2017
Mila Mandic interview, 08 November 2017
Pat and Jim Spoth interview, 28 September 2017
Patience Cameron Hoskins interview, 12 June 2017
Peter Geller interview, 13 August 2017
Rachel Abernethy interview, 17 April 2017
Roy Kress interview, 24 November 2017
Ruth Crowl interview, 21 July 2017
Ruth Skuly and Leo Deininger interview, 08 December 2017
Sandy Paliga interview, 07 August 2017
Shirley Pashall interview, 15 October 2017
Sylvia Banks interview, 10 April 2017