Peterson, farmer, discusses early 20th century rural life in Virginia, Illinois: farming, butchering; country schools, and high school; education at the University of Illinois in Urbana; recreation, holidays, socials, weddings and churches; race relations; his trip to Sweden; the Depression and WWII; and family life as a Swedish-American.

7 tapes, 630 mins., 2 vols., 169 pp. Interview by Nancy Cogburn, 1979 OPEN See collateral file