Herron recalls Auburn, Illinois: her parents' immigration and farm, Depression, coal mines, home life, schooling, working at grocery stores, railroads, and entertainment.

6 tapes, 330 mins. Interview by Daniel W. Dixon, 1991 OPEN: narrator reserves right to review edited transcript. See collateral file

Kenney, retired grocery clerk and native of Auburn, Illinois, discusses family life, early schooling, business on the square, coal mines, the grocery business, products, home life, doctors in town, cemetery conflict, the history of Auburn and her book on the subject.

7 tapes, 542 mins. Interview by Daniel W. Dixon, 1991 OPEN: narrator reserves right to review edited transcript. See collateral file: interviewer's notes and a copy of Kenney's History of Auburn.