Scope and Contents Britz, daughter of a coal miner, recalls living conditions and family life during the period 1920 through WWII. She describes life growing up in Riverton near the Sangamon River, year-round activities on the river, learning to respect the dangers of the river, her family's first car, housework, and recreation. She also discusses coping during the Depression, towns along the river, coal miners and the Progressive Miners of America in the 1930's, the PMA Women's Auxiliary, life as a young...

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SANGAMON RIVER PROJECT Dorothy Britz recalls her life growing up on the Sangamon River in the town of Riverton. She discusses work and play on the river, dangers on the water, the flood of 1926, the landscape, plants and animals in the area, and river pollution.

Interview by Judy Haynes, 1980 OPEN Memoir included in B778.1 See collateral file: interviewer's notes, photocopied pictures, and samples of Britz's poetry