Oral Histories of Wisconsin Rapids
This audio tape collection contains fifty volumes of predominantly Wood County locals speaking on area and state history. Some of the highlights of the tape collection are summarized below.
VOLUME 10, SIDE A: Len Broster and Mr. Streeter discuss the circus trainwreck that ocured in Babcock.
VOLUME 13, SIDE B: Fern Amundson describes Andersonville Camp, a Civil War-era prison camp.
VOLUME 20, SIDE A:Theodore Brazeau speaks about Wisconsin Rapids Civil War veterans. SIDE B: Marshall Buehler gives lumbering/rafting history.
VOLUME 21, SIDE B: Maurice Rice speaks and reads clippings and diary entries on multiple drownings in a Wisconsin Rapids boating accident in which a boat went through the gate in the dam.
VOLUME 23, SIDE A: Dr. L.C. Pomainville gives the history of the Pomainville doctors and tells about medicine and doctors in early Wood County.
VOLUME 27, SIDE B: Dennis Conway speaks about the Magnuson muder and the trial that enused.
VOLUME 31, SIDE A: Emily Baldwin speaks on general Wisconsin state history.
VOLUME 35, SIDE A: Bill O'Gara discusses the railroad history of Wood County.
VOLUME 36, SIDE B: Grim Natwick recalls the history of Wood County and speaks on working for Walt Disney Studios.
VOLUME 43, SIDES A & B:: Dedication of the YMCA and shopping center in Port Edwards.
VOLUME 50, SIDE A: Grim Natwick discusses boyhood recollections and his career as a cartoonist.