My sister dug up this interview with my grandmother in one of the books in a series featuring “Memories of Hoosier Homemakers.”
My grandmother, a Purdue home ec grad, had done several of the interviews for the series. But she was also interviewed and had some things to say about the homemaker sisterhood and club activity.
This reminds me of the problems facing clubs and organizations today:
“So many of the clubs are older women and they have not brought in the younger women. And that’s too bad. There are things that as older women we could help the young women with – things that we have learned in keeping house that would be of value to her. Instead of looking at us as old women and young women if we would just say – ‘We’re sisters. We’re all homemakers and let’s work at this together and let’s share ideas and let’s share friendships.’ I think this would really instill a lot more interest in our clubs.” – Marjorie McDonough, Grant County, Ind.
Dad thinks she was interviewed by the series editor Eleanor Arnold.
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My sister came across the reference while she and my family were researching a presentation about rural Indiana life in the early 1900s.
Dad says the women on the photo above are ladies modeling hats made in Purdue millinery classes at Crawfordsville, 1916. My grandmother, Marjorie, was the interviewer of many of those quoted in this book.
Photo of book cover courtesy of Hoosier Outsider.
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