Sunday, January 5, 2014

The Mary Minor Yancey interview

Listen:
mmy interview 092866 (40.3 M)

On September 28, 1966, Mary Minor Yancey and her daughter Ella "Frances" Yancey Meidinger drove from Hiawatha, KS, to Lawrence, KS, where David and Diane Biswell Ferrier and their two children Robert (1 yr 10 mo) and Karen (1 mo) were living in the duplex on Canterbury Lane. Diane's parents Charles and Mary Yancey Biswell were visiting from Woodstown, NJ. Diane interviewed Mary Minor Yancey about her husband Daniel Layton Yancey and her other children Daniel "Layton" Yancey, Jr., Mary Minor Yancey Biswell, Thomas "Ralph" Yancey, and John "Raymond" Yancey. She was 89 years old at the time of the interview and makes a few comments showing her unease about the social changes happening at the time.


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