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June 29, 2023

The Preston Recollections from 1978 are currently available for check-out at the Preston Public Library!

Here is the table of contents for reference:

Preston Recollections
(Oral Histories from 1978)
  • Julius Afseth
  • Orville Amdahl (Registrar of Deeds)
  • Moppy Anderson
  • Frank Ashton (Mayor)
  • Lollie Ballard Cobert
  • Amylee Broderick (Preston School)
  • Erma Chilson
  • Blanche Conkey and Mrs. Dora Conkey (with Tim Grebin)
  • Elvyn Cummings
  • Oscar Evenrud
  • Preston Firehall (Tim Grebin, Elvyn Cummings, Fred W. Neuman, Dr. M. E. Love, O. H. Amdahl, Dean McKnight, Gustav Gartner, Howard Gartner)
  • Howard Gartner (Businessman)
  • Bessie Gill (no transcript available)
  • Tim Grebin
  • Martha Grinnell (Early Medicine Prices)
  • Richard Hovelson (Preston Historian)
  • Wallace Hutton (no transcript available)
  • Gertrude Johnson Willford with Tim Grebin (Canton, MN)
  • Ludie Johnson (no transcript available)
  • Wesley Jones
  • Lydin Kerr
  • Gordon Kimber (no transcript available)
  • Sammy Kirk
  • Herb and Alma Liester
  • Iva Lilliard
  • Dr. Maclaren E. Love (Dentist)
  • Eunice Maust
  • Clifford Nelson
  • Richard Nelson (Mayor)
  • Fred Neumann
  • Lester Ott (Railroad)
  • Esther Pickett
  • Wendell Pickett
  • Bernard Pietenpol (Aviation Pioneer)
  • Art Schibursky
  • Clair Snyder
  • Mary Spies (Carimona)
  • Russell Sutton
  • Dale Thauwald (Preston Mortician)
  • Luther Thompson (Meighen Store)
  • John Turck
  • John Vande Zande
  • Violet Van Sande
  • Wendell Vrieze
  • George Watts (Creamery History)
  • Wyman Yaste

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