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Whiting, Indiana: Generational Memory, 1991-1993

Interviewee
Curosh, Delores; Curosh, William; DeLuca, Bertha; DeLuca, Michael March 2, 1992 

Call Number
91-151

Physical Description

87 pages; 3 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 150 minutes; index

Interviewer
Bodnar, John

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

William and Delores Curosh and Michael and Bertha DeLuca all spent major portions of their adult lives in Whiting, Indiana. Although they primarily discuss their lives in this town, they also talk about their childhoods and families, their lives in Arizona after they left Indiana, and how the country has changed. With regard to their years in Whiting, the Curoshes and DeLucas discuss what it was like raising their families in the community, their employment in Whiting, attitudes toward immigrants there, and religious and political issues within the town.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • American Trust and Savings Bank
    • Standard Oil Company
    • St. John's Catholic Church
    • Occupation Names
    • electrician
    • store owner
    • Personal Names
    • Truman, Harry S.
    • Place Names
    • Arizona
    • Czechoslovakia
    • Germany
    • Philippines
    • Subjects
    • Catholicism
    • credit cards
    • emigration
    • family finances
    • Fourth of July
    • Great Depression
    • Greek-Americans
    • Mexican-Americans
    • local airport
    • local crime
    • local politics
    • pollution
    • religion
    • still cleaning
    • World War II