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Whiting, Indiana: Generational Memory, 1991-1993


Semancik, Lillian November 2, 1992 

91-170

14 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 50 minutes; index

Interviewer
Orr, Lisa

Scope and Content Note

Lillian Semancik discusses her Slovakian heritage, her Slovakian immigrant parents, and her childhood and adult life in Whiting, Indiana. She compares the cost of living in her youth to that of the present day, and describes the closeness of the Slovak community in Whiting. In addition, she speaks of the death of her father from pneumonia, before the advent of antibiotics, when she was still a child.

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  • Subjects
  • cost of living
  • Slovak community