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Elmer Ward interview with Kessler Cannon of KBND radio

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Fifteen minute oral history with Elmer Ward, one of the founders of the Bend Rotary Club, who first arrived in Bend in 1910. Elmer discusses adventures in trying to arrive in Bend in the first place, before there was a railway line. Elmer also discusses early Bend, a basketball game, an early Bend dance, Sunday School picnics, and laying out the town site of Bend. Interview conducted by Kessler Cannon with KBND in 1953 as part of an oral history series with the Deschutes County Pioneers. Originally broadcast on May 3, 1953. Photograph from the collection of the Deschutes County Historical Society.

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Series: 15 minute histories Publisher: Bend, Oregon : KBND, p1953 Edition: Unabridged

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  • File size: 8320 KB
  • Release date: April 11, 2016
  • Duration: 00:17:19

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  • File size: 8391 KB
  • Release date: April 11, 2016
  • Duration: 00:17:19
  • Number of parts: 1

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Fifteen minute oral history with Elmer Ward, one of the founders of the Bend Rotary Club, who first arrived in Bend in 1910. Elmer discusses adventures in trying to arrive in Bend in the first place, before there was a railway line. Elmer also discusses early Bend, a basketball game, an early Bend dance, Sunday School picnics, and laying out the town site of Bend. Interview conducted by Kessler Cannon with KBND in 1953 as part of an oral history series with the Deschutes County Pioneers. Originally broadcast on May 3, 1953. Photograph from the collection of the Deschutes County Historical Society.

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