Interview with Neva Harding

1 open reel audiotape

Jane Alexander interviewing Neva Harding at the United Retirement Center in Brookings, South Dakota.
Side 1: Considered donating her body to science
Side 2: People's comments on the condition of Neva's legs. Mother's participation in WCTU and in education matters. Discussion of mentally retarded boy in school where Neva taught. Discussion of care for older people long ago. Social life in De Smet - company that stayed throughout the winter, dancing, and people's opposition to it. Discussion of WCTU and why Neva wasn't interested in it. Discussion of what women with and without a college degree could do in the late 1890s. Neva's teaching and the teacher's exam. Neva's "seeing things" despite her blindness - description of her fantasies. Discussion of the new Episcopal minister. Her plans for being cremated.

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