We had some great fun at the end of August, visiting with aunt Betty Love Jolovich and family. She's the sole remaining child of William J. and Leota Maiden, who raised their family on land his father had homesteaded in northern Dawes County Nebraska in the late 1880s.Some months back, Betty's youngest daughter Jan contacted us about doing a video interview with her mother. Of course, I thought it was a terrific idea, and I was delighted that she called me to help put it together. We spent several hours with aunt Betty and her husband Paul Jolovich. In addition to Janice, her older sisters Sandy and Beverly were on hand for the tapings.
We conducted the interviews in three segments of about 45 minutes each. There's a lot of anecdotal side conversation during the video, and we'll edit out most of that and probably end up with a final interview of about 45 minutes to an hour.
Betty talks about growing up on the farm northwest of Chadron, Nebraska, the trials and tribulations of a farm kid going to school in town, meeting her "pen pal" Marlin Love, whom she then married. There's lots of fun information in this discussion, including a description of one of the most hilarious honeymoons anyone could imagine!
Lots of projects going on these days, but this is near the top of the list, and we hope to have a final video completed by the end of the year.
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