Earl Wall Oral History Interview
Interviewer: Stephen R. Mark, Crater Lake National Park Historian
Interview Location and Date: At Earl Wall’s residence in Jacksonville, Oregon, March 17, 1989
Transcription: Transcribed by Chris Prout, July 1997
Biographical Summary (from the interview introduction)
CCC enrollee 1934. I located Earl Wall through Larry Smith, who had been interviewed during the previous month for this series. Although his term of employment at Crater Lake was relatively short, Mr. Wall’s memory was sharp and he provided valuable insight into several parks projects undertaken during 1934. His account, along with several others in this series, should be read collectively to obtain some idea of life as a Civilian Conservation Corps enrollee during the depths of the Great Depression.
The following transcription is brief, but supplemented by notes taken during a telephone conversation which preceded the interview.
Materials Associated with this interview on file at the Dick Brown library at Crater Lake National Park’s Steel Visitor Center
Taped interview 311. File includes biographical note by Larry Smith. Slide taken at time of interview. Additional background information, both about Mr. Wall and the CCC camps at Crater Lake, is in the park’s history files.
To the reader:
I located Earl Wall through Larry Smith, who had been interviewed during the previous month for this series. Although his term of employment at Crater Lake was relatively short, Mr. Wall’s memory was sharp and he provided valuable insight into several parks projects undertaken during 1934. His account, along with several others in this series, should be read collectively to obtain some idea of life as a Civilian Conservation Corps enrollee during the depths of the Great Depression.
The following transcription is brief, but supplemented by notes taken during a telephone conversation which preceded the interview. Additional background information, both about Mr. Wall and the CCC camps at Crater Lake, is in the park’s history files.
Stephen R. Mark
(Crater Lake National Park Historian)
October 1997
