This
c. 1995 video contains footage for a documentary film; the interviewer, date,
locations, and many of the interviewees are not identified.
Footage of hop yards, properties, barns, driers, laborers training bines,
and buildings in Salem is included at the beginning and end of the video.
Also included are two interviews with Adele Egan, who talks about pay day at
the hop fields in the 1930s, and a group interview with five hop farmers
(including Ray Kerr, Cap Becker, and Mr. Smith). They talk for nearly 45
minutes about a variety of topics, including picking technologies; family
stories; the quality of hand picked
hops; socio-economic, ethnic, and racial demographics of the picker
population in the 1920s through the 1940s, impact of newer hop varieties like
the Cascade, and the impact of micro and macro brewers on production.
This item is a component of the Oregon Hops & Brewing Archives, Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
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