Oral History
These are oral history recordings (audio and video) of our family. This is a growing collection!
Learn more about recording, preserving and sharing your own family oral history interviews on: www.storychasers.org/resources
Description
This is a 26 minute audio letter and recording, created by Tom Fryer’s mother, Lydia “Tiddle” Fryer of Powell, Wyoming, on December 25 and 26 of 1972. This audio was originally recorded on an analog “reel to reel” audio tape and converted to digital audio by “Create a Vdeo” of Mint Hill, North Carolina, in June 2024.
Additional people / voices included on this 21 minute recording include Marge Wilder, Dick Wilder, Rick Wilder, Wardi (Wilder) Reber, Rikki Wilder Pomajzl, Tom Wilder, Jeane Wilder, and Mari, sister of Tiddle Fryer.
Additional photos of and media related to Tiddle Fryer are also available.
82 minutes
Description
An interview with Marge Wilder of Cody, Wyoming, with (brother) Tom Fryer of Manhattan, Kansas, (son) Steve Wilder of Las Vegas, Nevada, and (nephew) Wes Fryer of Charlotte, North Carolina, on June 6, 2024 over Zoom. Aunt Marge was in Cody, my Dad (Thomas A. Fryer) was in Manhattan, Kansas, cousin Steve was in Las Vegas, and Wes was in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A lightly-edited TRANSCRIPT of this interview is also available. (71 pages)
Learn more about the Cody Heritage Museum, which Aunt Marge and her late husband, Dick Wilder, helped found in Cody, on codyheritagemuseum.org.
98 minutes
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An interview with Alice J Rogers with Tom Fryer and Wes Fryer on May 30, 2024 over Zoom. Alice J was in Honolulu, Hawaii, Tom Fryer was in Manhattan, Kansas, and Wes Fryer was in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Clarification / correction from Judy Hanson: "Russ finished school in North Dakota not Dad [Robert]. He graduated in 1934 from SDSU then called SDSC, (College). All the Fryer family graduated from State except Russ and Carry."
49 minutes
Description
This is an interview with my dad, Tom Fryer, who has lived in Manhattan, Kansas, since 1981, but grew up in Powell, Wyoming. Dad's full name is Thomas A. Fryer. This interview was originally recorded on January 17, 2016, and shared on the StoryCorps website.
In addition to the YouTube version, this interview is also posted on the Internet Archive.
A lightly-edited TRANSCRIPT of this interview is also available. (39 pages)
This and other interviews with Dad are shared on our family learning blog.
(14.5 minutes)
Description
This is audio and video from a 2004 interview with Tom Fryer of Manhattan, Kansas, remembering his experiences in Southeast Asia in 1966 as a F-4 pilot in the United States Air Force. A bit more about this interview is shared on this blog post from May 2005.
This and other interviews with Dad are shared on our family learning blog.
Additional links to oral history interviews with Tom Fryer are available on "Learning Signs."
Angie Fryer
Additional links to oral history interviews with Angie Fryer are available on "Learning Signs."