Len e Connie Zuga Ted Gach
All the periods of my life
Ted Gach, born in 1936, was interviewed by the students of the Ohio Wesleyan University in 2011.
In this second interview, Ted tells about his life starting from his ancestors, Polish immigrant who left Prussia at the end of the Nineteenth century. Describing his life, Ted distinguish six main period, which he describes: his youth, the service in the Army, his twenties, his marriage in his thirties and his kids, the moment when his children left home in his fifty, and finally the experience with cancer and the changes that it produced.
Video table of contents
- The ancestors
- Food at home
- My father's root beer
- Victory garden: characteristics and social origins
- My parents
- Period 1: Youth
- Period 2: Living with Uncle Sam
- Period 3: My twenties in Cleveland
- Living at my uncle's
- Period 4: Getting married and having his children
- Weightwatchers
- Period 5: The empty nest
- Period 7: Cancer
- At McDonald's
- Adopting children
Interview information
Country: US
City: DELAWARE - OHIO
Altitude: 255m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware,_Ohio
Document by: Michele F. Fontefrancesco
Video by: Abigail Walsh, Rebecca Powditch
Created: 01-11-2011
