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Author: International FPG (F. P. Greve/Grove) Anniversary Symposium (1998, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man.)
Title: The all-day Post-Conference Tour through "Grove Country" to Grove's grave in Rapid City (Sat., Oct. 3, 1998) / Tour Guide, Richard Ottenbreit, University of Winnipeg.
Published: Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba, Archives & Special Collections, [ c1998].
Description: videocassette no.12 of 12 (ca. 60 min.) ; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Note: see MAPS of the Post-Conference Tour Tour Video only available in RBR, PS8513.R87 Z53 1998 Video 12 For the main sessions, see the 2005/6 e-Edition,
Online Video Proceedings of the Greve/Grove Anniversary Symposium "In Memoriam FPG, 1879-1948-1998" |
Contents: The Post-Conference day tour to Rapid City was a worthy conclusion to the "In Memoriam FPG, 1879-1948-1998" Symposium.
It started on Saturday, Oct.3, 1998, at the Marlborough Hotel, and ended there at ca. 9:20 p.m. Tour Guide to the region of Grove's Prairie nature essays and novels, 1922-1929, was Professor Richard Ottenbreit, University of Winnipeg, who not only knew the entire area intimately well, but also identified most of the exact locations mentioned in Grove's works.
The route led along the roads Grove had travelled as described in Over Prairie Trails (OPT, 1922). The was the first stop was Gladstone [="Balfour"], from where Grove started his weekly horse-and- buggy drives to the one-room schoolhouse in Falmouth ["Plymouth"], where his wife Catherine taught in 1916/17.
The location where Niels in Settlers of the Marsh (1925) reportedly built his "White Range Line House" on the Grassy River was the second halt. While no building exists at the mansion's site, the schoolhouse where Niels & Ellen meet still stands and was inspected by the tour participants.
Through Waldersee - the "Odensee" in Settlers - the tour moved on to Plumas [= "Minor"], Eden where Grove taught in 1919 and in 1921/22, and finally arrived in Rapid City, where the Groves lived and taught from 1922-1929.In Rapid City, Professor Ottenbreit took the participants to the cemetery with Phyllis May and Grove's tombstones. In town, Symposium participant Dr. John Ferguson, a resident there, took over from the tour guide, and led all particpants to the local museum in the old yellow brick schoolhouse, and to the City Hall where a warm welcome was prepared for the group.
The return itinerary was made without interruption via Brandon and Portage La Prairie.
Kathleen Horner, a movie maker from Montreal, was documenting the event. The weather had been very cooperative, so that the sometimes impassable field roads presented no problem. The next day, Sunday Oct. 4, it turned unpleasant.
Together with her sister, UML librarian and poet Jan Horner, she interviewed Leonard & Mary Grove in their Marlborough Hotel room. This exclusive interview is also recorded on video tape no. 12.
Subjects:
Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948 - Congresses.
Greve, Felix Paul, 1879-1912.
Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948 - Childhood and youth. |
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