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About the Crater Lake NP Oral
History Series
Interviewer: Stephen R. Mark,
Crater Lake National Park Historian
Interview
Location and Date:
At his residence in Medford, Oregon, November
30, 1988
Transcription:
Transcribed by Chris Prout, August 1997
Biographical
Summary (from the interview introduction)
Howard Arant had the double
distinction of working at Crater Lake from 1928 to 1934 and being the grandson
of the first park superintendent, W.F. Arant. I met him and his wife early in my
employment as park historian, after becoming aware of their collaboration on two
articles in the Table Rock Sentinel published by the Southern Oregon
Historical Society during the mid 1980s. After visiting them at their Medford
residence in August 1988, I saw them again for a short taped interview about
three months later. Died 1997.
Materials
Associated with this interview on file at the
Dick Brown library at Crater Lake National
Park's Steel Visitor Center
Taped interview; notes only for previous conversation with him and
wife Lu 8/23/88. Loaned a number of photos for copying. Slide taken of him at
time of interview. The transcript of that interview is
short, in part because a large portion of the information they shared appears in
my field notes, and the fact that both Mr. and Mrs. Arant had colds that day.
To the reader:
Howard Arant had the double
distinction of working at Crater Lake from 1928 to 1934 and being the grandson
of the first park superintendent, W.F. Arant. I met him and his wife early in my
employment as park historian, after becoming aware of their collaboration on two
articles in the Table Rock Sentinel published by the Southern Oregon
Historical Society during the mid 1980s. After visiting them at their Medford
residence in August 1988, I saw them again for a short taped interview about
three months later.
The transcript of that interview is
short, in part because a large portion of the information they shared appears in
my field notes, and the fact that both Mr. and Mrs. Arant had colds that day.
Nevertheless, the following transcription is an important addition to the record
along with some Crater Lake photographs that the Arants graciously allowed the
park to copy.
Stephen R. Mark
(Crater Lake
National Park Historian)
November 1997
