Diaries
Peticolas, Theodore V.
Peticolas, Edward
Agriculture
Farms, Small
Fruit growers
Personal narratives, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 6th (1861-1864)
Clermont County (Ohio)
Ohio
Theodore Victor Peticolas, born 29 Feb. 1800 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was a fruit farmer in Union Township, Clermont County, Ohio at the time he maintained this diary. It contains his account of the day-to-day routine farm work, crops, family, neighbors, and social life. Peticolas' son Edward, by 1863, had been discharged from the 6th Ohio Infantry Regiment for a disability suffered in the War. Edward died on Christmas eve, 1863.
Peticolas, Theodore (1800-?)
Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
No Copyright - United States
Incunabula
Printing 1450-1500
One leaf from Opera Latina by Francesco Petrarca and edited by Sebastian Brant. Printed in Basel by Johann Amerbach in 1496. [GW M31505; ISTC ip00365000]
Petrarca, Francesco
Seidman Rare Books Collection
De Remediis utriusque fortunae [folium 107]
One leaf from De Remediis utriusque fortunae by Francesco Petrarca. Printed in Heidelberg by Heinrich Knoblochtzer not before 1490. [GW M31621; ISTC ip00408000]
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
Two leaves of Opera Latina, the first collected edition of the works of Francesco Petrarch, edited by Sebastian Brant. Printed in Basel by Johann Amerbach in 1496. Illustrated with historiated woodcuts and red and blue rubricated initials. [GW M31505; ISTC ip00365000]
Petrarcha, Francesco
Petrovic, Ann (Interview transcript and video), 2010
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Video recordings
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives
Baseball for women--United States
Baseball
Sports for women
World War, 1939-1945
Baseball players--Wisconsin
Women
Ann Petrovic was born in Aurora, Indiana, in 1928. She grew up playing ball with her brothers and played on different girls' teams in school. When she was fifteen, she heard about tryouts for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League being held in Illinois, tried out and was assigned to a team in Minneapolis which soon moved to Kenosha. After playing in the league's first season, she signed with a professional softball team in Chicago, where she played until 1950.
Petrovic, Ann
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)
In Copyright
One leaf from Historia scholastica by Petrus Comestor. Printed in Strassburg by Georg Husner on July 15, 1500. [GW M32180; ISTC ip00466000]
Petrus Comestor
Petty, Chris Allen (Interview outline and video), 2015
United States--History, Military
Veterans
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American
United States. Army
Chris Petty was born October 1969 in Cedar City, Utah, and was raised in Salt Lake City. He graduated high school in 1988 and enlisted in the Army a year later. He received advanced communications training and completed Airborne School. Chris was soon assigned to a Long Range Surveillance Company which would become part of the 82nd Airborne Division. He operated with this unit performing reconnaissance in Kuwait during Desert Storm, and later in South American countries for the War on Drugs. Chris was reassigned to South Korea, were he operated supply and logistics for a battalion stationed there for a year. He was reassigned to the newly formed 82nd Airborne Division, where he served about six years. He left the military for a while to spend time with family, then went back into the reserves. Chris' reserve unit was deployed to Iraq in support of the Striker Brigade, where he served for 16 months. After Iraq, Chris worked as a very successful recruiter for a few years, then retired from the military as a First Sergeant of a Military Police Company in South Bend, IN.
Petty, Chris Allen
Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Gary Pettyjohn, 2021 (Interview video and transcript)
Personal narrative
PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals)
Groundwater--Pollution
Gary Pettyjohn grew up in Grayling, Michigan before moving to the southeast region of the state. His experiences with PFAS in his community center around the Wurstmuth Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan. After learning about the contamination in about 2017, he began to connect his family's health conditions to PFAS.
Pettyjohn, Gary
Living with PFAS (project)
In copyright
Pfaller, Leo J. (Interview outline and video), 2007
Michigan--History, Military
Leo Pfaller served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956 in the 4th Armored Division. He had several duties in the Army including tank commander, guard and cook. He discusses his training, dealing with the draft, family life in the military, experience with a court-martial, racial tensions in his outfit and stories about his time in the Army.
Pfaller, Leo J.
Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
Lowell Area Historical Museum (Lowell, Mich.)
Pfeiffer, Dan (Interview outline and video), 2007
Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American
Dan Pfeiffer served in the US Army between 1952 and 1954. He served in an infantry unit in Korea during the last months of the Korean War in 1953. He provides detailed descriptions of combat patrols and fighting in the trench lines against the North Koreans and Chinese. Later on, he was assigned to be the chauffeur for a general.
Pfeiffer, Dan
Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich)
Allegan County (Mich)
Frozen baked products
Food--Storage
Black-and-white photography
Black and white photograph featuring numerous stacked boxes from the Lloyd J. Harriss Pie Company. The sides of the boxes are labeled as having "6 - 8" Frozen Pies" and the photograph appears to be taken inside a refrigerator storage facility.
Philips, L.
Digital file contributed by L. Philips as part of the Stories of Summer project.
Copyright Undetermined
Black and white photograph of two semi-trailors parked outside the Lloyd J. Harriss Pie Company loading dock in Saugatuck, Michigan. The one on the right has a truck attached and the trailor on the left is parked for loading purposes. The photograph is taken from an angled view to the right.
Black and white photograph of two semi-trailors which have "Pies, Lloyd J. Harriss" advertised on the side. They are parked outside the Lloyd J. Harriss Pie Company loading dock in Saugatuck, Michigan. The one on the left has a truck attached and the trailor on the right is parked for loading purposes. An employee is standing in the middle and appears to be reviewing a clipboard of information. The photograph is taken from an angled view to the left.
Larry Philips (interview transcript) 2018
Saugatuck (Mich.)
Douglas (Mich.)
Allegan County (Mich.)
Motorcycle gangs
Automobiles
Audio recordings
Larry Phillips recounts his time in Saugatuck and Douglas, where he grew up. In this interview, he discusses working several jobs, including his work at the Lloyd J. Harris Pie Company. He also discusses his time as a firefighter and provides a first-hand account of the Big Pavilion fire.
Philips, Larry
Stories of Summer project, Kutsche Office of Local History. Grand Valley State University
Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project)
Phillips, Gregory (Interview outline and video),
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
Gregory Phillips was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on August 22, 1948. After graduating from college in 1969 he was drafted into the Army. He received basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and his advanced infantry training at Fort Polk, Louisiana. In December 1969 he deployed to Vietnam. He was first assigned to the 1st Infantry Division at Lai Khe and he served with them for two months (first in 2nd Battalion/28th Infantry Regiment then 2nd Battalion (mechanized)/2nd Infantry Regiment). Gregory transferred to the 101st Airborne Division at Phu Bai, and joined 2nd platoon of Delta Company, 1st Battalion/506th Infantry Regiment on March 1, 1970. On the morning of May 7th he and the rest of 2nd platoon fought at the battle of Firebase Maureen where he was wounded six times and was later awarded the Silver Star for his actions there. He was medically evacuated to the United States and served at Fort Hood, Texas, for the last ten months of his enlistment (he was most likely discharged in June 1971).
Phillips, Gregory
Phillips, Randolph Elbert (Interview outline and video), 2007
United States. Navy
Randolph Phillips served in the US Navy as a communication technician from 1963-68 during the Vietnam War, training reservists for service in Vietnam. He joined the Navy because his grades were too poor to keep him in college. For part of his service he was in Hawaii, and for a longer period he was in Jersey City at the US Naval Reserve Training Center. He talks about what he learned by being in the military and how it applied to life after service. He talks about the Vietnam memorial and its affect on him and other veterans of Vietnam. He also talks about how the Vietnam veterans were treated when they came home, and how it differs from how veterans are treated today.
Phillips, Randolph Elbert
F.E. Seidman Distinguished Award ceremony
Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley State College
Allendale (Mich.)
Universities and colleges
Faculty
Events
President Lubbers, L. Wm. Seidman, Richard Gillett, Dr. Arthur Burns, Marvin DeVries, James Daughdril, and P.K. Seidman at F.E. Seidman Distinguished Award ceremony.
Phillips, Rod
In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Phillips, William (Interview outline and video), 2009
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
United States. Army Air Corps
William Phillips was born in Flint, Michigan and graduated from high school in 1936. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in April of 1941 and was sent to Chanute Air Field in Illinois for airplane mechanic school. William also went through crew training and gunnery school, later becoming an instructor training men to work as gunners with B-24s. He later got his orders to work overseas and was sent to Puerto Princesa Bay where he began working with the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron.
Phillips, William
Pickens, Lavont A. (Interview outline and video), 2003
Robert Perrin was born on September 11, 1923 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and drafted into the Army in 1943. He went to Camp McCoy in Wisconsin for basic training, which he thought was terrible. Robert then began training for the Military Police and was later stationed in Louisiana to help with flooding. Robert was transferred into the Army Air Force and then became part of the 42nd Rainbow Division. Near the end of his service Robert was instructing the Military Police how to repair radios in Colorado. Robert was discharged on November 26, 1945 and moved back to Michigan.
Pickens, Lavont A.
Pimm, John (Interview outline and video), 2008
John Pimm was born in Connecticut in 1924 and graduated from a small country school in 1941. John then went on to a military college in Northfield, Vermont. The entire college enlisted in the service on September 14, 1942. John went through the Army Specialized Training Program in Nebraska and then Combat Engineer Training in Texas. He shipped over to England at the end of 1944, and then served at the end of the Bulge campaign and the advance through Germany to Czechoslovakia.
Pimm, John
Spring Lake District Library (Spring Lake, Mich.)
General Development Plan for Pipestone Township
Master plan reports
Pipestone Township (Mich.)
Berrien County (Mich.)
The General Development Plan for Pipestone Township was prepared by the Pipestone Township Planning Commission with technical assistance from the Berrien County Planning Commission and was adopted on February 9, 1987.
Pipestone Township Planning Commission, Pipestone Township, Berrien County, Michigan
Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
Berrien County Planning Commission (consultant)
Piskula, Grace (Interview transcript and video), 2009
Baseball players-Illinois
Grace Piskula was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on February 26, 1926. Growing up she played softball with the neighborhood boys and in school. She played all positions but mainly stuck to playing shortstop, first and third base and left field. Eventually, her coach, Buddy Greif, approached her one day and informed her she would be playing for the Rockford Peaches. Soon thereafter while she was up at college, she received a call from Mr. Wrigley, owner for the Chicago Chicks to come play for them. She played one year for the Rockford Peaches and then the next for the Chicago Chicks. Her career highlights include hitting a triple for Chicago and then catching a fly ball while with Rockford. Following her two years in the league she quit and went back to college. She discusses her post-baseball career in some detail.
Piskula, Grace
Pitetti, Kenneth (Interview transcript and video), 2017
Kenneth Pitetti, was born in1946 in San Francisco, California, where he was raised. He enlisted in the ROTC program at the University of San Francisco. He signed up for infantry in the Army. He received Infantry Officer Basic Training at Fort Benning. In the fall of 1969, he was assigned to the 24th Division at Fort Riley, Kansas, which, within his last two weeks of the assignment, became the 1st Division. He then participated in jungle training in Panama before being sent to Vietnam in August of 1970. He was assigned to C Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He spent most of his time in the field leading platoon-size patrols in the mountains and jungles in the northern part of South Vietnam. Four months into his service in Vietnam, Ken Pitetti stepped on a land mine and lost his leg just under his knee in a traumatic amputation. He was medically evacuated to a field hospital, where they performed surgery. He was sent back to the United States to recover. After his return to the United States, he faced the negative treatment and negative stigmatization that many veterans of Vietnam felt. Still, he worked to get his PhD and now is a professor at Wichita State.
Pitetti, Kenneth
Pitsch, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2011
Richard Pitsch volunteered for the draft in the summer of 1972. He expected to go to Vietnam, but had hopes that he would not due to the troop draw down. He completed his basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky and completed his advanced training at Fort Bliss, Texas. He was assigned to air defense artillery missile system and was a fire control crewman. He spent 20 months of active duty in central Germany, near the Dutch border. He returned to the United States in August, 1974, and was on inactive duty for the next two years.
Pitsch, Richard