Soap Creek Valley · Place

France

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about France: 9 transcript mentions across 5 records, grouped by who was speaking.

country No coordinate

Index references (printed indexes): 10
Transcript mentions: 9

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

This place has not been given a coordinate. It appears here because the narrators named it; where it stood is not established.

Provenance

Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 81, p. 106, p. 107, p. 138
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 76
Lorna Grabe in #1 Lorna Grabe p. 5
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 2, p. 143
Paul M. Dunn in #2 Paul M. Dunn p. 1

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

No, Ted and Tim both live in Portland, and Annie lives in Lyon, France.

Lorna Grabe, #1 Lorna Grabe , p. 5

We were there for a week in a rest area, then moved on to France.

Paul M. Dunn, #2 Paul M. Dunn , p. 1

Dated statements about this place

1908 — So they lived here in 1908, in 1908 you could hear. . . she played music and she'd been to France. Bob Zybach / Angela Sondenaa · source · 1891–1920
1917-08 — He served in World War I with the U.S. Army on the Mexican border and in France with the 34th Division from August 1917 to July 1919. Thayer Willis · source · 1891–1920
1941-12 — After Pearl Harbor I enlisted in the Air Force. Basic training, schooling, then overseas: Scotland, England, France, Belgium, Germany. James Hanish · source · 1941–1950

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: France (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: France. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/france/
Permalink: https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/france/

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