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AU2010-3156 -- Kenneth (Wild)
Sound Recording Content Interview: Side A: Aging. The need to stay busy when retired. His pension. His reasons for still keeping livestock. 'It's something to do.' Shares opinions of local shop keepers. Side B: Kenneth and Helen discuss maple…
Position: 231 (317 views)
AU2010-3153 -- Kenneth (Wild Sound)
Sound Recording ContentInterview: Kenneth talks about how older people reflect more on the past. Talks about his health and pain and how it prevents him from working in the woods logging and sugaring. Tells stories of logging when he was younger…
Position: 808 (197 views)
AU2010-3152 -- Kenneth (Wild)
Sound Recording Content Interview: Discusses his pension and taxes. Talks about the increasing cost of schools and his opinions about contemporary schooling. They discuss attachment to the land and the history of Kenneth's farm and his family. 'I…
Position: 519 (240 views)
AU2010-3151 -- K. O'Donnell Wild Track
Sound Recording ContentInterview: Talks about how, without his soldier's pension, he would not be able to survive economically. Talks about his property and his attachment to it. Talks about his dreams--about horses he owned when he was young. Poetic…
Position: 579 (228 views)
AU2010-3150 -- Wild Sound O'Donnell Farm
Sound Recording Content Interview: Discusses marriage, age. Prices and increasing costs. Taxes and schooling. Class issues in Vermont--divide between farmers and white collar workers. Describes how he paid off farm in 1940s and vowed never to…
Position: 734 (207 views)
AU2010-3149 -- Wild Sound Kenneth and Helen
Sound Recording Content Interview: Government regulation. Maple sugaring. Changes in the timing of the maple sugaring season--it ends earlier than it used to. Used to run until May, now it runs until April. Describes carrying full sap buckets and…
Position: 503 (243 views)
AU2010-3148 -- Wild Sound Kenneth
Sound Recording Content Amibient (0:00-9:14): Chain saw, tree or branch falling (2:18-2:26). Interview (9:15-24:09): Logging, hurricane of 1938. Economics of logging. Rising costs. Firewood. Maple sugaring and economics of sugaring. Tells story about…
Position: 633 (220 views)
AU2010-3147 -- Wild Sound Kenneth
Sound Recording Content Interview: Kenneth discusses economics, property and taxation. Compares taxation in the 1920s to taxation in the 1970s. Describes what farmers used to do to pay taxes. Kenneth and Richard discuss real estate development in…
Position: 558 (231 views)
AU2010-3146 -- Wild Track 19
Sound Recording Content Interview: Kenneth describes haying the the challenges of haying depending on weather. Frustrations of his garden, potatoes in particular. Discusses brush and trees growing in, clearing land. 'They say the bugs and the trees…
Position: 579 (228 views)
AU2010-3145 -- Wild Track 18
Sound Recording Content Interview: Kenneth and Helen O'Donnell. Discuss deer hunting, tells several good deer hunting stories. Household water supply from wells and springs. Logging firewood and pulp. Wool industry in Vermont. Labor unions. Cotton…
Position: 323 (287 views)
AU2010-3144 -- Wild Track 17
Sound Recording Content Interview: Kenneth dicusses hard times, state jobs and economic problems. Discusses the impact of the Great Depression on his generation. Frugality. Describes how he helped people during the Great Depression and how his farm…
Position: 904 (185 views)
AU2010-3143 -- Wild Track 16
Sound Recording Content Interview: Kenneth discusses livestock and challenges of raisng livestock. Discusses problems with animals after birth, differences between individual animals. Dog attacks on livestock and deer. Gardens. Flowers. Presence of…
Position: 694 (213 views)
AU2010-3142 -- Wild Track 15
Sound Recording Content Interview: Helen discusses the division of labor on the farm. Talks about her feelings about animal slaughter, taxes and land and hers and Kenneth's different degrees of attachment to the farm. Kenneth discribes his…
Position: 484 (247 views)
AU2010-3141 -- Wild Track 14
Sound Recording Content Interview: Helen discusses a late night telephone call they recieved and her suspicions as to who made it--a local man who is in the hospital in Boston. Richard explains his fear of late night phone calls. Kenneth discusses…
Position: 868 (189 views)
AU2010-3139 -- Wild Track 12
Sound Recording ContentInterview: Kenneth discusses cultural change, gasoline and oil prices, cars and electrification. Kenneth expresses that the change he most appreciates is electricity, and tells a story about electrification in the neighborhood.
Position: 459 (255 views)
AU2010-3138 -- Wild Track 11
Sound Recording ContentInterview: Kenneth discusses farm life, vandalism and the content of his dreams.
Position: 783 (200 views)
AU2010-3136 -- Wild Track 9
Sound Recording ContentInterview: Kenneth describes relationships between neighbors regarding right of way, property, water and electricity. Maple syrup, sugar on snow. Tapping beech and birch trees as a source of utility water. Discusses tapping…
Position: 558 (231 views)
AU2010-3135 -- Wild Track 8
Sound Recording ContentInterview: Discusses pickup trucks, cars, automotive repairs, number of gasoline stations in Chelsea in the past. Taxes. Houses and the condition of houses and barns. Chimney fires. Reusing old bricks to build chimmeys. Family…
Position: 1120 (166 views)
AU2010-3134 -- Wild Track 7
Sound Recording Content Interview: dog attacks on cattle, calf. Rifles and shotguns. Coydogs. Panther, catamount. Fishercats.
Position: 587 (227 views)
AU2010-3133 -- Wild Track 6
Sound Recording Content Interview: Kenneth discusses using cornmeal to plug holes in a sap tank, and discovering someone used cornmeal to plug a hole in a Model T Ford radiator he used to own. Discusses food traditions. Discusses winter weather,…
Position: 771 (202 views)