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AU2010-3072-- Camera Rolls 8 and 9 / Sound Roll 7

Sound Recording ContentAmbient : Unloading vegetables (squash). Freezer humming.Interview: Squash. Growing of vegetables--potatoes. Limited harvest of 1917. Economics of potato farming. Price per cord of wood. Social change in Vermont.

Position: 749 (411 views)

AU2010-3131 -- Wild Track 4

Sound Recording Content Interview: Raising livestock, livestock disease and illness, economics of rasing pigs, livestock processing

Position: 663 (431 views)

AU2010-3134 -- Wild Track 7

Sound Recording Content Interview: dog attacks on cattle, calf. Rifles and shotguns. Coydogs. Panther, catamount. Fishercats.

Position: 696 (423 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: 796 (402 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: 470 (496 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: 717 (420 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: 363 (551 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: 604 (444 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: 527 (474 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: 500 (482 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: 671 (429 views)

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: 239 (623 views)

AU2010-3078 -- Camera Roll 31 / Sound Roll 31

Sound Recording ContentAmbient: Pig slaughter and butchering. Knife sharpening, gun shot, water, metal pails, hair scraping.Interview: Economics of raising pigs. Details of butchering.

Position: 1142 (341 views)