Browse Items (100 total)

  • Collection: Richard Brick/Last Stand Farmer Collection (VFC2010-0008)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3147_sl.mp3
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: 841 (736 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3146_sl.mp3
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: 596 (836 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3145_sl.mp3
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: 461 (911 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3144_sl.mp3
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: 841 (736 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3143_sl.mp3
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: 947 (710 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3142_sl.mp3
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: 588 (841 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3141_sl.mp3
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: 701 (788 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3140_sl.mp3
Sound Recording Content Interview: Kenneth discusses cars he's owned, neighbors who trapped a large mud turtle, turtle fishing in Italy, and the South Family and North Family Shaker communtites. His father worked for the the North Family Shakers as…

Position: 547 (859 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3139_sl.mp3
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: 613 (829 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3138_sl.mp3
Sound Recording ContentInterview: Kenneth discusses farm life, vandalism and the content of his dreams.

Position: 965 (705 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3137_sl.mp3
Sound Recording Conten Interview: Helen O'Donnell describes her courtship and marraige to Kenneth. She discusses Kenneth, his habits and their relationship.

Position: 1111 (665 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3136_sl.mp3
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: 544 (860 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3135_sl.mp3
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: 1196 (641 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3134_sl.mp3
Sound Recording Content Interview: dog attacks on cattle, calf. Rifles and shotguns. Coydogs. Panther, catamount. Fishercats.

Position: 1078 (675 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3133_sl.mp3
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: 884 (726 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3132_sl.mp3
Sound Recording Content Interview: land use and ownership, right of way, placing electric and telephone lines across property, taxes, farm loans

Position: 1155 (654 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3131_sl.mp3
Sound Recording Content Interview: Raising livestock, livestock disease and illness, economics of rasing pigs, livestock processing

Position: 1013 (692 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3130_sl.mp3
Sound Recording ContentAmbient: Kenneth in barn showing calf. Interview: Sightings of panthers (aka cougar or catamount), lynx, coydogs, weasles, shotguns, deer hunting, posting, weather, Thanksgiving, game consumption--racoon, skunk.

Position: 561 (853 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3129_sl.mp3
Sound Recording ContentInterview: Kenneth and Helen discuss cooking, his health, mechanical problems with tractors, automobiles, winter weather, death, Christmas, Vermont ski industry, traverse sleds, skiing, snow plowing. Proverb: 'Green Christmas,…

Position: 745 (775 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3128_sl.mp3
Sound Recording ContentInterview: Kenneth discusses maple sugaring, banks, loans, roads, snow plowing.

Position: 681 (798 views)

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