Browse Items (100 total)

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

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Position: 196 (962 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3153_sl.mp3
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: 721 (624 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3151_sl.mp3
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: 824 (593 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3148_sl.mp3
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: 679 (634 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: 568 (675 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: 510 (705 views)

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

Position: 804 (600 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: 642 (645 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: 721 (624 views)

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

Position: 597 (662 views)

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