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

Position: 1069 (669 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: 704 (777 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: 577 (835 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: 837 (729 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: 453 (906 views)

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: 837 (729 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3149_sl.mp3
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: 634 (810 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3150_sl.mp3
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: 528 (858 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3152_sl.mp3
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: 487 (879 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3156_01_sl.mp3
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: 304 (1048 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3078_sl.mp3
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: 1160 (643 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3089_sl.mp3
Sound Recording ContentAmbient: birds, wind, cow, Kenneth herding cow, water, horses, sugar arch opening, sugar arch closing.

Position: 1127 (652 views)

vfc2010-0008_au2010-3154_sl.mp3
Sound Recording Content Interview: Richard asks Kenneth to tell him about his favorite season, Kenneth talks about Spring. 'The world weren't so fast, people didn't have to have everything, and everybody was practically happy. Geared it down to where…

Position: 489 (878 views)

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