AU2010-3122 -- Camera Roll 124 / Sound Roll 124
Farm life--Vermont (LCSH)
Brick, Richard (Interviewer)
O’Donnell, Kenneth (Interviewee)
Richard Brick/Last Stand Farmer Collection -- VFC2003-0007. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Audio recording copyright Richard Brick.
1 sound tape reel (Scotch 3M 208 polyester) : analog ; 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape, 1 1/2 mil.
digital audio file (MP3)
sound recording
Chelsea (inhabited place)
Vermont (state)
AU2010-3123 -- Camera Roll 124 / Sound Roll 124
AU2010-3124 -- Camera Roll 125 / Sound Roll 125
AU2010-3125 -- 'Blank' Camera Roll 125 / Sound Roll 125
Scope and Content Note Tape is blank.
AU2010-3126 -- Camera Roll 126 / Sound Roll 126
AU2010-3127 -- Camera Roll 126 / Sound Roll 126
Maple syrup (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Interview: Kenneth discusses maple sugaring, banks, loans, roads, snow plowing.
Chelsea (inhabited place) Vermont (state)
Cows (LCSH)
Horses (LCSH)
Skis and skiing (LCSH)
Sledding (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Interview: 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, fat graveyards.'
O’Donnell, Helen (Interviewee)
Catamount (LCSH)
Hunting (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Ambient: 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.
Agriculture--Economic aspects (LCSH)
Livestock (LCSH)
Swine (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Interview: Raising livestock, livestock disease and illness, economics of rasing pigs, livestock processing
Country life (LCSH)
Real Property (LCSH)
Taxation (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Interview: land use and ownership, right of way, placing electric and telephone lines across property, taxes, farm loans
Snow (LCSH)
Food habits--Vermont (LCSH)
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, snowstorms, horses, and tractors.
Rifles (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Interview: dog attacks on cattle, calf. Rifles and shotguns. Coydogs. Panther, catamount. Fishercats.
Sound Recording Content Interview: 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 reunion.
Sound Recording Content Interview: 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 pines for turpentine. Discusses logging in the south, pay inequity between black and white workers. Logging saws. They discuss the Watergate scandal and the future of American politics.
Courtship (LCSH)
Sound Recording Conten Interview: Helen O'Donnell describes her courtship and marraige to Kenneth. She discusses Kenneth, his habits and their relationship.
Brick, Richard (Recordist)
Opton, Suzanne (Interviewer)
Dreams (LCSH)
Vandalism (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Interview: Kenneth discusses farm life, vandalism and the content of his dreams.
Gasoline--Prices--United States (LCSH)
Maple sugar industry--Vermont. (LCSH)
Rural electrification (LCSH)
Sound Recording Content Interview: 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.
Horse Racing (LCSH)
Turtles (LCSH)
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 barn boss. Describes a lake side community at Mascoma Lake where the owner moved the cottages across the frozen lake and resold them. Describes racing horses on ice. Helen discusses a freezer they purchased, and a fire in Williamstown (VT?).
Mascoma Lake (lake)
Energy policy (LCSH)
Farm management (LCSH)
Television broadcasting--Social aspects (LCSH)
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 his feelings about retirement, farm economics. Energy crisis and economics of energy. Richard and Kenneth discuss the TV news. Richard discusses filming Kenneth and Helen watching the news. Goes over a list of other things he'd like to film Kenneth doing, including sugaring, cordwood collecting. Richard, Kenneth and Helen discuss watching television. Talk about generators. They discuss Kenneth's dreams.