CLARK

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Dublin Core

Title

CLARK

Date

10/20/1980

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ID

Photograph Number

Interview Recording

Interview with George Clark conducted by Susanne Rappaport on 06/28/1981 (TC2004.3006). From the Neil and Susanne Rappaport Collection (VFC2004.0002), Vermont Folklife Center Archive. Audio recording © Estate of Susanne Rappaport and Vermont Folklife Center.

Side A

Side B

Interview Transcript

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Last Name

CLARK

First Name Row 1

LEORA

GEORGE

Image Date

10/20/1980

Number of People

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Miscellaneous Notes

George and Leora Clark, outside of home, near Butternut-Bend Store sign. Haystack Mountain in background. Forty-fifth wedding anniversary.

INTERVIEW EXCERPT

George:

"We bought this place over here - the store and the house - in 1953. Kibling owned it. He didn't have nothin' here though it was a store. He had a few wormy candy bars. We took more rubbish out of here than we did anything else. It was quite a job, I guess it was. We came in here - we bought it in September and we went in there on Monday morning - had Floyd Troumbley and Leslie Smith and Clare, my brother. They went to tearin' the stuff out and I went right to paintin', right around through behind 'em fast as I could. They went to puttin' the new shelves up - there was no shelves or nothin' in there. Tuesday we had a load of groceries come in and Wednesday we was selling them. Three days time we had it runnin' - selling groceries right off the floor. It went pretty fast once we got under motion."

(from interview - June 1981)