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Hunting is as fundamental to Vermont's cultural heritage as dairy farming, and its lineage reaches back beyond the arrival of the first European settlers. But as Vermont has changed, knowledge of hunting is no longer universal and some Vermonters are…

In conjunction with foodways demonstrations set up by the VFC for festivals around the state, the archive includes a collection of interviews with cooks which explore the interrelationship of food, heritage, and identity. These interviews also…

This is the largest body of material in the archive, and it includes VFC folklorist Gregory Sharrow's dissertation research on the culture of farm life, research for a radio series on contemporary farm experience, research for the exhibit "Making…

This collections explores the immigration history, cultural traditions, identity, and contemporary experience of cultural groups throughout the state. Field research documented the experience of immigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries…

The bulk of the hunting materials focus on deer hunting in Vermont and Maine with additional interviews on moose, bear, turkey and other game birds. The interviews include information on habitat, strategy, and technique, traditional knowledge, social…

Jan-Feb 1927 (p. 101) Overview of Vermont turkey business ,which were highly regarded apparently in large cities. Alos encourages farmers to learn from Wisconsin farm using incubators.

a little history on the Gilfeather turnip and good variety of recipes

1925 - story of group who help spread the word/practice of canning with price list - vegetables, fruits, meats, jellies

1999 - Local historical society history of community plus recipes with first-person memories of daily life and eating before refrigeration and supermarkets, and with woodstoves. Includes biog portraits of women, mostly born in late 1800s, whose…

1902 - St. J. Woman's Literary Club. Raw potato yeast, scratch mayo, pork chowder, graham muffins, hunter's method of cooking fowl (leave feathers on, salt interior, wrap in brown paper and put in ashes for 1 hour, feathers and skin will fall off),…