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OH 2-60 "ANDERSON, Elaine. Describes daily life and role of children on the family farm; emphasis on haying process and developments. Detailed description of equipment"

interview (1982) with Elaine Anderson of Newport details farm chores and typical food eaten on farm (p.12-15)

OH 2-73 "WILSON, Stanley (1899 - ) Farmer. Haying by hand--mowing, raking, tumbling, loading; tools of the trade. Use of horses, oxen. Technology and its effects on haying. Changes in dairy farming over nearly 100 years. Dairy products. Modernizing. Bulk tanks, creameries, milkers. Compares old and new methods of farming"

interview with Stanley Wilson, Derby, 1982 with detail on haying in 1930s on, p. 61-67 buttermaking

Tags: butter-making, Derby, farming, haying

Farming and farm life, rural community

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…

Tags: dairy farm, farm culture, farming, farmstead, oral history

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OH 2-60 "ANDERSON, Elaine. Describes daily life and role of children on the family farm; emphasis on haying process and developments. Detailed description of equipment"

Farming and farm life, rural community