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interviews with Ray Keyser of Proctor, one-term Vt gov - mostly hunting as a social activity/tradition, no food prep included

cassette only interview about Native American maple tools (p. 12)

November 1988 interview with Drs. Taylor/Foulds of UVM interviews about changes in sugaring technology from the 1940s on. Also mention of Vermont Maple Sugarmakers Assoc. early days.

1988 interview with Helen Nearing re the Nearings' "The Maple Sugaring Book", sugaring details from when they lived in Vermont, also details on their homesteading life in Vermont

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Green Mountain Whittlin's/Green Mountain Folklore Society VOL LII, 48: dad growing up hunting in Windsor county, hunting rituals but never brought one home because Ct. wife couldn't handle a dead deer

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Green Mountain Whittlin's VOL LIII 20: tale of growing up on "self-sustaining" farm and eating dandelion greens, marsh marigolds, dandelion wine, lamb's quarters, garden greens.

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Green Mountain Whittlin's LIV, 28: fishing with dad on Shelburne Pond for pickerel, northern pike, northern walleye, perch, fried to eat or canned for winter chowder

Green Mountain Whittlin's LV, 18: brief anecdote about picking blackberries with horse and wagon in Springfield

Green Mountain Whittlin's LVII (2006), 37: very detailed description of food on Vermont farm (location not specified) in early 1900s: apples, butchering, baking, foraging

First-persons memoir of butter-making in their childhoods: Pond from Richford June 11, 1986 (p. 1-5) and photos of equipment 6-7, Warden from Barnet. May 1985 (8-20)
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