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March 1986 compilation of oral histories of Italian families who moved to WRJ between 1890-1940 with details on pasta-making, raising pigs and making blood sausage, fried bread, eels, Falzarano, DePalo, Filosa families, gardening, tomatoes, canning,…

Within Vermont section: Back-to-the-Land movement: 49-50, OH 3-47 - outline of 1987 interviews indicate snippets of food/farming info (p. 14 on) re: food buyers clubs -> co-ops & start of NOFA, challenges of small farms/regs on dairy, p. 18 and 21.

(1978, Williamstown Vt) Interview with Cegira Violette (friend of student's grandparents who were French-Canadian, not clear if interviewee is also - grappa would indicate some Italian heritage) about home production of wine and grappa by her father.…

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.

July 1979 interview with Barre granite sculptor of Italian heritage - grappa, wine-making, Italian celebrations, running liquor

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

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

Trubek shares the story of her home orchard in Cornwall, which has some plum trees similar to the varieties familiar to Bosnian immigrants to Vermont.

Men pouring maple sap from a horse drawn wagon, which drains into a container in a sugarhouse.