Topics include: tobacco farming, Shakers, amusement, fun things to do including church socials (Baptist Church), fishing, hunting, Tyringham in the 1940’s, peddling apples, milk, cream, butter, fabric, stoves, fathers working day and night would play cards and music as entertainment, diphtheria and candle of formaldehyde, most families had oxen for farming, saw mills.
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Interviewer name: Catha Rambusch.
Place of interview: home of Mr. Clark.
Names mentioned: George Kopp, Ms. Hobron, Kitson, Hale, Roger Logands, Mr. Howard, Mrs. Fuller, Mrs. Moore, Gardner, President McKinley, Gilly Palmer, Northrup, Neil Curtin, Mrs. Taylor, Slater, Evelyn Winters, Mark Twain, John McLennan, Spencer.
Places: Santarella, Hickory Farm, Schoolhouses from the past, Goose Pond, Brace Road, Fernside, moving S. Howard Shaker house to current location, Lee MA, Tinker’s store, Sodom Road, Monterey Road, Shaker Pond, Ashintully.
This project was completed with help from The Housatonic Heritage Oral History Center at Berkshire Community College, a project of the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area (Housatonic Heritage) that serves Western Massachusetts and Northwest Connecticut. The Center helps people plan and implement sustainable oral history projects and properly care for their new and existing collections.
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Notes (historical):
Basic information on interviewee(s): W. Clark, 1893-1977. Farmer in Tyringham.
