United States, Vermont
· 1940-07-31
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Elsa, Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus iiichmond Soction Files .'TE: DU2T ON 7,IS CLOT= Ht4 cek cY04-ie The widow sat by the window watching the spring sunshine on the granite -paved street. Across the river light fall on the shod roofs where her husband, Edo, had worked. Down the street men were entering or leaving the beer garden where Edo Used to stop on the way home. "We came oVfltr together when we were young only eighteen," she said, "We were married in our hometown, Brescia, in Lor,bardy. We went by train tilrouEh…
United States, Barre, Vermont
· 1940-07-29
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Duncan, Mayor, Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus Richmond 44poe4els F•41•110,1-Wri'berreioe4r THE MAYOR NAL-kA.4_, Re.corde.c) In *Red Siction Nes _ _ The off be was overheated and dingy, with law books stacked ceiling. high along the walls, The afternoon light 1/1111 a dim blur through the two windows and the noises of Main Street rose vague and discordant. The man behind the littered desk was surprisingly young.looking, pleasant -.faced with a grave assured manner. His sandy hair was in slight disorder, but his voice had a calm…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-09-14
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Harmon, Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus Richmond Recorded in Writers' Section Files r)ATE:14.e....L1 FIVE YEARS MOPE? "We make granite -working machinery and tools mostly," Harmon said. "We turn out other machines too, but being loc- ated in Barre it's natural that most of our stuff is for the granite sheds. The shop is on the riverbank near the stone sheds across from North Main street. It's that long red build- inE you see coming into town from the north. Fart of it dates back to 1640, the date is on the wall, and that was…
United States, Barre, Vermont
· 1940-08-23
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Galli, Mr, Lizzotti, Mr, Richmond, Roaldus
ioaldus Riohmond Writers' ,edon Files DATrAUG 23 1940 c: '1P‘e P4'5+ Crag. it •••11G'i P ONL IN A.N. WO, OUT In the long barroom, misty and oorl oven in midsummer, two men sat in one of the low -backed booths. Galli, the stonecutter, had the heavy red face, thick bull neck and massive shoulders of an old time bruiser. Re might have been broken.down pugilist, a bouncer in some saloon. His square body bulged the blue suit he were and he looked a trifle unoomfort. able in it. he was unemployed…
United States, Vermont
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Garavelli, Mr, Lynch, John, Richmond, Roaldus
Interview by John Lynch ReWrite by Roaldus Rcihmond 1. I CAN LAUGH AT THE GRINITE The room was sparsely furnished and bleak, but sun- light filtered through unwashed windows to brighten it. The huge white frigidaire looked out of place there. Gar- avelli leaned easily back in his chair, hands on the table that had seen many poker games and borne many bottles. Thinning black hair was brushed sleekly back from his lean well -cut face. He spoke quickly and eagerly, smiled readily. When excited he…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-09-30
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus Richmond r! SEP 3 ü 1940 I'LL TAKE THE GOOD CLEAN DIRT "Granites all right for them that likes it," he drawled slowly. "And cutting stone is all right if a man wants to make his living that way. I ain't got any quarrel with how a man works to make his living, no moregn I have with his rel- igion. I figi;er to tend my own business and let the other feller do the same. That way folks get along. Meddling is what makes all the trouble. And it's too bad but we got moregn our share of…
United States, Vermont
· 1941-02-27
· 19 pages
Recorded by: Leroux, Al, Mori, Dominick, Perez, Pepe
MEN AGAINST GRANITE Roaldus Richmond, Vermont Writers' Project. Recorded in Writer:' Section Files 9 10/71 UP ON TEE HILL 1. The car passed through crooked streets lined with frame houses, turned sharply and labored up a steep grade between great pyramids of waste granite. The valleys below were still drowned in white mist, but the hilltop stood clear in the early morning light. The homely wooden houses of Oraniteville and tebsterville were scattered over the broad summit of Millstone Hill,…
United States, Barre, Vermont
· 1940-09-14
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Bernie, Dave, Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus Richmond JUST ANOTHER GUY WORKING "I work in the shed," Dave Bernie said. "It's pretty good, but my brother is the one makes the money. Eels on the road a salesman. A good man on the road makes ten or eleven thousand a year, maybe better than that. You don't make nothing like that in the sheds. I'm a polisher and I get eight -fifty a day. That'd be pretty good if a man worked every day. I've be7m luckier than some. I work most all the time. Over the holi- days we got three weeks off. I…
Vermont, United States
· 29 pages
Recorded by: Davis, Horace, Slayton, F. C.
F. tragyton Ve Nxit Urlters' Project Veriuit 4 nTlw L. 'Awls Ur, "I don't care much for paper work. A hard -muscled Irish stonecutter had spoken. lie looked at the gray granite walls and golden dome of the Vermont State !louse, at the smooth green lawns and tall lazy elms surrounding it. !lore in the shadows of high granite eolumms in the Doric Portico, behind which the sovereigsty of the people of the State voiced its demecraey every two years, this :Ian bad, in a few wards spoken in eels…
New Hampshire, United States
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
Yankee Folk YANTCF_E BUSINESSMAN _ _ "But it's a hard world and a man's got to be hard to get along." I'm seventy, and I ain't so awful bad off. I don't do nothing much by way of real work now. Just help the boys around the mill. I got three boys grown up, pretty good boys they are too. But I still help them out and take care of them. Why, by God! I made more money in one year than all of themill make in a lifetime. Kind of funny when you stop to think of it. But it's true. I can still work…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-08-23
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus Richmond Recorded in Writers' Section Files t,TE: AUG 23 194u %%New tSsc‘a.2% ktirt C•Ng 44,, eiV kali, IT Uko SIR? The yard was a brilliant area in the long busy main streat. Red -capped arc -lights thane upon red-and-whita gasoline pumps standing in a double row. The place was clean and attractive. The smell of gasoline and oil was pleasantly diluted by the keen autumn air. The attendants, in blue uniforms with red ,piping mad letters, were young men with fresh faces. Their voices…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-08-05
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
loaldus TACIriold 1. Recorded in Writer's' Section Files __A4E5f.r14.1_ solorLING BETTER FOR KY BOATE: f "Our shed opened up again this week, the last week in January. Three big abode opened the same time. Now all the big ones are going again, but some of the little ones are still shut. They all shut down for a few weeks after Christmas. That's the winter lay-off. Now they'll go through to Decoration Day. After that's the spring lay-off, a few weeks, a month maybe, sometimos more. It's hard to…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-09-03
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus Richmond Writer-' SectionFU A NICE 4JJIET LITTLE BAR '-)ATE They called him Firpo because of his size. There was nothing of Firpo in his face however, for it was a calm face, pale and plump from soft -living indoors. Only in the mild eyes was a hint of restrained fires, danger -lights. Many a pugnacious drunk had been fooled by his mildness of speech and appearance. When Firpo went into action it was explosive and Irresistible. Men flew like sacks of straw before his terrible hands.…
Vermont, United States
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
2. :lybe I don't make -a no money. Maybe I make -a a little." Me shrugoad, "Mightsa well be here as upstairs listen the radio." "Yes, you bet," he went on. "1 got about all you wanta here. The bests fruit, t)Pe baste vegetable, all kinda grocery, tobacco, candy, seda, beer. Everything I guess but the meat. This neiehborhood pretty gooda bueiness. Mosta allAeork in the sheds, cut -a the stone. Make -a pretty good money when they work. osta all pay cash then, Thatsa how I like him to do. 2.tit…
United States, Vermont
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus ?ichmond OPRN ALL NIGYT "On a lob like tis n a town this size," he aaid, "I guess you get to know about everybody. Waybe you get to know too much about most of ler. All different kinds of people cone in to eat. You see some funny ones, all right.* Ye was a dapper little figure in his white apron, lean- ing on the counter of the diner, a 'elite cap cocked on his sleek head, Le had probably been Good-looking once. Now his skin was pallid and there were dark pouches sagging under his…
United States, Vermont
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus, Shorty"
Roaldus Richmond 35 School Street Montpelier, Vt. SHORTY THE HAPPIEST MAN IN TOWN "I supported my wife for fifteen years," said Shorty. "Why in hell shouldn't she support me for awhile now? It's only fair, ain't it? Sure it is." fte was about five -feet -four, an absurd swaggering little Frenchman with bright pop eyes behind spectacles and an eternal toothy grin on his dark wrinkled monkey -face. His barking laugh and his ceaseless chatter, his high-spirited ribaldry and colorful profanity,…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-11-14
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Davis, Hank, Richmond, Roaldus
Recoroed Roaldu2, ;:ichmond Writers' Section Files TE: 1940 ___ YAKEZE MaL "I'm seventy," said Rank Davis. "And I ain't so awful bad off. I don't do nothin' much by way of real work now, Just help the boys out around the mill. I got three boys grown up, pretty good boys they are too. But I still help them out and take ore of them. V4.4 by God, I made more money in one year than all of themill sake in a.lifstime. Kind of funny when you stop to think of it. /Jut it's true." rank lighted a fresh…
Vermont, United States
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
Roeldus Riehmand Assistant Divert"! Federal Write Project SWILLESII tgi:(441.4171STIt 'Te was neatly dressed in a light grey suit, soberly striped tie, and clean white shoes, for it was the Sunda before Memorial Day, the seasonal mei in the granite business was over for another year, and there was no more vrosbkomtil vedneediy, Vreeman was young, in the early thirties, his fair face fresh and NAOMI, his bead bald exaept for fringes of blond hair an either side. It wee a good clean Swedish…
United States, Vermont
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus Richmond ONE ThINO I HAVE He was dressed in a gray suit, striped ties and white shoes, for it was the Sunday before Memorial Day. The seasonal rush in the granite business was over for another year, and there was no more work until Wednesday. Freeman was young, in the early thirties, his face fresh and boyish, his head bald except for fringes of blond hair. It was a good clean Swedish face, very solemn. he spoke slowly, carefully, with an accent that was nearly a lisp. There was a…
United States, Vermont
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus
loaldus hichmene. Assistant Directew r:o(loral Writers' Project i.ILinrAntri "Loyalist? That sonofabiteL:. Franco, Viao woulc:In't be a Loyalist? Ye 're all IyUt. Ly brother was killed fiGhts. inr at •eruel. -.1y mother war killee by bombinc in lrids 1:1C sister died an the way to ne 'rench border, starved to death, by Christ. If T. -Acta been back there I would've been (load too. I know it. I would've orabbed a cun and foucht those ixtstu 4 ot me. I wanted to f,..et into It. I ha letters,…