United States, Vermont
· 1940-09-14
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Parmalee, Babe, Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus Richmond laiLL GOIUG PLACEZ ltucrded :1 v,ritt,Ts' ATr SFP 4 'P4r.: "I was born on a farm up in Galais," she said. "You know most of the girls in show business come from small towns and farms. I don't mean I ever made the Big Time but I've been in the racket a long while now. I just got this dopy of The Billboard, and somebody's advertising my name, wants to know where I mu. See right there Babe Parmelee that's me, that's the name I go by. Everybody in the business calls me Babe…
Vermont, United States
· 1940-11-14
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Dunkirk, Mr, Richmond, Roaldus
Roaldus Richmond OCT 1 4 1940 GRAY EAGLE Pe had in his eyes and faoe the look of an eagle, and now his hair was gray. Ii. had been one of the greatest athletes ever developed in town, and he had never really grown Up. At forty-five he was still a big overgrown boy. Fe was always sparring or rough -housing, exchanging grips of strencth, twist- ing wrists, and slamming some unsuspecting victim on the back. Standing six -feet tall and weighing two -hundred, he was still quick -moving and fast.…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-08-20
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Foyle, Kitty, Richmond, Roaldus
3. God... The ?airfields awe everybody in town... She was so drunk it was positively disgusting we stinko... 4he'll go with anybody, do anything, there's nothing too low for her since she found out about her husband... They say that oh' actually... Just imagine a man of his age with that young 4oddard girl... The country club ladies told stories, then, that would have made the Italian women of Granite Street blush with shame. Them were the young married set and the middle-aged married set.…
United States, Vermont
· 1940-09-21
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, Roaldus, Rodney
11:Cer1.14 Roaldus Richmond JUST HANGING AROUID Writers' E—. SP 21 1940 "I've got to get out of this tome. There's nothin her. for me. I've been out of high *shoal four years and what have I done nothing but grit* for some of these lousy newspapers. A newspaperman ean't make a living in this state. Of course they're underpaid in other plows, but it's worse around here. Tou wouldn't believe hew little some of these guys got. Guys that have been working for these papers for years. They work like…
United States, Vermont, Caledonia County
· 1940-09-14
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Donegal, Richmond, Roaldus, Wife Of Donegal
Roaldus Richmond DATE: _ S_FP 1 _ 4 in 'In ARTIST OLD SCHOOL Fe was an old man of medium size with a face carved in lines of dignity and strength. The brow was broad and calm, the eyes still held a light in their blue depths. He looked like a man who had found and used the right key to life, con- trolled his spirit and conquered his trade. A man who had lived and was not afraid to die. The wife of Donegal looked older, but in her faded eyes was the same courage and faith. She sat rocking and…
Thomaston, United States, Connecticut
· 1938-12-13
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Botsford, Arthur, Donovan, Francis
14) Fran1 is Don van Thomaston, Conn. Tuesday,Dec. 13 138 INEMENNOWNEX 1. -Mr. Botsford is absorbed tom in a "History of Plymou which I loaned him WNOMORIpac on my last visit. As I enter,he looks u from the volume. "I thought you'd show 1110 about now," he says. was just lookin' through the book. Lot of folks here I remember well 01 Man Sutliffe here, he built that hou,e over on Marine street --first hou on the street. wasn nothin' but a cow (7hen we first move '7 up here that street track.…
Thomaston, United States, Connecticut
· 1938-12-14
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Donovan, Francis, Mr.maccurrie
Frane s Donovan Tho' ston,Conn. Ie esday,Dec. 14,'38 AMIXXMxiAme2XXIMft Mr.MacCurre is the only ccupant of the circle of chairs near the window in t'le fire house today,a xlxix he is engrossed in the daily paper,,Ava matter of fact his abior, ion may be a cloak for his feelings,for,they are burying one of the "bo" this,afternoon_For reasons of his own,no doubt,he has not planned to at end the funeral,but several of the others have gone,for the deceased was a aithful attendant of the afternoon…
Thomaston, United States, Connecticut
· 1938-12-20
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Botsford, Art, Donovan, Francis
'AR5Or f -at i o '-lre)e,cci f e-) Tel 3 (130,4-1.) Francis Donovan, Thomaston,00nn. Tuesday,Dec. 20 '38 live to be my age,boy,and you see a lot. But I'll bet you there ain't many men around here rem mber the things I do. Yot3/ find any with any better memori.es than me,in tour travels? I often thoiht if I'd gone to school,and could handle them big words,and had the/proper edux education, h'vt, with my memory,' wold have been something./ "'Then I was a shaver,' went to school a while at thrJ…
Thomaston, United States, Connecticut
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Botsford, Art, Donovan, Francis
told you Franc is Donovan, Thomaston, Conn. Thursday,Jan. 5 I 39 Mr. Potsford haE.$ rigged up all for his radio. It consists cf a I the tuning d ial by means of ii\T-lich chair and Ince stations as k risin, 9,nd fou his greater clEXIM 1171,8 added a magnifyil ass tx d i 1 number7 e sily d-isiagrx:x "Know where I r-ot that gl a .59? old lamp. 17 nu c find sooner or late -2,1f I'd ever wnt can tell. °I had. a lot 0 f fun on e of tae t -f, --Ps rru h riE on to old lamp ax through with t tit h1…
United States, Connecticut, Thomaston
· 1939-05-12
· 15 pages
Recorded by: Donovan, Francis
Francis Donovan Thomaston, Connecticut May 12, 1939. CONNECTICUT CLOC+AICERS From the simple dignity of Colonial style to the stream- lined designs of modern age; from the painstaking, leisurely methods of craftsmen.‘whose processes depended almost exclusively upon the coordination of hand and eye.)to the robot labor of the machine this in brief is the story of the clock industry over the past century and a quarter as it is reflected at the Seth Thomas plant, one of the first and one of the…
United States, Connecticut, Thomaston
· 14 pages
Recorded by: Richmond, George
Mr George Richmond Thomaston, Conn. (Clockmaker) The query:— "Is religion necessary? How do people feel about the Church in these villages where recreatlonal opportunities are few? What about the &lurch in the 'good old days?" "Seems to me people paid a great deal more attention to their religion a few years af7o than they do now. My folks were kinda taken with Spiritualism...I guess that's kinda dyinl out....I had an aunt went an in for it. ,She was kinda upstanding, independent sorta woman,…
Thomaston, United States, Connecticut
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Potter, George
George Potter Walnut atreet lankee..-formerly employed by Seth Thomas Clock Co Mr Potter is a member of one of the oldest families in this section of the state,cultured,well-readIdeeply interested in and thoroughly familiar with the history of the Seth Thomas Clock Company. He has one of the finest collections of Seth Thomas Clcks of all types in Thomaston. He entered the company's employ in the eighties and spent 23 years as an emrloye of the ccncern,leaving for other emp loyment and…
Thomaston, United States, Connecticut
· 1939-01-30
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Donovan, Francis
rancis Donovan Thomasto n, Conn Mond ay ,Jan 30 39 There is no one in the Fire House today,and ough I wait hopefully for more than an hour,none of the members,acti e or honorary,appears. Though the weather is inclement,which may ace unt for the absence of some of thelptit takes nothing leas than Act of God to keep the rugged Mr.MacCurrie indoors and his deiect •n is something of a puzzle. I can only conclude that he has pressing siness of some kind this afternoonor that he has decided to sp d…
Thomaston, United States, Connecticut
· 1938-12-22
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Botsford, Art, Donovan, Francis
out of for an Barney save Francis Donovan Thomaston,Conn. Thursday ,Dec am on my way to Mr.Botsford's house,but I meet thexisixtx h I 38 coming the postofice. "Still out working?" he inquirestand wi out waiting answer,he says: "I'm omcmgx going down to spend the a Lynch. "There was something I wanted to tell youlbut ernoon with t remember to my llfe what it was. Maybe I'll think of it la r. You getting anything out of all this stuff I been telling yodel assure him that his recollections are…
Thomaston, Connecticut, United States
· 1938-12-30
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Donovan, Francis, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Ryan
i 'I'll: k.c., c me -.ohc:rd Tit h. a vL,..Isit fre'm the Press Francis Donovac,, Thomaston, Conn. Frid3,y,Dec. 30,'33 Tiere.: is a f1,77----7 fe;:citement at th Fire House tor7ay,fo- 'Tate rbury paper has /fent ,n and reporter on 90me sort of special mission. Gloo /descends n a he i,vy pall on "our side" howev-r,w1v n the two men ente the door of tier company. There is much spec ul stiola on the ture of their 'lid onsimembilax. the sLE ge,!.-'-.i on is f ace tiousl th'-.t Mr. Ifacflurr:…
Washington D.c., United States
· 1938-12-27
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Botsford, Art, Donovan, Francis
buildings with false fronts facing each other across a wide and muddy thoroughfare. "See that mud?" asks Mr. Botsford. "That's the stickiest kind of mud in the world. I've seen that mud stuck on wagon wheels so thick you couldn't seet the spokes. They call it gumbo. You walk out in that road and every time you lift up your feet, it feels as though you was anchored. "I had good luck on the train goin' out. Never had no misfortune until I hit a town called Salina, in Kansas, where I had to…
United States, Thomaston, Connecticut
· 1938-12-19
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Botsford, Art, Donovan, Francis
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheok one) PUB. Liviinj Lore in Now ftland (Connecticut) TITLE Conneetput clookaaker (m06100 MITER Freneis Donovan Dm 1l9/38 WDS. PP. 6 CHECKER SOURCES GIVEN Interview COMMENTS Federal Writers' Project Connecticut December 19, 1938, Francis Donovan, Thomaston, Conn. (Dec. 13) CONNECTICUT CLOCKMAKING W. Botsford is absorbed in a "History of Plymouth" which I loaned him on my last visit. As I enter, he looks up from the volume. "I thought you'd show up about now,"…
Thomaston, United States, Connecticut
· 1939-01-30
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Donovan, Francis
ORIGINAL NM OR FIELD NOTES (Moak one) PUB....11041 (Corrtiovrt) 121211R kerfsePIN 110/8. UN. OIESCIEBR same annul (t) "Living Lore in N.E." Series The Fire House Scene Francis Donovan ThaMaston, Conn. Jan. 30, 1939 There is no one in the Fire House today, and though I wait hopefully for more than an hour, none of the members, active or honoarary, appears. Though the weather is inclement, which may account for the absence of some of them, it takes nothing less than an Act of God to keep the…
New York, United States, New York City
· 1939-03-27
· 8 pages
Swenson LIVING FOLKLORE 3/27/'39 Marine Radio Operators Johnifinocur: (Short, wiry fellow, about 35. Stiff blond hair, keen blue eyes. Rather swaggering manner. intohation) Speaks with English Listen, I got some corkers for you. Guys come to me for stories. Writers. There was a chap used a story of mine. Be wrote it up-- it was my story alright-- but you wouldn't Aave recognized it. Listen, here's something really happened. Funny. I was on a freight bound for Rio and Buenos Aires. It's a long…
New York, United States, New York City
· 72 pages
Me SWenSUli 7— 701127 LIVING POLEMIC OUTLINE: TRAMP POET I. alp's Glamour 1. Boyhood Recollections a. First meeting with a tramp 2. Adolescense a. The Byron Period b. Cabin boy on the "Castle" 3. Cattleman on the "South Sea King" a. "Shin's Glamour" II. Riding the Rail 1. The "juhgles" a. A Hobo Cook 2. The "Sallys" b. Jerry MbConley 3. In jail for "burglary" a. Cocaine songs b. Bible ballads 4. "Perfection City" 5. In the Lion's Den 6. Stowaway to Europe 7. The Girl that married another Man. …