Vermont, United States
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Danli, Mr, Danli, Mrs, Richmond, Rouldus
Roalotus Richmond Assistant Director Federal Writers' Project STONECUTTER AND WIFE "WI, I'm an the WPA now," Danli said. *I guess you always will be, his wife said scornfully. "I guess you'll never get another decent job." Danli Shrugged his wide shoulders, his rugged dark face crinkled in a frown. If there ain't any you can't get 'em," he said. The little kitchen vas clean under the Melt. A wood fire burned in the stove, and the smell of drying wood came from the oven. A picture of a cross…
Vermont, United States
· 5 pages
Roaldus Richmond MC ,t4kc.tNSt aye. Recorded in Writers' Sectjgg; I'LL cin STOWL AGAIN rtlr; DATE: *Tub, I'm on the WPA new," Lunn said. "I guises you 'always will be," his wife said. "I goes* you'll never get another decent job." Dann shrugged his wide shoulders, his rugged dark face crinkled in a frown. "If there ain't any you can't get 'em," he said. The little kitchen was clean under the light. wood fire burned in the stove; the smell of drying wood ea me from the oven. A crucifix hung…
Vermont, United States
· 1940-10-14
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Tomasi, Mary
Mari Tomasi OCT 14 1940 I CAN SKATE LOOPS AROUND TEAT GUY The boy limped away from the crowd at the further end of the skating rink, holding in his hand a skate that dangled from its lacing. :4!) had been racing whin somettlag happened to his skate; now he laughed at the good...natured scoffs and raillery of his friends. "I'd have skated loops around that guy in two seconds," he bragiAd with a bright grin. "I've beat him more times 'n he's beat me. We're neither of us in shape right now, it'll…
Montpelier, Vermont, United States
· 1940-10-14
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Macmaster, Jean, Tomasi, Mary
Mari Tomasi FATHER SAYS Recorded ir Write!' Section fi^ 1 4 134U 14 1 Granite City was gay in holiday mood. Spirals of red, green, yellow, blue, red lights colored the lamp posts and the band stand. Small Christmas trees blinked their electric bulbs with untiring rapidity. Snow -etched elm branches caught the colors, toned them to pastel shades and held them overhead. A woman in the blue cape and bonnet of the Salvation Army strode through the park, head bent against the snow, homeward bound…
United States, Vermont
· 7 pages
rary Tomasi 1. rontpolier, Vt. FATHER SAYS Granite City was gay in holiday mood. Spirals of red, g/e)n, yellow, blue, red lights colored the lamp posts and the band stand. Small Christmas trees blinked their de- corations with untiring rapidity. Snow -etched elm branches caught th3 colors, toned them to pastel shades and held them overhead. A woman in tiz blue cape and bonnet of the Salvation Army strode through the parks head bent against thc: snow, homeward bound after a weary evening of…
United States, Vermont
· 4 pages
Recorded by: The Granite Worker, Tomasi, Mary
1. Miss Mary Tomasi 63 Barre St. Montpelier, Vt. Tbe Granite Worker TWO IRISH GRANITE WORXERS 0004aimpsaly a breeze stirred to movement the scrObby, dusty growth an Quarry Hill. For the most part there was stillness. Stillness of motion: clouds transfixed in a weighted, humid air. Stillness of soundt the quarrymen from neigbhomIng pits had finithed their day's work and were gone. Silence, except for some bird -call thrilling its echo across the dame of abandoned quarries. Sun biased an the…
Vermont, Montpelier, Washington County, United States
· 5 pages
Recorded by: The Granite Worker, Tomasi, Mary
1. Miss Nary Tomei 63 Barre St. Montpelier. Vt* at9B11...4 a ea A YOUNG- ITALIAN GRANITE CDTTLM He vas one of the wildly enthusiastic crowd that filled the bleachers on the baseball field. His Wormed face towered a good head above his companisme* in spotless sumo. ger linen and Immaculate white Shoes It las bard to visual- ize his as a week day granite worker, head, rase and cloth.. lug in a film of dust. Through the brown at his son goggles his eyes crinkled good naturedly. *It there's…
United States, Barre, Washington County, Vermont
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Mccullen, Father, The Granite Worker, Tomasi, Mary
2. He has done remarkable work in the little time he can spare from his many other duties. I learned that majority of the Italian stonecutters came from northern Italy, a section of the country long disposed to resist papal authority and often engaged in religious controversies. But their ancestors had been Catholics, the Faith was in their blood; most of then were baptised, but with that the external manifestations of their faith ended. On the other band I found as many mho came to this…
United States, Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Tomasi, Mary
Miss Vary Tomasi 63 Barre St. Vontpelier, Vt. A SPANISH STOMMTLVIS wmcw She was a large, swarthrowfaoed women. Hor black hair was drawn to a heavy, shiny coil low on her neck. her fingers were red, pricked from years of fine hand sewing. Today she was crocheting an edge on a linen tablecloth. Conversation was no hindrance to her work. Fingers flew, dark eyes flashed as she spoke of those emelilmairs when she and her stoommitUr-lmsband lived in this some apart.. sent, The small, square…
Vermont, Montpelier, Washington County, United States
· 1940-11-25
· 5 pages
Recorded by: The Granite Worker, Tomasi, Mary, Tosi, Elba
1„ Miss Wary Tomasi 63 Barre St. Montpelier, Vt. The Granite Worker Italian The at sun gime a WI.) warmth. A grapevine twisted limply around the porch post, its small, dry tendrils strag- gling against the rail, Here and there life manifested it- self in bard, scarlet pellets pushing through the shredded bark. On a blanket spread over the rough granite step set George Toei huddled in a loose bathrobe, his slippered feet resting on the brown earth. He drew absently at his pipe. Two men tamping…
United States, New Mexico
· 1936-03-21
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Raines, Lester, Romero, [?]
Romero; Raines March 21, 1936 SPANISH PIONEER Escaoe from the Indians Cut off from the outer world by her blindness, Urs. Tafoya, aged nearly 100, lives in her little adobe house back from the highway near Cleveland, New Mexico. When the boys and girls went to her for reminis— cences her old face lighted. She had been living in the past for so many years that she was glad to have an audience for the thoughts that ordinarily surge through her mind. "Yes, my brother Jose, he was captured by…
New Mexico, United States
· 1936-06-01
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Fulgenzi, Mary A., Raines, Lester
Subject: SLAVCRY (INDIAN) 8-240 FOLK WAYS Submitted By: New Mexico Normal University Dr. Lester haines Informant: Mary A. kulgenzi Original Copy: Not Rewritten fordage: 130 Date: 6/1/10 Approved: Ina Sizer Cassidy, State Director I. I Raines, L. S-240 Folk Ways SLAV ETZ (INDIAN) 6/1/36 c1-190 During the early days of Spanish occupation in the Southwest, Indian slavery existed. Las Vegas and Mora had their share. Ineian slaves were, it particular, found in the homes of the wealthier ranchers,…
New Mexico, United States
· 1936-05-13
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Fulgenzi, Mary A., Raines, Lester
0 Subject: LOS OREAOS S-240 Folk Ways Submitted By: New Mexico Normal University Dr. Lester Raines Informant: Mary A. Fulgensi Wordage: 76 Date: 5/W36 Approved: Ina Sizer Cassidy, STATE DILECTOR Raines, LestLx 5/13/16 c1-76 S-240 LOS ()FILMS Until a few years ago there existed, and may survive yet, at Las Vegas and Santa Pe the cuAom of "asking Oremus." Groups of boys of the humbler class banded toother and asked for gifts from house to house at Christmas time. At each door they sang little…
United States, Roswell, New Mexico
· 1937-02-26
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Dills, Getrude Lea, Lea, Frank H.
Redfield, Georgia B. 2.26.37. 432 words. Judge Frank H. Lea Interview by Daughter Gertrude Lea Dills. My father, Judge Frank H. Lea and mother Sue Whetstone Lea were married in Louisiana November 14, 1866 atwAliburn* the rlantation home of my mother, near Bastrop, Louisiana, After their marriage they lived at Auburn until after my brother Joe, and sister Minnie, were born. They then moved to the plantation home of my father's family at Lea's Summit, Missouri. My grandfather had been shot and…
United States, Roswell, New Mexico
· 1937-02-01
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Dills, Lucius, Redfield, George B., Roberts, Sallie Chisum
old George B. Chedked, by Luaius Dille Hietorian 410 N. Are. A Redfield Georgia B. 1/28/37 words Comanche Tvuliane On Chisum Cattle -Trail (In own words of Sallie Chisum Roberts Inn) (Lucius Dills -Roswell Historian.) "In 1867 John S. Chisum brought his first herd of "Jingle Bob" cattle acroee the plains and through the buffalo hunting territory of the hostile nomadic Comanche Indians. Scout riders, were sent ahead by the trail -blazers to protect the herd from the TTOians who were numerous…
United States, Roswell, New Mexico
· 1937-02-09
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Garrett, Elizabeth, Redfield, Georgia B
---Redfield Georgia B. 1E64,5 1937 2/11/37 cc -J.2_, words Early Life Of Llizabeth Garrett Given In An Interview. Feb. 9-l9Z7 "As anfold-timer-aa you s‹,y-I will be glad to tell you any- thing you would like to her of my life in our Sunshine State New Mexico; said 3lizaboth Garrett in an appreciated interview graci(Alsly granted this writer. Appreciated because undue pub- licity of her splendid achievuments and of her private life, is avoided by this famous but unspoiled musician and composer.…
United States, Roswell, New Mexico
· 1938-09-16
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Ballard, Charles L., Redfield, Georgia B
Redfield, Georgia B. CHARLES I. BAIIARD Words 940 9/16/38 Pioneer Roswell Cowboy, 1880. Stock and Ranch Owner 1890. Used Eight Yoke of Oxen to Plow on Work of Pioneer Irrigation Ditch. Veteran of Spanish American War 1898. SEP 1919V! Cc Charles L. Ballard, born in Texas in 1867, came to New Mex- ico with his father J. L. Ballard and settled at Fort Sumner in 1878. He was eleven years old at the time of his interesting jour- ney across the plains in a covered wagon. He and the other older ones…
United States, Fruitland, New Mexico
· 1936-08-15
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Brimhall, Clayborn, Simpson, R. T. F.
Simpson, pro. F..T.F. AUG 1',1936 CLAIN= SliIMHALL. CLATBORN BMILIHALL was born in Idahotia I866,and with his mother, came to Fruitana, New maxima, in The spring of 1876,in a large covered wagon, drawn by four horses, alai naving aboard a thousand pounds of flour and enough provisions to LAst they for several months. Though a lad of only ten years, nreNrimball remembers this journey distinctly, as he is., to -day a well preserved man ,being very fit both mentally and physioally,and of mash a…
New Mexico, United States, Waterflow
· 1936-09-01
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Locke, Mrs. Nettie, Simpson, R. T. F.
Simpson,7*rs.r --7•30.-- Personal interview with mrs. Nettie Looks. SEP 11936 Mr. *illiam Looks and his were "Nettle Look., now some SO years 01 age, with their childrenon Marah 19, 1679 started tram "Own. Burr EsnOe *ear Florence0olorado, to 'twits in the 3an Juan nasin,near the Jur:43U= of the Jan Juan and Animas Rivers,teme-County,Nex Uexioo. They travelled in a four horse wagon and a drawn by two horse:1,4.nd were just thirteen days on the road. They crossed Red mountain and camped that…
Durango, Colorado, United States
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Prewitt, Mr. Joe, Simpson, R. T. F.
Simpeon,Mrs.„R.T.F. 3 --70°,- Peminiscences of Lr.Joe.Prewitt. Mr Prewitt one to Durangp, Colorado, in 1861 ,and in Mah 1882 He came to Farnimgton,wtdoh was his home for several years. At that time Farmington contained only about ten buildings, and all of them were ma de of a adobe,with Sift roofs. "Not a shingle in the townV "Wel1",he said, "it was jist as well, and in some instances, better; For imammt frequently, there would be a group) of cow -boys sitting in a saloon,and just for…