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Interview Excerpt - Vermont Dairy Farmer: "Who would milk the cows?"
Audio and text excerpt from an interview with a Vermont dairy farmer describing how dependent his farm is on migrant workers. Recording duration 0:57.
Artifact: Junkanoo headpiece
Bahamian junkanoo, traditionally a Christmas season parade, features dancing, lively music, and colorful handmade costumes. Made by members of local ensemble Bahamas Junkanoo Revue, this costume’s design and colors represent the ocean, sky, and…
Charles Bickford - The Enterprising Farmer
Charles Bickford of Marshfield, VT tells a story about an enterprising farmer who comes up with a novel mud season money making scheme. Audio and text excerpt from an October 25, 1988 interview with Barbara and Charles Bickford (TC1988-2034). Part of…
Interview Excerpt - "What started this riot"
Video and text from interview with Kenny Booker and John Alexander for the National Visionary Leadership Project discussing the rumor surrounding the events leading up to the destruction of the Greenwood neighborhood during the 1921 Tulsa Race…
A survey of Lake Champlain, including Lake George, Crown Point, and St. John
1776 map of Lake Champlain. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Interview Excerpt - John Budke and Alysa Hall on the return of plant life to Mount St. Helens in the years after the eruption.
Audio and text excerpt of an interview with John Budke and Alysa Hall where they discuss the scale of the destruction to Mount St. Helens and the slow recovery of plant life in the years after the eruption. Duration 0:46.
Interview Excerpt - Alysa Hall on learning about the eruption of Mount St. Helens and seeing changes it brought about.
Audio and text excerpt of an interview with John Budke and Alysa Hall where Alysa Hall describes learning about the eruption while her family lived in Germany, seeing the dramatic changes to Mount St. Helens when they returned to Washington, and…
Photographic Image - Souvenir made from Mount St. Helens ash
Two images of a seal figurine purchsed by John Budke made out of the ash from the Mt St Helens 1980 eruption.
Interview with Joe Burns as a part of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre) Commission investigation
Video and text from recorded testimony from Joe Burns as a part of the Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre) Commission survivor inquiry. Burns was a child in 1921, but shares his memories of what he heard from adults around him and what he saw from his…
Interview Excerpt - "Were you aware of what started this riot? "
Video and text from interview with Joe Burns, O.G. Clark, Mrs. G.E. Jackson for the National Visionary Leadership Project discussing the events leading up to and early communication during the destruction of the Greenwood neighborhood during the 1921…