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Image series depicting Jess Hatcher of Ararat, VA drying apples. Photographs show Jess Hatcher looking over a screen full of apples set in the sun to dry. Photography by Terry Eiler. Part of the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection,…

Black and white wood engragving depicting a corn husking party, also referred to as a husking bee, in New England in the mid 19th century. Published in Harper's weekly, 1858 Nov. 13, p. 728. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Image series depicting loggers Donald and Bernard Harrington of West Greenwich, RI at work on December 12, 1979. Includes photographs of the pair attaching logs to a skidder to move them from the woods to and be load them onto a truck. Photography by…

Image of a group of children playing at Halloween party. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Black and white drawing by American political cartoonist George Yost Coffin (1850-1896). Image features a woman wearing stars and stripes holding a candle to a mirror on Halloween night to learn the identity of her future spouse; the face revealed in…

Thelma Neill of Warren, VT and folklorist Jane Beck discuss a recipie for maple sugar pie and the annual Warren, VT town meeting in early spring. Audio and text excerpt from a January 17, 1992 interview with Thelma Neill conducted by Jane Beck…

Wallace Illsley of Braiintree, VT discusses working with horses in the sping to collect maple sap for making maple syrup. Audio and text excerpt from a November 30, 1989 interview with Wallace Illsley conducted by Gregory Sharrow (TC1989-2070). A…

Daisy Turner of Grafton, VT describes the sping maypole dances she participated in as a child. Audio and text excerpt from a May 10, 1984 interview with Daisy Turner conducted by Jane Beck (TC1984-0034). A part of the Turner Family Collection…

Floyd Fuller of Randolph, VT describes the shared work and social environment of the annual summer corn husking bees of his youth. Audio and text excerpt from a December 1, 1989 interview with Floyd Fuller conducted by Gregory Sharrow (1989-2073). A…

Katharine DuClos of Braintree, VT details her father's annaul process of harvesting straw in the summer and filling her mattress. Audio and text excerpt from a June 20, 1990 interview with Katharine DuClos conducted by Gregory Sharrow (TC1990-2032).…