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Interview with Charles Slater Sr., John N. Canon, and Wilbur Clark Jr., part six of seven

1 pp 1981

People and houses in Tyringham. Topics include: boarding houses, woman smoking a clay pipe, saw mill, cider mill, rake shop, waterwheel, for the mill, dams, snaring “suckers”, cutting ice, 1912-1914, making bricks for house near Hop Brook.

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Interview with Charles Slater Sr., John N. Canon, and Wilbur Clark Jr., part three of seven

1 pp 1981

Life in Tyringham in the 1940’s and later. Topics include: chestnut poles/telephone lines, stories about John Langer, single men who lived and worked in town and their stories, troubles, and antics, Tyringham teachers and treatment of students, maple sugaring, tobacco.

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Interview with Charles Slater Sr., John N. Canon, and Wilbur Clark Jr., part two of seven

1 pp 1981

Memories of people, places and life in Tyringham. Topics include: young boy games, racing horse and buggies, blacksmith shop, stories about and tricks played on George Barnes, fires in town, “Whistle” orange soda, height of snow, blizzards, snow as children, life in Tyringham during WWII, mud season, dances, Whist parties.

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Interview with Charles Slater Sr., Wilbur “Duffy” Clark Jr., Gerald Swart, John “Nort” Canon, and John McLennan

1 pp 1982

A conversation beginning with a description by Charles Slater of the history of the Slater farm. Then moving to the houses surrounding it. They touch on the little stone house that tape 5 starts with, and decide to let John McLennan tell that story. Side B is Tape 5, but much clearer, conversation about the history of the Ashintully property, from Daniel Clark (who owned the property before the house was built and collected minerals) to the Tytuses who built the mansion, to the various families who lived on or around the property. Topics include: Lost Farm, cheesemaking, Tyringham Fire Department, Charles Burton Slater or Burt becoming a shoe salesman in Chicago and Boston, and eventually buying the Morill Shoe Company, and renaming it C.B. Slater Shoe Company, hunting, barn raising, maple sugaring, farming, preservation of antiquities, stone cutting, bakeries, fishing, shooting, injuries: lost foot, lost eye.

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Interview with Donald and Mary Hale

1 pp 1991

Interview with Don and Mary Hale of Tyringham, MA and the Hale ancestry in Tyringham and life in Tyringham. Topics include: moving a Shaker house, life as a child on a farm and in a rural community, dairy cows, haying, Tyringham schoolhouse, saw mill, dams, flood of ‘38, getting glass of water at school, Slater farm fires, Hiscox fire, winters on a northeast farm, barns/farms in Tyringham, barns in Tyringham, boarding/row houses for mill workers, cold winters, wagon makers, “night-blooming cereus,” cobble endowment by Mrs. James and then to Winthrop, schoolhouses, Shakers/Tyringham.

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Interview with Dorothy "Dot" Taylor Choquette

1 pp 2012

“Ancestors;” Dorothy Taylor Choquette’s life/background. Topics include: post-partum depression/women put in sanitoriums, Guernsey cows, dairy farming, Berkshire School, hurricane of ‘38, teamster in the woods, marrying at 17 years, blueberry picking, swimming, getting the mumps, “elites” in Lenox, MA.

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Interview with Dot and Richard "Dick" Loring

1 pp 1999

Floods, Richard Loring's life. Topics include: floods, flood of ‘38, “ripper” type of sleigh, WWII, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, maintaining roads in winter, picking blueberries, sawmills.

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Interview with Edward "Eddie" Fennelly

1 pp 1999

Fennelly family history, growing/living in Tyringham, MA. Topics include: born and raised in Tyringham, school days, childhood friendships and activities, Big storms, plowing snow, barns/farms in Tyringham, tobacco farming, Shaker barns, moving a Shaker seed house, saving the Tyringham Shaker community buildings, Depression era land/house ownerships, Ashintully, Fernside.

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Interview with Everett and Mary Ann Fennelly

1 pp 1999

Topics include: recollections of growing up in Tyringham, population explosion in Tyringham, MA, Working on a farm as a kid, after school jobs on farms including mowing, milking cows, picking blueberries, youth baseball team “Colonels,” Boy Scouts, military service, volunteering for the draft, Fort dix, New Jersey, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Korea war service, Fort Benning, Tyringham Cobble, flood of ‘55, dairy cow farms, going to the movies in Lee, MA, Babe Ruth Ball (baseball), Virginia Military Academy football team, Army football team, mourning rooms and doors, wakes/funerals, Woody International Station Wagons.

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Interview with Fred Loring, part one of two

1 pp 2005

Fred Loring guides up and down Tyringham Valley (using a map), describing where everything was as he remembers it from his youth. Topics include: farming: pasture lands, tobacco, cattle pound, school houses, industry: Stedman rake factory, sawmill, cider mill, blacksmith, woodshop, brick factory, moved buildings: barn across from library, garage at Orchard House, stores, churches.

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Interview with Fred Loring, part two of two

1 pp 2005

Fred continues to guide down the various Tyringham roads and their houses, then moves on to talk about getting by in the 1930s with home remedies, food storage and preservation, as well as describing school and the various amusements people pursued in the days before TV. Topics include: moving the Shaker seed house and Shaker meeting house, industry: brick kiln, abandoned roads, herbal medicine, hunting skunks, square dances, sledding, skiing, the Center School, baseball, food storage and preservation.

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Interview with Georgia Birkett

1 pp 1992

Interview with Georgia Birkett of Tyringham, MA of her life and times Topics include: Stanley Company/GE, Canadian “Walking Wounded” from WWI, lamplighters, school, Grant’s store in Pittsfield, MA, working, Great Depression, Massachusetts Cattle Club, great hurricane of ‘38, husband Dick getting hired by Sidney Howard, moving to Tyringham with family, FDR visiting Tyringham to find a house for the Princess of Norway, caretaking Howard farm, church suppers, Hop Brook Club, Ladies’ Aid, quilts, “white elephant table.”

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Interview with Charles Slater Sr., Wilbur “Duffy” Clark Jr., Gerald Swart, John “Nort” Canon, and John McLennan

Interview with Donald and Mary Hale

Interview with Dorothy "Dot" Taylor Choquette

Interview with Dot and Richard "Dick" Loring

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Interview with Everett and Mary Ann Fennelly

Interview with Fred Loring, part one of two

Interview with Fred Loring, part two of two

Interview with Georgia Birkett