Everything Was Upset
By Harry H. Cooley Chapter 4 of Harry's autobiography records his first teaching position, his marriage to Gertrude Small, his job as a...
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KORONGOBOOKS
Stories from the Heart of Vermont
Sara Tucker
- May 5, 2020
- 3 min
The Summer Justin Tucker Broke His Leg
By Charles Cooley IN AUGUST OF 1941, Justin Tucker, of East Warren, fell off a load of hay and broke his leg. That would not have been of...
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Sara Tucker
- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
Between the Lines
A brief mention of "the Sullivan County Farm"in the memoir I'm editing provides a glimpse into how New Englanders used to deal with the...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 30, 2020
- 4 min
My First Teaching Year
By Ruth Demarest Godfrey This photo was posted on Facebook last week, and people wanted to know the story behind it. It shows my aunt...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 28, 2020
- 3 min
Twenty-two Elderly Cows
Chapter 3 of Farming, Harry Cooley's autobiography about the Cooley Farm in Randolph Center, which Korongo is preparing to publish later...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 25, 2020
- 7 min
The Farm in Essex
By Harry Cooley In 1905, William and Anna Cooley sold the family farm in Georgia, Vermont, and bought another one in an effort to improve...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 23, 2020
- 5 min
The Move to Essex Junction
By Harry Cooley Harry Cooley was my maternal grandfather. His son Charles transcribed the handwritten version of an autobiography that...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 20, 2020
- 2 min
Filling Silo
John H. Cooley was born in 1929—the youngest of five children—and grew up on the Cooley Farm in Randolph Center, Vermont. John's son Mark...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 18, 2020
- 3 min
Before I Knew What Was Happening
By John H. Cooley Editor's note: From May 2006 to January 2007, my cousin Dan Cooley edited a blog called The Cooley Farm, where he and...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 16, 2020
- 4 min
John Was Good With Horses
I learned to harness a team and hitch it to a wagon or other piece of equipment by the time I was 12 years old.
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 13, 2020
- 6 min
Excerpt from “A Mother’s Diary 1936”
Editor's note: This introduction to the Depression-era diary of Kate Crockett Cooley was written by her son Robert more than twenty years...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 12, 2020
- 4 min
My Two Younger Brothers
By Idora Cooley Tucker My two brothers, Charles and John, were the two youngest in our family of five siblings. Charles is five years...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 11, 2020
- 7 min
Sugaring 1937
By Harry Cooley “IT LOOKS LIKE we might get a good run today, Ben“ I said to my helper as we went to breakfast at seven-thirty on March...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 10, 2020
- 2 min
The Cooley Farm
In 1910, William and Anna Cooley, my great-grandparents, purchased a farm on the Ridge Road in Randolph Center. The Cooley Farm remained...
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Sara Tucker
- Apr 10, 2020
- 5 min
Sugaring 1900
For an hour all was well. The sun shone, the fire crackled, the sap bubbled and was duly dipped . . .
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Sara Tucker
- Nov 5, 2019
- 2 min
Something Breaks
Orlando, my Puerto Rican cousin-in-law, stands at the stove, making frittatas and some kind of hash. “Not more food!” cries Aunt Ruth.
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Sara Tucker
- Nov 4, 2019
- 3 min
Dear Ms. Didion
If you're playing around with what we call voice—your own or the voice of a character in one of your stories—try this writing exercise:...
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Sara Tucker
- Oct 6, 2019
- 5 min
"My Parents Told Me to Study Art"
Vermont artist Amy Hook-Therrien will join Shirly Hook and me at Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph on Sunday, October 20, to talk...
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Sara Tucker
- Oct 1, 2019
- 2 min
On Bullying, Books, and the Abenaki Language
Part 3 of my conversation with Shirly Hook, author of My Bring Up. Shirly is a citizen of the Koas Abenaki Nation and serves on the...
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Sara Tucker
- Sep 29, 2019
- 3 min
Let's Talk About Panthers
Shirly Hook's new book, My Bring Up, delves into her Abenaki heritage and recalls a childhood that was spent largely outdoors.
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