Remembering Gertie
Gertrude Small was not a farm girl. She grew up in the town of Windsor, Vermont, and was working as a postal clerk in Randolph Center...
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Stories from the Heart of Vermont
Sara Tucker
May 7, 20204 min
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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Sara Tucker
May 5, 20203 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, 20202 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, 20204 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, 20203 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, 20207 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, 20205 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, 20202 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, 20203 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, 20204 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, 20206 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, 20204 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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