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Why Time-Lapse Photography Is Like Writing
In 1999 the Dutch artist Frans Hofmeester started filming his newborn daughter for a few seconds every week, usually on a Saturday...

Sara Tucker
Aug 9, 20202 min read


The Diaries of Dorothy Calhoun Fago
One of my former writing students was the artist Dorothy Fago, otherwise known as D’Ann. Oh, man, I just loved D'Ann. By the time we met,...

Sara Tucker
Aug 9, 20201 min read


Shirly’s Diary: August 5, 2020
Korongo, Kimball Library, and the Randolph Herald are jointly sponsoring "The Homebound Diaries," a 2020 community journaling project...

Sara Tucker
Aug 8, 20201 min read


Shirly’s Diary: August 4, 2020
Sara asked if I would keep a journal for a project she was doing. Why not? So here I am. A storm was blowing up the East Coast, creating...

Sara Tucker
Aug 8, 20201 min read


Happy Mothers’ Day
This new collection of short pieces by Idora Tucker begins with an essay about Gertrude Cooley, a town girl who married a farmer....

Sara Tucker
May 10, 20201 min read


The Diary of Kate Crockett Cooley
"I recently acquired, and have been reading for the first time, a diary which my mother kept from 1936 through 1940. We were living on a...

Sara Tucker
May 9, 20201 min read


Getting the Hay Into the Barn
How it was done in the 1930s on the Cooley Farm in Randolph Center. By Charles Cooley A typical crew for hauling hay consisted of three...

Sara Tucker
May 9, 20204 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
May 8, 20207 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
May 7, 20204 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
May 5, 20203 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
May 4, 20202 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
Apr 30, 20204 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
Apr 28, 20203 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
Apr 25, 20207 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
Apr 23, 20205 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
Apr 20, 20202 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
Apr 18, 20203 min read


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.

Sara Tucker
Apr 16, 20204 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
Apr 13, 20206 min read


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...

Sara Tucker
Apr 12, 20204 min read
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