Every generation seems to produce a new crop of wise women who remind us to give thanks, every day for life's little pleasures.

The first three books in The Cooley Farm: A Family History are now available in digital and paperback editions. You can get a free...

For years, I’ve been imagining a magazine under the Korongo Books imprint about life in the White River Valley. Then, 2020 happened....

When I spoke with my friend Shirly Hook at the end of July, she was feeling down. Shirly is the author of My Bring Up, stories about her...

In 1999 the Dutch artist Frans Hofmeester started filming his newborn daughter for a few seconds every week, usually on a Saturday...

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,...

Korongo, Kimball Library, and the Randolph Herald are jointly sponsoring "The Homebound Diaries," a 2020 community journaling project...

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...

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

"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...

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...

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...

By Harry H. Cooley Chapter 4 of Harry's autobiography records his first teaching position, his marriage to Gertrude Small, his job as a...

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...

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...

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...

Chapter 3 of Farming, Harry Cooley's autobiography about the Cooley Farm in Randolph Center, which Korongo is preparing to publish later...

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...

By Harry Cooley Harry Cooley was my maternal grandfather. His son Charles transcribed the handwritten version of an autobiography that...

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...