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Interview with Alice Hale

2007

“Wild Things” stories. Topics include: Ayrshire cows, Jersey cows, unknown sickness killing some grazing cows.

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Interview with Arnold Hale, part one of two

1992

Topics include: building Santarella, Kitson’s sculpture or Robert Burns with a dog, where they were made, Civil War monument, the Pilgrim Maiden, Jefferson Davis, Richard Saltonstall in Watertown, MA, the Indian in Lebanon Springs Inn, secret marriage to Mrs. Hobron and Kitson, Santarella, Gingerbread House, Kitson.

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Interview with Arnold Hale, part two of two

1992

Kitson and his life, including Tyringham, MA. Topics include: Arnold Hale doing the stonework for Kitson’s property, Santarella, “Views of the Valley," Kitson’s propensity to spend all his money, upon Kitson’s death everything was sold off, including the sculptures.

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Interview with Arnold and Alice Hale

1992

Topics include: Kitson building Santarella including thatch roof, H.H. Kitson.

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Interview with Arnold and Alice Hale, part one of two

1991

Arnold Hale’s life in Tyringham, MA. Topics include: growing up as a kid in Tyringham, MA, swapping wives for part of the share of the farm, Devon steers, sheep, dragging logs with steers, firewood, wood stove, tractors replacing steers, farming, horses and treadmills, vegetable garden, Central school, South Center School, school subjects, Christmas events for the children, strawberry socials, mansions in Tyringham, construction of Ashintully, fox hunts in Tyringham.

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Interview with Arnold and Alice Hale, part one of two

1976

Hale family history in Tyringham starting 1734. Topics include: Indians, houses owned by the Hale family, farmers, dairy farm, tobacco farming, creamery, milk making, first automobiles in 1912, Buick, Greenock Inn, raw milk, peddling, cows, milk cows, haying, maple sugaring, milk machines, Tyringham Center School, sleigh in wintertime, roads in winter, ice houses, Tyringham South Center School, Methodist Church, Baptist church, Union Church, life in Tyringham, farming in Tyringham, working at mills for extra money, Rake Factory, saw mill, blacksmith shop, wagon shop, sledding on “rippers," horses for transportation during winter/mud months, stage coach, mail.

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Interview with Arnold and Alice Hale, part two of two

1991

Interview with Arnold Hale and daughter, Alice Hale, continuation of Side A conversation. Topics include: fox hunt, going to school in horse and carriage and sleigh in the winter, snow storms early 40’s, workhorses, hurricane of 1938, east coast farmer diaspora to mid-west/Ohio area, blacksmith shop, shoe shop in Tyringham, rake factories, sawmills, wagons, list of farms in Tyringham.

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Interview with Arnold and Alice Hale, part two of two

1976

Topics include: South Center School, ice shipping to NYC, Japanese worker during WWII, building Santarella roof, Old Home Week, Shakers, foxhunting, Ashintully mansion building, Titus cemetery, houses in and around Tyringham.

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

1981

Life in Tyringham: a tour of houses and people who lived in them. Topics include: barns, buildings, cattle, Bangs disease in cattle, turkey, maple sugar, Gingerbread house renovations by Kitson, Kentucky rifle used as model for Kitson when he designed the Minuteman Memorial, US government during WWII asking to speak with Kitson housekeeper who was Japanese (and deceased), Boer War, pot burner/oil burner, rake shop, turkey mill, rake factory fire.

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

1981

Life in Tyringham, MA. Topics include: blacksmith, wagon shop, Tyringham Drum corps, water trough near Canon Springs, Cider, picking apples, cider barrels, Stanley Steamer, WWII.

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

1981

Group of gents talking about their life growing up and living in Tyringham. Topics include: school in the 1940’s, discipline by teachers in school, Beach Road school, Christmas pageant, town hall, ice “drawing” process, rake shop, sleighs.

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

1981

People and houses/places in Tyringham, MA Topics include: volunteer Fire Department of Tyringham, first telephone switchboard in TYR, electrification, “Daddy Long Legs,” Beulah Canon Verbena, WPA/Work Progress Administration, Tyringham Drum Corps., Lady Church Society, church suppers, dancing, Christmas parties, school bus to Lee schools, wagon shop, Smith Paper Company mill fire, Baptist Church, Methodist Church, Tinker Store, price of gasoline.

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