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jutta Scott

Jutta Scott

This interview with Jutta Scott was conducted on July 14, 2019.

1960, active in peacham, addition to house, articles written in german, association of research libraries, avoid politics with friends, back and forth is exhausting, boston, capital campaigns, cataloger, cecelia bogner, commute, dartmouth, farmers, free time, friends, garden, george washington university, godmother, hanover nh, harvard anthropological library, hike, historian, house for sale, inn, librarian, love of family, make the best of things, married, matriach, michigan, mit, national register of historic places, peacham historical association, president, property in germany, retirement, rewarding, run by locals, school budget, september visits, small farming village, strong woman, thriving stores, town meeting, translator, travel, walk, washington, weekends
Marilyn and David Magnus

Marilyn and David Magnus

This interview with Marilyn and David Magnus was conducted Summer 2019.

astronomy, back to the land, charles and thelma white, concord high school, dairy goats, east peacham schoolhouse, fiber festivals, guard llama, handspinning, helen and scott nearing, living the good life, log cabin, nat tripp, northeast kingdom astronomy foundation, northern skies observatory, observatory, off grid, peacham school inc, public health nurse, reopening peacham academy, restoration, robert academy, rug weaving, science teacher, sharing information, sheep yarn, sidney wanzer, solar power, south peacham, south peacham hippies, st johnsbury academy, telescope, turkey, utopia for realists, volkswagon bus, water turbine, wood heat
Jennifer Kempton Harris

Jennifer Kempton Harris

This interview with Jennifer Kempton Harris was conducted on August 6, 2019.

1970's, alternative high school in peacham, alzheimers, australia, california, chores, clems kalischer, colorado, denver, divorce, farm, johnson state, journals, living in the farmhouse, lyndon state, new orleans, nonconformist, old table, parent's furniture, parents, party school, pat kempton, poker group, st johnsbury academy, teenager, the unlikely farmer, theater, time-life book, vermont land trust
Lynn Bonfield and Karen Lewis

Lynn Bonfield and Karen Lewis

This interview with Lynn Bonfield and Karen Lewis was conducted on June 19, 2019.

1978, beppy brown, california historical society, curator, diary, felt at home, harvard archives, inter-racial children, justina and alfred hicks, ohio, part-time resident, peacham academy, peacham church, peacham library, progressive politics, research, roxanna's children, san francisco
Ron & Terry Miller

Ron & Terry Miller

This interview with Ron and Terry Miller was conducted on June 21, 2019.

2001, agricultural history, alpaca farm, alpacas, diversification, farm property, forrais, good for livestock, near northern nh, old farm property, self-employed
Cecelia Kane

Cecelia Kane

This interview with Cecelia Kane was conducted in Summer 2019

abenaki baskets, ad for apartment, air bnb, art critique group, art gallery, art input, atlanta, community, dog walking, friends, happenstance, library coffee hour, lorna quimby, new jersey, painting, peepers, quiet, rooster, rutland, snow roller museum, snow rollers, starts at night, volunteer, walking
Nanine Beard

Nanine Beard

This interview with Nanine Beard was conducted on June 25, 2019.

buying house, by chance, mom's apartment
Morgan Gold

Morgan Gold

This interview with Morgan Gold was conducted in June 2019.

2016, dream of farming in vermont, happy accident, no research, washington dc
Grace DiNapoli

Grace DiNapoli

This interview with Grace DiNapoli was conducted on June 13, 2019.

1972, camp, horace gilmore, italian-american family, martins pond, new york, print shop, sheltered upbringing, troll press
MaryLou Miller

Marylou Miller

This interview with Marylou Miller was conducted on June 26, 2019.

1970's, 1984, adamaks, alan greenleaf, allen greenleaf, bean farm, built by hand, bus travel, canning, canoeing, carlets, chickens, communes, counter culture, danielsons, europe, first marriage, food coop, frame raising, freedom, freezing, goats, hayfield, homeschooling, horses, hostels, huge garden, india, middle east, neighbors, nursing school, outhouse, pressure to conform, quiet, roughing it, salvaged building materials, self-sufficient, slower life, suburbs, traveling, wood heeat
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