4 10 74 https://communitymemory.moorefreelibrary.org/files/original/0861bfda1f10b954b66233429320b020.jpg a6a419e1b0212b4adc41a7af1d538557 Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Media Player Player for media hosted at Internet Archive <iframe width="500" height="140" src="https://archive.org/embed/annual-meeting-hswc-2018-storyteller-keith-clark-windham-county-sheriff" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Keith Clark Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 24:40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sheriff Keith Clark: stories told at the 2018 Historical Society Annual Meeting Description An account of the resource Prior to his retirement in 2019, Windham County Sheriff, Keith Clark, was one of three featured speakers at the Historical Society of Windham County's Annual Meeting in 2018. Sheriff Clark shared personal stories as well as humorous and serious stories in the line of duty. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Subject The topic of the resource Newfane Windham County Historical Society of Windham County Language A language of the resource English https://communitymemory.moorefreelibrary.org/files/original/52d54d5c50c4c6b8bc79dfa09940c15f.jpg 9ddf7a4a3bb3ac71d3f62e86739e740e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hobby Hill Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Beverly Kingsley Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Erica Walch Location The location of the interview Over zoom Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Kingsley_Beverly-2021-03-21_editedaudio.wav Erica Walch [00:00:02] This is Erica Walch and I'm interviewing Bev Kingsley and we're talking over zoom. Today is March 24, 2021. Bev Kingsley [00:00:12] OK, thank you. Erica Walch [00:00:13] So I understand from your friend Phylli that you were a camp counselor at Camp Hobby HIll. Bev Kingsley [00:00:22] Yes. Erica Walch [00:00:23] What year was. Bev Kingsley [00:00:24] Hobby Hill is about four miles up a dirt road from the town of Newfane. Erica Walch [00:00:30] And what led you to be a camp counselor there? Bev Kingsley [00:00:35] Well, I had been to camp there before, and Miss Flint was very charming and very charismatic and a lot of people enjoyed her and she also taught dancing in Schenectady. So that's where she recruited most of her campers from at that time. Bev Kingsley [00:00:53] I was there probably in the early 50s. Erica Walch [00:00:58] How many years were you there as a camper before you became a counselor? Bev Kingsley [00:01:03] I was there, I think, two years before I became a counselor and..over the winter, when I was not there, they dug that pond next to the big house. So that the kids would have a place to go swimming. Bev Kingsley [00:01:21] It's kind of a muddy pond. Erica Walch [00:01:24] Did you swim in it? Bev Kingsley [00:01:26] Yes, I did. Bev Kingsley [00:01:29] And so did all the kids. Now, the only place other than Grout's - , which was about a half a mile down the dirt road from Hobby Hill, and that's where we went to have our more advanced water safety instructors courses. Erica Walch [00:01:46] How deep was the little pond? Bev Kingsley [00:01:49] Well, it was probably about six feet deep at the deepest part, but it was really nominally only four or five feet deep. So you could wade in and you could swim around in it, but it wasn't too dangerous. Erica Walch [00:02:05] That's good to know that answers a big question for me. I've never gone in it. Bev Kingsley [00:02:10] Oh, well, it was kind of muddy, unfortunately, and Grout's Pond wasn't very clear either. I think it had a lot of dirt from the Vermont hillside in it. Erica Walch [00:02:22] So what were your days like when you were here as a camper before you became a counselor? Bev Kingsley [00:02:28] Well, in the morning we had breakfast and then there was an extension that had been put on the big house and we would all go in there and have breakfast. And it was so cold in the morning that you got your underwear in bed with you to get it warmed up before you put it on.The cabins had wood up about four feet, three or four feet. And then it was screened from there. And then there were shutters on the outside, but they were never closed. Erica Walch [00:03:02] What time of year was this that it was so cold? Bev Kingsley [00:03:04] July and August. Erica Walch [00:03:08] And would it warm up during the day? Bev Kingsley [00:03:11] Yes, it did. Erica Walch [00:03:13] One time a woman stopped by here and she was in her nineties and she said that she had gone to camp here for many years ago. And one of the things that she remembered was how cold it was. And she would wear all of her clothes to bed just like layer upon layer of all of her clothing just to stay warm at night. Bev Kingsley [00:03:37] Oh, I didn't feel that it was that cold, but we got used to it after a while and it was a communal bathroom that was partway down the hill. It was up the hill from from the big house. The big house must have had electricity because the cook was able to cook on the stove there. Erica Walch [00:04:00] Was there electricity in the cabins when you were a camper here? Bev Kingsley [00:04:06] No. In the morning, when we all went t o the same thing, we had like creative writing or sketching in the morning, and then we had lunch in the big house and Virginia Wentz was the cook and she was majoring in large scale cooking at Cornell. Erica Walch [00:04:29] And did the the cook live here? Bev Kingsley [00:04:32] Yes. Yes. Erica Walch [00:04:35] And was she in the big house?,. Bev Kingsley [00:04:37] Yes. Bev Kingsley [00:04:38] No, she doesn't live in the big house that I remember, but Miss Flint lived in the l ittle stone house off to the right as you're facing the front of the big house. Well, Miss Flint had a friend who came up and lived there, too, and her name was Buelah Haggedorn. And in the evening after dinner in the big house and sing songs and take turns performing, you know, little skits and things like that. And I did not like riding, so I learned to teach archery and I taught swimming. Erica Walch [00:05:13] Where did the archery take place? Bev Kingsley [00:05:16] Down in the moin -- m-o-i-n. And I didn't know of anybody else who had gone to hear to Hobby Hill until one day I was at Lake George and we were down on the dock in the afternoon and I said something about the moin had just been mowed. And she said the moin. And I said, yes. And she said, You must have gone to Hobby Hill. And I said, yes. And she said, So did I. And she was a little older than I was. Bev Kingsley [00:05:47] The big farmhouse had a big dining room across the back. It probably wasn't one single room while you looked at it, but when we were there, it was one single room. I know a couple of horses and one of the horses was Calumet Direct, I think that means that's the farm that it came from. I think it came from the Direct farm and its name was Calumet. I didn't like horses very much, so I taught archery. Erica Walch [00:06:20] There were two horses here when you were here? Bev Kingsley [00:06:22] Yes. How many horses are there now? Erica Walch [00:06:27] Zero. Bev Kingsley [00:06:29] Oh, there was no barn there, I think the horses came during the day and they went back some place at night. Erica Walch [00:06:38] Interesting. Which cabin did you stay in? Bev Kingsley [00:06:44] Well, when I first went there as a camper, I stayed way up on the hill behind. If you're looking if you're standing, looking at the front of the house, it's behind the big house. Oh, a good ways up the hill. And it was a little bit to the left. And on the way up the hill was there was an outhouse where we all went to the bathroom and washed our faces and brush our teeth. Bev Kingsley [00:07:08] But I don't think we had showers. Erica Walch [00:07:12] There's a shower house here, but I don't know when it was built. Erica Walch [00:07:21] It was definitely for the camp. Erica Walch [00:07:22] It's got the camp, it had about seven seven holes to go to the bathroom. It was really an outhouse. Erica Walch [00:07:31] Yeah, there's the outhouse and separately the shower house. Bev Kingsley [00:07:35] Yeah, OK. All right. Then there was a path down to the big house. Bev Kingsley [00:07:42] We had a lot of fun learning songs and singing hymns and things like that. Erica Walch [00:07:49] How many girls were here as campers when you were here? I think they were probably 50 girls. What did Phyllis say? Erica Walch [00:07:58] She said about that. Bev Kingsley [00:08:01] Yeah, and then right after I became a counselor, Phyllis, I think I think we were in the same cabin and we were across the road toward the stone wall and down toward the moine , but just barely across the road. We were only about 20 feet off the road. And that was a dirt road, and I never went down that road all the way, but if you went all the way down to following that dirt road, you would come to another Vermont road that was paved and.. um.. I think that was Dover. Bev Kingsley [00:08:42] I went back there many years later and I bought a book at the used bookstore that was called Picturesque America, edited by William Cullen Bryant. Erica Walch [00:08:51] So what would you do on your days off? Bev Kingsley [00:08:55] Well, Phyllis and I had a boyfriend that came home from Schenectady, and partway up there was a there was a big reservoir, I think it was a wonderful reservoir or something, and it was a bridge that went across it and we would wash our hair and get ready, and that night we would go out to a square dance at some local bar and I don't remember where it was. It probably wasn't very far away because we couldn't all fit, we couldn't all fit in the car. So some of us had to lie in the trunk. Erica Walch [00:09:33] Whose car was that? Bev Kingsley [00:09:35] I don't know who it was, gray, and it had a great big trunk. I think it was like a business coupe. Erica Walch [00:09:44] And was that the camp or was that one of the girls cars? Bev Kingsley [00:09:48] No, it was the boyfriend's car. Erica Walch [00:09:51] So when you were here as as a counselor and you had a day off, would you walk into the village? Bev Kingsley [00:10:02] No, seems to me.. I don't know what we did. It was the big highlight of the week to go to the auction in front of the church. They the y auction it off all sorts of things. Erica Walch [00:10:14] Like what? Bev Kingsley [00:10:16] Oh, of material, vases, you know, the stuff that you have around your house. Erica Walch [00:10:23] Who would buy it? Bev Kingsley [00:10:25] All the people that were the summer residents that were staying around their. There will be a sizable crowd, probably 35 or 40 people at the auction. I don't think we ever went to that Inn, the Newfane Inn with a big porch all the way around. We probably were considered kind of lowly people who didn't have enough money to go to the city, and because we didn't have very much money with us and I think we also were pretty expensive. I think they were mostly for the tourists going for. Yeah, and then just up the road a little ways, oh ..three hundred yards, the Gardners from Schenectady. Their name was Gardner. And Mr. Gardner has been the head the wrestling champion of the world. And he would require that the boys could stay at the house, but they had to work for him for a half of a day. Bev Kingsley [00:11:28] Before they could, you know, stay overnight at his house, it was a beautiful log house with and it was a nice stream going by, but I don't remember that it wasn't dammed up. We didn't go swimming in that stream, it wasn't deep enough, there were a lot of beautiful trees up there and I bet it is beautiful in the fall. You just writing about the history of the town of Newfane? Erica Walch [00:11:59] Well, we're not writing anything. We're just doing these interviews and getting the audio files together. Erica Walch [00:12:07] How many children do you have? Bev Kingsley [00:12:09] I have three boys, Larry, B&B and Andy. And he has been my caregiver here in western Colorado after I was at Harvard, hell, I graduated from Not Terrors High School in Schenectady, and then I went to the University of Rochester and graduated from there in 1959. Erica Walch [00:12:30] And is the reason that you stopped being a counselor at Hobby Hill because you just aged out and you were going to college? Bev Kingsley [00:12:39] Yes, just about kind of you know, I was, too, because you feel a great responsibility for taking care of all those kids, you know, and the Freihofers who were from Schenectady were there. You know the Freihofer's Bakery? Erica Walch [00:12:59] Yes, yeah, did you ever come up to Hobby Hill in the winter to go skiing or anything when you were a kid? Bev Kingsley [00:13:08] No, because I didn't know how to ski then, but I have since learned. Erica Walch [00:13:13] And did you ever come up to Hobby Hill in the winter just to see what it was all about? Bev Kingsley [00:13:17] No, but I came here afterward in the summer to my oldest son. Bev Kingsley [00:13:22] Larry brought me back there so that I could see Hickory orHobby Hill. And there was some a man was living in the house, we were walking around the outside of the house and he said, well, there's a big envelope with some things from from Hobby Hill. And he gave me a couple of stickers and something else. I can't remember what. And I had those on my trunk that I brought up with me. I had all my clothes in it. Erica Walch [00:13:53] Oh, that's so nice. Bev Kingsley [00:13:56] Yes. Bev Kingsley [00:13:58] Are there many people living around there now? Speaker [00:14:01] No. Bev Kingsley [00:14:04] I have a feeling that when the Kingsley's first came to this country from England, they came up to Vermont, but I don't know if it was so that the area or not. Erica Walch [00:14:16] So when you were camp campers here, did you have to wear uniforms or anything? Bev Kingsley [00:14:21] No,. Erica Walch [00:14:23] Because I've seen some little HH patches. Would you get a patch or a badge? Bev Kingsley [00:14:31] Yes, we had patches sticky wax on them. You put those on your trunk usually. And then I had a little thing that said, this is Hobbyville. And I had a little plastic horse that rock like a.. like a... It was made of plastic? It was just a little nick nack and I, I still have that in my house in Grand Junction, Colorado. Erica Walch [00:15:01] Oh, that's so nice. Bev Kingsley [00:15:04] I have very fond memories of the time at Hobby Hill. Erica Walch [00:15:09] It sounds like it was such a special time for so many girls. Bev Kingsley [00:15:13] It was it was very nice. Erica Walch [00:15:17] I've seen that the motto that Billy Billy had for the camp at one point was "every girl a leader". Bev Kingsley [00:15:28] I think they tried to develop that theme to make every girl a leader,. Erica Walch [00:15:34] Did you feel like you were made to be a leader when you were here? Bev Kingsley [00:15:37] Yes, I did. Erica Walch [00:15:40] In what ways? Bev Kingsley [00:15:41] Well, in leading songs are doing little skits are doing something like that for evening programs, and I think all the girls there felt like that, that each girl was made to feel that she was worthwhile. Bev Kingsley [00:15:55] There were no real minorities representative represented. Erica Walch [00:16:01] What do you mean by that? Bev Kingsley [00:16:03] There weren't any Blacks and Hispanics and there weren't any Chinese that I remember. Erica Walch [00:16:09] And the girls mostly came from Schenectady. Bev Kingsley [00:16:12] Yes, that's correct. Erica Walch [00:16:15] And were the and the people that worked here to, as you said, that the cook was. Not not a local person, did any local people work here when you were here? Bev Kingsley [00:16:27] Well, the cook who was from Cornell, where she she worked there and I don't know whether she lived in the big house or what. And there was a man who came in over to mow the moin, and I think it was called that because Miss Flint was.... Bev Kingsley [00:16:52] she namee it the moin and I think that where she came from, I think she came from Sweden. Erica Walch [00:16:58] Do you remember the name of the man who did the mowing? Bev Kingsley [00:17:01] No, I do not. I don't think I got mowed very often, maybe once a month. Bev Kingsley [00:17:08] Miss Flint had a station wagon that had wood on the sides. Erica Walch [00:17:14] Did she she still had that in the 1950s. Bev Kingsley [00:17:18] Yes. Erica Walch [00:17:20] Somebody just gave me a photo of that of her in the car, handing out mail from the post office to give it to the girls. Bev Kingsley [00:17:29] Yeah, I know that sounds right. I don't think we didn't have mail every day, but we had mail, you know, maybe twice a week. Erica Walch [00:17:40] So would she drive the girls down to the to the auction in her station wagon or would you walk? Bev Kingsley [00:17:49] She would drive a station wagon. I think. Erica Walch [00:17:53] And what day was the action on? Bev Kingsley [00:17:56] Saturday? Erica Walch [00:17:57] Did she ever take, like a horse and buggy? Bev Kingsley [00:18:02] No, there were no buggies there at that time, When she started the camp, there may have been buggies there, but I don't know where they kept the buggies. Erica Walch [00:18:15] Do you remember in the big house upstairs from the big dining area, what that room was used for? Bev Kingsley [00:18:26] No, it was only a one story addition on the side, it was the dining room. Erica Walch [00:18:33] Upstairs from the kitchen. Bev Kingsley [00:18:36] I think in the cook may have lived up there someplace,. Erica Walch [00:18:40] OK Erica Walch [00:18:43] And did you guys ever go to the to the attic of the camp, of the attic, of the big house? Bev Kingsley [00:18:50] No, we did not. That was kind of considered, you know, not very, very gracious. Not very um... We were not invited up there. Erica Walch [00:19:02] There were a bunch of beds up there when I moved in. So I wondered if some of the campers stayed up there. Bev Kingsley [00:19:11] Not that I know of. Not that Iremember. I don't remember anyone saying up there. Maybe it was kind of a place, if you were, you know, not well for some, you went there and stayed, but I don't remember it. Erica Walch [00:19:25] Yeah. Erica Walch [00:19:28] Did any of the girls ever get homesick being here as campers? Bev Kingsley [00:19:33] Oh, yes, everybody tried to make them feel better. Erica Walch [00:19:37] It seems like such a supportive, special, wonderful place. Bev Kingsley [00:19:42] It was it was very nice. Everybody was very cheerful and try to support everybody else. I mean, from from teaching swimming to teaching archery, and we used to have a tennis court and I know tennis court there now,. Erica Walch [00:19:58] Where was the tennis court? Bev Kingsley [00:20:00] No, we didn't have a tennis court. Erica Walch [00:20:02] Oh, no. Erica Walch [00:20:04] And I don't remember where they were riding. I only rode once or twice, and they had English saddles. Erica Walch [00:20:13] Did your folks ever come and visit you when you were here? Bev Kingsley [00:20:18] They came up, they brought me up, and then I came to get me. And I think it was probably a pretty long time, pretty long time, and probably took them most of the day to get up there. Now, it probably takes only two or three hours when it probably took you down. I think they came in the afternoon and I don't remember that they stayed for a meal,. Erica Walch [00:20:41] Did anyone's parents ever come to visit them during the course of being here? Bev Kingsley [00:20:47] Not that I remember, I think that the. I think that there was ..oh you could stay for one month or two was the idea was if you stayed for two months, you've got over you've got over being homesick. And because the girls were a lot of fun and, you know, we all played together. Erica Walch [00:21:08] And so you're still in touch with Phyllis? Bev Kingsley [00:21:11] Yes, there was a paper book that was published and I think it had hymns in it and had maybe some poetry and other songs. At the end of. At the end of a month or two months, I can't remember which it was, I got an award. It was called the Joyce King Award. And it was always such a long time ago, and I believe that she died, I think she was handicapped, but I don't remember how and I think she died after she had been to camp there. But everybody would think they would not discriminate against her just because she was handicapped is so bad that there was never a better place to swim there. Bev Kingsley [00:22:05] I think we got special permission to use Grout's Pond for the life saving and water safety instructors course. Erica Walch [00:22:13] Grouts.. did you did you meet any of the Grouts when you were here? Bev Kingsley [00:22:17] No, I did not know the girls. And I have a feeling that they only came there for a little bit of the summer. I wonder if they didn't come up from New York or something like that. You know, in those days, it was a long, long trip, was probably a five or six hour trip, at least from New York, from New York City. I never met any of the Grouts.I think they had quite a fancy boathouse, as I remember, with a deck on top of it. Erica Walch [00:22:47] Do you have any other memories of Hobby Hill that you want to share? Bev Kingsley [00:22:52] Well. oh, I wish I had liked horses better at the time, but I just didn't. Yeah, it seemed like you either liked horses or you didn't. You know, I mean. Little girls were very fond of horses or else they didn't like them at all. Media Player Player for media hosted at Internet Archive <iframe width="560" height="384" src="https://archive.org/embed/kingsley-beverly-2021-03-21-editedaudio" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Bev Kingsley Description An account of the resource Bev Kingsley remembers her time as both a camper and a camp counselor at Hobby Hill Camp. She talks about how charming Billy Flint was, describes the support and friendship the girls shared, and mentions trips to the auction in Newfane village, the Grouts' pond and boathouse, and driving from Schenedtady to Vermont. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 25, 2021 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Erica Walch https://communitymemory.moorefreelibrary.org/files/original/37a9cdc58637b86c94cb1595563ff492.jpg b403acc53a744b04f332a7a2b45967cd Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Tracy Berchi Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Erica Walch Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 25, 2021 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Erica Walch https://communitymemory.moorefreelibrary.org/files/original/c2fcefc9d1f64898813a3a86e6d3239d.jpg 9fba5846974c3a1b74d09ab72d0788dd Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. 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She attended the one room schoolhouse next door, then "graduated" to the two room schoolhouse in Williamsville. Ellie tells of her marriage (in the early 1970s) to Gideon Applegate, and describes his athletic career in Negro League Baseball. Gideon was the first black person her parents ever met. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-03-09 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Laura Wallingford-Bacon https://communitymemory.moorefreelibrary.org/files/original/acd4d517e8b0715db7b1a1267a48762c.jpg 77be6939073fafd17d325061dac88d45 Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Media Player Player for media hosted at Internet Archive <iframe width="500" height="140" src="https://archive.org/embed/casanova-polly-2021-03-16-audio.edited.-2" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Pauline Casanova Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Laura Wallingford-Bacon Location The location of the interview Newfane Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Polly Casanova Description An account of the resource Polly grew up in a large family in Newfane Village. She shared fond memories of friends and neighbors--young and old--in the Village, and the special bond with her family. She and her husband, Patsy, ran their store in Newfane for 25 years. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-03-16 Subject The topic of the resource Oral History Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Laura Wallingford-Bacon Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Media Player Player for media hosted at Internet Archive <iframe width="500" height="30" src="https://archive.org/embed/vera-harrington-interview-2010" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Vera Harrington Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Laura Wallingford-Bacon & Castle Freeman (Newfane Remembers Project) Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Cassette Tape Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:22:30 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vera Harrington Interview 2010 Description An account of the resource Interview of Vera Harrington in 2010 conducted by Laura Wallingford-Bacon and Castle Freeman as part of the Newfane Remembers project. This interview is three parts with breaks from when the cassette tape was switched. Bruce, Vera's son, also makes a brief appearance. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Language A language of the resource English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Laura Wallingford-Bacon & Castle Freeman (Newfane Remembers) https://communitymemory.moorefreelibrary.org/files/original/df5870f4b7202ee5fd0e39d1db8cea6d.jpeg beebae0e4e0761008590b379d60e43c7 Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Media Player Player for media hosted at Internet Archive <iframe width="560" height="384" src="https://archive.org/embed/frey-jen-2021-03-08-edited.audio" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Jen Frey Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Pat Halloran Location The location of the interview Newfane, Vermont Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Jen Frey Description An account of the resource Jen Frey, owner of Newfane Village Yoga, speaks about her transition to Vermont 11 years ago and the realization that Newfane/Brookline was her next home. Jen talks about being a business owner in a small town, how Covid has both changed and enhanced her business and the value of community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-03-08 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pat Halloran https://communitymemory.moorefreelibrary.org/files/original/71e2de5e1d4220eecc77a53d5665387a.jpg f159cb4d70449eab3f38727f235ad8db Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Media Player Player for media hosted at Internet Archive <iframe width="560" height="384" src="https://archive.org/embed/landenberger-annie-2021-03-08-edited-audio" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Annie Landenberger Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Pat Halloran Location The location of the interview Newfane, Vermont Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Annie Landenberger Description An account of the resource Annie Landenberger, former LGUHS English and Theatre educator and founder of the Rock River Players, speaks about the lively arts and reviving and creating theatre in a number of venues within the community and beyond. She talks about working with a wide range of actors representing diverse ages and experiences. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-03-08 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pat Halloran Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Margot Zalkind Mayor Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Erica Walch Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Zalakind-Mayor_Margot_2021-02-18_editedaudio.wav   Margot Zalkind [00:00:00] My name is Margot Zalkind, Mayor. And today's date is the 18th, I believe, of February.   Erica Walch [00:00:10] 2021. Yes. So how did you come to live in Newfane?   Margot Zalkind [00:00:16] Well, I came here because the short answer is because of Archer Mayor, I was living in Northampton years and years ago, I'll give you a slightly longer answer than I was living in Northern Vermont. I had moved up from New York City to originally Moretown, Vermont, lived there, moved up to Worcester, Vermont, and lived there for many years and had decided that Vermont was wonderful, but was really not a place for me because I love being around people. And Worcester was very far up and very isolated where we lived. Moved from there to Boston, moved from there back to New York City for many years, moved to Connecticut, moved to Arlington, Virginia, then moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, and lived there for many years and was very happy there. It met my criteria for being near people. And I had I was doing freelance work and I was also working for United States rowing at the time remotely. So everything was great. I then met Archer Mayor, which I can elaborate on if you'd like, and started first to edit for him and then started to do publicity for him, started to get his website more contemporary, got him onto Facebook. This is some years ago and we worked together and started then to date and that led to being more serious. And he said he had lived here for like 30 years and never wanted to move and said, would you move up here? And at first I said no. So I spent some time doing like two days here, two days in Northampton, going back and forth.   Margot Zalkind [00:02:10] And eventually we got married and I moved up here.   Erica Walch [00:02:17] I want to say 2011. Yes, and what was your.   [00:02:28] That was such a bizarre weekend. I had gotten as part of what I was doing was creating events for Archer to get him more widely known. And Waitsfield, Vermont, was doing a literary and art festival that weekend. And we went up to a B&B in Warren, and they were talking about a storm coming. And I was still living in Northampton, I think I'm not sure. But I come up for the weekend and we drove up to a bar and went to this B&B like on Friday. And Archer had events that he presented all weekend and they were terrific. Nice turnout Friday sort of and Saturday. And he was talking about forensics. We had done a really enjoyable presentation about forensics and television and we called it enhanced this. And it was the truth and the not truth about what you can do. And I put together film clips of somebody holding up a spoon and saying, wait a minute, can you enhance this? And they then showed somebodies reflection and the spoon in the diner through the window. So things like that or when somebody's eye. And so it was great fun. And then Archer would talk about because of his years of experience, what really is true. And you couldn't have done that, but you could have done this. So that was fun. So that was the weekend and the weather forecasts kept getting sort of more dire, but they still were talking about a big storm. So finally, I think it was the second day. The the forecasts were getting bad and people were leaving, so we thought this is ridiculous. So we left and came back and it was so quiet, it was so weird.   Margot Zalkind [00:04:18] But the stream behind our house was so high and it was almost at that point up to our back porch. So we went in to sort of slight panic mode. We had a lot of books on the floor of the barn that were like old books and storage books and stuff.   Margot Zalkind [00:04:38] So moved a lot of cartons of books and I was more nervous. Archer's archer tends to be sort of be all right. And I'm more like, we better be ready. We better be ready. So we moved a lot of things up a whole level. And in the night there was this sound that I think I'll never forget. It was almost prehistoric. There were huge boulders tumbling down the stream. And so they were hitting each other the way they were, the rocks were. And it was quite wonderful. And the next morning we walked up to the house above ours, which had been I don't think Heidi Ballantine was in there yet. I think it was still for sale. So we walked up there and as we approached, a tree fell. So that was everything was quiet and surreal. But you were very aware of this rushing of water. And then we walked around town and we saw cars in ditches and all the result of the flooding that had had. And concurrently, Archer got called in on a case he was still a detective at that point, and there was a young man who had gone missing Andy Marble, a teenage boy.   Margot Zalkind [00:06:00] So he got called in. Was it related to Irene? Was it not? Did the boy just leave the area? And that just got that case just got reopened. So that's sort of a side story.   Erica Walch [00:06:15] So the water didn't wind up going into your house.   Margot Zalkind [00:06:17] It came within about an inch of the floor level and then it started to recede. Yes, very dramatic.   Erica Walch [00:06:26] Have you had any other weather events or natural?   Margot Zalkind [00:06:34] Just power outages and the usual snow and ice, but nothing really unusual. We had a Thanksgiving, which was somewhat dramatic a few years ago. My daughter and her whole family had come up for a few days for Thanksgiving and it snowed like crazy and we lost all power. And of course, when that happens, you can either freak out or you can go into a sort of adventure mode. And we did. And we put candles out and we had a good time. But then and we're trying to figure out how to cook Thanksgiving dinner without power, but it came back on. So that was the closest we really came to anything dramatic.   Erica Walch [00:07:19] You mentioned that you worked for US Rowing. In what capacity?   Margot Zalkind [00:07:24] I was their director of membership and marketing for many years. And as a volunteer, I was chair of their safety committee for about 20 years.   Margot Zalkind [00:07:37] Are you a rower yourself? Yes. And do you row now?   Margot Zalkind [00:07:42] I do it, but not here, I like to throw in big boats, and that's down in Holyoake or in Northampton here there are smaller boats and I'm just not used to those.   Erica Walch [00:07:54] So is your work now that you live here in Newfane.Archer Mayor-related and the marketing.  What else do you do?   Margot Zalkind [00:08:05] I well, we own the rights to the first 18 books of archers, which means that I publish them. I put them into e-books. I had them made into audio books. When you have them all and you're not part of a publishing other group, then I do all that. I get them distributed, printed everything for that. The newer books are published by St. Martin's Press down in New York. So I work with them. We work together because it's one long stream of books. And so I do handle, yes, all that stuff, a newsletter, Facebook, the website events. Now I'm doing a lot of virtual events for him. I put together a group called the Stone Cold Writer's Stone Cold Mystery Writers, and I put together four authors who are Northeast New England writers who write about this area as a way to enhance the brand of why, let's say a library in Utah may want to have an event. So it's not just one writer, it's for. And so that's been very, very successful. And we've been doing events for California and Texas, and that's been great. That's part of what I do then about three, four years ago, I started to publish other authors. And I did a book of Ed Corones cartoons, um, mostly about ex urbanites. I did that. I formed an imprint called Button Street Press. And so I do that with a friend who's up in Warren, um, Kitty, who's also had a book published. So we do that together, and I just wrote a book on farrowing, which is it called Water Ready, and it's about if you have to close your boathouse for any reason, like summer off season virus, whatever it is. Here's what you think about for your you're building your equipment, your people, your safety, your launch, your dogs, everything. So that just got put out in the last few weeks. So I did that. And I also did a manual for toxin's on how to be a cox and how to be safe. So I'm doing that and now I'm trying to figure out what to do next and. So I'm doing all those things at the same time. And then I wrote a column about safety in the sport. It's part of a group called Rowing News, which is the only rowing magazine in the US now, so he publishes that and then he's doing a catalog and he's trying to position that like the Patagonia catalog, so that its editorial and informational and helpful. And so he wants to include safety as part of that.   Margot Zalkind [00:11:11] So my first one is it should have been titled Don't Be Stupid, because a lot of people, you see what they're doing on Facebook, and so a lot of people are like, oh, yeah, I didn't know which used to wear because the duck was so icy, but I had a great row. I'm like, oh, no, no, no, you're really being stupid. I talk about hypothermia and ice and all that stuff.   Margot Zalkind [00:11:33] Zero year round, I used you foolishly and no, no, no, I have a rowing machine that I use.   Margot Zalkind [00:11:43] No, I learned some things as I got older.   Erica Walch [00:11:49] So you said that you were hesitant to move to Newfane, because you were so happy in Northampton and it was different from your experience up north in Vermont, have you come to feel comfortable?   Margot Zalkind [00:12:03] Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, I love it here. I didn't know anyone here except Archer, I met Castle and Alice Freeman, and that helped a lot because they are so dear and so warm and merry. Hill became a really good friend. I used to go down to the bookstore and just sit there for hours talking with her and we did some road trips together. And as I got to know people, which for me was harder if I didn't have children here. So there wasn't a school network and I didn't have a job. So I was working in such isolation that it did take me a little while to get to know people. I had gone down to North Hampton every week for at least a couple of days. I have grandchildren down there.   Margot Zalkind [00:12:53] And, um, and that helped you and Archer is a very.   Margot Zalkind [00:12:59] He's he is a writer, is a classic writer, and he loves to just go whole up and I I'm not I'm very outgoing and love to be with people and love to hear about them.   Margot Zalkind [00:13:13] And so it took a little while, but with Mary and with Alice and Castle, it gradually grew. And then I realized, too, I formed something called the Vermont Author's Project, and I tried more and more to create things that would get me into networks of people. And so that was good. I got started trying to get involved in that. And a guy named Bill Schubert, who's a writer up in, um, Burlington area, a couple of bookstore owners, one Mike DeSanto who has Phenix books and the one who is beer pond, just as a way to try again to expand who was being marketed outside of the state. And so I would go to Montpelier almost every month to meet with them. So that was good. So I was trying to really. Beat essentially build my own network of people that I could interact with because I love to collaborate on things.   Margot Zalkind [00:14:17] So that helped.   Margot Zalkind [00:14:23] Sir, they are, they are I stepped back from it just because I am trying to actually be smart and focused and not get too so even slightly before the virus, I step back from that.   Erica Walch [00:14:40] So you mentioned the virus, how has that?   Margot Zalkind [00:14:47] Well, I  don't go to Northampton every week, and so I, I miss seeing family and friends and it was a lot of my social life.   Margot Zalkind [00:15:00] And I do get to see Alice distanced, um, and every September, Archer's new book comes out and I arrange anywhere from twenty to thirty, thirty five events and we can't do those.   Margot Zalkind [00:15:19] So some places. Yeah, we did virtually.   Margot Zalkind [00:15:22] But again, this has become part of my network of people that I care about, that I enjoy seeing.   Margot Zalkind [00:15:30] So we would go up to Bellows Falls and have dinner with the owners and catch up with them. And then we'd go to Montpelier and spend some hours there and catch up with old friends of mine and then also go out with the bookstore owner. And so all that's gone and no more meetings and things.   Margot Zalkind [00:15:49] And so it's very isolating. And Zoom is all right, but not the same. And so for me, I mean, Archer's fine with it. I'll tell you when you interview. Yeah, I don't have to travel.   Margot Zalkind [00:16:04] The good news is, though, like I was saying earlier, if I want to get an event with Bookpeople in Austin, Texas, it's not like we have to spend money and fly and take three days. He just gets on the Zoome call at seven and he's done by eight thirty and they reach now hundreds more people then asking people to come out at night in Austin. When you go to an event, you get 40 people, maybe 50, maybe 60, but now you get three hundred or more. And so that's a good advantage in terms of works death.   Erica Walch [00:16:41] Do you think you will keep any of those remote options once the pandemic is over?   Margot Zalkind [00:16:48] I hope so. I'm trying to build up a lot more like in the the northwest. And yeah, I am trying to to get a lot more. So no, we wouldn't go to those, but yeah, I'd love to build those up.   Erica Walch [00:17:04] And you said you represent four Northeastern authors and try to get them to events in the rest of the country. Yeah, thinking of the Northeast in general and Vermont in particular. How do you think how do you think we in our area are seen by the rest of the US?   Margot Zalkind [00:17:26] Yeah, that's a that's a good question. It's a it's one that I grapple with a lot because did you see the movie Baby Boom years ago now? Oh, you should watch it because it struck me. I saw it years after I had lived up in Worcester in the middle of nowhere.   Margot Zalkind [00:17:44] And it was one of the more authentic representations of the good and the bad. You know, there's this great scene. She's selling baby food and a little store, which is like every classic Vermont country store. And this guy walks in with his wife and and she says, oh, should we get this? And he says, it's cute. It's really cute. Vermont is cute. The whole state is cute. And it was sort of that New York perception of, oh, they have gardens and they have cows. And and in Archer talks about how when he writes about the things he writes about, people are sometimes surprised.   Erica Walch [00:18:28] They're surprised, like there's crime in Vermont?.   Margot Zalkind [00:18:30] Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Because they don't they don't see it. They don't hear about it.   Margot Zalkind [00:18:36] To me, when you mention Vermont outside of New England, people love it. They just oh, I love Vermont. And it does represent an integrity and a caring and a a real honest way of life in general, a very healthy way of life.   Margot Zalkind [00:18:59] And so, yeah, they think we we make cheese and we make maple sirup and and it's we only eat healthy food. There is a wonderful perception.   Margot Zalkind [00:19:11] And so these writers that I put together, well, three of them write about Vermont, the other one is Maine, and one of them is sort of writing Ireland a little bit. But I'm bringing her back. So when I position those two bookstores, they love the idea because people want to know about Vermont. So it is a good I jokingly call it the brand, and it is.   Erica Walch [00:19:39] And do you think that the writers represent that image or that they push up against it a little bit? Are they all crime writers?   Margot Zalkind [00:19:51] Yeah, they're all mystery writers. Yeah, they do both. Yeah, they do. But because. Yeah, they were writing about something bad that somebody did to somebody up here. Yes. And to a lesser or greater degree. Archer wrote a book years ago that I think was called The Dark Root, and it was about the home invasion. And it's the only book of his that I don't like. And he gets that a lot. And after I read it, I it was very early on in the series and I said, you know, it seemed like such a reach. And he said this was based on things that had happened here. And I was sort of horrified by it. So he does sometimes peel back. Sometimes it's one on one. There's jerk. Hate somebody else. OK, I'm going to kill you. But sometimes it's it's more widespread and that's when it gets sort of appeal back factor.   Margot Zalkind [00:20:56] Have you yourself experienced any crime firsthand here in Newfane?   Margot Zalkind [00:21:03] No, not anywhere in the state, actually. No, not at all. And Archer does you know, he's medical examiner and he goes out on cases and he'll tell me some of them. But oral tell me some of the stories of when he was a detective and. But not no, not myself at all. Fortunately, no. It's been it is wonderful to live here.   Margot Zalkind [00:21:29] And that's the thing. You know, I talk to Winnie and she just talks about how comfortable she is here and especially now.   Margot Zalkind [00:21:38] It's better for me because I'm in the village now in Worcester. I was six miles up a dirt road. And it was it was hard, you know, to mayonaise.   Margot Zalkind [00:21:51] You said, you know, I don't need the mayonaise.   Erica Walch [00:21:57] What would you say to any sort of budding author who is interested in writing about Vermont?   Margot Zalkind [00:22:11] I think there's so many ways to approach what that means, that it's it's a multi-faceted question.   Margot Zalkind [00:22:24] I just read a book, I think it's called Up The Country or Going up the Country or something. It's about back to the landers coming to Vermont. And that was during. She writes about the time that I lived here. And so I was up by Goddard College and I worked with bread and puppet theater and I experienced all that that she writes about. And and yet it was one prism, one facet of what Vermont was like, because concurrently other things were happening. But I didn't know a lot about them because I was up there and I had to see this universe and so one could write if one wanted to. I'm thinking, too, about the book Hometown by Tracy Kidder. Did you read that? It's an interesting book. I read it before I decided on Northampton and it's nonfiction. And he writes about the police chief and the police force. And there's one police officer who's being accused of some things. And then there's a woman who's coming to Northampton to be a Ada Comstock's scholar, which is their program for older students. And so it's he's writing about this town through these different perspectives. And it was fascinating to me. It made me really mostly like the town. And so I think about telling a writer, I think about writers I know, like Cassol wrote about sort of the gather around the woodstove, kind of Vermont and the real characters here. And then I think about Galway Kinnell, who came here. Galway had been a neighbor of mine in New York, and we used my then young son and I used to come up to the Northeast Kingdom to visit with Galway and his family. And Galway's perspective of Vermont was so sort of sheltered beyond sheltered. He had a cabin half the size of this room and he would go up there and he'd write about whatever it was, but it was just very myopic. And then Bill Schubert writes a lot about Vermont and he writes about coming here as a child from New York City and moving here and and his are much more realistic presentations at the state. So if someone wanted to come here, I guess well, I guess the first question would be how will you make a living? And my second question would be, what aspect do you want to write about? Because somebody has been talking to me about a project they want me to publish about business in Vermont. And I think. All right, again, like in the back to the country, you know, back to the land book, they talk about Ginny Kallon, who was a friend in Montpelier, a Goddard graduate, and she started this of the Moon Cafe. And it was so charming and personal. And all of us who were her friends toddle down the street, Montpelier, and had her wonderful foods that were so healthy. Well, it became a big deal. And then she did a cookbook and then she did another cookbook. And yet if I were a writer new to Vermont, I wouldn't have a clue where to start. And then when you think about Vermont business, it's anywhere from IBM and GE making Gatling guns down to socks or Ginny Callan's Little Horn to the Moon Cafe. And and so Vermont is interesting that way, but yet Vermont does not imply Google and an urban high rise and anything else. So, yeah, I think it would be part of our research at the Vermont author's project was to try to identify every writer of any ilk in the state. So there's cookbook writers and crafts writers and garden writers and we found over two hundred people. But of course, they're in varying degrees of intensity or professionalism. But there's a lot. And then there's Chris Bohjilian, who's some of his. Books have nothing to do with Vermont is just here.   Margot Zalkind [00:27:13] And so that happens to just happens to be here.   Erica Walch [00:27:21] Those are all the questions that I have for you is there, anything that I didn't ask that you wished I'd asked you or that you were sure I would ask you and I did.   Margot Zalkind [00:27:34] Oh, no. I, um.   Margot Zalkind [00:27:38] I guess since this is about Newfane, um, I've been thinking a lot about what you might ask me. And one of the things that has been a slight source of frustration for me is when I first came here, Marilyn just Tilburg ran the store in town and she asked me to get involved in this business association that was sort of ebbing. And I think she had said they were going to have their last meeting quite soon after she spoke to me and Maryhill and I decided we were going to take this on. And so we went to the last meeting of the then Newfane Business Association. And it was in a way, it pointed out, um, the two sides of any place in a way in Vermont except maybe Burlington, which is that Mary and I came in and said, all right, here's what we can do.   Margot Zalkind [00:28:48] And we then quickly got Asher involved, who was running four columns in who was totally gung ho, what can we do? And so I tend to jump into things, maybe to the fear of others. I don't know. But I do I like to sort of grab things and do them. And so I started to meet with people up in tourism. Yeah. And talk to them about the Byways project and what we could do. And at first Marilyn was very gung ho about this too. But then they had decided to really leave the store and so her interest went down. But Mary and I tried to really energize with Asher. And so I got a welcome center designation here through the state for four columns in because I thought people stop and they want to get information. It's a way to broaden interest in the town. But the town has had a struggle. You know, the deli is certainly gone through iterations since I've lived here. One, two, three, four owners, I think at least that I can think of. And they're having a hard time, I imagine. And so here I am saying let's promote Newfane. But concurrently, you know, Marilyn left the deli struggling. The creamery burned down. So a lot has made it a different kind of town. So do I see the potential and I got the greenhouse involved, too. But again, he was struggling. And here I am saying we can do this and they're like, I don't know that I want to. So part of my involvement with Newfane has been wanting to do that. But then I've stepped back because I'm not sure what other people want. And Asher left four columns. And so all that has evolved. So it will be interesting to me to see, OK, where do we go after this? What happens?   Margot Zalkind [00:30:57] Mary's bookstores now shuttered at least, and the Enfield's Jonathan is gone. So, so much has really made us more just of a residential place. I guess not business there. OK, sure. But different.   Margot Zalkind [00:31:17] So in terms of what you would ask me, but part of that answers your question, too, about my networking here, who who am I working with or in contact with and why and how? And so I grapple with that sometimes because it's an isolated life for me, not others. I see people, you know, they get together and they do stuff or they have jobs elsewhere.   Margot Zalkind [00:31:49] But for me, I don't. And so I'm almost always looking at, OK, what can I do to collaborate or help or do so that I have people in my life? Archer's wonderful, but he's an isolated writer.   Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Margot Zalkind Mayor Description An account of the resource Margot Zalkind Mayor discusses her career in publishing, publicity, and rowing. She discusses how the COVID pandemic has changed publishing and author events. She talks about hno She mentions her experience during Hurricane Irene and a memorable Thanksgiving when power was lost. She talks about how the Vermont "brand" is represented in contemporary literature, and shares her enthusiasm for the goodness of living in Newfane, even as the commercial sector of the village has diminished in the years she has lived here. The interviewer's puppy makes some noises in the background. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Roger Allbee Description An account of the resource Roger shared his memories of growing up in Brookline. His ancestry dates back to Jonathan Parks, an original settler of Newfane. Roger described his career in agriculture and economics, including working for Senator Jeffords in Washington D.C. and then back in Vermont as Secretary of Agriculture. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-01-26 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Laura Wallingford-Bacon