Lucy Page, December 7, 1972
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Title
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Lucy Page, December 7, 1972
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interviewee
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Gary Ernest
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interviewer
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Lucy Page
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Date
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December 7,1972
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Subject
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Hop industry
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Agriculture
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Otsego County
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Blue mold
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Description
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Excerpt from 1972 interview of Lucy Page by Gary Ernest. Clip created for Spring 2017 Cooperstown Graduate Program Exhibition "Hop City Pickers" at the Fenimore Art Museum Research Library.
Photo Credit:
Busch Hop Yard, 1906, Arthur J. Telfer, glass plate negative, H: 5 x W: 7 in. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, Gift of Arthur Telfer, Smith and Telfer Photographic Collection, 5-02,212.
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Transcription
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GE: What did your father do as a farmer?
LP: What did he do?
GE: What did he raise, as crops?
LP: Oh, he raised oats. Potatoes, mostly. Nice potato farm.
GE: Behind the house? I know where the property is, I've seen it.
LP: He used to raise it down below, and that's all grown up to trees down there [laughing]. Beautiful place, over in the back lot. Used to raise…
GE: You ever raise hops?
LP: Oh, mercy. I guess so, till the blue mold struck ‘em. That's the reason why hops went out. The blue mold eat ‘em all up. Used to have beautiful hops.
GE: It didn't wipe him out, though. I mean, he could raise other crops? It didn't ruin him financially?
LP: Oh, no. It didn't hurt. He [went?] in potatoes, raising potatoes. Got good money from raising potatoes, I remember, at that time. ‘Course, not what the price of them are now, but. Things was different, way back. Things have gone up out of sight, now.
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Coverage
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Otsego County
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Creator
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Gary Ernest
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Publisher
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Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York-College at Oneonta
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Rights
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Cooperstown Graduate Association
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Format
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audio/mp3
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Language
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en-US
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Type
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Sound
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Identifier
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73-0008
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Original Format
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Cassette Tape
