Maple syrup production, excerpt from oral history interview with Brian Ryther, November 30, 2013
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Title
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Maple syrup production, excerpt from oral history interview with Brian Ryther, November 30, 2013
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Description
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In October 2014, the Cooperstown Graduate Program hosted an Oral Histories in Dialogue session in Cooperstown, New York. Partially funded by the New York Council for the Humanities, this session sought to develop a new model for dialogue programs that include oral histories. This video was created in response to participant requests for greater integration of images, text, and audio in oral history clips.
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Subject
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Maple Farming
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Mill Hollow Maple
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Economic Development
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Creator
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Cyndi Tolosa
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Source
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http://www.cgpcommunitystories.org/items/show/155
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Publisher
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Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York-College at Oneonta
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Date
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2013-11-30
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Rights
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New York State Historical Association Library, Cooperstown, NY
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Format
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video/mpeg-4
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640x480
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34.6mB
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Language
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en-US
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Type
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Video
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Coverage
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Upstate New York
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1977-2013
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transcript of
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It's hard to call it an industry. There are probably hundreds of maple producers in the county. A lot of backyard [production] just like the way I grew up; families that make their own maple syrup. You get a little bit bigger where there are some producers with a couple of hundred taps. And then, in the county, there are four of us that I would say are commercial, that we make enough to make a living. Even though we all diversify a little bit, [we] actually are big enough that we could make our livings from it. It's an untapped resource in this county and in the state. In New York State, it's well publicized and well known; everywhere you look there's maple trees and untapped potential. So many forests that go untapped that are just sitting dormant, and it's a resource that we have. It's a good industry to be in. If you can convince landowners to open up their forests for tapping, you could see the potential is huge for the industry in this area. If landowners could see the financial benefits from it... When I lease a forest, not only do they get rental income from me, but they get tax breaks for agricultural status, and the land will turn a profit for them rather than just being a tax burden.
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Is Format Of
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Photographs, Oral History
