40 feet up in the air, two generations of the Flying Wallendas ride bicycles across a tightrope. Check out how the woman is balancing on a chair. They performed at the Guilford Fair, which dates back to 1859.
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It’ll probably be awhile before I make it out to the Plains states, if I ever do, but this gets me in the spirit. The man here was planting the field by hand, seeds in a bag at his waist.
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Quarrying marble was a major industry in west central VT well into the middle of the 20th century. Abandoned quarries are rife in the area, and favorite swimming holes for locals.
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Larry Auger and an unidentified farmhand making quick work of windrows of hay. The baler, the green machine in the middle, takes up the hay and spits out the compressed bales into the trailing hay wagon. The field was mainly grass with some alfalfa. They were working with some urgency as a thunderstorm with heavy rain was forecast for later that nite ( and did arrive at 3AM).
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Brother John, prior of the Weston community from 1964 to 1998, at work in the Priory woodshop
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