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Interviewees Date Subject Matter Media
Everett Landon October 5, 1982 Hitchcock Free Academy CA
James Adams Sr. January 25, 1983 Side 1: Boyhood on the farm
Side 2:Early schools
CA
Freda Stegner February, 1983 Hitchcock Free Academy 1930-1954 CA
James Adams Sr. February 17, 1983 Side 1: Brimfield Cemetary, Fire Dept.
Side 2: Brimfield Cemetary
CA
James Adams Sr.
Ben Sherman
Ace Adams
February 18, 1983 Side 1: People of Warren Rd. and Tower Hill
Side 2: Remembering Brimfield
CA
Ben Sherman
Ace Adams
February 19, 1983 Side 1: Haircuts, Trolley Cars
Side 2: Grand Trunk, Mail
CA
Wanda Madura March 10, 1983 Early Life in Brimfield CA
John Pretola March 24, 1983 Indians in Brimfield; Alice Sawin Davis Memorial CA
Ben Sherman
Ace Adams
March 31, 1983 sawmills; town water; town traditions; big events: circus, HFA graduation, hurricane, bull loose in Dunhamtown CA
Arthur Brown May 9, 1983 schools, Congregational church, library, 1938 hurricane, physicians, automobiles, Civil War veterans CA
James McIntyre
Florence Gendreau
May, 1983 / August 16, 1983 Side 1: auger shop; Charles farm; church; school; trolley; Robinson store
Side 2: East Brimfield; 1955 flood; school
CA
Marie Maddocks Fall 1983 Life in Brimfield CA
Everett Landen October 20, 1983 Side 1: fire fighting equipment; town barn; early automobiles; Brimfield Garage
Side 2: Civil war veterans; dairy farms; World war I; trolley-cars; hurricane
CA
Henry Pelletier 1983   CA
Llewellyn Norton January 19, 1984 Side 1: Monson Hospital; West Brimfield schools; Wells Crossing; farms; families; Railroad Station; sawmill; brick works; boarding house; Tufts Brook
Side 2: bridges; 1938 hurricane; 1955 flood; Grand Trunk railroad; blacksmith; West Brimfield cemetary; farmers; stagecoach (Harry Thompson, driver); Valley Garage; Cooks Mountain
CA
Marie Maddocks March 15, 1984 Growing up in town, 1920-1950s, especially the family's store and operation of the post office CA
Gertrude Hitchcock Moreau
Leo Lavigne
March 27, 1984 Side 1: father's store; telephone; Alma Bissell and her cats
Side 2: cemetary, post office, Maddocks store, lamplighter, Doctor Sawin
CA
Bob Metcalf March 1984 Side 1: Prospect Hill; Local Businesses; Farms; School; Baseball; 1938 Hurricane
Side 2: World War II; Tea-Room; Brimfield Garage; Brimfield Hotel; Barber Shop
CA
Julie Spooner
Everett Landen
May 17 1984 Side 1: Spooner family; Julie's background; town clerk; Clara Fiske; town meetings
Side 2: town meetings; moderators; issues; 1955 flood; 1936 flood; 1938 hurricane; rebuilt bridges; Cornelia church
CA
Gladys Webber August, 1984 Side 1: ancestral home; great uncle dwight; grandmother
Side 2: Westfield college; measles; teaching; schools; women's business club; cemetary walls
CA
Richard Brown August 1, 1984 Side 1: Congregational Church, local schools, recreation, Harriet Tarbell, Brimfield Inn
Side 2: Memorial Day, public library, town characters, teachers
CA
Henry Pelletier
Everett Landen
November 18, 1984 Brimfield mills; auger works; brick works; textile mill; George webber's shoe store; East Hill Cemetary CA
Richard Brown December 4, 1992 Brimfield Congregational Church CA
Kay Gondek December 8, 1992 Brimfield Congregational Church CA
Helene Yeames January 14, 1993 Brimfield Congregational Church CA
Larry Lowenthal January 22, 1993 History of the Brimfield Congregational Church CA
John Curtis April 8, 1994 Talk Given on Brimfield Town Common CA, CD
Barbara Wood Keith April 18, 1994   CA, CD
Kay Gondek December 8, 1992 Brimfield Congregational Church CA
Larry Lowenthal May 25, 1997 Memorial Day speech CA
Wayland Wheaton
Russell Lucier
July 24, 2002 East Brimfield CA
Wayne Barr, Harriet Freeman, Jane Freeman, John Freeman, Bob Briere September 18, 2002 East Brimfield CA
Marie Maddocks   Indian lore; portraits of the Tarbells and Samuel A. Hitchcock; another Samuel Hitchcock Side 2: World War II; Tea-Room; Brimfield Garage; Brimfield Hotel; Barber Shop CA

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