1 00:00:22,220 --> 00:00:25,220 >> IT WAS TRULY SMALL TOWN 2 00:00:25,220 --> 00:00:27,070 VERMONT WHEN I WAS A KID. 3 00:00:27,070 --> 00:00:28,190 I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT 4 00:00:28,190 --> 00:00:29,210 TOWN TO GROW UP IN. 5 00:00:29,210 --> 00:00:32,280 >> I THINK MANY OF THE SAME 6 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,280 THINGS THAT FAMILIES ENJOY ABOUT 7 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,150 WATERBURY TODAY WERE TRUE BACK 8 00:00:37,150 --> 00:00:38,280 THEN JUST IN A DIFFERENT WAY. 9 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,280 THERE WAS A REAL SENSE OF 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:42,100 COMMUNITY. 11 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:45,090 >> IT WAS A CLOSE KNIT WELL 12 00:00:45,090 --> 00:00:46,070 BALANCED COMMUNITY THAT HAD A 13 00:00:46,070 --> 00:00:48,150 LOT TO OFFER. 14 00:00:48,150 --> 00:00:51,150 >> I WOULD SAY BACK WHEN I WAS 15 00:00:51,150 --> 00:00:55,270 GROWING UP, THINGS WERE VERY 16 00:00:55,270 --> 00:00:58,270 GOOD IN WATERBURY AND WATERBURY 17 00:00:58,270 --> 00:00:59,070 CENTER. 18 00:00:59,070 --> 00:01:00,070 >> YOU KNEW EVERYBODY. 19 00:01:00,070 --> 00:01:01,190 IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THEM, YOU 20 00:01:01,190 --> 00:01:06,130 WANTED TO KNOW THEM. 21 00:01:06,130 --> 00:01:09,130 >> WATERBURY HAS ALWAYS BEEN 22 00:01:09,130 --> 00:01:09,240 IMPORTANT. 23 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,060 THE PEOPLE HERE SEEMED REAL AND 24 00:01:12,060 --> 00:01:12,150 GOOD. 25 00:01:12,150 --> 00:01:15,070 >> IT'S CHANGED SO MUCH. 26 00:01:15,070 --> 00:01:17,190 WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, THERE 27 00:01:17,190 --> 00:01:20,280 WERE 6 OR 8 FARMS ON THIS FIELD. 28 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,280 >> SINCE BEING CHARTERED IN 29 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,050 1763, THE TOWN OF WATERBURY HAS 30 00:01:26,050 --> 00:01:28,030 GONE MANY CHANGES. 31 00:01:28,030 --> 00:01:31,030 ITS HISTORY IS DEEP AND FERTILE 32 00:01:31,030 --> 00:01:33,070 AS THE SOIL THAT CONTINUES TO BE 33 00:01:33,070 --> 00:01:34,070 TILLED IN THE AREA. 34 00:01:34,070 --> 00:01:36,090 THE STORYS AND MEMORIES SHARED 35 00:01:36,090 --> 00:01:39,090 IN THIS ORAL HISTORY PROVIDE A 36 00:01:39,090 --> 00:01:40,180 PEAK INTO THE PAST AND OFFER A 37 00:01:40,180 --> 00:01:43,000 VIEW OF WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE 38 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,060 NEARLY A CENTURY AGO. 39 00:01:45,060 --> 00:01:48,060 LIKE MANY SMALL TOWNS, THE 40 00:01:48,060 --> 00:01:50,150 RESIDENTS OF WATERBURY HAVE 41 00:01:50,150 --> 00:01:53,150 ALWAYS BEEN KNOWN FOR SELF 42 00:01:53,150 --> 00:01:57,010 RELIANCE, AND STRONG SENSE OF 43 00:01:57,010 --> 00:02:00,030 COMMUNITY AND COMPASSION. 44 00:02:00,030 --> 00:02:01,240 >> ONE TIME MY FATHER LOST HIS 45 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,160 HORSE AND HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE 46 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,110 WAS GOING TO DO. 47 00:02:06,110 --> 00:02:08,130 IT WAS CHRISTMAS TIME. 48 00:02:08,130 --> 00:02:09,200 THE TEACHER WOULD HAVE A GIFT 49 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,180 FOR ALL THE CHILDREN. 50 00:02:13,180 --> 00:02:16,180 AND THE CHILDREN GOT SOME GIFTS. 51 00:02:16,180 --> 00:02:19,020 THE LAST GIFT ON THE TREE IS A 52 00:02:19,020 --> 00:02:20,180 LITTLE BOX, THE SIZE OF A MATCH 53 00:02:20,180 --> 00:02:23,150 BOX AND WRAPPED UP. 54 00:02:23,150 --> 00:02:27,050 AND BROUGHT IT TO MY MOTHER AND 55 00:02:27,050 --> 00:02:30,050 FATHER. 56 00:02:30,050 --> 00:02:32,140 AND THEY SAID WHAT'S THIS? 57 00:02:32,140 --> 00:02:34,040 OPENED IT UP AND IT WAS FULL OF 58 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:34,130 MONEY. 59 00:02:34,130 --> 00:02:36,050 OH, MY GOSH. 60 00:02:36,050 --> 00:02:39,090 I JUST CRIED. 61 00:02:39,090 --> 00:02:42,090 SO THEY HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY 62 00:02:42,090 --> 00:02:44,100 ANOTHER HORSE. 63 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:47,100 THAT IS HOW NEIGHBORS WERE. 64 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:49,200 >> MY GRANDFATHER CAME TO 65 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,180 WATERBURY FIRST IN 1895. 66 00:02:52,180 --> 00:02:55,180 AND HE SOLD AUTOMOBILES. 67 00:02:55,180 --> 00:02:58,020 EARLY ON WOULD HAVE BEEN 1910. 68 00:02:58,020 --> 00:03:03,230 IN THOSE DAYS, YOU COULD BARTTER 69 00:03:03,230 --> 00:03:06,230 FOUR THINGS THAT YOU NEEDED. 70 00:03:06,230 --> 00:03:09,000 AND SOME GENTLEMAN BROUGHT HIM A 71 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,080 BUNCH OF HARDWARE. 72 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,200 WHEN HE WAS PONDERING WHAT TO 73 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,220 DO, THE GARAGE CAUGHT FIRE AND 74 00:03:15,220 --> 00:03:18,220 ALL THOSE CARS WERE SOFT TOP 75 00:03:18,220 --> 00:03:22,030 CARS. 76 00:03:22,030 --> 00:03:25,030 ALL THE TOPS BURNED OFF. 77 00:03:25,030 --> 00:03:27,290 HE HAD THIS HARDWARE. 78 00:03:27,290 --> 00:03:30,290 I CAN ALWAYS SELL HARDWARE. 79 00:03:30,290 --> 00:03:33,120 THAT'S WHERE THE BUSINESS TOOK 80 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,260 OFF. 81 00:03:34,260 --> 00:03:37,260 AND WE WERE THERE UP UNTIL THE 82 00:03:37,260 --> 00:03:39,270 LATE 70s. 83 00:03:39,270 --> 00:03:41,110 >> PEOPLE WERE REALLY 84 00:03:41,110 --> 00:03:42,250 SELF-SUFFICIENT IN THE OLD DAYS. 85 00:03:42,250 --> 00:03:43,290 MY GRANDFATHER WAS. 86 00:03:43,290 --> 00:03:47,130 HE COULD DO ANYTHING. 87 00:03:47,130 --> 00:03:50,130 >> MY GRANDPARENTS FROM THE LATE 88 00:03:50,130 --> 00:03:52,210 1800s INTO 1921. 89 00:03:52,210 --> 00:03:55,190 >> MY GRANDMOTHER HAD THREE 90 00:03:55,190 --> 00:03:57,140 DAUGHTERS AND THE MIDDLE ONE DID 91 00:03:57,140 --> 00:03:58,260 A DAMAGE TO HER. 92 00:03:58,260 --> 00:04:01,170 SHE HAD TO BE SEWED UP AND MY 93 00:04:01,170 --> 00:04:03,210 GRANDFATHER USED THE HORSE HAIR 94 00:04:03,210 --> 00:04:04,260 OFF THE VIOLIN BOWL TO ACTUALLY 95 00:04:04,260 --> 00:04:07,000 DO THAT. 96 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,060 >> WATERBURY HAS NO SHORTAGE OF 97 00:04:09,060 --> 00:04:10,040 POWERFUL STORIES. 98 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,120 IN THE EARLY YEARS, WATERBURY 99 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,200 WAS DOTTED WITH HILLSIDE FARMS. 100 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,070 AND JUST ABOUT EVERYONE WHO 101 00:04:16,070 --> 00:04:18,230 LIVED OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE HAD A 102 00:04:18,230 --> 00:04:20,100 SELF-SUSTAINING FARM. 103 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:23,100 GROWING VEGETABLES AND MILKING A 104 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:24,040 FEW COWS. 105 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,120 WHETHER YOU LIVED ON A FARM OR 106 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,120 NOT, EEKING OUT A LIVING INTO 107 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,120 EARLY 1900s MEANT YOU HAD TO BE 108 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,090 FRUGAL AND SELF-SUFFICIENT. 109 00:04:35,090 --> 00:04:36,220 THERE WAS ALWAYS WORK TO GET 110 00:04:36,220 --> 00:04:39,200 DONE AND EVERYONE PITCHED IN. 111 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,200 >> I WAS GROWING UP DURING THE 112 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,030 DEPRESSION. 113 00:04:44,030 --> 00:04:48,100 WE ALWAYS HAD FOOD ON THE TABLE. 114 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:51,100 AND ALWAYS MILK AND WE HAD A 115 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:52,140 GOOD LIFE ON THE FARM. 116 00:04:52,140 --> 00:04:55,090 >> I GREW UP IN WATERBURY 117 00:04:55,090 --> 00:04:55,210 CENTER. 118 00:04:55,210 --> 00:04:58,210 EVERYBODY HAD SOME KIND OF 119 00:04:58,210 --> 00:04:59,220 CREDIT OF SOME SORT. 120 00:04:59,220 --> 00:05:02,080 IN MY FAMILY, WE WERE WHAT YOU'D 121 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:03,010 CALL GREEN TODAY. 122 00:05:03,010 --> 00:05:06,140 WE PRODUCED ABOUT EVERYTHING WE 123 00:05:06,140 --> 00:05:11,210 ATE ON THE FARM. 124 00:05:11,210 --> 00:05:14,210 AND MY MOTHER NEVER THREW A 125 00:05:14,210 --> 00:05:15,030 DIFFER. 126 00:05:15,030 --> 00:05:17,120 THE KIDS WORE HAND ME DOWN 127 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:17,220 CLOTHES. 128 00:05:17,220 --> 00:05:19,060 GOT ALONG WITH WHAT YOU HAD. 129 00:05:19,060 --> 00:05:20,110 AND THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS. 130 00:05:20,110 --> 00:05:22,180 AND YOU WERE HAPPY TO HAVE 131 00:05:22,180 --> 00:05:25,130 SOMETHING IN YOUR BELLY AT NIGHT 132 00:05:25,130 --> 00:05:28,130 AND CLOTHES ON YOUR BACK AND 133 00:05:28,130 --> 00:05:30,110 PROBABLY SEEMS SIMPLE. 134 00:05:30,110 --> 00:05:33,110 AT MY AGE TODAY, I STILL FEEL 135 00:05:33,110 --> 00:05:35,210 PRETTY GRATEFUL ABOUT THAT. 136 00:05:35,210 --> 00:05:38,120 >> THE FATHER BEING A FRUGAL 137 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,270 FARMER, RAISED THREE BOYS. 138 00:05:40,270 --> 00:05:43,270 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE THERE FOR. 139 00:05:43,270 --> 00:05:46,090 IN THE SUMMERTIME, MY FATHER HAD 140 00:05:46,090 --> 00:05:47,260 TO HAVE EXTRA PASTEUR FOR HIS 141 00:05:47,260 --> 00:05:48,290 YOUNG STOCK. 142 00:05:48,290 --> 00:05:52,190 AND THE PASTEUR HE WAS USING WAS 143 00:05:52,190 --> 00:05:55,190 ON HARBOR CENTER SHE WAS FAR 144 00:05:55,190 --> 00:05:56,200 FROM THE FARM HERE. 145 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,100 THE WAY WE GOT THEM UP HERE IS 146 00:05:58,100 --> 00:05:59,280 PUT THEM IN THE ROAD AND DRIVE 147 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:00,130 THEM. 148 00:06:00,130 --> 00:06:02,170 I KNOW I WAS ABOUT SIX YEARS OLD 149 00:06:02,170 --> 00:06:05,170 WHEN WE STARTED DOING THAT. 150 00:06:05,170 --> 00:06:07,170 AND KEEP THEM FROM GOING INTO 151 00:06:07,170 --> 00:06:09,000 THE DIFFERENT DRIVEWAYS. 152 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,170 THAT WAS QUITE A LITTLE HIKE 153 00:06:11,170 --> 00:06:13,030 ESPECIALLY FOR US KIDS. 154 00:06:13,030 --> 00:06:15,080 >> LIFE WAS PRETTY TOUGH. 155 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,110 EVERYBODY STARTED WORK. 156 00:06:18,110 --> 00:06:21,110 WE PEDALLED 35 PAPERS A DAY. 157 00:06:21,110 --> 00:06:23,270 AND WE STARTED IT LIKE 5:30 IN 158 00:06:23,270 --> 00:06:24,180 THE MORNING. 159 00:06:24,180 --> 00:06:26,080 WE HAD CHORES TO DO IT. 160 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,120 YOU TOOK OFF YOUR BEST CLOTHES 161 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,120 AND PUT ON THE FARM CLOTHES. 162 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,190 AND IT WAS LUGGING THE WOOD OR 163 00:06:36,190 --> 00:06:39,190 FEED THE COWS OR PICK UP THE 164 00:06:39,190 --> 00:06:40,010 EGGS. 165 00:06:40,010 --> 00:06:42,230 THERE WAS SOMETHING BEFORE. 166 00:06:42,230 --> 00:06:45,120 >> I REMEMBER AT 8 OR 9 YEARS 167 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,090 OLD, I HAD FOUR OR FIVE COWS I 168 00:06:47,090 --> 00:06:50,070 HAD TO MILK. 169 00:06:50,070 --> 00:06:53,010 AND AFTER THE COURSE IN THE 170 00:06:53,010 --> 00:06:55,130 MORNING BEFORE SCHOOL AND GO TO 171 00:06:55,130 --> 00:06:57,220 SCHOOL ALMOST IMMEDIATELY 172 00:06:57,220 --> 00:06:58,040 AFTERWARDS. 173 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,090 THERE WAS NO SHOWERS OR NOTHING 174 00:07:00,090 --> 00:07:02,130 LIKE THAT BACK THEN. 175 00:07:02,130 --> 00:07:03,240 SO I KNOW WE WENT TO SCHOOLS ALL 176 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,120 THE TIME. 177 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,230 >> NO, WE NEVER WENT ANYWHERE. 178 00:07:09,230 --> 00:07:12,230 WE NEVER WENT ANYWHERE. 179 00:07:12,230 --> 00:07:14,090 MY OLDER BROTHER WHO WAS ABOUT 180 00:07:14,090 --> 00:07:16,160 SIX YEARS OLDER THAN ME. 181 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,160 WHEN HE WAS 12, HE WAS BAILING 182 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:20,050 HAY DOWN HERE. 183 00:07:20,050 --> 00:07:22,190 I DIDN'T HAVE THAT. 184 00:07:22,190 --> 00:07:25,190 WE WERE STILL HAYING WHEN I WAS 185 00:07:25,190 --> 00:07:27,210 ABOUT 8 OR 9. 186 00:07:27,210 --> 00:07:30,190 I DIDN'T GET TO DO BAILING LIKE 187 00:07:30,190 --> 00:07:33,180 HE DID. 188 00:07:33,180 --> 00:07:36,180 >> VERY RARE MY MOTHER CUT OUR 189 00:07:36,180 --> 00:07:38,280 HAIR. 190 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,100 YOU LOOK LIKE A GIRL WHEN YOU 191 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:46,080 WERE DONE. 192 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,220 DIDN'T GET THE RECOGNITION. 193 00:07:49,220 --> 00:07:53,090 >> I WAS A STAY AT HOME GIRL. 194 00:07:53,090 --> 00:07:56,100 I DID THE WORK. 195 00:07:56,100 --> 00:07:59,140 MY HUSBAND EARNED THE MONEY. 196 00:07:59,140 --> 00:08:02,160 WE BUTCHERED A COW EVERY YEAR. 197 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,200 WE HAD A BIG. 198 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,200 WE HAD CHICKENS, EGGS. 199 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:09,180 MILK, CREAM. 200 00:08:09,180 --> 00:08:12,130 WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT? 201 00:08:12,130 --> 00:08:15,130 >> I'D HELP WITH THE MILKING. 202 00:08:15,130 --> 00:08:18,080 AND AFTER SUPPER, MY FATHER SAID 203 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,080 I NEED SOME EXTRA HELP TONIGHT. 204 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,110 I SAID I'LL GO DOWN. 205 00:08:23,110 --> 00:08:23,280 HELLO. 206 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,250 I'D RATHER DO THAT THAN DO 207 00:08:25,250 --> 00:08:26,050 DISHES. 208 00:08:26,050 --> 00:08:28,190 >> OF COURSE, ALL THE MILK GOT 209 00:08:28,190 --> 00:08:31,090 SHIPPED IN CANS. 210 00:08:31,090 --> 00:08:33,070 AND PIPELINES AND ALL THAT. 211 00:08:33,070 --> 00:08:36,070 PEOPLE HAD TO WORK TO GET THE 212 00:08:36,070 --> 00:08:36,160 MILK. 213 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:39,120 >> MY FATHER PLANTED CORN AND 214 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:40,020 BEANS. 215 00:08:40,020 --> 00:08:41,230 AND WE LOVED IT. 216 00:08:41,230 --> 00:08:43,150 IT WAS HARD WORK. 217 00:08:43,150 --> 00:08:46,150 BEING THE OLDEST, I USED TO HELP 218 00:08:46,150 --> 00:08:50,020 RIDE THE HORSE. 219 00:08:50,020 --> 00:08:53,020 AND PLANTING BEHIND ME. 220 00:08:53,020 --> 00:08:55,040 WE'D RIDE THAT HORSE ALL DAY 221 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,150 LONG AND YOU GET KIND OF LAZY 222 00:08:58,150 --> 00:09:01,170 SOMETIMES AND YOUR FATHER WOULD 223 00:09:01,170 --> 00:09:03,200 YELL AT YOU. 224 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,200 GO STRAIGHT. 225 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,200 I'M TRYING TO. 226 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,170 WHEN WE LOOK WHEN I WAS A KID, 227 00:09:13,170 --> 00:09:16,010 THE WATER WAS ALL DRAWN FROM THE 228 00:09:16,010 --> 00:09:17,050 WELL IN PAILS. 229 00:09:17,050 --> 00:09:18,260 AND YOU CARRY IT INTO THE HOUSE 230 00:09:18,260 --> 00:09:21,010 AND WARM IT IN THE WARMING OVEN 231 00:09:21,010 --> 00:09:22,090 OF THE STOVE. 232 00:09:22,090 --> 00:09:25,090 AND THEN YOU DIP IT OUT OF THERE 233 00:09:25,090 --> 00:09:27,150 AND WE'D EACH TAKE A BATH NEAR 234 00:09:27,150 --> 00:09:29,040 THE KITCHEN STOVE WHERE IT WAS 235 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:29,130 WARM. 236 00:09:29,130 --> 00:09:30,250 >> SUNDAY NIGHT, ALL THE LIGHTS 237 00:09:30,250 --> 00:09:31,280 WOULD GO OUT. 238 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,230 YOU DIDN'T EVEN WALK DOWNSTAIRS 239 00:09:33,230 --> 00:09:36,030 IF YOUR SISTER HAD A SLIP ON. 240 00:09:36,030 --> 00:09:37,090 MY MOTHER WOULD HAVE WASHED YOUR 241 00:09:37,090 --> 00:09:38,180 MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP. 242 00:09:38,180 --> 00:09:40,290 EVERYTHING WAS A LOT LESS 243 00:09:40,290 --> 00:09:42,210 OPEN-ENDED THAN IT IS TODAY. 244 00:09:42,210 --> 00:09:44,240 NOT SURE IF THAT WAS GOOD OR 245 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:45,020 BAD. 246 00:09:45,020 --> 00:09:46,220 MY DAD WOULD HEAT THE HOT WATER 247 00:09:46,220 --> 00:09:48,240 ON THE STEVE AND PUT IT IN THAT 248 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:49,020 TAB. 249 00:09:49,020 --> 00:09:51,070 THE OLDEST GUY GOT TO GO FIRST. 250 00:09:51,070 --> 00:09:53,170 OUT OF FIVE KIDS, I WAS THE LAST 251 00:09:53,170 --> 00:09:54,280 CHILD TO TAKE A BATH. 252 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,020 THAT WAS THE ONLY BATH OF THE 253 00:09:57,020 --> 00:09:57,110 WEEK. 254 00:09:57,110 --> 00:10:00,070 WE SPONGE BATHED ALONG THE WAY 255 00:10:00,070 --> 00:10:01,100 IN COLD WATER. 256 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:04,000 THE TUB WAS NOT NICE BY THE TIME 257 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,000 IT GOT TO BE MY TURN. 258 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,100 >> AS I GREW A LITTLE OLDER, MY 259 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:11,200 FOLKS WOULD SEND ME TO THE STORE 260 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,200 THAT WAY AND GO INTO THE STORE 261 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:15,290 WITH GROCERIES. 262 00:10:15,290 --> 00:10:23,140 THINGS THEY NEEDED. 263 00:10:23,140 --> 00:10:26,140 AND THEY'D PUT THINGS ON THE 264 00:10:26,140 --> 00:10:27,030 BILL. 265 00:10:27,030 --> 00:10:29,000 AND MY FATHER WOULD PAY THE 266 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:29,090 BILL. 267 00:10:29,090 --> 00:10:30,150 >> MR. SLACK WAS GOOD TO MY 268 00:10:30,150 --> 00:10:33,100 FATHER AND CHARGE ALL WINTER AND 269 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:38,230 ALL SUMMER, HE'D WORK 6-7 DAYS A 270 00:10:38,230 --> 00:10:42,200 WEEK TO GET THAT BILL DOWN. 271 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,200 >> BESIDES THE STORE FRONTS 272 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,280 DOTTING MAIN STREETS, THERE WAS 273 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,180 A SURPRISING NUMBER OF GRANITE 274 00:10:49,180 --> 00:10:52,150 SHEDS, CREAMERIES, MANUFACTURING 275 00:10:52,150 --> 00:10:54,070 COMPANIES AND LUMBAR MILLS. 276 00:10:54,070 --> 00:10:56,140 >> I GREW UP IN THE VILLAGE. 277 00:10:56,140 --> 00:10:59,140 I SPENT A LOT OF MY CHILDHOOD 278 00:10:59,140 --> 00:11:01,050 DOWN AT THE FEED STORE. 279 00:11:01,050 --> 00:11:02,190 MY BROTHER RAN THE STORE FROM MY 280 00:11:02,190 --> 00:11:04,150 DAD AND ALL THE KIDS WENT DOWN 281 00:11:04,150 --> 00:11:07,060 THERE AND IT WAS A LOCAL HANG 282 00:11:07,060 --> 00:11:07,170 OUT. 283 00:11:07,170 --> 00:11:10,270 WE ROAD THE FEED TRUCKS OUT TO 284 00:11:10,270 --> 00:11:13,270 THE FARMERS AND WE RAISED CALFS 285 00:11:13,270 --> 00:11:15,060 THERE IN THE SPRING. 286 00:11:15,060 --> 00:11:17,120 AND WE'D HAVE THE CALF IN THE 287 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:18,150 OFFICE AT THE FEED STORE. 288 00:11:18,150 --> 00:11:19,290 >> ONE THING I REMEMBER GROWING 289 00:11:19,290 --> 00:11:22,090 UP THERE, WE HAD A BIG FRONT 290 00:11:22,090 --> 00:11:23,160 PORCH THAT WENT ACROSS THE FRONT 291 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,280 OF THAT HOUSE. 292 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,090 IT WAS A RED BRICK HOUSE AND I 293 00:11:30,090 --> 00:11:33,090 THINK H AND R BLOCK IS IN THERE 294 00:11:33,090 --> 00:11:33,200 NOW. 295 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,040 ROUTE 2 WENT RIGHT THROUGH TOWN. 296 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,160 AND CARS, OF COURSE, WOULD COME 297 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:38,290 FROM EVERYWHERE. 298 00:11:38,290 --> 00:11:40,120 WE'D COLLECT OUT OF STATE 299 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,130 LICENSE PLATES AND HAVE A LITTLE 300 00:11:42,130 --> 00:11:44,130 CONTEST TO SEE WHO CAN GET THE 301 00:11:44,130 --> 00:11:46,050 MOST OUT OF STATE LICENSE 302 00:11:46,050 --> 00:11:46,150 PLATES. 303 00:11:46,150 --> 00:11:49,130 >> I LIVED ALL MY LIFE HERE AND 304 00:11:49,130 --> 00:11:52,150 EVEN BACK IN THOSE DAYS GROWING 305 00:11:52,150 --> 00:11:55,250 UP ON THE NORTH END, THAT WAS 306 00:11:55,250 --> 00:11:58,250 YOUR AREA OF PLAY AND 307 00:11:58,250 --> 00:12:03,040 FAMILIARITY. 308 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,040 THAT WAS A BIG SUMMERTIME THING. 309 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,150 >> I WAS BORN IN 55. 310 00:12:08,150 --> 00:12:18,160 MY GRANDFATHER RAN THE 311 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,160 UNDERTAKING BUSINESS HERE. 312 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,290 THE MODERN PHARMACY. 313 00:12:23,290 --> 00:12:25,220 THERE WAS A LOT OF DIFFERENT 314 00:12:25,220 --> 00:12:26,230 BUSINESSES WITHIN A FEW BLOCKS 315 00:12:26,230 --> 00:12:28,060 OF EACH OTHER. 316 00:12:28,060 --> 00:12:31,060 AND IT WAS ALWAYS BUSY DOWNTOWN. 317 00:12:31,060 --> 00:12:38,010 >> AND THEN THE DRY BRIDGE IS 318 00:12:38,010 --> 00:12:41,010 THERE AND BOWLING ALLEY IS IN. 319 00:12:41,010 --> 00:12:43,010 AND I SET PINS IN THERE WHEN IT 320 00:12:43,010 --> 00:12:45,080 WAS A BOWLING ALLEY. 321 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:46,170 THERE WEREN'T ANY MACHINES THERE 322 00:12:46,170 --> 00:12:46,290 ARE NOW. 323 00:12:46,290 --> 00:12:49,090 JUST A BUNCH OF THOSE GUYS THAT 324 00:12:49,090 --> 00:12:52,080 WOULD GET 10 CENTS A STRING OR 325 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:53,190 WHATEVER YOU CALL IT WHEN YOU 326 00:12:53,190 --> 00:12:54,050 BOWL AROUND. 327 00:12:54,050 --> 00:12:56,010 FOR PICKING UP THE PINS AND 328 00:12:56,010 --> 00:12:57,190 PUTTING THEM BACK IN PLACE. 329 00:12:57,190 --> 00:12:59,270 AND PRAYING THE BALL DIDN'T COME 330 00:12:59,270 --> 00:13:01,000 WHILE YOU WERE DOWN THERE. 331 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,220 IT WAS SORT OF A PIT. 332 00:13:02,220 --> 00:13:03,020 ANYWAY. 333 00:13:03,020 --> 00:13:05,240 >> BESIDES THE RUN DOWN BOWLING 334 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,250 ALLEY, LONG TIME RESIDENTS HAVE 335 00:13:07,250 --> 00:13:10,050 MANY FOND MEMORIES OF A 336 00:13:10,050 --> 00:13:11,200 COMPASSION NATE AND RESILIENT 337 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:12,010 COMMUNITY. 338 00:13:12,010 --> 00:13:14,200 OVER THE YEARS, THIS VILLAGE HAS 339 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,080 BEEN THROUGH MANY EVENTS THAT 340 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:17,220 SHAPED WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS 341 00:13:17,220 --> 00:13:18,060 TODAY. 342 00:13:18,060 --> 00:13:20,210 EARLY ON, THE VILLAGE BUSINESSES 343 00:13:20,210 --> 00:13:23,020 SUPPORTED THE FARMING COMMUNITY 344 00:13:23,020 --> 00:13:24,110 THAT SURROUNDED WATERBURY AND 345 00:13:24,110 --> 00:13:26,030 COULD JUST AS EASILY BE THE 346 00:13:26,030 --> 00:13:27,120 OTHER WAY AROUND. 347 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,120 IN THE 1830s, MANY OF THE 348 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:31,280 SELF-SUFFICIENT FARMS GAVE WAY 349 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,280 TO THE BOOMING SHEEP FARMING 350 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:35,190 INDUSTRY. 351 00:13:35,190 --> 00:13:38,150 BUT IN 1849 WHEN THE CENTRAL 352 00:13:38,150 --> 00:13:39,180 VERMONT RAILROAD LAID TRACKS 353 00:13:39,180 --> 00:13:41,210 THROUGH TOWN, A LOT OF CHANGES 354 00:13:41,210 --> 00:13:44,210 WERE ON THE HORIZON. 355 00:13:44,210 --> 00:13:46,140 >> THE RAILROAD WAS JUST 356 00:13:46,140 --> 00:13:47,250 ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS TO THIS 357 00:13:47,250 --> 00:13:48,040 TOWN. 358 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,200 IT'S HARD TO OVERSTAY THE IMPACT 359 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,120 THAT THE IMPACT THE RAILROAD AND 360 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,120 STILL HAS ON WATERBURY TODAY. 361 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,120 >> IT WAS A FOCAL POINT TO 362 00:13:58,120 --> 00:13:59,110 EXPANDING AN INDUSTRY AND GAVE 363 00:13:59,110 --> 00:14:01,170 US A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES WAY 364 00:14:01,170 --> 00:14:04,080 AHEAD OF COMMUNITIES THAT DIDN'T 365 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:05,190 HAVE THE RAILROAD. 366 00:14:05,190 --> 00:14:08,140 FOUND FATHERS AROUND THAT 1890 367 00:14:08,140 --> 00:14:11,140 PERIOD REALLY SOUGHT TO BRING 368 00:14:11,140 --> 00:14:11,250 INDUSTRY. 369 00:14:11,250 --> 00:14:14,080 AND THE RAILROAD WAS A BIG 370 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,280 FEATURE. 371 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,280 ONE TIME, THERE WERE FIVE SHEDS 372 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,120 AND WATERBURY WAS SHIFT IN ON 373 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:23,000 THE RAILROAD. 374 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,280 CUT IN THE GRANITE SHEDS AND 375 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:31,170 THINGS AND THEN SHIFT OUT. 376 00:14:31,170 --> 00:14:34,170 AND SOME OF THOSE EMPLOYED 50 TO 377 00:14:34,170 --> 00:14:36,090 100 PEOPLE. 378 00:14:36,090 --> 00:14:39,020 THERE WAS A RAILROAD THAT LEFT 379 00:14:39,020 --> 00:14:41,160 WATER BURY. 380 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,070 >> WATERBURY AS WELL AS THE REST 381 00:14:43,070 --> 00:14:45,230 OF THE STATE WAS GROWING 382 00:14:45,230 --> 00:14:48,290 STEADILY. 383 00:14:48,290 --> 00:14:51,290 PRESIDENT CALVIN COLLAGE 384 00:14:51,290 --> 00:14:54,010 RESTORED CONFIDENCE IN THE WHITE 385 00:14:54,010 --> 00:14:54,250 HOUSE. 386 00:14:54,250 --> 00:14:57,250 IN NOVEMBER OF 1927, A 387 00:14:57,250 --> 00:14:59,040 DEVASTATING FLOOD HIT THE STATE. 388 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,220 OVER 1200 BRIDGES WERE 389 00:15:01,220 --> 00:15:02,030 DESTROYED. 390 00:15:02,030 --> 00:15:03,250 MILES OF ROADS AND RAILROADS 391 00:15:03,250 --> 00:15:05,040 WERE WASHED OUT. 392 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,080 AND COUNTLESS HOMES AND 393 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:08,280 BUILDINGS WERE RUINED. 394 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,100 AS THE RIVER REACHED HEIGHTS 395 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:12,260 HIGHER THAN EVER SEEN BEFORE, 396 00:15:12,260 --> 00:15:17,120 THE STORM TOOK THE LIVES OF 20 397 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,120 PEOPLE IN WATERBURY ALONE. 398 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,230 >> I WAS IN WATERBURY DURING THE 399 00:15:22,230 --> 00:15:23,030 FLOODS. 400 00:15:23,030 --> 00:15:25,130 I WAS STAYING DOWN THERE WITH MY 401 00:15:25,130 --> 00:15:28,120 CHILDHOOD FRIEND BY THE OLD POST 402 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:29,030 OFFICE BUILDING. 403 00:15:29,030 --> 00:15:30,210 AND SOMEBODY KNOCKED ON THE DOOR 404 00:15:30,210 --> 00:15:32,080 AND SAYS YOU HAVE TO GET OUT OF 405 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:32,170 HERE. 406 00:15:32,170 --> 00:15:33,150 WATER IS COMING UP. 407 00:15:33,150 --> 00:15:36,150 AND I WAS CARRIED ON HIS BACK 408 00:15:36,150 --> 00:15:38,060 FROM THERE UP TO THE BANK. 409 00:15:38,060 --> 00:15:40,070 UP TO THE TOP OF THE BANK HILL. 410 00:15:40,070 --> 00:15:43,070 >> DURING THE 27TH FLOOD, THE 411 00:15:43,070 --> 00:15:45,000 GREAT GRANDPARENTS ARE LIVING ON 412 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,110 THE SECOND AND THIRD FLOOR NEXT 413 00:15:46,110 --> 00:15:48,110 TO US. 414 00:15:48,110 --> 00:15:51,020 AS THE WATER ROSE 4 FEET AN HOUR 415 00:15:51,020 --> 00:15:52,240 AT SOME TIME AND SOME PERIODS 416 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:53,240 DURING THE STORM. 417 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,220 THE WATER GOT UP SO IT WAS A 418 00:15:56,220 --> 00:15:57,210 FOOT ABOVE THE SECOND FLOOR. 419 00:15:57,210 --> 00:16:01,180 AND IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 420 00:16:01,180 --> 00:16:05,010 NIGHT. SO IN STORAGE, MY FAMILY 421 00:16:05,010 --> 00:16:08,010 HAD TWO SHIPPING CASES FOR THESE 422 00:16:08,010 --> 00:16:08,120 GASKETS. 423 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:10,010 MY GRANDFATHER AND GREAT 424 00:16:10,010 --> 00:16:11,130 GRANDFATHER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 425 00:16:11,130 --> 00:16:13,290 NIGHT GOT TWO OF THOSE BOXES AND 426 00:16:13,290 --> 00:16:15,230 NAILED THEM TOGETHER AND GOT A 427 00:16:15,230 --> 00:16:17,020 COUPLE BED SLATS. 428 00:16:17,020 --> 00:16:19,120 AND THEY LOADED MY MOTHER AND MY 429 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,120 UNCLE WHO WERE 3 AND 5 AT THE 430 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:21,250 TIME. 431 00:16:21,250 --> 00:16:24,250 MY GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 432 00:16:24,250 --> 00:16:26,200 GRANDPARENTS ALL LOADED IN THE 433 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,220 MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND SHOVED 434 00:16:28,220 --> 00:16:30,230 OFF THE SECOND FLOOR PORCH AND 435 00:16:30,230 --> 00:16:33,010 THESE TWO CASKET BOXES HOPING 436 00:16:33,010 --> 00:16:34,070 THEY WEREN'T GOING TO LEAK. 437 00:16:34,070 --> 00:16:37,050 AND PADDLED THEIR WAY TO THE TOP 438 00:16:37,050 --> 00:16:40,000 OF BANK HILL. 439 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,000 >> BUT THE METHODIST CHURCH IN 440 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,020 WATERBURY, THE WATER WAS 14 FEET 441 00:16:45,020 --> 00:16:46,110 HIGH ON THIS CHURCH. 442 00:16:46,110 --> 00:16:48,210 I CAN'T IMAGINE. 443 00:16:48,210 --> 00:16:51,210 MY DAD TOOK A ROW BOAT FROM THE 444 00:16:51,210 --> 00:16:56,200 TOP OF THE HILL HERE ON MAIN 445 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,200 STREET AND HE AND HIS COUSIN 446 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,160 RALPHIE ROAD DOWN THE STREET AND 447 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:06,100 TOOK PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR SECOND 448 00:17:06,100 --> 00:17:09,100 STORY WINDOWS IN 1927. 449 00:17:09,100 --> 00:17:11,110 >> THOSE WHO WERE FLOODED ATE IN 450 00:17:11,110 --> 00:17:15,140 THE BASEMENT OF THE WHITE 451 00:17:15,140 --> 00:17:18,140 CHURCH. 452 00:17:18,140 --> 00:17:20,070 I DON'T KNOW FOR A WEEK OR TWO. 453 00:17:20,070 --> 00:17:22,200 COULDN'T GET THE MILK TO THE 454 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,010 CREAMERY. 455 00:17:23,010 --> 00:17:25,060 SO TOOK THEIR MILK CANS DOWN TO 456 00:17:25,060 --> 00:17:27,100 THE VILLAGE AND PUT IT ON THE 457 00:17:27,100 --> 00:17:30,070 SIDEWALKS FOR PEOPLE TO COME GET 458 00:17:30,070 --> 00:17:32,100 MILK FOR FOOD. 459 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:34,230 >> IT WAS A BIG LESSON FOR THE 460 00:17:34,230 --> 00:17:36,170 PEOPLE THAT LIVED HERE AND 461 00:17:36,170 --> 00:17:38,110 WORKING TOGETHER, THAT WAS FOR 462 00:17:38,110 --> 00:17:38,200 SURE. 463 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,120 >> I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, 464 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:42,140 PEOPLE DIDN'T SPEND A LOT OF 465 00:17:42,140 --> 00:17:42,230 TIME. 466 00:17:42,230 --> 00:17:44,060 THEY GOT THEMSELVES DRIED OUT 467 00:17:44,060 --> 00:17:45,270 AND MOPPED OUT AND CLEANED UP 468 00:17:45,270 --> 00:17:48,240 AND SPRUCED UP AND WORRIED TOO 469 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:49,280 MUCH ABOUT MOLD AND WORRY ABOUT 470 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,100 ANY OF THAT STUFF. 471 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:55,100 THEY GET THEMSELVES BACK UP AND 472 00:17:55,100 --> 00:17:55,290 RUNNING. 473 00:17:55,290 --> 00:17:58,240 AND BACK IN THOSE DAYS, WASN'T A 474 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,260 LOT OF INSULATION. 475 00:18:01,260 --> 00:18:03,220 AND THEY WERE REALLY FOCUSED ON 476 00:18:03,220 --> 00:18:05,290 GETTING THEMSELVES BACK UP ON 477 00:18:05,290 --> 00:18:07,050 THEIR FEET AND GOING AGAIN. 478 00:18:07,050 --> 00:18:09,040 >> STARTING OVER AGAIN WAS MET 479 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,230 WITH UNWAIVERING DETERMINATION 480 00:18:11,230 --> 00:18:12,190 AND COURAGE. 481 00:18:12,190 --> 00:18:15,000 WHILE THE COUNTRY WAS STILL 482 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 WEATHERING THE DEPRESSION, IT 483 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,040 BECAME EVIDENT THAT SOMETHING 484 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,050 NEEDED TO BE DONE TO REDUCE THE 485 00:18:20,050 --> 00:18:23,050 RISK OF FUTURE DEVASTATING 486 00:18:23,050 --> 00:18:23,150 FLOODS. 487 00:18:23,150 --> 00:18:24,290 >> THE PROCESS BEGAN AND 488 00:18:24,290 --> 00:18:27,060 EVENTUALLY ENDED UP WITH THE 489 00:18:27,060 --> 00:18:29,130 CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORE 490 00:18:29,130 --> 00:18:32,110 COMING TO WATERBURY AND BUILDING 491 00:18:32,110 --> 00:18:35,000 THE WATERBURY DAM WHICH WAS 492 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,250 INTENDED AS A FLOOD-CONTROL 493 00:18:36,250 --> 00:18:37,050 PROJECT. 494 00:18:37,050 --> 00:18:40,070 AT THE TIME IT WAS DESIGNED AND 495 00:18:40,070 --> 00:18:43,070 BUILT IN 1936 TO 1938, THE 496 00:18:43,070 --> 00:18:45,170 WATERBURY DAM WAS THE LARGEST 497 00:18:45,170 --> 00:18:47,060 EARTH-FILLED DAM IN THE WORLD. 498 00:18:47,060 --> 00:18:50,060 THE FIRST ELEMENTS ARRIVE IN 499 00:18:50,060 --> 00:18:50,170 1934-1935. 500 00:18:50,170 --> 00:18:52,230 THEY LIVE IN TENTS UNTIL THEY 501 00:18:52,230 --> 00:18:54,150 CAN BUILD CAMP SMITH. 502 00:18:54,150 --> 00:18:56,160 2500 MEN EVENTUALLY FILLED IT. 503 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:57,290 THEY HAD THEIR OWN HOSPITAL, 504 00:18:57,290 --> 00:19:00,180 THEIR OWN LIBRARY, OWN MOVIE 505 00:19:00,180 --> 00:19:01,160 THEATERS, FIRE DEPARTMENT, 506 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:02,030 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 507 00:19:02,030 --> 00:19:04,190 I MEAN, IT WAS A COMPLETE FULL 508 00:19:04,190 --> 00:19:05,250 COMMUNITY. 509 00:19:05,250 --> 00:19:09,010 >> THE CCC ALSO BUILT A SWIMMING 510 00:19:09,010 --> 00:19:12,010 POOL HERE AND A HIGH SCHOOL 511 00:19:12,010 --> 00:19:12,200 GYMNASIUM. 512 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,070 BUT THE BIG ENTERPRISE WAS THIS 513 00:19:16,070 --> 00:19:19,070 DAM TO PROTECT THE FUTURE 514 00:19:19,070 --> 00:19:20,230 GENERATIONS IN VERMONT FROM THE 515 00:19:20,230 --> 00:19:23,230 KIND OF A DISASTER THAT JUST 516 00:19:23,230 --> 00:19:26,180 TORE THIS PLACE APART. 517 00:19:26,180 --> 00:19:29,180 >> AND MY FATHER USED TO TAKE US 518 00:19:29,180 --> 00:19:30,190 OVER THERE. 519 00:19:30,190 --> 00:19:33,090 AND A DUMP TRUCK BACK THEN WAS 520 00:19:33,090 --> 00:19:35,050 ONLY ABOUT A THREE YARD. 521 00:19:35,050 --> 00:19:37,080 AND NOW HE'S GOING OUT WITH A 522 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,080 DUMP TRUCK THAT CARRIES 16 YARDS 523 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,050 OR SO. 524 00:19:42,050 --> 00:19:43,010 MEN EVERYWHERE. 525 00:19:43,010 --> 00:19:45,000 2 OR 3,000 PEOPLE WORKING ON 526 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:45,090 THAT. 527 00:19:45,090 --> 00:19:47,270 IT WAS VERY INTERESTING. 528 00:19:47,270 --> 00:19:49,260 EVERY TWO OR THREE WEEKS, I SEE 529 00:19:49,260 --> 00:19:51,130 HOW THEY ARE GOING ALONG. 530 00:19:51,130 --> 00:19:53,080 >> THAT'S WHEN MY HUSBAND AND I 531 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:54,280 ARE GOING TOGETHER. 532 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,280 AND WE SEE A LOT OF OUR TIME 533 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,290 SITTING AT ONE END OF THE DAM 534 00:19:59,290 --> 00:20:01,070 WATCHING IT BE BUILT. 535 00:20:01,070 --> 00:20:04,010 IT WAS VERY INTERESTING. 536 00:20:04,010 --> 00:20:05,150 THEY LOVE DAY AND NIGHT SEEING 537 00:20:05,150 --> 00:20:07,110 THE TRUCKS COMING THROUGH WHERE 538 00:20:07,110 --> 00:20:08,280 THE WATER IS NOW BRINGING STONE 539 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,240 AND DIRT FOR THE DAM. 540 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:14,210 >> THEY HAD TO BUY THEIR FOOD, 541 00:20:14,210 --> 00:20:21,070 HAD TO BUY THEIR COAL. 542 00:20:21,070 --> 00:20:24,070 HAD TO -- THIS WAS DURING A 543 00:20:24,070 --> 00:20:25,060 DEPRESSION AT THE TIME MONEY IS 544 00:20:25,060 --> 00:20:27,170 A SHORT COMMODITY. 545 00:20:27,170 --> 00:20:29,020 SO THIS CONNER INVESTIGATION 546 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:32,020 CORE REALLY, IN MANY WAYS, 547 00:20:32,020 --> 00:20:33,120 FUNDED WATERBURY AT THE HEIGHT 548 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:34,080 OF THE DEPRESSION. 549 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,000 >> WHILE LOCAL BUSINESSES 550 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 CONTINUED TO GROW THROUGH THE 551 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,190 40s AND 50s, MANY WERE FEELING 552 00:20:41,190 --> 00:20:44,190 PRESSURE TO INVEST IN NEW 553 00:20:44,190 --> 00:20:45,010 TECHNOLOGY. 554 00:20:45,010 --> 00:20:46,130 >> YOU CAN'T IMAGINE. 555 00:20:46,130 --> 00:20:48,260 NO BUNDLES YOU PICK UP AND PUT 556 00:20:48,260 --> 00:20:54,000 IT IN THE WAGON. 557 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,000 THAT TOOK A LOT OF OUR 558 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:57,120 SUMMERTIME. 559 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:59,090 >> I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE 560 00:20:59,090 --> 00:21:06,020 SCHEDULE TO GO OUT WITH A PITCH 561 00:21:06,020 --> 00:21:09,020 FORK AND TURN PIECE OF HEY. 562 00:21:09,020 --> 00:21:11,280 AND MOTHER WAS OUT THERE ON THE 563 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,290 TRACTOR LATE MORNING TURNING 564 00:21:13,290 --> 00:21:16,290 THAT HAY OVER WITH A MACHINE. 565 00:21:16,290 --> 00:21:17,070 YAY. 566 00:21:17,070 --> 00:21:18,280 WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT 567 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,010 HANDWORK ANY MORE. 568 00:21:21,010 --> 00:21:24,010 AND HE USED TO HAVE TO DRIVE THE 569 00:21:24,010 --> 00:21:25,270 HORSE AND WAGON OFF THE HILL. 570 00:21:25,270 --> 00:21:28,270 AND MADE THAT TRANSITION TO 571 00:21:28,270 --> 00:21:31,260 AUTOMOTIV 572 00:21:31,260 --> 00:21:32,090 AUTOMOTIVES. 573 00:21:32,090 --> 00:21:33,020 AND I CAN REMEMBER HEARING HIM 574 00:21:33,020 --> 00:21:34,130 TO SAY TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY TALK 575 00:21:34,130 --> 00:21:35,270 ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS. 576 00:21:35,270 --> 00:21:37,240 HE WOULD SAY I DON'T WANT TO GO 577 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,090 BACK. 578 00:21:38,090 --> 00:21:41,020 I DON'T WANT TO RIDE BEHIND A 579 00:21:41,020 --> 00:21:44,020 TEAM OF HORSES AGAIN. 580 00:21:44,020 --> 00:21:47,000 >> THERE WAS STILL GUYS USING 581 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,110 HORSES. 582 00:21:49,110 --> 00:21:51,120 AND UP ON THE HILL DID ALL OF 583 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:53,050 HIS WORK. 584 00:21:53,050 --> 00:21:56,050 THERE WAS A GUY NAMED CLIFF UP 585 00:21:56,050 --> 00:21:57,260 ON THE HILL. 586 00:21:57,260 --> 00:21:59,180 AND I'M NOT THAT OLD. 587 00:21:59,180 --> 00:22:01,150 BUT JUST INTERESTING. 588 00:22:01,150 --> 00:22:03,010 MY DAD DID HAVE A CAR. 589 00:22:03,010 --> 00:22:04,250 >> MY DAD USED TO TALK A LOT 590 00:22:04,250 --> 00:22:09,080 ABOUT THE CHANGES HE HAD SEEN. 591 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,180 AND HE WAS HERE WHEN THEY FIRST 592 00:22:12,180 --> 00:22:16,130 BROUGHT POWER AND HE WAS HERE 593 00:22:16,130 --> 00:22:19,130 WHEN THEY ADDED THE TELEPHONE 594 00:22:19,130 --> 00:22:19,240 SERVICE. 595 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,020 >> I CAME HOME FROM SCHOOL AND 596 00:22:21,020 --> 00:22:22,030 HEARD THE TELEPHONE RING. 597 00:22:22,030 --> 00:22:23,280 I SAID WHAT? 598 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,220 I RAN IN THE DINING ROOM AND 599 00:22:25,220 --> 00:22:26,140 THERE WAS A TELEPHONE ON THE 600 00:22:26,140 --> 00:22:27,180 WALL. 601 00:22:27,180 --> 00:22:29,150 HAD A CRANK ON IT OR SOMETHING 602 00:22:29,150 --> 00:22:31,210 LIKE THAT. 603 00:22:31,210 --> 00:22:36,000 AND SPEAKER OUT. 604 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,180 I SAID OH, WE GOT A TELEPHONE. 605 00:22:41,180 --> 00:22:44,180 AND IT WAS ABOUT 7 OR 8 PEOPLE 606 00:22:44,180 --> 00:22:46,180 BEYOND ONE LINE. 607 00:22:46,180 --> 00:22:48,040 AND HAVE DIFFERENT NUMBER FOR 608 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,080 EACH ONE OF THEM. 609 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,240 >> AND YOU'D PICK UP THE PHONE 610 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,060 AND SAY NUMBER PLEASE AND YOU'D 611 00:22:52,060 --> 00:22:53,260 SAY THE NUMBER YOU WANTED. 612 00:22:53,260 --> 00:22:56,260 AND A LOT OF THEM WERE PARTING 613 00:22:56,260 --> 00:22:57,050 LINES. 614 00:22:57,050 --> 00:22:58,070 WHICH WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE IF 615 00:22:58,070 --> 00:23:00,060 YOU HAPPEN TO PICK A LINE 616 00:23:00,060 --> 00:23:00,270 WHETHER THERE WAS SOMETHING 617 00:23:00,270 --> 00:23:02,080 GOING ON, YOU DIDN'T WANT TO 618 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:03,140 LEAVE THE CONVERSATION. 619 00:23:03,140 --> 00:23:04,260 DIDN'T WANT TO LET THEM KNOW YOU 620 00:23:04,260 --> 00:23:06,120 WERE LISTENING. 621 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:07,170 SOME OF THOSE ARE GOOD. 622 00:23:07,170 --> 00:23:09,200 >> YOU GET TO TALKING ON THE 623 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,010 PHONE AND YOU CAN HEAR IF 624 00:23:11,010 --> 00:23:12,210 ANYBODY WAS LISTENING. 625 00:23:12,210 --> 00:23:14,110 CAUSE YOU MIGHT HEAR THINGS IN 626 00:23:14,110 --> 00:23:16,130 THEIR HOUSE. 627 00:23:16,130 --> 00:23:19,250 NOISES THAT YOU RECOGNIZE. 628 00:23:19,250 --> 00:23:23,070 THEY WERE LISTENING TO YOU. 629 00:23:23,070 --> 00:23:26,070 BUT THAT WAS HOW THEY FOUND OUT. 630 00:23:26,070 --> 00:23:30,150 >> AS RURAL LIFE ADJUSTED TO NEW 631 00:23:30,150 --> 00:23:33,180 LINES OF COMMUNICATION THE 632 00:23:33,180 --> 00:23:36,180 DOWNTOWN SAW A RAPID GROWTH IN 633 00:23:36,180 --> 00:23:36,280 TOURISM. 634 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,290 >> WATERBURY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A 635 00:23:38,290 --> 00:23:41,050 CROSS ROADS. 636 00:23:41,050 --> 00:23:42,140 MAJOR ROUTES. 637 00:23:42,140 --> 00:23:45,100 SO OVER THE YEARS, IT KIND OF 638 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:46,270 GREW AS A TOURIST ATTRACTION. 639 00:23:46,270 --> 00:23:49,260 AT ONE TIME, WE HAD A VERY LARGE 640 00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:51,050 BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT WATERBURY 641 00:23:51,050 --> 00:23:51,280 IN DOWNTOWN. 642 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,020 AND FOLKS WOULD COME FROM ALL 643 00:23:54,020 --> 00:23:55,260 OVER NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK AND 644 00:23:55,260 --> 00:23:58,010 THE EAST COAST TO SPEND WEEKS AT 645 00:23:58,010 --> 00:24:00,160 THE WATERBURY INN AS A RESORT. 646 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,290 >> THE TRAIN STATION DOWN HERE 647 00:24:02,290 --> 00:24:06,000 BROUGHT TRAVELLERS IN THAT 648 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,000 ULTIMATELY ENDED UP IN THE SKI 649 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,280 AREAS. 650 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,110 IT WAS A HUB IN MANY WAYS. 651 00:24:14,110 --> 00:24:17,110 >> SO THAT HELPED FORM THE 652 00:24:17,110 --> 00:24:18,250 TOURIST INDUSTRY THAT HELPED 653 00:24:18,250 --> 00:24:19,260 SUPPORT US. 654 00:24:19,260 --> 00:24:25,210 >> THERE WEREN'T MANY 655 00:24:25,210 --> 00:24:28,210 RESERVATION PLACES. 656 00:24:28,210 --> 00:24:31,090 AS A KID, WE WOULD GO DOWN AND 657 00:24:31,090 --> 00:24:32,250 CARRY BAGS FROM THE PASSENGERS 658 00:24:32,250 --> 00:24:38,000 OVER TO THEIR CONVEYANCE. 659 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,000 AND I REMEMBER COMING DOWN IN 660 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,070 THEIR JEEP. 661 00:24:42,070 --> 00:24:54,070 THEY WOULD WHEEL IN AS THE TRAIN 662 00:24:54,070 --> 00:24:57,070 ARRIVED 663 00:24:57,070 --> 00:24:57,170 ARRIVED. 664 00:24:57,170 --> 00:24:58,270 >> THEN END NOW VERY 665 00:24:58,270 --> 00:24:59,100 DRAMATICALLY. 666 00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:01,160 AT THE TIME OF CONSTRUCTION, 667 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,070 THESE CONCERNS WERE HOTLY 668 00:25:04,070 --> 00:25:04,170 DEBATED. 669 00:25:04,170 --> 00:25:10,170 BUT NO STOPPING THIS NEW 670 00:25:10,170 --> 00:25:13,170 CONNECTION 671 00:25:13,170 --> 00:25:13,290 CONNECTION. 672 00:25:13,290 --> 00:25:14,270 >> THE INTERSTATE CHANGED THE 673 00:25:14,270 --> 00:25:17,250 ENTIRE STATE OF VERMONT. 674 00:25:17,250 --> 00:25:19,160 WATERBURY WAS NO DIFFERENT. 675 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,130 THE INTERSTATE CAME IN THE 50S. 676 00:25:22,130 --> 00:25:25,270 AND I CAN REMEMBER LATE 50s. 677 00:25:25,270 --> 00:25:29,070 I CAN REMEMBER THERE WAS GRE-- 678 00:25:29,070 --> 00:25:32,070 ABOUT THE FACT WE'D BE AT THIS 679 00:25:32,070 --> 00:25:33,190 JUNCTURE OF THE ROAD. 680 00:25:33,190 --> 00:25:36,010 >> YEAH, I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL 681 00:25:36,010 --> 00:25:38,180 WHEN WATERBURY HAD THAT INFLUX 682 00:25:38,180 --> 00:25:39,260 OF POPULATION BECAUSE OF ALL THE 683 00:25:39,260 --> 00:25:41,290 PEOPLE THAT CAME TO WORK ON THE 684 00:25:41,290 --> 00:25:42,110 INTERSTATE. 685 00:25:42,110 --> 00:25:44,140 >> A LOT OF THE KIDS THAT WERE 686 00:25:44,140 --> 00:25:46,180 IN OUR CLASS, THERE WERE 57 WHEN 687 00:25:46,180 --> 00:25:47,260 WE GRADUATED. 688 00:25:47,260 --> 00:25:50,000 A LOT OF THEM WERE THE 689 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,230 INTERSTATE KIDS. 690 00:25:52,230 --> 00:25:55,230 THAT WAS A BIG BOOST TO US WHEN 691 00:25:55,230 --> 00:25:57,150 THAT CAME ALONG. 692 00:25:57,150 --> 00:25:59,080 >> I REMEMBER WHEN I HAD MY 693 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,100 FIRST RIDE ON THE INTERSTATE. 694 00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:05,110 TO BEGIN WITH FOR US, WE HAD THE 695 00:26:05,110 --> 00:26:08,110 LINK TO MONT P IESHILLIAR. 696 00:26:08,110 --> 00:26:09,210 AND MADE THINGS SO MUCH EASIER 697 00:26:09,210 --> 00:26:11,150 TO GET AROUND. 698 00:26:11,150 --> 00:26:14,150 BUT BY THE SAME TOKEN, IT'S 699 00:26:14,150 --> 00:26:16,150 WHAT'S BROUGHT SO MANY MORE 700 00:26:16,150 --> 00:26:17,230 PEOPLE AND SO MUCH MORE 701 00:26:17,230 --> 00:26:21,060 INDUSTRY. 702 00:26:21,060 --> 00:26:24,060 AND CHANGED VERMONT SO MUCH. 703 00:26:24,060 --> 00:26:26,000 TO BE ABLE TO TRAVEL HERE SO 704 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:26,100 EASILY. 705 00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:28,260 >> HAVING THE INTERSTATE COME 706 00:26:28,260 --> 00:26:31,260 THROUGH HERE AND HAVING AN EXIT 707 00:26:31,260 --> 00:26:32,220 PREDATES ME. 708 00:26:32,220 --> 00:26:35,080 BUT HAVING THAT EXIT, A LOT OF 709 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,080 THE DEVELOPMENT YOU SEE IS 710 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,280 BECAUSE WE ARE AT THAT EXIT. 711 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,280 >> YOU SAW A DECLINE OF COMMERCE 712 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,110 WITHIN THE VILLAGE. 713 00:26:46,110 --> 00:26:48,290 PROPER BECAUSE BURLINGTON AND 714 00:26:48,290 --> 00:26:53,040 MOUNT PILLAR WERE ACCESSIBLE. 715 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,040 DIDN'T FEEL LIKE AN ALL-DAY 716 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,050 EXCURSIO 717 00:26:57,050 --> 00:26:57,160 EXCURSION. 718 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:58,240 IT WAS A BIG CHANGE. 719 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,110 >> WATERBURY, I THINK, WENT 720 00:27:01,110 --> 00:27:03,190 THROUGH KIND OF A MINI 721 00:27:03,190 --> 00:27:05,150 DEPRESSION PROBABLY IN THE LATE 722 00:27:05,150 --> 00:27:08,140 1960s AND 1970s. 723 00:27:08,140 --> 00:27:10,040 A LOT OF BUSINESSES WERE CLOSED 724 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,090 OR MOVED AWAY. 725 00:27:11,090 --> 00:27:13,060 NO NEW BUSINESSES CAME IN. 726 00:27:13,060 --> 00:27:16,060 STORE FRONTS CLOSED. 727 00:27:16,060 --> 00:27:18,250 IT WAS GENERALLY NOT A GOOD TIME 728 00:27:18,250 --> 00:27:20,250 IN WATERBURY. 729 00:27:20,250 --> 00:27:23,120 THINGS GOT INTO DISREPAIR. 730 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:26,120 THE TOWN WAS KIND OF SORT OF 731 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:28,210 SEEKING A WAVE TO THE FUTURE. 732 00:27:28,210 --> 00:27:31,020 WE WERE THE CROSS ROADS BUT 733 00:27:31,020 --> 00:27:32,090 THERE WASN'T MUCH HERE EXCEPT 734 00:27:32,090 --> 00:27:34,090 THE BIG STATE HOSPITAL. 735 00:27:34,090 --> 00:27:36,240 AND, OF COURSE, THE STATE 736 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,050 HOSPITAL GAVE WATERBURY A DARK 737 00:27:39,050 --> 00:27:42,130 REPUTATION FOR HOUSING THAT 738 00:27:42,130 --> 00:27:45,130 FACILITY. 739 00:27:45,130 --> 00:27:47,250 >> JUST LIKE THE IMPACTS OF THE 740 00:27:47,250 --> 00:27:49,290 INTERSTATE, THE IMPACTS OF THE 741 00:27:49,290 --> 00:27:52,210 STATE HOSPITAL WERE MORE 742 00:27:52,210 --> 00:27:55,130 COMPLICATED AND OFTEN DEBATED. 743 00:27:55,130 --> 00:27:57,280 SINCE OPENING IN 1891, THE 744 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,290 VERMONT STATE HOSPITAL WAS A 745 00:27:59,290 --> 00:28:01,120 MAJOR EMPLOYER OF WATERBURY 746 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:01,230 RESIDENTS. 747 00:28:01,230 --> 00:28:08,140 IT WAS EXPANDED UNTIL IT HOUSED 748 00:28:08,140 --> 00:28:11,140 ALMOST 1, THROUGH -- 1,400 749 00:28:11,140 --> 00:28:11,250 PATIENTS. 750 00:28:11,250 --> 00:28:13,120 THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS DROPPED 751 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:16,120 TO UNDER 200 IN THE 1980s. 752 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:19,050 TO MAKE USE OF THE UNUSE SPACE, 753 00:28:19,050 --> 00:28:21,160 WE DIEDED TO CONVERT IT TO STATE 754 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,050 OFFICES AND MOVED MANY 755 00:28:24,050 --> 00:28:26,080 DEPARTMENTS TO WHAT WAS CALLED 756 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,190 THE WATERBURY STATE COMPLEX. 757 00:28:29,190 --> 00:28:32,190 BRINGING IN HUNDREDS OF STATE 758 00:28:32,190 --> 00:28:34,260 WORKERS GAVE MUCH NEEDED BOFT TO 759 00:28:34,260 --> 00:28:37,190 THE VILLAGE ECONOMY. 760 00:28:37,190 --> 00:28:40,080 THIS LED TO THE ATTRACTION OF 761 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,160 MUCH BIGGER BUSINESSES MOVING 762 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:42,110 INTO THE AREA. 763 00:28:42,110 --> 00:28:45,090 >> YOU BROUGHT A LOT MORE 764 00:28:45,090 --> 00:28:48,110 PROFESSIONAL LEVEL JOBS INTO THE 765 00:28:48,110 --> 00:28:52,250 TOWN THAN EXISTED PREVIOUSLY. 766 00:28:52,250 --> 00:28:58,120 AND THAT WAS A BIG CHANGE IN HOW 767 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,140 OUR DOWNTOWN EVOLVED AND 768 00:29:01,140 --> 00:29:03,030 DEVELOPED. 769 00:29:03,030 --> 00:29:06,090 SAW SHOPS OPENING UP. 770 00:29:06,090 --> 00:29:09,110 THE REAL CHANGE I'VE SEEN HAS 771 00:29:09,110 --> 00:29:12,150 BEEN GOING FROM THAT RURAL FARM 772 00:29:12,150 --> 00:29:15,150 COMMUNITY TO BECOMING AN URBAN 773 00:29:15,150 --> 00:29:18,160 AREA TO BUSINESSES THAT HAVE 774 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,160 MOVED INTO TOWN AND THE INCREASE 775 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,100 IN THE TECHNOLOGY. 776 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:26,220 >> I WAS ON THE PLANNING 777 00:29:26,220 --> 00:29:29,090 COMMISSION AT THE TIME WHEN BEN 778 00:29:29,090 --> 00:29:32,090 AND JERRY'S CAME HERE. 779 00:29:32,090 --> 00:29:34,070 THEY APPROACHED WATERBURY ABOUT 780 00:29:34,070 --> 00:29:36,110 BUILDING THEIR PLANT HERE. 781 00:29:36,110 --> 00:29:37,260 AND JUST LIKE ANYTHING, YOU GO 782 00:29:37,260 --> 00:29:39,290 FROM A SLEEPY LITTLE TOWN TO 783 00:29:39,290 --> 00:29:42,210 HAVING A MAJOR TOURIST 784 00:29:42,210 --> 00:29:43,060 ATTRACTION HERE. 785 00:29:43,060 --> 00:29:45,180 THERE WERE GROWING PAINS. 786 00:29:45,180 --> 00:29:47,240 BUT I THINK THAT WHAT IT REALLY 787 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,220 DID IS MAKE PEOPLE NOTICE THAT 788 00:29:49,220 --> 00:29:51,220 COMING INTO THIS AREA THAT 789 00:29:51,220 --> 00:29:52,230 WATERBURY EXISTED. 790 00:29:52,230 --> 00:29:55,160 >> BEN AND JERRY'S COMING TO 791 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,110 WATERBURY WAS A BIG DEAL. 792 00:29:57,110 --> 00:29:58,210 THEY HAD BEEN IN BURLINGTON AND 793 00:29:58,210 --> 00:30:00,140 A SMALL OPERATION. 794 00:30:00,140 --> 00:30:02,210 THERE WERE IN A CONVERTED 795 00:30:02,210 --> 00:30:04,120 FILLING STATION IN BURLINGTON. 796 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,180 WHEN THEY GOT BIG, THEY HAD TO 797 00:30:06,180 --> 00:30:07,120 EXPAND. 798 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,120 AND THEY DECIDED TO EXPAND TO 799 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,140 WATERBURY. 800 00:30:11,140 --> 00:30:14,140 IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF INDUSTRY 801 00:30:14,140 --> 00:30:15,220 IN WATERBURY. 802 00:30:15,220 --> 00:30:18,220 WHEN BEN AND JERRY'S CAME, IT 803 00:30:18,220 --> 00:30:20,130 SEEMED LIKE THE WORLD WAS 804 00:30:20,130 --> 00:30:22,120 BIDDING A PATH TO WATERBURY'S 805 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:22,210 DOOR. 806 00:30:22,210 --> 00:30:24,280 IT SEEMED LIKE THE BEGINNING OF 807 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,260 RENAISSANCE IN WATERBURY. 808 00:30:25,260 --> 00:30:28,130 AND IT ATTRACTED A NUMBER OF 809 00:30:28,130 --> 00:30:31,130 VERY TALENTED INDIVIDUALS. 810 00:30:31,130 --> 00:30:34,120 I THINK THEY BROUGHT A BRAND NEW 811 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,100 FLAVOR, IF YOU WILL, FORGIVE THE 812 00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:38,120 PUN, TO WATERBURY. 813 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,270 IT REALLY DID MAKE A BIG 814 00:30:40,270 --> 00:30:41,090 DIFFERENCE. 815 00:30:41,090 --> 00:30:43,200 AND MADE WATERBURY MORE OF ANA 816 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,200 TRACTION, I THINK, BUSINESSES. 817 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,210 AND WHEN PEOPLE COME WITH SKILLS 818 00:30:50,210 --> 00:30:53,210 LIKE THAT, THEY WANT GOOD 819 00:30:53,210 --> 00:30:55,140 SCHOOLS, GOOD HOUSING. 820 00:30:55,140 --> 00:30:58,080 AND THEN IT BECAME A DESTINATION 821 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,100 POINT FOR TOURISTS. 822 00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:03,000 YOU COULD BRING THE CHILDREN AND 823 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,030 THEY WORKED HARD TO CREATE 824 00:31:05,030 --> 00:31:07,160 SOMETHING FOR WHICH THEY DIDN'T 825 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,190 GET MUCH CREDIT. 826 00:31:09,190 --> 00:31:13,110 REALLY DID HELP THE ECONOMY IN 827 00:31:13,110 --> 00:31:16,110 THE AREA. 828 00:31:16,110 --> 00:31:19,230 >> A LOT OF THE CHANGE I'VE SEEN 829 00:31:19,230 --> 00:31:22,280 HAS BEEN IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA OF 830 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,280 WATERBURY. 831 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,080 A HUGE REVITALIZATION THAT 832 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,260 OCCURRED. 833 00:31:32,260 --> 00:31:35,260 SOME OF IT HAS BEEN FOR JOBS. 834 00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:37,010 THEY WERE A SMALL COMPANY HERE. 835 00:31:37,010 --> 00:31:43,270 AND THEY PROBABLY HAD A COUPLE 836 00:31:43,270 --> 00:31:46,270 HUNDRED EMPLOYEES AT THE MOST. 837 00:31:46,270 --> 00:31:49,150 >> THAT WAS A REAL TIPPING POINT 838 00:31:49,150 --> 00:31:51,110 FOR WATERBURY'S EVENT GROWTH. 839 00:31:51,110 --> 00:31:53,170 >> A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH A LOT OF 840 00:31:53,170 --> 00:31:56,030 ENERGY CAME AND SAW SOME 841 00:31:56,030 --> 00:31:57,090 POSSIBILITIES IN WATERBURY. 842 00:31:57,090 --> 00:32:00,030 >> AND, YOU KNOW, NOT EVERYBODY 843 00:32:00,030 --> 00:32:03,030 THAT LIVES IN THIS COMMUNITY ARE 844 00:32:03,030 --> 00:32:04,140 VERMONTERS, MUCH LESS NATIVE 845 00:32:04,140 --> 00:32:05,200 WATERBURY FOLKS. 846 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,140 BUT THEY'VE EMBRACED THE SPIRIT 847 00:32:07,140 --> 00:32:13,130 OF WHAT THIS COMMUNITY AND OTHER 848 00:32:13,130 --> 00:32:16,130 COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT HAVE. 849 00:32:16,130 --> 00:32:17,260 IT BROUGHT CHANGE. 850 00:32:17,260 --> 00:32:19,070 >> HOW THIS NEW GENERATION OF 851 00:32:19,070 --> 00:32:21,070 PEOPLE COME IN THERE AND REALLY 852 00:32:21,070 --> 00:32:23,030 TIPPED THE WHOLE PLACE ON ITS 853 00:32:23,030 --> 00:32:26,290 SIDE OR UPSIDE DOWN, IF YOU 854 00:32:26,290 --> 00:32:30,120 WILL. 855 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:37,060 >> THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENED. 856 00:32:37,060 --> 00:32:40,060 ON AUGUST 29TH, 2011, TROPICAL 857 00:32:40,060 --> 00:32:43,020 STORM IRENE DELIVERED LEVELS OF 858 00:32:43,020 --> 00:32:46,020 RAIN NOT SEEN SINCE THE FLOOD OF 859 00:32:46,020 --> 00:32:46,190 1927. 860 00:32:46,190 --> 00:32:49,190 ONCE AGAIN, THE RIVERS 861 00:32:49,190 --> 00:32:52,040 OVERFLOWED WITH DEVASTATING 862 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,230 AFFECTS ON RESIDENTS AND LOCAL 863 00:32:53,230 --> 00:32:54,090 BUSINESSES. 864 00:32:54,090 --> 00:32:57,090 AND ONCE AGAIN, THE COMMUNITY 865 00:32:57,090 --> 00:32:59,200 RALLIED TOGETHER TO COMFORT EACH 866 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,220 OTHER AND REBUILD THEIR TOWN. 867 00:33:02,220 --> 00:33:04,230 >> WHAT WAS REALLY NICE TO SEE 868 00:33:04,230 --> 00:33:07,280 WAS THE FACT THAT DURING 2011 869 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,280 WHEN WE EXPERIENCED IRENE, 870 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,180 PEOPLE ROLLED UP THEIR SLEEVES 871 00:33:14,180 --> 00:33:17,180 AND GOT DIRTY AND WENT ABOUT 872 00:33:17,180 --> 00:33:20,060 THEIR BUSINESS AND GOT THINGS 873 00:33:20,060 --> 00:33:20,290 FIXED. 874 00:33:20,290 --> 00:33:23,290 AND THERE WAS A LOT OF COMMUNITY 875 00:33:23,290 --> 00:33:24,220 INVOLVEMENT. 876 00:33:24,220 --> 00:33:27,050 AND OUTSIDE THE COMMUNITY 877 00:33:27,050 --> 00:33:27,170 INVOLVEMENT. 878 00:33:27,170 --> 00:33:28,290 WE WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES 879 00:33:28,290 --> 00:33:29,280 AFFECTED BY THIS. 880 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,290 WE HAD PEOPLE FROM OTHER 881 00:33:31,290 --> 00:33:33,160 COMMUNITIES COME HERE AND GET 882 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,200 DIRTY WITH US. 883 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,280 AND HELP PUT FAMILIES BACK IN 884 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,150 THEIR HOMES. 885 00:33:38,150 --> 00:33:40,090 AND DIDN'T ASK FOR ANYTHING BUT 886 00:33:40,090 --> 00:33:43,060 A SANDWICH AND A THANK YOU. 887 00:33:43,060 --> 00:33:45,000 AND I THINK THAT'S A LOT TO BE 888 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,140 PROUD OF. 889 00:33:46,140 --> 00:33:49,140 >> THE THING ABOUT WATERBURY, 890 00:33:49,140 --> 00:33:50,290 WATERBURY DIDN'T SKIP A BEAT FOR 891 00:33:50,290 --> 00:33:52,010 LOSING ALL THAT BUSINESS. 892 00:33:52,010 --> 00:33:54,110 AND I KNOW THERE WERE BUSINESSES 893 00:33:54,110 --> 00:33:56,110 THAT WERE REALLY ADVERSELY 894 00:33:56,110 --> 00:33:56,220 AFFECTED. 895 00:33:56,220 --> 00:33:58,200 AND I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT. 896 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,070 WE LOST BUSINESS AS A RESULT. 897 00:34:00,070 --> 00:34:01,240 FOR THE MOST PART, I THINK THERE 898 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,130 WAS A WONDERFUL SPIRIT IN 899 00:34:05,130 --> 00:34:08,130 WATERBURY OF COOPERATIVE 900 00:34:08,130 --> 00:34:08,250 BETTERMENT. 901 00:34:08,250 --> 00:34:10,270 WE WERE GOING TO WORK TOGETHER. 902 00:34:10,270 --> 00:34:13,000 WE WERE GOING TO BEAT THIS THING 903 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,210 AND IT WASN'T GOING TO BEAT US. 904 00:34:15,210 --> 00:34:18,090 IT'S REALLY BEEN REMARKABLE. 905 00:34:18,090 --> 00:34:21,090 AS WE'VE FOUND PUBLIC MONEY TO 906 00:34:21,090 --> 00:34:24,050 INVEST IN THE COMMUNITY IN 907 00:34:24,050 --> 00:34:26,100 PARTICULAR PROJECTS, THERE'S 908 00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:29,100 BEEN A HUGE AMOUNT OF RENOVATING 909 00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:30,130 BUILDINGS. 910 00:34:30,130 --> 00:34:33,130 THIS REALLY CULMINATED IN THE 911 00:34:33,130 --> 00:34:35,170 RECOVERY FROM TROPICAL STORM 912 00:34:35,170 --> 00:34:35,260 IRENE. 913 00:34:35,260 --> 00:34:38,180 THAT WAS THE CASE WHERE MANY 914 00:34:38,180 --> 00:34:40,080 BUILDINGS WERE DAMAGED. 915 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,000 AND WE REALLY WERE AT A CROSS 916 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,000 ROADS IN TERMS OF WHETHER THE 917 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,150 DOWNTOWN AREA WAS GOING TO 918 00:34:47,150 --> 00:34:48,240 SURVIVE OR NOT. 919 00:34:48,240 --> 00:34:51,210 AND THE COMMUNITY REALLY RALLIED 920 00:34:51,210 --> 00:34:54,210 AND SUPPORTED EACH OTHER. 921 00:34:54,210 --> 00:34:57,100 AND WERE ABLE TO COME THROUGH 922 00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:00,120 THE RECOVERY AND RESTORE THE 923 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,150 BUILDINGS, GET BUSINESSES BACK 924 00:35:03,150 --> 00:35:06,150 IN SHAPE AND GET THE ECONOMY TO 925 00:35:06,150 --> 00:35:06,250 REVIVE. 926 00:35:06,250 --> 00:35:10,100 >> IF EVER THERE WAS AN EXAMPLE 927 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:13,100 OF A TOWN COALESSING AROUND AN 928 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:14,220 EVENT, IT WAS THAT EVENT. 929 00:35:14,220 --> 00:35:16,280 >> IT MAY NOT BE ALL THAT 930 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,000 DIFFERENT THAN OTHER 931 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:18,130 COMMUNITIES. 932 00:35:18,130 --> 00:35:20,110 TO US, IT'S REAL AND MAKES US 933 00:35:20,110 --> 00:35:22,000 WHAT IT IS TODAY. 934 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,220 >> IF YOU LOOK BACK AT THE 935 00:35:24,220 --> 00:35:27,020 HISTORY OF WATERBURY, THERE IS 936 00:35:27,020 --> 00:35:30,020 AN ON-GOING THREAD THAT SEEMS TO 937 00:35:30,020 --> 00:35:30,290 CONSTANTLY WEAVE ITS WAY INTO 938 00:35:30,290 --> 00:35:33,040 THE STORIES SHARED ABOUT THIS 939 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,170 LITTLE TOWN. 940 00:35:34,170 --> 00:35:37,170 AND THAT CONSTANT IS COMMUNITY. 941 00:35:37,170 --> 00:35:40,190 REGARDLESS OF GOOD TIMES OR BAD, 942 00:35:40,190 --> 00:35:43,190 THIS COMMUNITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN 943 00:35:43,190 --> 00:35:44,220 THERE TO HELP EACH OTHER. 944 00:35:44,220 --> 00:35:47,100 >> I'M VERY PROUD OF THIS 945 00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:50,020 COMMUNITY AND HOW IT'S RECOVERED 946 00:35:50,020 --> 00:35:51,280 THROUGH RECESSIONS AND FLOODS 947 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:52,190 AND THINGS. 948 00:35:52,190 --> 00:35:54,210 I THINK IT SHOWS A LOT ABOUT ITS 949 00:35:54,210 --> 00:35:55,260 CHARACTER AND THE PEOPLE THAT 950 00:35:55,260 --> 00:35:56,190 LIVE HERE. 951 00:35:56,190 --> 00:35:59,190 >> THAT KIND OF SPIRIT, THAT 952 00:35:59,190 --> 00:36:01,060 REALLY MADE WATERBURY WHAT IT IS 953 00:36:01,060 --> 00:36:04,040 TODAY FROM ALL THOSE WHO REALLY 954 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,060 WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND LOOKING 955 00:36:06,060 --> 00:36:09,050 FOR WHAT IS NECESSARY TO MAKE IT 956 00:36:09,050 --> 00:36:14,010 A SAFE AND HEALTHY PLACE HERE. 957 00:36:14,010 --> 00:36:17,010 >> I'VE APPRECIATED THE ABILITY 958 00:36:17,010 --> 00:36:19,150 TO STAY HERE AND BE A PART OF 959 00:36:19,150 --> 00:36:21,100 ITS GROWTH AND PART OF VIE 960 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:21,200 ABILITY. 961 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,070 AND IT'S KEPT ME CONNECTED TO MY 962 00:36:24,070 --> 00:36:25,200 ROOTS, I THINK. 963 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,150 PROBABLY MOST OF ALL, IT'S 964 00:36:27,150 --> 00:36:28,190 PROVIDED AN EXCELLENT PLACE FOR 965 00:36:28,190 --> 00:36:30,140 MY KIDS TO GROW UP. 966 00:36:30,140 --> 00:36:32,220 IT'S HAD THAT SORT OF HOME TOWN 967 00:36:32,220 --> 00:36:33,040 FEELING. 968 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,200 BUT ALSO CLOSE ENOUGH SO THEY 969 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:39,080 COULD EXPERIENCE OTHER THINGS 970 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,080 AROUND THEM. 971 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,050 AND NOW MY GRANDCHILDREN. 972 00:36:44,050 --> 00:36:45,150 >> I'VE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO 973 00:36:45,150 --> 00:36:46,220 LIVE IN WATERBURY. 974 00:36:46,220 --> 00:36:48,220 >> WATERBURY WAS A GOOD PLACE TO 975 00:36:48,220 --> 00:36:49,010 BE. 976 00:36:49,010 --> 00:36:51,040 I CAN'T IMAGINE A BETTER PLACE 977 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,070 TO GROW UP. 978 00:36:52,070 --> 00:36:54,000 >> I CAN'T REALLY EVER SEE 979 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,090 MYSELF LEAVING WATERBURY. 980 00:36:57,090 --> 00:37:00,110 IT BECOMES PART OF WHO YOU ARE. 981 00:37:00,110 --> 00:37:05,270 >> AND I JUST THINK WATERBURY IS 982 00:37:05,270 --> 00:37:08,270 A SPECTACULAR TOWN WITH A 983 00:37:08,270 --> 00:37:10,150 WONDERFUL BUNCH OF FOLKS WHO ARE 984 00:37:10,150 --> 00:38:05,140 WILLING TO INVEST THEIR TIME AND 985 00:38:08,140 --> 00:38:10,210 >> A TASK TO INTERVIEW DIFFERENT 986 00:38:10,210 --> 00:38:13,050 PEOPLE AND ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR 987 00:38:13,050 --> 00:38:16,040 LIFE IN WATERBURY. 988 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,040 GET A GOOD VIEWPOINT AND MAKE A 989 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:19,170 DOCUMENTARY. 990 00:38:19,170 --> 00:38:20,230 IT WAS A LOT OF FUN. 991 00:38:20,230 --> 00:38:22,100 >> IT WAS REALLY COOL TO BE A 992 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:25,100 PART OF A VIDEO INSTEAD OF 993 00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:26,110 WATCHING MINDLESSLY. 994 00:38:26,110 --> 00:38:27,270 IT WAS REALLY NICE TO HAVE A 995 00:38:27,270 --> 00:38:29,180 VOICE IN WHAT'S PRESENTED ON 996 00:38:29,180 --> 00:38:29,280 VERMONT. 997 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:35,190 >> IN THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS 998 00:38:35,190 --> 00:38:38,190 I SAID IN ADDITION TO STUDYING 999 00:38:38,190 --> 00:38:40,070 VERMONT HISTORY, THIS IS 1000 00:38:40,070 --> 00:38:42,110 DESIGNED TO MAKE HISTORY. 1001 00:38:42,110 --> 00:38:43,260 AND STUDENTS THEMSELVES HAVE 1002 00:38:43,260 --> 00:38:44,270 MADE HISTORY. 1003 00:38:44,270 --> 00:38:46,210 IT'S TO THEM I'VE GIVEN A LOT OF 1004 00:38:46,210 --> 00:38:47,090 CREDIT TO. 1005 00:38:47,090 --> 00:38:49,080 WITHOUT THE STUDENTS, WOULDN'T 1006 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,230 HAVE BEEN IN THE FILM. 1007 00:38:51,230 --> 00:38:56,060 THIS KIND OF LEARNING IS CENTRAL 1008 00:38:56,060 --> 00:38:59,060 TO THE HIGH IMPACT WE OFFER. 1009 00:38:59,060 --> 00:39:01,240 WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS THE 1010 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,240 WORK OF OUR STUDENTS. 1011 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:11,090 RESEARCHING AND INTERVIEWING 1012 00:39:11,090 --> 00:39:14,090 LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 1013 00:39:14,090 --> 00:39:15,180 STUDENT PARTICIPATION 1014 00:39:15,180 --> 00:39:18,040 EXEMPLIFIES THE LEARNING 1015 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,050 EXPERIENCES BOTH WITHIN AND 1016 00:39:19,050 --> 00:39:21,240 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM THAT JFC 1017 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:22,050 PROVIDES. 1018 00:39:22,050 --> 00:39:23,210 >> AFTER DEVELOPING THE STORY 1019 00:39:23,210 --> 00:39:25,250 WITH THE STUDENTS, WE HAD TO 1020 00:39:25,250 --> 00:39:26,290 TRACK DOWN MANY PHOTOGRAPHS. 1021 00:39:26,290 --> 00:39:29,200 AND LUCKILY, THE HISTORICAL 1022 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,010 SOCIETY. 1023 00:39:30,010 --> 00:39:31,180 MANY INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES 1024 00:39:31,180 --> 00:39:34,040 ALL CONTRIBUTED FOR THIS 1025 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:35,170 PROJECT. 1026 00:39:35,170 --> 00:39:38,170 >> I NEVER REALLY KNEW HOW MUCH 1027 00:39:38,170 --> 00:39:40,110 LITTLE DETAILS THERE WERE TO BE 1028 00:39:40,110 --> 00:39:42,030 AWARE OF. 1029 00:39:42,030 --> 00:39:45,030 IT WAS COOL EXPERIENCE. 1030 00:39:45,030 --> 00:39:48,100 >> HEARING FROM PEOPLE THAT HAVE 1031 00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:51,100 GROWN UP THERE, IT JUST REALLY 1032 00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:54,000 BRINGS IT HOME AND MAKES IT HOME 1033 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:54,180 FOR ME. 1034 00:39:54,180 --> 00:39:56,170 >> I DON'T KNOW. 1035 00:39:56,170 --> 00:40:01,040 I HOPE IT, LIKE, SHOWS PEOPLE 1036 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,040 WHO AND WHAT WATERBURY IS. 1037 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,190 >> IT JUST GIVES YOU A GREAT 1038 00:40:06,190 --> 00:40:09,280 FEELING OF VERMONT HISTORY AND 1039 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,280 THE PEOPLE THAT MADE UP THE 1040 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:13,150 HISTORY. 1041 00:40:13,150 --> 00:40:15,180 SOMETIMES WE LOSE THAT WITH THE 1042 00:40:15,180 --> 00:40:17,090 COVERED BRIDGES. 1043 00:40:17,090 --> 00:40:20,090 BUT WE DON'T REALLY LEARN ABOUT 1044 00:40:20,090 --> 00:40:23,080 THE PEOPLE IN DEPTH AND LEARN 1045 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,080 THEIR EVERY-DAY LIVES. 1046 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,020 IT'S THEIR EVERYDAY LIFE THAT'S 1047 00:40:27,020 --> 00:40:28,100 IMPORTANT. 1048 00:40:28,100 --> 00:40:30,260 >> VERMONT PBS, PARTNERING WITH 1049 00:40:30,260 --> 00:40:32,260 LOCAL FILMMAKERS TO BRING YOU 1050 00:40:32,260 --> 00:40:36,260 STORIES MADE HERE.