WEBVTT 00:22.220 --> 00:25.220 >> IT WAS TRULY SMALL TOWN 00:25.220 --> 00:27.070 VERMONT WHEN I WAS A KID. 00:27.070 --> 00:28.190 I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT 00:28.190 --> 00:29.210 TOWN TO GROW UP IN. 00:29.210 --> 00:32.280 >> I THINK MANY OF THE SAME 00:32.280 --> 00:35.280 THINGS THAT FAMILIES ENJOY ABOUT 00:35.280 --> 00:37.150 WATERBURY TODAY WERE TRUE BACK 00:37.150 --> 00:38.280 THEN JUST IN A DIFFERENT WAY. 00:38.280 --> 00:41.280 THERE WAS A REAL SENSE OF 00:41.280 --> 00:42.100 COMMUNITY. 00:42.100 --> 00:45.090 >> IT WAS A CLOSE KNIT WELL 00:45.090 --> 00:46.070 BALANCED COMMUNITY THAT HAD A 00:46.070 --> 00:48.150 LOT TO OFFER. 00:48.150 --> 00:51.150 >> I WOULD SAY BACK WHEN I WAS 00:51.150 --> 00:55.270 GROWING UP, THINGS WERE VERY 00:55.270 --> 00:58.270 GOOD IN WATERBURY AND WATERBURY 00:58.270 --> 00:59.070 CENTER. 00:59.070 --> 01:00.070 >> YOU KNEW EVERYBODY. 01:00.070 --> 01:01.190 IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THEM, YOU 01:01.190 --> 01:06.130 WANTED TO KNOW THEM. 01:06.130 --> 01:09.130 >> WATERBURY HAS ALWAYS BEEN 01:09.130 --> 01:09.240 IMPORTANT. 01:09.240 --> 01:12.060 THE PEOPLE HERE SEEMED REAL AND 01:12.060 --> 01:12.150 GOOD. 01:12.150 --> 01:15.070 >> IT'S CHANGED SO MUCH. 01:15.070 --> 01:17.190 WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, THERE 01:17.190 --> 01:20.280 WERE 6 OR 8 FARMS ON THIS FIELD. 01:20.280 --> 01:23.280 >> SINCE BEING CHARTERED IN 01:23.280 --> 01:26.050 1763, THE TOWN OF WATERBURY HAS 01:26.050 --> 01:28.030 GONE MANY CHANGES. 01:28.030 --> 01:31.030 ITS HISTORY IS DEEP AND FERTILE 01:31.030 --> 01:33.070 AS THE SOIL THAT CONTINUES TO BE 01:33.070 --> 01:34.070 TILLED IN THE AREA. 01:34.070 --> 01:36.090 THE STORYS AND MEMORIES SHARED 01:36.090 --> 01:39.090 IN THIS ORAL HISTORY PROVIDE A 01:39.090 --> 01:40.180 PEAK INTO THE PAST AND OFFER A 01:40.180 --> 01:43.000 VIEW OF WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE 01:43.000 --> 01:45.060 NEARLY A CENTURY AGO. 01:45.060 --> 01:48.060 LIKE MANY SMALL TOWNS, THE 01:48.060 --> 01:50.150 RESIDENTS OF WATERBURY HAVE 01:50.150 --> 01:53.150 ALWAYS BEEN KNOWN FOR SELF 01:53.150 --> 01:57.010 RELIANCE, AND STRONG SENSE OF 01:57.010 --> 02:00.030 COMMUNITY AND COMPASSION. 02:00.030 --> 02:01.240 >> ONE TIME MY FATHER LOST HIS 02:01.240 --> 02:04.160 HORSE AND HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE 02:04.160 --> 02:06.110 WAS GOING TO DO. 02:06.110 --> 02:08.130 IT WAS CHRISTMAS TIME. 02:08.130 --> 02:09.200 THE TEACHER WOULD HAVE A GIFT 02:09.200 --> 02:13.180 FOR ALL THE CHILDREN. 02:13.180 --> 02:16.180 AND THE CHILDREN GOT SOME GIFTS. 02:16.180 --> 02:19.020 THE LAST GIFT ON THE TREE IS A 02:19.020 --> 02:20.180 LITTLE BOX, THE SIZE OF A MATCH 02:20.180 --> 02:23.150 BOX AND WRAPPED UP. 02:23.150 --> 02:27.050 AND BROUGHT IT TO MY MOTHER AND 02:27.050 --> 02:30.050 FATHER. 02:30.050 --> 02:32.140 AND THEY SAID WHAT'S THIS? 02:32.140 --> 02:34.040 OPENED IT UP AND IT WAS FULL OF 02:34.040 --> 02:34.130 MONEY. 02:34.130 --> 02:36.050 OH, MY GOSH. 02:36.050 --> 02:39.090 I JUST CRIED. 02:39.090 --> 02:42.090 SO THEY HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY 02:42.090 --> 02:44.100 ANOTHER HORSE. 02:44.100 --> 02:47.100 THAT IS HOW NEIGHBORS WERE. 02:47.100 --> 02:49.200 >> MY GRANDFATHER CAME TO 02:49.200 --> 02:52.180 WATERBURY FIRST IN 1895. 02:52.180 --> 02:55.180 AND HE SOLD AUTOMOBILES. 02:55.180 --> 02:58.020 EARLY ON WOULD HAVE BEEN 1910. 02:58.020 --> 03:03.230 IN THOSE DAYS, YOU COULD BARTTER 03:03.230 --> 03:06.230 FOUR THINGS THAT YOU NEEDED. 03:06.230 --> 03:09.000 AND SOME GENTLEMAN BROUGHT HIM A 03:09.000 --> 03:10.080 BUNCH OF HARDWARE. 03:10.080 --> 03:12.200 WHEN HE WAS PONDERING WHAT TO 03:12.200 --> 03:15.220 DO, THE GARAGE CAUGHT FIRE AND 03:15.220 --> 03:18.220 ALL THOSE CARS WERE SOFT TOP 03:18.220 --> 03:22.030 CARS. 03:22.030 --> 03:25.030 ALL THE TOPS BURNED OFF. 03:25.030 --> 03:27.290 HE HAD THIS HARDWARE. 03:27.290 --> 03:30.290 I CAN ALWAYS SELL HARDWARE. 03:30.290 --> 03:33.120 THAT'S WHERE THE BUSINESS TOOK 03:33.120 --> 03:34.260 OFF. 03:34.260 --> 03:37.260 AND WE WERE THERE UP UNTIL THE 03:37.260 --> 03:39.270 LATE 70s. 03:39.270 --> 03:41.110 >> PEOPLE WERE REALLY 03:41.110 --> 03:42.250 SELF-SUFFICIENT IN THE OLD DAYS. 03:42.250 --> 03:43.290 MY GRANDFATHER WAS. 03:43.290 --> 03:47.130 HE COULD DO ANYTHING. 03:47.130 --> 03:50.130 >> MY GRANDPARENTS FROM THE LATE 03:50.130 --> 03:52.210 1800s INTO 1921. 03:52.210 --> 03:55.190 >> MY GRANDMOTHER HAD THREE 03:55.190 --> 03:57.140 DAUGHTERS AND THE MIDDLE ONE DID 03:57.140 --> 03:58.260 A DAMAGE TO HER. 03:58.260 --> 04:01.170 SHE HAD TO BE SEWED UP AND MY 04:01.170 --> 04:03.210 GRANDFATHER USED THE HORSE HAIR 04:03.210 --> 04:04.260 OFF THE VIOLIN BOWL TO ACTUALLY 04:04.260 --> 04:07.000 DO THAT. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.060 >> WATERBURY HAS NO SHORTAGE OF 04:09.060 --> 04:10.040 POWERFUL STORIES. 04:10.040 --> 04:12.120 IN THE EARLY YEARS, WATERBURY 04:12.120 --> 04:14.200 WAS DOTTED WITH HILLSIDE FARMS. 04:14.200 --> 04:16.070 AND JUST ABOUT EVERYONE WHO 04:16.070 --> 04:18.230 LIVED OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE HAD A 04:18.230 --> 04:20.100 SELF-SUSTAINING FARM. 04:20.100 --> 04:23.100 GROWING VEGETABLES AND MILKING A 04:23.100 --> 04:24.040 FEW COWS. 04:24.040 --> 04:26.120 WHETHER YOU LIVED ON A FARM OR 04:26.120 --> 04:29.120 NOT, EEKING OUT A LIVING INTO 04:29.120 --> 04:32.120 EARLY 1900s MEANT YOU HAD TO BE 04:32.120 --> 04:35.090 FRUGAL AND SELF-SUFFICIENT. 04:35.090 --> 04:36.220 THERE WAS ALWAYS WORK TO GET 04:36.220 --> 04:39.200 DONE AND EVERYONE PITCHED IN. 04:39.200 --> 04:42.200 >> I WAS GROWING UP DURING THE 04:42.200 --> 04:44.030 DEPRESSION. 04:44.030 --> 04:48.100 WE ALWAYS HAD FOOD ON THE TABLE. 04:48.100 --> 04:51.100 AND ALWAYS MILK AND WE HAD A 04:51.100 --> 04:52.140 GOOD LIFE ON THE FARM. 04:52.140 --> 04:55.090 >> I GREW UP IN WATERBURY 04:55.090 --> 04:55.210 CENTER. 04:55.210 --> 04:58.210 EVERYBODY HAD SOME KIND OF 04:58.210 --> 04:59.220 CREDIT OF SOME SORT. 04:59.220 --> 05:02.080 IN MY FAMILY, WE WERE WHAT YOU'D 05:02.080 --> 05:03.010 CALL GREEN TODAY. 05:03.010 --> 05:06.140 WE PRODUCED ABOUT EVERYTHING WE 05:06.140 --> 05:11.210 ATE ON THE FARM. 05:11.210 --> 05:14.210 AND MY MOTHER NEVER THREW A 05:14.210 --> 05:15.030 DIFFER. 05:15.030 --> 05:17.120 THE KIDS WORE HAND ME DOWN 05:17.120 --> 05:17.220 CLOTHES. 05:17.220 --> 05:19.060 GOT ALONG WITH WHAT YOU HAD. 05:19.060 --> 05:20.110 AND THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS. 05:20.110 --> 05:22.180 AND YOU WERE HAPPY TO HAVE 05:22.180 --> 05:25.130 SOMETHING IN YOUR BELLY AT NIGHT 05:25.130 --> 05:28.130 AND CLOTHES ON YOUR BACK AND 05:28.130 --> 05:30.110 PROBABLY SEEMS SIMPLE. 05:30.110 --> 05:33.110 AT MY AGE TODAY, I STILL FEEL 05:33.110 --> 05:35.210 PRETTY GRATEFUL ABOUT THAT. 05:35.210 --> 05:38.120 >> THE FATHER BEING A FRUGAL 05:38.120 --> 05:40.270 FARMER, RAISED THREE BOYS. 05:40.270 --> 05:43.270 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE THERE FOR. 05:43.270 --> 05:46.090 IN THE SUMMERTIME, MY FATHER HAD 05:46.090 --> 05:47.260 TO HAVE EXTRA PASTEUR FOR HIS 05:47.260 --> 05:48.290 YOUNG STOCK. 05:48.290 --> 05:52.190 AND THE PASTEUR HE WAS USING WAS 05:52.190 --> 05:55.190 ON HARBOR CENTER SHE WAS FAR 05:55.190 --> 05:56.200 FROM THE FARM HERE. 05:56.200 --> 05:58.100 THE WAY WE GOT THEM UP HERE IS 05:58.100 --> 05:59.280 PUT THEM IN THE ROAD AND DRIVE 05:59.280 --> 06:00.130 THEM. 06:00.130 --> 06:02.170 I KNOW I WAS ABOUT SIX YEARS OLD 06:02.170 --> 06:05.170 WHEN WE STARTED DOING THAT. 06:05.170 --> 06:07.170 AND KEEP THEM FROM GOING INTO 06:07.170 --> 06:09.000 THE DIFFERENT DRIVEWAYS. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.170 THAT WAS QUITE A LITTLE HIKE 06:11.170 --> 06:13.030 ESPECIALLY FOR US KIDS. 06:13.030 --> 06:15.080 >> LIFE WAS PRETTY TOUGH. 06:15.080 --> 06:18.110 EVERYBODY STARTED WORK. 06:18.110 --> 06:21.110 WE PEDALLED 35 PAPERS A DAY. 06:21.110 --> 06:23.270 AND WE STARTED IT LIKE 5:30 IN 06:23.270 --> 06:24.180 THE MORNING. 06:24.180 --> 06:26.080 WE HAD CHORES TO DO IT. 06:26.080 --> 06:30.120 YOU TOOK OFF YOUR BEST CLOTHES 06:30.120 --> 06:33.120 AND PUT ON THE FARM CLOTHES. 06:33.120 --> 06:36.190 AND IT WAS LUGGING THE WOOD OR 06:36.190 --> 06:39.190 FEED THE COWS OR PICK UP THE 06:39.190 --> 06:40.010 EGGS. 06:40.010 --> 06:42.230 THERE WAS SOMETHING BEFORE. 06:42.230 --> 06:45.120 >> I REMEMBER AT 8 OR 9 YEARS 06:45.120 --> 06:47.090 OLD, I HAD FOUR OR FIVE COWS I 06:47.090 --> 06:50.070 HAD TO MILK. 06:50.070 --> 06:53.010 AND AFTER THE COURSE IN THE 06:53.010 --> 06:55.130 MORNING BEFORE SCHOOL AND GO TO 06:55.130 --> 06:57.220 SCHOOL ALMOST IMMEDIATELY 06:57.220 --> 06:58.040 AFTERWARDS. 06:58.040 --> 07:00.090 THERE WAS NO SHOWERS OR NOTHING 07:00.090 --> 07:02.130 LIKE THAT BACK THEN. 07:02.130 --> 07:03.240 SO I KNOW WE WENT TO SCHOOLS ALL 07:03.240 --> 07:06.120 THE TIME. 07:06.120 --> 07:09.230 >> NO, WE NEVER WENT ANYWHERE. 07:09.230 --> 07:12.230 WE NEVER WENT ANYWHERE. 07:12.230 --> 07:14.090 MY OLDER BROTHER WHO WAS ABOUT 07:14.090 --> 07:16.160 SIX YEARS OLDER THAN ME. 07:16.160 --> 07:19.160 WHEN HE WAS 12, HE WAS BAILING 07:19.160 --> 07:20.050 HAY DOWN HERE. 07:20.050 --> 07:22.190 I DIDN'T HAVE THAT. 07:22.190 --> 07:25.190 WE WERE STILL HAYING WHEN I WAS 07:25.190 --> 07:27.210 ABOUT 8 OR 9. 07:27.210 --> 07:30.190 I DIDN'T GET TO DO BAILING LIKE 07:30.190 --> 07:33.180 HE DID. 07:33.180 --> 07:36.180 >> VERY RARE MY MOTHER CUT OUR 07:36.180 --> 07:38.280 HAIR. 07:38.280 --> 07:41.100 YOU LOOK LIKE A GIRL WHEN YOU 07:41.100 --> 07:46.080 WERE DONE. 07:46.080 --> 07:49.220 DIDN'T GET THE RECOGNITION. 07:49.220 --> 07:53.090 >> I WAS A STAY AT HOME GIRL. 07:53.090 --> 07:56.100 I DID THE WORK. 07:56.100 --> 07:59.140 MY HUSBAND EARNED THE MONEY. 07:59.140 --> 08:02.160 WE BUTCHERED A COW EVERY YEAR. 08:02.160 --> 08:05.200 WE HAD A BIG. 08:05.200 --> 08:08.200 WE HAD CHICKENS, EGGS. 08:08.200 --> 08:09.180 MILK, CREAM. 08:09.180 --> 08:12.130 WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT? 08:12.130 --> 08:15.130 >> I'D HELP WITH THE MILKING. 08:15.130 --> 08:18.080 AND AFTER SUPPER, MY FATHER SAID 08:18.080 --> 08:21.080 I NEED SOME EXTRA HELP TONIGHT. 08:21.080 --> 08:23.110 I SAID I'LL GO DOWN. 08:23.110 --> 08:23.280 HELLO. 08:23.280 --> 08:25.250 I'D RATHER DO THAT THAN DO 08:25.250 --> 08:26.050 DISHES. 08:26.050 --> 08:28.190 >> OF COURSE, ALL THE MILK GOT 08:28.190 --> 08:31.090 SHIPPED IN CANS. 08:31.090 --> 08:33.070 AND PIPELINES AND ALL THAT. 08:33.070 --> 08:36.070 PEOPLE HAD TO WORK TO GET THE 08:36.070 --> 08:36.160 MILK. 08:36.160 --> 08:39.120 >> MY FATHER PLANTED CORN AND 08:39.120 --> 08:40.020 BEANS. 08:40.020 --> 08:41.230 AND WE LOVED IT. 08:41.230 --> 08:43.150 IT WAS HARD WORK. 08:43.150 --> 08:46.150 BEING THE OLDEST, I USED TO HELP 08:46.150 --> 08:50.020 RIDE THE HORSE. 08:50.020 --> 08:53.020 AND PLANTING BEHIND ME. 08:53.020 --> 08:55.040 WE'D RIDE THAT HORSE ALL DAY 08:55.040 --> 08:58.150 LONG AND YOU GET KIND OF LAZY 08:58.150 --> 09:01.170 SOMETIMES AND YOUR FATHER WOULD 09:01.170 --> 09:03.200 YELL AT YOU. 09:03.200 --> 09:07.200 GO STRAIGHT. 09:07.200 --> 09:10.200 I'M TRYING TO. 09:10.200 --> 09:13.170 WHEN WE LOOK WHEN I WAS A KID, 09:13.170 --> 09:16.010 THE WATER WAS ALL DRAWN FROM THE 09:16.010 --> 09:17.050 WELL IN PAILS. 09:17.050 --> 09:18.260 AND YOU CARRY IT INTO THE HOUSE 09:18.260 --> 09:21.010 AND WARM IT IN THE WARMING OVEN 09:21.010 --> 09:22.090 OF THE STOVE. 09:22.090 --> 09:25.090 AND THEN YOU DIP IT OUT OF THERE 09:25.090 --> 09:27.150 AND WE'D EACH TAKE A BATH NEAR 09:27.150 --> 09:29.040 THE KITCHEN STOVE WHERE IT WAS 09:29.040 --> 09:29.130 WARM. 09:29.130 --> 09:30.250 >> SUNDAY NIGHT, ALL THE LIGHTS 09:30.250 --> 09:31.280 WOULD GO OUT. 09:31.280 --> 09:33.230 YOU DIDN'T EVEN WALK DOWNSTAIRS 09:33.230 --> 09:36.030 IF YOUR SISTER HAD A SLIP ON. 09:36.030 --> 09:37.090 MY MOTHER WOULD HAVE WASHED YOUR 09:37.090 --> 09:38.180 MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP. 09:38.180 --> 09:40.290 EVERYTHING WAS A LOT LESS 09:40.290 --> 09:42.210 OPEN-ENDED THAN IT IS TODAY. 09:42.210 --> 09:44.240 NOT SURE IF THAT WAS GOOD OR 09:44.240 --> 09:45.020 BAD. 09:45.020 --> 09:46.220 MY DAD WOULD HEAT THE HOT WATER 09:46.220 --> 09:48.240 ON THE STEVE AND PUT IT IN THAT 09:48.240 --> 09:49.020 TAB. 09:49.020 --> 09:51.070 THE OLDEST GUY GOT TO GO FIRST. 09:51.070 --> 09:53.170 OUT OF FIVE KIDS, I WAS THE LAST 09:53.170 --> 09:54.280 CHILD TO TAKE A BATH. 09:54.280 --> 09:57.020 THAT WAS THE ONLY BATH OF THE 09:57.020 --> 09:57.110 WEEK. 09:57.110 --> 10:00.070 WE SPONGE BATHED ALONG THE WAY 10:00.070 --> 10:01.100 IN COLD WATER. 10:01.100 --> 10:04.000 THE TUB WAS NOT NICE BY THE TIME 10:04.000 --> 10:07.000 IT GOT TO BE MY TURN. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.100 >> AS I GREW A LITTLE OLDER, MY 10:09.100 --> 10:11.200 FOLKS WOULD SEND ME TO THE STORE 10:11.200 --> 10:14.200 THAT WAY AND GO INTO THE STORE 10:14.200 --> 10:15.290 WITH GROCERIES. 10:15.290 --> 10:23.140 THINGS THEY NEEDED. 10:23.140 --> 10:26.140 AND THEY'D PUT THINGS ON THE 10:26.140 --> 10:27.030 BILL. 10:27.030 --> 10:29.000 AND MY FATHER WOULD PAY THE 10:29.000 --> 10:29.090 BILL. 10:29.090 --> 10:30.150 >> MR. SLACK WAS GOOD TO MY 10:30.150 --> 10:33.100 FATHER AND CHARGE ALL WINTER AND 10:33.100 --> 10:38.230 ALL SUMMER, HE'D WORK 6-7 DAYS A 10:38.230 --> 10:42.200 WEEK TO GET THAT BILL DOWN. 10:42.200 --> 10:45.200 >> BESIDES THE STORE FRONTS 10:45.200 --> 10:47.280 DOTTING MAIN STREETS, THERE WAS 10:47.280 --> 10:49.180 A SURPRISING NUMBER OF GRANITE 10:49.180 --> 10:52.150 SHEDS, CREAMERIES, MANUFACTURING 10:52.150 --> 10:54.070 COMPANIES AND LUMBAR MILLS. 10:54.070 --> 10:56.140 >> I GREW UP IN THE VILLAGE. 10:56.140 --> 10:59.140 I SPENT A LOT OF MY CHILDHOOD 10:59.140 --> 11:01.050 DOWN AT THE FEED STORE. 11:01.050 --> 11:02.190 MY BROTHER RAN THE STORE FROM MY 11:02.190 --> 11:04.150 DAD AND ALL THE KIDS WENT DOWN 11:04.150 --> 11:07.060 THERE AND IT WAS A LOCAL HANG 11:07.060 --> 11:07.170 OUT. 11:07.170 --> 11:10.270 WE ROAD THE FEED TRUCKS OUT TO 11:10.270 --> 11:13.270 THE FARMERS AND WE RAISED CALFS 11:13.270 --> 11:15.060 THERE IN THE SPRING. 11:15.060 --> 11:17.120 AND WE'D HAVE THE CALF IN THE 11:17.120 --> 11:18.150 OFFICE AT THE FEED STORE. 11:18.150 --> 11:19.290 >> ONE THING I REMEMBER GROWING 11:19.290 --> 11:22.090 UP THERE, WE HAD A BIG FRONT 11:22.090 --> 11:23.160 PORCH THAT WENT ACROSS THE FRONT 11:23.160 --> 11:26.280 OF THAT HOUSE. 11:26.280 --> 11:30.090 IT WAS A RED BRICK HOUSE AND I 11:30.090 --> 11:33.090 THINK H AND R BLOCK IS IN THERE 11:33.090 --> 11:33.200 NOW. 11:33.200 --> 11:35.040 ROUTE 2 WENT RIGHT THROUGH TOWN. 11:35.040 --> 11:37.160 AND CARS, OF COURSE, WOULD COME 11:37.160 --> 11:38.290 FROM EVERYWHERE. 11:38.290 --> 11:40.120 WE'D COLLECT OUT OF STATE 11:40.120 --> 11:42.130 LICENSE PLATES AND HAVE A LITTLE 11:42.130 --> 11:44.130 CONTEST TO SEE WHO CAN GET THE 11:44.130 --> 11:46.050 MOST OUT OF STATE LICENSE 11:46.050 --> 11:46.150 PLATES. 11:46.150 --> 11:49.130 >> I LIVED ALL MY LIFE HERE AND 11:49.130 --> 11:52.150 EVEN BACK IN THOSE DAYS GROWING 11:52.150 --> 11:55.250 UP ON THE NORTH END, THAT WAS 11:55.250 --> 11:58.250 YOUR AREA OF PLAY AND 11:58.250 --> 12:03.040 FAMILIARITY. 12:03.040 --> 12:06.040 THAT WAS A BIG SUMMERTIME THING. 12:06.040 --> 12:08.150 >> I WAS BORN IN 55. 12:08.150 --> 12:18.160 MY GRANDFATHER RAN THE 12:18.160 --> 12:21.160 UNDERTAKING BUSINESS HERE. 12:21.160 --> 12:23.290 THE MODERN PHARMACY. 12:23.290 --> 12:25.220 THERE WAS A LOT OF DIFFERENT 12:25.220 --> 12:26.230 BUSINESSES WITHIN A FEW BLOCKS 12:26.230 --> 12:28.060 OF EACH OTHER. 12:28.060 --> 12:31.060 AND IT WAS ALWAYS BUSY DOWNTOWN. 12:31.060 --> 12:38.010 >> AND THEN THE DRY BRIDGE IS 12:38.010 --> 12:41.010 THERE AND BOWLING ALLEY IS IN. 12:41.010 --> 12:43.010 AND I SET PINS IN THERE WHEN IT 12:43.010 --> 12:45.080 WAS A BOWLING ALLEY. 12:45.080 --> 12:46.170 THERE WEREN'T ANY MACHINES THERE 12:46.170 --> 12:46.290 ARE NOW. 12:46.290 --> 12:49.090 JUST A BUNCH OF THOSE GUYS THAT 12:49.090 --> 12:52.080 WOULD GET 10 CENTS A STRING OR 12:52.080 --> 12:53.190 WHATEVER YOU CALL IT WHEN YOU 12:53.190 --> 12:54.050 BOWL AROUND. 12:54.050 --> 12:56.010 FOR PICKING UP THE PINS AND 12:56.010 --> 12:57.190 PUTTING THEM BACK IN PLACE. 12:57.190 --> 12:59.270 AND PRAYING THE BALL DIDN'T COME 12:59.270 --> 13:01.000 WHILE YOU WERE DOWN THERE. 13:01.000 --> 13:02.220 IT WAS SORT OF A PIT. 13:02.220 --> 13:03.020 ANYWAY. 13:03.020 --> 13:05.240 >> BESIDES THE RUN DOWN BOWLING 13:05.240 --> 13:07.250 ALLEY, LONG TIME RESIDENTS HAVE 13:07.250 --> 13:10.050 MANY FOND MEMORIES OF A 13:10.050 --> 13:11.200 COMPASSION NATE AND RESILIENT 13:11.200 --> 13:12.010 COMMUNITY. 13:12.010 --> 13:14.200 OVER THE YEARS, THIS VILLAGE HAS 13:14.200 --> 13:16.080 BEEN THROUGH MANY EVENTS THAT 13:16.080 --> 13:17.220 SHAPED WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS 13:17.220 --> 13:18.060 TODAY. 13:18.060 --> 13:20.210 EARLY ON, THE VILLAGE BUSINESSES 13:20.210 --> 13:23.020 SUPPORTED THE FARMING COMMUNITY 13:23.020 --> 13:24.110 THAT SURROUNDED WATERBURY AND 13:24.110 --> 13:26.030 COULD JUST AS EASILY BE THE 13:26.030 --> 13:27.120 OTHER WAY AROUND. 13:27.120 --> 13:30.120 IN THE 1830s, MANY OF THE 13:30.120 --> 13:31.280 SELF-SUFFICIENT FARMS GAVE WAY 13:31.280 --> 13:34.280 TO THE BOOMING SHEEP FARMING 13:34.280 --> 13:35.190 INDUSTRY. 13:35.190 --> 13:38.150 BUT IN 1849 WHEN THE CENTRAL 13:38.150 --> 13:39.180 VERMONT RAILROAD LAID TRACKS 13:39.180 --> 13:41.210 THROUGH TOWN, A LOT OF CHANGES 13:41.210 --> 13:44.210 WERE ON THE HORIZON. 13:44.210 --> 13:46.140 >> THE RAILROAD WAS JUST 13:46.140 --> 13:47.250 ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS TO THIS 13:47.250 --> 13:48.040 TOWN. 13:48.040 --> 13:50.200 IT'S HARD TO OVERSTAY THE IMPACT 13:50.200 --> 13:53.120 THAT THE IMPACT THE RAILROAD AND 13:53.120 --> 13:55.120 STILL HAS ON WATERBURY TODAY. 13:55.120 --> 13:58.120 >> IT WAS A FOCAL POINT TO 13:58.120 --> 13:59.110 EXPANDING AN INDUSTRY AND GAVE 13:59.110 --> 14:01.170 US A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES WAY 14:01.170 --> 14:04.080 AHEAD OF COMMUNITIES THAT DIDN'T 14:04.080 --> 14:05.190 HAVE THE RAILROAD. 14:05.190 --> 14:08.140 FOUND FATHERS AROUND THAT 1890 14:08.140 --> 14:11.140 PERIOD REALLY SOUGHT TO BRING 14:11.140 --> 14:11.250 INDUSTRY. 14:11.250 --> 14:14.080 AND THE RAILROAD WAS A BIG 14:14.080 --> 14:16.280 FEATURE. 14:16.280 --> 14:19.280 ONE TIME, THERE WERE FIVE SHEDS 14:19.280 --> 14:22.120 AND WATERBURY WAS SHIFT IN ON 14:22.120 --> 14:23.000 THE RAILROAD. 14:23.000 --> 14:25.280 CUT IN THE GRANITE SHEDS AND 14:25.280 --> 14:31.170 THINGS AND THEN SHIFT OUT. 14:31.170 --> 14:34.170 AND SOME OF THOSE EMPLOYED 50 TO 14:34.170 --> 14:36.090 100 PEOPLE. 14:36.090 --> 14:39.020 THERE WAS A RAILROAD THAT LEFT 14:39.020 --> 14:41.160 WATER BURY. 14:41.160 --> 14:43.070 >> WATERBURY AS WELL AS THE REST 14:43.070 --> 14:45.230 OF THE STATE WAS GROWING 14:45.230 --> 14:48.290 STEADILY. 14:48.290 --> 14:51.290 PRESIDENT CALVIN COLLAGE 14:51.290 --> 14:54.010 RESTORED CONFIDENCE IN THE WHITE 14:54.010 --> 14:54.250 HOUSE. 14:54.250 --> 14:57.250 IN NOVEMBER OF 1927, A 14:57.250 --> 14:59.040 DEVASTATING FLOOD HIT THE STATE. 14:59.040 --> 15:01.220 OVER 1200 BRIDGES WERE 15:01.220 --> 15:02.030 DESTROYED. 15:02.030 --> 15:03.250 MILES OF ROADS AND RAILROADS 15:03.250 --> 15:05.040 WERE WASHED OUT. 15:05.040 --> 15:07.080 AND COUNTLESS HOMES AND 15:07.080 --> 15:08.280 BUILDINGS WERE RUINED. 15:08.280 --> 15:11.100 AS THE RIVER REACHED HEIGHTS 15:11.100 --> 15:12.260 HIGHER THAN EVER SEEN BEFORE, 15:12.260 --> 15:17.120 THE STORM TOOK THE LIVES OF 20 15:17.120 --> 15:20.120 PEOPLE IN WATERBURY ALONE. 15:20.120 --> 15:22.230 >> I WAS IN WATERBURY DURING THE 15:22.230 --> 15:23.030 FLOODS. 15:23.030 --> 15:25.130 I WAS STAYING DOWN THERE WITH MY 15:25.130 --> 15:28.120 CHILDHOOD FRIEND BY THE OLD POST 15:28.120 --> 15:29.030 OFFICE BUILDING. 15:29.030 --> 15:30.210 AND SOMEBODY KNOCKED ON THE DOOR 15:30.210 --> 15:32.080 AND SAYS YOU HAVE TO GET OUT OF 15:32.080 --> 15:32.170 HERE. 15:32.170 --> 15:33.150 WATER IS COMING UP. 15:33.150 --> 15:36.150 AND I WAS CARRIED ON HIS BACK 15:36.150 --> 15:38.060 FROM THERE UP TO THE BANK. 15:38.060 --> 15:40.070 UP TO THE TOP OF THE BANK HILL. 15:40.070 --> 15:43.070 >> DURING THE 27TH FLOOD, THE 15:43.070 --> 15:45.000 GREAT GRANDPARENTS ARE LIVING ON 15:45.000 --> 15:46.110 THE SECOND AND THIRD FLOOR NEXT 15:46.110 --> 15:48.110 TO US. 15:48.110 --> 15:51.020 AS THE WATER ROSE 4 FEET AN HOUR 15:51.020 --> 15:52.240 AT SOME TIME AND SOME PERIODS 15:52.240 --> 15:53.240 DURING THE STORM. 15:53.240 --> 15:56.220 THE WATER GOT UP SO IT WAS A 15:56.220 --> 15:57.210 FOOT ABOVE THE SECOND FLOOR. 15:57.210 --> 16:01.180 AND IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 16:01.180 --> 16:05.010 NIGHT. SO IN STORAGE, MY FAMILY 16:05.010 --> 16:08.010 HAD TWO SHIPPING CASES FOR THESE 16:08.010 --> 16:08.120 GASKETS. 16:08.120 --> 16:10.010 MY GRANDFATHER AND GREAT 16:10.010 --> 16:11.130 GRANDFATHER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 16:11.130 --> 16:13.290 NIGHT GOT TWO OF THOSE BOXES AND 16:13.290 --> 16:15.230 NAILED THEM TOGETHER AND GOT A 16:15.230 --> 16:17.020 COUPLE BED SLATS. 16:17.020 --> 16:19.120 AND THEY LOADED MY MOTHER AND MY 16:19.120 --> 16:21.120 UNCLE WHO WERE 3 AND 5 AT THE 16:21.120 --> 16:21.250 TIME. 16:21.250 --> 16:24.250 MY GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 16:24.250 --> 16:26.200 GRANDPARENTS ALL LOADED IN THE 16:26.200 --> 16:28.220 MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND SHOVED 16:28.220 --> 16:30.230 OFF THE SECOND FLOOR PORCH AND 16:30.230 --> 16:33.010 THESE TWO CASKET BOXES HOPING 16:33.010 --> 16:34.070 THEY WEREN'T GOING TO LEAK. 16:34.070 --> 16:37.050 AND PADDLED THEIR WAY TO THE TOP 16:37.050 --> 16:40.000 OF BANK HILL. 16:40.000 --> 16:43.000 >> BUT THE METHODIST CHURCH IN 16:43.000 --> 16:45.020 WATERBURY, THE WATER WAS 14 FEET 16:45.020 --> 16:46.110 HIGH ON THIS CHURCH. 16:46.110 --> 16:48.210 I CAN'T IMAGINE. 16:48.210 --> 16:51.210 MY DAD TOOK A ROW BOAT FROM THE 16:51.210 --> 16:56.200 TOP OF THE HILL HERE ON MAIN 16:56.200 --> 16:59.200 STREET AND HE AND HIS COUSIN 16:59.200 --> 17:01.160 RALPHIE ROAD DOWN THE STREET AND 17:01.160 --> 17:06.100 TOOK PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR SECOND 17:06.100 --> 17:09.100 STORY WINDOWS IN 1927. 17:09.100 --> 17:11.110 >> THOSE WHO WERE FLOODED ATE IN 17:11.110 --> 17:15.140 THE BASEMENT OF THE WHITE 17:15.140 --> 17:18.140 CHURCH. 17:18.140 --> 17:20.070 I DON'T KNOW FOR A WEEK OR TWO. 17:20.070 --> 17:22.200 COULDN'T GET THE MILK TO THE 17:22.200 --> 17:23.010 CREAMERY. 17:23.010 --> 17:25.060 SO TOOK THEIR MILK CANS DOWN TO 17:25.060 --> 17:27.100 THE VILLAGE AND PUT IT ON THE 17:27.100 --> 17:30.070 SIDEWALKS FOR PEOPLE TO COME GET 17:30.070 --> 17:32.100 MILK FOR FOOD. 17:32.100 --> 17:34.230 >> IT WAS A BIG LESSON FOR THE 17:34.230 --> 17:36.170 PEOPLE THAT LIVED HERE AND 17:36.170 --> 17:38.110 WORKING TOGETHER, THAT WAS FOR 17:38.110 --> 17:38.200 SURE. 17:38.200 --> 17:40.120 >> I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, 17:40.120 --> 17:42.140 PEOPLE DIDN'T SPEND A LOT OF 17:42.140 --> 17:42.230 TIME. 17:42.230 --> 17:44.060 THEY GOT THEMSELVES DRIED OUT 17:44.060 --> 17:45.270 AND MOPPED OUT AND CLEANED UP 17:45.270 --> 17:48.240 AND SPRUCED UP AND WORRIED TOO 17:48.240 --> 17:49.280 MUCH ABOUT MOLD AND WORRY ABOUT 17:49.280 --> 17:52.100 ANY OF THAT STUFF. 17:52.100 --> 17:55.100 THEY GET THEMSELVES BACK UP AND 17:55.100 --> 17:55.290 RUNNING. 17:55.290 --> 17:58.240 AND BACK IN THOSE DAYS, WASN'T A 17:58.240 --> 18:01.260 LOT OF INSULATION. 18:01.260 --> 18:03.220 AND THEY WERE REALLY FOCUSED ON 18:03.220 --> 18:05.290 GETTING THEMSELVES BACK UP ON 18:05.290 --> 18:07.050 THEIR FEET AND GOING AGAIN. 18:07.050 --> 18:09.040 >> STARTING OVER AGAIN WAS MET 18:09.040 --> 18:11.230 WITH UNWAIVERING DETERMINATION 18:11.230 --> 18:12.190 AND COURAGE. 18:12.190 --> 18:15.000 WHILE THE COUNTRY WAS STILL 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 WEATHERING THE DEPRESSION, IT 18:17.000 --> 18:18.040 BECAME EVIDENT THAT SOMETHING 18:18.040 --> 18:20.050 NEEDED TO BE DONE TO REDUCE THE 18:20.050 --> 18:23.050 RISK OF FUTURE DEVASTATING 18:23.050 --> 18:23.150 FLOODS. 18:23.150 --> 18:24.290 >> THE PROCESS BEGAN AND 18:24.290 --> 18:27.060 EVENTUALLY ENDED UP WITH THE 18:27.060 --> 18:29.130 CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORE 18:29.130 --> 18:32.110 COMING TO WATERBURY AND BUILDING 18:32.110 --> 18:35.000 THE WATERBURY DAM WHICH WAS 18:35.000 --> 18:36.250 INTENDED AS A FLOOD-CONTROL 18:36.250 --> 18:37.050 PROJECT. 18:37.050 --> 18:40.070 AT THE TIME IT WAS DESIGNED AND 18:40.070 --> 18:43.070 BUILT IN 1936 TO 1938, THE 18:43.070 --> 18:45.170 WATERBURY DAM WAS THE LARGEST 18:45.170 --> 18:47.060 EARTH-FILLED DAM IN THE WORLD. 18:47.060 --> 18:50.060 THE FIRST ELEMENTS ARRIVE IN 18:50.060 --> 18:50.170 1934-1935. 18:50.170 --> 18:52.230 THEY LIVE IN TENTS UNTIL THEY 18:52.230 --> 18:54.150 CAN BUILD CAMP SMITH. 18:54.150 --> 18:56.160 2500 MEN EVENTUALLY FILLED IT. 18:56.160 --> 18:57.290 THEY HAD THEIR OWN HOSPITAL, 18:57.290 --> 19:00.180 THEIR OWN LIBRARY, OWN MOVIE 19:00.180 --> 19:01.160 THEATERS, FIRE DEPARTMENT, 19:01.160 --> 19:02.030 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 19:02.030 --> 19:04.190 I MEAN, IT WAS A COMPLETE FULL 19:04.190 --> 19:05.250 COMMUNITY. 19:05.250 --> 19:09.010 >> THE CCC ALSO BUILT A SWIMMING 19:09.010 --> 19:12.010 POOL HERE AND A HIGH SCHOOL 19:12.010 --> 19:12.200 GYMNASIUM. 19:12.200 --> 19:16.070 BUT THE BIG ENTERPRISE WAS THIS 19:16.070 --> 19:19.070 DAM TO PROTECT THE FUTURE 19:19.070 --> 19:20.230 GENERATIONS IN VERMONT FROM THE 19:20.230 --> 19:23.230 KIND OF A DISASTER THAT JUST 19:23.230 --> 19:26.180 TORE THIS PLACE APART. 19:26.180 --> 19:29.180 >> AND MY FATHER USED TO TAKE US 19:29.180 --> 19:30.190 OVER THERE. 19:30.190 --> 19:33.090 AND A DUMP TRUCK BACK THEN WAS 19:33.090 --> 19:35.050 ONLY ABOUT A THREE YARD. 19:35.050 --> 19:37.080 AND NOW HE'S GOING OUT WITH A 19:37.080 --> 19:40.080 DUMP TRUCK THAT CARRIES 16 YARDS 19:40.080 --> 19:42.050 OR SO. 19:42.050 --> 19:43.010 MEN EVERYWHERE. 19:43.010 --> 19:45.000 2 OR 3,000 PEOPLE WORKING ON 19:45.000 --> 19:45.090 THAT. 19:45.090 --> 19:47.270 IT WAS VERY INTERESTING. 19:47.270 --> 19:49.260 EVERY TWO OR THREE WEEKS, I SEE 19:49.260 --> 19:51.130 HOW THEY ARE GOING ALONG. 19:51.130 --> 19:53.080 >> THAT'S WHEN MY HUSBAND AND I 19:53.080 --> 19:54.280 ARE GOING TOGETHER. 19:54.280 --> 19:57.280 AND WE SEE A LOT OF OUR TIME 19:57.280 --> 19:59.290 SITTING AT ONE END OF THE DAM 19:59.290 --> 20:01.070 WATCHING IT BE BUILT. 20:01.070 --> 20:04.010 IT WAS VERY INTERESTING. 20:04.010 --> 20:05.150 THEY LOVE DAY AND NIGHT SEEING 20:05.150 --> 20:07.110 THE TRUCKS COMING THROUGH WHERE 20:07.110 --> 20:08.280 THE WATER IS NOW BRINGING STONE 20:08.280 --> 20:10.240 AND DIRT FOR THE DAM. 20:10.240 --> 20:14.210 >> THEY HAD TO BUY THEIR FOOD, 20:14.210 --> 20:21.070 HAD TO BUY THEIR COAL. 20:21.070 --> 20:24.070 HAD TO -- THIS WAS DURING A 20:24.070 --> 20:25.060 DEPRESSION AT THE TIME MONEY IS 20:25.060 --> 20:27.170 A SHORT COMMODITY. 20:27.170 --> 20:29.020 SO THIS CONNER INVESTIGATION 20:29.020 --> 20:32.020 CORE REALLY, IN MANY WAYS, 20:32.020 --> 20:33.120 FUNDED WATERBURY AT THE HEIGHT 20:33.120 --> 20:34.080 OF THE DEPRESSION. 20:34.080 --> 20:36.000 >> WHILE LOCAL BUSINESSES 20:36.000 --> 20:39.000 CONTINUED TO GROW THROUGH THE 20:39.000 --> 20:41.190 40s AND 50s, MANY WERE FEELING 20:41.190 --> 20:44.190 PRESSURE TO INVEST IN NEW 20:44.190 --> 20:45.010 TECHNOLOGY. 20:45.010 --> 20:46.130 >> YOU CAN'T IMAGINE. 20:46.130 --> 20:48.260 NO BUNDLES YOU PICK UP AND PUT 20:48.260 --> 20:54.000 IT IN THE WAGON. 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 THAT TOOK A LOT OF OUR 20:57.000 --> 20:57.120 SUMMERTIME. 20:57.120 --> 20:59.090 >> I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE 20:59.090 --> 21:06.020 SCHEDULE TO GO OUT WITH A PITCH 21:06.020 --> 21:09.020 FORK AND TURN PIECE OF HEY. 21:09.020 --> 21:11.280 AND MOTHER WAS OUT THERE ON THE 21:11.280 --> 21:13.290 TRACTOR LATE MORNING TURNING 21:13.290 --> 21:16.290 THAT HAY OVER WITH A MACHINE. 21:16.290 --> 21:17.070 YAY. 21:17.070 --> 21:18.280 WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT 21:18.280 --> 21:21.010 HANDWORK ANY MORE. 21:21.010 --> 21:24.010 AND HE USED TO HAVE TO DRIVE THE 21:24.010 --> 21:25.270 HORSE AND WAGON OFF THE HILL. 21:25.270 --> 21:28.270 AND MADE THAT TRANSITION TO 21:28.270 --> 21:31.260 AUTOMOTIV 21:31.260 --> 21:32.090 AUTOMOTIVES. 21:32.090 --> 21:33.020 AND I CAN REMEMBER HEARING HIM 21:33.020 --> 21:34.130 TO SAY TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY TALK 21:34.130 --> 21:35.270 ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS. 21:35.270 --> 21:37.240 HE WOULD SAY I DON'T WANT TO GO 21:37.240 --> 21:38.090 BACK. 21:38.090 --> 21:41.020 I DON'T WANT TO RIDE BEHIND A 21:41.020 --> 21:44.020 TEAM OF HORSES AGAIN. 21:44.020 --> 21:47.000 >> THERE WAS STILL GUYS USING 21:47.000 --> 21:49.110 HORSES. 21:49.110 --> 21:51.120 AND UP ON THE HILL DID ALL OF 21:51.120 --> 21:53.050 HIS WORK. 21:53.050 --> 21:56.050 THERE WAS A GUY NAMED CLIFF UP 21:56.050 --> 21:57.260 ON THE HILL. 21:57.260 --> 21:59.180 AND I'M NOT THAT OLD. 21:59.180 --> 22:01.150 BUT JUST INTERESTING. 22:01.150 --> 22:03.010 MY DAD DID HAVE A CAR. 22:03.010 --> 22:04.250 >> MY DAD USED TO TALK A LOT 22:04.250 --> 22:09.080 ABOUT THE CHANGES HE HAD SEEN. 22:09.080 --> 22:12.180 AND HE WAS HERE WHEN THEY FIRST 22:12.180 --> 22:16.130 BROUGHT POWER AND HE WAS HERE 22:16.130 --> 22:19.130 WHEN THEY ADDED THE TELEPHONE 22:19.130 --> 22:19.240 SERVICE. 22:19.240 --> 22:21.020 >> I CAME HOME FROM SCHOOL AND 22:21.020 --> 22:22.030 HEARD THE TELEPHONE RING. 22:22.030 --> 22:23.280 I SAID WHAT? 22:23.280 --> 22:25.220 I RAN IN THE DINING ROOM AND 22:25.220 --> 22:26.140 THERE WAS A TELEPHONE ON THE 22:26.140 --> 22:27.180 WALL. 22:27.180 --> 22:29.150 HAD A CRANK ON IT OR SOMETHING 22:29.150 --> 22:31.210 LIKE THAT. 22:31.210 --> 22:36.000 AND SPEAKER OUT. 22:36.000 --> 22:41.180 I SAID OH, WE GOT A TELEPHONE. 22:41.180 --> 22:44.180 AND IT WAS ABOUT 7 OR 8 PEOPLE 22:44.180 --> 22:46.180 BEYOND ONE LINE. 22:46.180 --> 22:48.040 AND HAVE DIFFERENT NUMBER FOR 22:48.040 --> 22:49.080 EACH ONE OF THEM. 22:49.080 --> 22:50.240 >> AND YOU'D PICK UP THE PHONE 22:50.240 --> 22:52.060 AND SAY NUMBER PLEASE AND YOU'D 22:52.060 --> 22:53.260 SAY THE NUMBER YOU WANTED. 22:53.260 --> 22:56.260 AND A LOT OF THEM WERE PARTING 22:56.260 --> 22:57.050 LINES. 22:57.050 --> 22:58.070 WHICH WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE IF 22:58.070 --> 23:00.060 YOU HAPPEN TO PICK A LINE 23:00.060 --> 23:00.270 WHETHER THERE WAS SOMETHING 23:00.270 --> 23:02.080 GOING ON, YOU DIDN'T WANT TO 23:02.080 --> 23:03.140 LEAVE THE CONVERSATION. 23:03.140 --> 23:04.260 DIDN'T WANT TO LET THEM KNOW YOU 23:04.260 --> 23:06.120 WERE LISTENING. 23:06.120 --> 23:07.170 SOME OF THOSE ARE GOOD. 23:07.170 --> 23:09.200 >> YOU GET TO TALKING ON THE 23:09.200 --> 23:11.010 PHONE AND YOU CAN HEAR IF 23:11.010 --> 23:12.210 ANYBODY WAS LISTENING. 23:12.210 --> 23:14.110 CAUSE YOU MIGHT HEAR THINGS IN 23:14.110 --> 23:16.130 THEIR HOUSE. 23:16.130 --> 23:19.250 NOISES THAT YOU RECOGNIZE. 23:19.250 --> 23:23.070 THEY WERE LISTENING TO YOU. 23:23.070 --> 23:26.070 BUT THAT WAS HOW THEY FOUND OUT. 23:26.070 --> 23:30.150 >> AS RURAL LIFE ADJUSTED TO NEW 23:30.150 --> 23:33.180 LINES OF COMMUNICATION THE 23:33.180 --> 23:36.180 DOWNTOWN SAW A RAPID GROWTH IN 23:36.180 --> 23:36.280 TOURISM. 23:36.280 --> 23:38.290 >> WATERBURY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A 23:38.290 --> 23:41.050 CROSS ROADS. 23:41.050 --> 23:42.140 MAJOR ROUTES. 23:42.140 --> 23:45.100 SO OVER THE YEARS, IT KIND OF 23:45.100 --> 23:46.270 GREW AS A TOURIST ATTRACTION. 23:46.270 --> 23:49.260 AT ONE TIME, WE HAD A VERY LARGE 23:49.260 --> 23:51.050 BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT WATERBURY 23:51.050 --> 23:51.280 IN DOWNTOWN. 23:51.280 --> 23:54.020 AND FOLKS WOULD COME FROM ALL 23:54.020 --> 23:55.260 OVER NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK AND 23:55.260 --> 23:58.010 THE EAST COAST TO SPEND WEEKS AT 23:58.010 --> 24:00.160 THE WATERBURY INN AS A RESORT. 24:00.160 --> 24:02.290 >> THE TRAIN STATION DOWN HERE 24:02.290 --> 24:06.000 BROUGHT TRAVELLERS IN THAT 24:06.000 --> 24:09.000 ULTIMATELY ENDED UP IN THE SKI 24:09.000 --> 24:10.280 AREAS. 24:10.280 --> 24:14.110 IT WAS A HUB IN MANY WAYS. 24:14.110 --> 24:17.110 >> SO THAT HELPED FORM THE 24:17.110 --> 24:18.250 TOURIST INDUSTRY THAT HELPED 24:18.250 --> 24:19.260 SUPPORT US. 24:19.260 --> 24:25.210 >> THERE WEREN'T MANY 24:25.210 --> 24:28.210 RESERVATION PLACES. 24:28.210 --> 24:31.090 AS A KID, WE WOULD GO DOWN AND 24:31.090 --> 24:32.250 CARRY BAGS FROM THE PASSENGERS 24:32.250 --> 24:38.000 OVER TO THEIR CONVEYANCE. 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 AND I REMEMBER COMING DOWN IN 24:41.000 --> 24:42.070 THEIR JEEP. 24:42.070 --> 24:54.070 THEY WOULD WHEEL IN AS THE TRAIN 24:54.070 --> 24:57.070 ARRIVED 24:57.070 --> 24:57.170 ARRIVED. 24:57.170 --> 24:58.270 >> THEN END NOW VERY 24:58.270 --> 24:59.100 DRAMATICALLY. 24:59.100 --> 25:01.160 AT THE TIME OF CONSTRUCTION, 25:01.160 --> 25:04.070 THESE CONCERNS WERE HOTLY 25:04.070 --> 25:04.170 DEBATED. 25:04.170 --> 25:10.170 BUT NO STOPPING THIS NEW 25:10.170 --> 25:13.170 CONNECTION 25:13.170 --> 25:13.290 CONNECTION. 25:13.290 --> 25:14.270 >> THE INTERSTATE CHANGED THE 25:14.270 --> 25:17.250 ENTIRE STATE OF VERMONT. 25:17.250 --> 25:19.160 WATERBURY WAS NO DIFFERENT. 25:19.160 --> 25:22.130 THE INTERSTATE CAME IN THE 50S. 25:22.130 --> 25:25.270 AND I CAN REMEMBER LATE 50s. 25:25.270 --> 25:29.070 I CAN REMEMBER THERE WAS GRE-- 25:29.070 --> 25:32.070 ABOUT THE FACT WE'D BE AT THIS 25:32.070 --> 25:33.190 JUNCTURE OF THE ROAD. 25:33.190 --> 25:36.010 >> YEAH, I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL 25:36.010 --> 25:38.180 WHEN WATERBURY HAD THAT INFLUX 25:38.180 --> 25:39.260 OF POPULATION BECAUSE OF ALL THE 25:39.260 --> 25:41.290 PEOPLE THAT CAME TO WORK ON THE 25:41.290 --> 25:42.110 INTERSTATE. 25:42.110 --> 25:44.140 >> A LOT OF THE KIDS THAT WERE 25:44.140 --> 25:46.180 IN OUR CLASS, THERE WERE 57 WHEN 25:46.180 --> 25:47.260 WE GRADUATED. 25:47.260 --> 25:50.000 A LOT OF THEM WERE THE 25:50.000 --> 25:52.230 INTERSTATE KIDS. 25:52.230 --> 25:55.230 THAT WAS A BIG BOOST TO US WHEN 25:55.230 --> 25:57.150 THAT CAME ALONG. 25:57.150 --> 25:59.080 >> I REMEMBER WHEN I HAD MY 25:59.080 --> 26:01.100 FIRST RIDE ON THE INTERSTATE. 26:01.100 --> 26:05.110 TO BEGIN WITH FOR US, WE HAD THE 26:05.110 --> 26:08.110 LINK TO MONT P IESHILLIAR. 26:08.110 --> 26:09.210 AND MADE THINGS SO MUCH EASIER 26:09.210 --> 26:11.150 TO GET AROUND. 26:11.150 --> 26:14.150 BUT BY THE SAME TOKEN, IT'S 26:14.150 --> 26:16.150 WHAT'S BROUGHT SO MANY MORE 26:16.150 --> 26:17.230 PEOPLE AND SO MUCH MORE 26:17.230 --> 26:21.060 INDUSTRY. 26:21.060 --> 26:24.060 AND CHANGED VERMONT SO MUCH. 26:24.060 --> 26:26.000 TO BE ABLE TO TRAVEL HERE SO 26:26.000 --> 26:26.100 EASILY. 26:26.100 --> 26:28.260 >> HAVING THE INTERSTATE COME 26:28.260 --> 26:31.260 THROUGH HERE AND HAVING AN EXIT 26:31.260 --> 26:32.220 PREDATES ME. 26:32.220 --> 26:35.080 BUT HAVING THAT EXIT, A LOT OF 26:35.080 --> 26:38.080 THE DEVELOPMENT YOU SEE IS 26:38.080 --> 26:40.280 BECAUSE WE ARE AT THAT EXIT. 26:40.280 --> 26:43.280 >> YOU SAW A DECLINE OF COMMERCE 26:43.280 --> 26:46.110 WITHIN THE VILLAGE. 26:46.110 --> 26:48.290 PROPER BECAUSE BURLINGTON AND 26:48.290 --> 26:53.040 MOUNT PILLAR WERE ACCESSIBLE. 26:53.040 --> 26:56.040 DIDN'T FEEL LIKE AN ALL-DAY 26:56.040 --> 26:57.050 EXCURSIO 26:57.050 --> 26:57.160 EXCURSION. 26:57.160 --> 26:58.240 IT WAS A BIG CHANGE. 26:58.240 --> 27:01.110 >> WATERBURY, I THINK, WENT 27:01.110 --> 27:03.190 THROUGH KIND OF A MINI 27:03.190 --> 27:05.150 DEPRESSION PROBABLY IN THE LATE 27:05.150 --> 27:08.140 1960s AND 1970s. 27:08.140 --> 27:10.040 A LOT OF BUSINESSES WERE CLOSED 27:10.040 --> 27:11.090 OR MOVED AWAY. 27:11.090 --> 27:13.060 NO NEW BUSINESSES CAME IN. 27:13.060 --> 27:16.060 STORE FRONTS CLOSED. 27:16.060 --> 27:18.250 IT WAS GENERALLY NOT A GOOD TIME 27:18.250 --> 27:20.250 IN WATERBURY. 27:20.250 --> 27:23.120 THINGS GOT INTO DISREPAIR. 27:23.120 --> 27:26.120 THE TOWN WAS KIND OF SORT OF 27:26.120 --> 27:28.210 SEEKING A WAVE TO THE FUTURE. 27:28.210 --> 27:31.020 WE WERE THE CROSS ROADS BUT 27:31.020 --> 27:32.090 THERE WASN'T MUCH HERE EXCEPT 27:32.090 --> 27:34.090 THE BIG STATE HOSPITAL. 27:34.090 --> 27:36.240 AND, OF COURSE, THE STATE 27:36.240 --> 27:39.050 HOSPITAL GAVE WATERBURY A DARK 27:39.050 --> 27:42.130 REPUTATION FOR HOUSING THAT 27:42.130 --> 27:45.130 FACILITY. 27:45.130 --> 27:47.250 >> JUST LIKE THE IMPACTS OF THE 27:47.250 --> 27:49.290 INTERSTATE, THE IMPACTS OF THE 27:49.290 --> 27:52.210 STATE HOSPITAL WERE MORE 27:52.210 --> 27:55.130 COMPLICATED AND OFTEN DEBATED. 27:55.130 --> 27:57.280 SINCE OPENING IN 1891, THE 27:57.280 --> 27:59.290 VERMONT STATE HOSPITAL WAS A 27:59.290 --> 28:01.120 MAJOR EMPLOYER OF WATERBURY 28:01.120 --> 28:01.230 RESIDENTS. 28:01.230 --> 28:08.140 IT WAS EXPANDED UNTIL IT HOUSED 28:08.140 --> 28:11.140 ALMOST 1, THROUGH -- 1,400 28:11.140 --> 28:11.250 PATIENTS. 28:11.250 --> 28:13.120 THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS DROPPED 28:13.120 --> 28:16.120 TO UNDER 200 IN THE 1980s. 28:16.120 --> 28:19.050 TO MAKE USE OF THE UNUSE SPACE, 28:19.050 --> 28:21.160 WE DIEDED TO CONVERT IT TO STATE 28:21.160 --> 28:24.050 OFFICES AND MOVED MANY 28:24.050 --> 28:26.080 DEPARTMENTS TO WHAT WAS CALLED 28:26.080 --> 28:29.190 THE WATERBURY STATE COMPLEX. 28:29.190 --> 28:32.190 BRINGING IN HUNDREDS OF STATE 28:32.190 --> 28:34.260 WORKERS GAVE MUCH NEEDED BOFT TO 28:34.260 --> 28:37.190 THE VILLAGE ECONOMY. 28:37.190 --> 28:40.080 THIS LED TO THE ATTRACTION OF 28:40.080 --> 28:41.160 MUCH BIGGER BUSINESSES MOVING 28:41.160 --> 28:42.110 INTO THE AREA. 28:42.110 --> 28:45.090 >> YOU BROUGHT A LOT MORE 28:45.090 --> 28:48.110 PROFESSIONAL LEVEL JOBS INTO THE 28:48.110 --> 28:52.250 TOWN THAN EXISTED PREVIOUSLY. 28:52.250 --> 28:58.120 AND THAT WAS A BIG CHANGE IN HOW 28:58.120 --> 29:01.140 OUR DOWNTOWN EVOLVED AND 29:01.140 --> 29:03.030 DEVELOPED. 29:03.030 --> 29:06.090 SAW SHOPS OPENING UP. 29:06.090 --> 29:09.110 THE REAL CHANGE I'VE SEEN HAS 29:09.110 --> 29:12.150 BEEN GOING FROM THAT RURAL FARM 29:12.150 --> 29:15.150 COMMUNITY TO BECOMING AN URBAN 29:15.150 --> 29:18.160 AREA TO BUSINESSES THAT HAVE 29:18.160 --> 29:21.160 MOVED INTO TOWN AND THE INCREASE 29:21.160 --> 29:24.100 IN THE TECHNOLOGY. 29:24.100 --> 29:26.220 >> I WAS ON THE PLANNING 29:26.220 --> 29:29.090 COMMISSION AT THE TIME WHEN BEN 29:29.090 --> 29:32.090 AND JERRY'S CAME HERE. 29:32.090 --> 29:34.070 THEY APPROACHED WATERBURY ABOUT 29:34.070 --> 29:36.110 BUILDING THEIR PLANT HERE. 29:36.110 --> 29:37.260 AND JUST LIKE ANYTHING, YOU GO 29:37.260 --> 29:39.290 FROM A SLEEPY LITTLE TOWN TO 29:39.290 --> 29:42.210 HAVING A MAJOR TOURIST 29:42.210 --> 29:43.060 ATTRACTION HERE. 29:43.060 --> 29:45.180 THERE WERE GROWING PAINS. 29:45.180 --> 29:47.240 BUT I THINK THAT WHAT IT REALLY 29:47.240 --> 29:49.220 DID IS MAKE PEOPLE NOTICE THAT 29:49.220 --> 29:51.220 COMING INTO THIS AREA THAT 29:51.220 --> 29:52.230 WATERBURY EXISTED. 29:52.230 --> 29:55.160 >> BEN AND JERRY'S COMING TO 29:55.160 --> 29:57.110 WATERBURY WAS A BIG DEAL. 29:57.110 --> 29:58.210 THEY HAD BEEN IN BURLINGTON AND 29:58.210 --> 30:00.140 A SMALL OPERATION. 30:00.140 --> 30:02.210 THERE WERE IN A CONVERTED 30:02.210 --> 30:04.120 FILLING STATION IN BURLINGTON. 30:04.120 --> 30:06.180 WHEN THEY GOT BIG, THEY HAD TO 30:06.180 --> 30:07.120 EXPAND. 30:07.120 --> 30:10.120 AND THEY DECIDED TO EXPAND TO 30:10.120 --> 30:11.140 WATERBURY. 30:11.140 --> 30:14.140 IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF INDUSTRY 30:14.140 --> 30:15.220 IN WATERBURY. 30:15.220 --> 30:18.220 WHEN BEN AND JERRY'S CAME, IT 30:18.220 --> 30:20.130 SEEMED LIKE THE WORLD WAS 30:20.130 --> 30:22.120 BIDDING A PATH TO WATERBURY'S 30:22.120 --> 30:22.210 DOOR. 30:22.210 --> 30:24.280 IT SEEMED LIKE THE BEGINNING OF 30:24.280 --> 30:25.260 RENAISSANCE IN WATERBURY. 30:25.260 --> 30:28.130 AND IT ATTRACTED A NUMBER OF 30:28.130 --> 30:31.130 VERY TALENTED INDIVIDUALS. 30:31.130 --> 30:34.120 I THINK THEY BROUGHT A BRAND NEW 30:34.120 --> 30:37.100 FLAVOR, IF YOU WILL, FORGIVE THE 30:37.100 --> 30:38.120 PUN, TO WATERBURY. 30:38.120 --> 30:40.270 IT REALLY DID MAKE A BIG 30:40.270 --> 30:41.090 DIFFERENCE. 30:41.090 --> 30:43.200 AND MADE WATERBURY MORE OF ANA 30:43.200 --> 30:46.200 TRACTION, I THINK, BUSINESSES. 30:46.200 --> 30:50.210 AND WHEN PEOPLE COME WITH SKILLS 30:50.210 --> 30:53.210 LIKE THAT, THEY WANT GOOD 30:53.210 --> 30:55.140 SCHOOLS, GOOD HOUSING. 30:55.140 --> 30:58.080 AND THEN IT BECAME A DESTINATION 30:58.080 --> 31:01.100 POINT FOR TOURISTS. 31:01.100 --> 31:03.000 YOU COULD BRING THE CHILDREN AND 31:03.000 --> 31:05.030 THEY WORKED HARD TO CREATE 31:05.030 --> 31:07.160 SOMETHING FOR WHICH THEY DIDN'T 31:07.160 --> 31:09.190 GET MUCH CREDIT. 31:09.190 --> 31:13.110 REALLY DID HELP THE ECONOMY IN 31:13.110 --> 31:16.110 THE AREA. 31:16.110 --> 31:19.230 >> A LOT OF THE CHANGE I'VE SEEN 31:19.230 --> 31:22.280 HAS BEEN IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA OF 31:22.280 --> 31:25.280 WATERBURY. 31:25.280 --> 31:28.080 A HUGE REVITALIZATION THAT 31:28.080 --> 31:32.260 OCCURRED. 31:32.260 --> 31:35.260 SOME OF IT HAS BEEN FOR JOBS. 31:35.260 --> 31:37.010 THEY WERE A SMALL COMPANY HERE. 31:37.010 --> 31:43.270 AND THEY PROBABLY HAD A COUPLE 31:43.270 --> 31:46.270 HUNDRED EMPLOYEES AT THE MOST. 31:46.270 --> 31:49.150 >> THAT WAS A REAL TIPPING POINT 31:49.150 --> 31:51.110 FOR WATERBURY'S EVENT GROWTH. 31:51.110 --> 31:53.170 >> A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH A LOT OF 31:53.170 --> 31:56.030 ENERGY CAME AND SAW SOME 31:56.030 --> 31:57.090 POSSIBILITIES IN WATERBURY. 31:57.090 --> 32:00.030 >> AND, YOU KNOW, NOT EVERYBODY 32:00.030 --> 32:03.030 THAT LIVES IN THIS COMMUNITY ARE 32:03.030 --> 32:04.140 VERMONTERS, MUCH LESS NATIVE 32:04.140 --> 32:05.200 WATERBURY FOLKS. 32:05.200 --> 32:07.140 BUT THEY'VE EMBRACED THE SPIRIT 32:07.140 --> 32:13.130 OF WHAT THIS COMMUNITY AND OTHER 32:13.130 --> 32:16.130 COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT HAVE. 32:16.130 --> 32:17.260 IT BROUGHT CHANGE. 32:17.260 --> 32:19.070 >> HOW THIS NEW GENERATION OF 32:19.070 --> 32:21.070 PEOPLE COME IN THERE AND REALLY 32:21.070 --> 32:23.030 TIPPED THE WHOLE PLACE ON ITS 32:23.030 --> 32:26.290 SIDE OR UPSIDE DOWN, IF YOU 32:26.290 --> 32:30.120 WILL. 32:33.120 --> 32:37.060 >> THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENED. 32:37.060 --> 32:40.060 ON AUGUST 29TH, 2011, TROPICAL 32:40.060 --> 32:43.020 STORM IRENE DELIVERED LEVELS OF 32:43.020 --> 32:46.020 RAIN NOT SEEN SINCE THE FLOOD OF 32:46.020 --> 32:46.190 1927. 32:46.190 --> 32:49.190 ONCE AGAIN, THE RIVERS 32:49.190 --> 32:52.040 OVERFLOWED WITH DEVASTATING 32:52.040 --> 32:53.230 AFFECTS ON RESIDENTS AND LOCAL 32:53.230 --> 32:54.090 BUSINESSES. 32:54.090 --> 32:57.090 AND ONCE AGAIN, THE COMMUNITY 32:57.090 --> 32:59.200 RALLIED TOGETHER TO COMFORT EACH 32:59.200 --> 33:02.220 OTHER AND REBUILD THEIR TOWN. 33:02.220 --> 33:04.230 >> WHAT WAS REALLY NICE TO SEE 33:04.230 --> 33:07.280 WAS THE FACT THAT DURING 2011 33:07.280 --> 33:10.280 WHEN WE EXPERIENCED IRENE, 33:10.280 --> 33:14.180 PEOPLE ROLLED UP THEIR SLEEVES 33:14.180 --> 33:17.180 AND GOT DIRTY AND WENT ABOUT 33:17.180 --> 33:20.060 THEIR BUSINESS AND GOT THINGS 33:20.060 --> 33:20.290 FIXED. 33:20.290 --> 33:23.290 AND THERE WAS A LOT OF COMMUNITY 33:23.290 --> 33:24.220 INVOLVEMENT. 33:24.220 --> 33:27.050 AND OUTSIDE THE COMMUNITY 33:27.050 --> 33:27.170 INVOLVEMENT. 33:27.170 --> 33:28.290 WE WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES 33:28.290 --> 33:29.280 AFFECTED BY THIS. 33:29.280 --> 33:31.290 WE HAD PEOPLE FROM OTHER 33:31.290 --> 33:33.160 COMMUNITIES COME HERE AND GET 33:33.160 --> 33:34.200 DIRTY WITH US. 33:34.200 --> 33:36.280 AND HELP PUT FAMILIES BACK IN 33:36.280 --> 33:38.150 THEIR HOMES. 33:38.150 --> 33:40.090 AND DIDN'T ASK FOR ANYTHING BUT 33:40.090 --> 33:43.060 A SANDWICH AND A THANK YOU. 33:43.060 --> 33:45.000 AND I THINK THAT'S A LOT TO BE 33:45.000 --> 33:46.140 PROUD OF. 33:46.140 --> 33:49.140 >> THE THING ABOUT WATERBURY, 33:49.140 --> 33:50.290 WATERBURY DIDN'T SKIP A BEAT FOR 33:50.290 --> 33:52.010 LOSING ALL THAT BUSINESS. 33:52.010 --> 33:54.110 AND I KNOW THERE WERE BUSINESSES 33:54.110 --> 33:56.110 THAT WERE REALLY ADVERSELY 33:56.110 --> 33:56.220 AFFECTED. 33:56.220 --> 33:58.200 AND I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT. 33:58.200 --> 34:00.070 WE LOST BUSINESS AS A RESULT. 34:00.070 --> 34:01.240 FOR THE MOST PART, I THINK THERE 34:01.240 --> 34:05.130 WAS A WONDERFUL SPIRIT IN 34:05.130 --> 34:08.130 WATERBURY OF COOPERATIVE 34:08.130 --> 34:08.250 BETTERMENT. 34:08.250 --> 34:10.270 WE WERE GOING TO WORK TOGETHER. 34:10.270 --> 34:13.000 WE WERE GOING TO BEAT THIS THING 34:13.000 --> 34:15.210 AND IT WASN'T GOING TO BEAT US. 34:15.210 --> 34:18.090 IT'S REALLY BEEN REMARKABLE. 34:18.090 --> 34:21.090 AS WE'VE FOUND PUBLIC MONEY TO 34:21.090 --> 34:24.050 INVEST IN THE COMMUNITY IN 34:24.050 --> 34:26.100 PARTICULAR PROJECTS, THERE'S 34:26.100 --> 34:29.100 BEEN A HUGE AMOUNT OF RENOVATING 34:29.100 --> 34:30.130 BUILDINGS. 34:30.130 --> 34:33.130 THIS REALLY CULMINATED IN THE 34:33.130 --> 34:35.170 RECOVERY FROM TROPICAL STORM 34:35.170 --> 34:35.260 IRENE. 34:35.260 --> 34:38.180 THAT WAS THE CASE WHERE MANY 34:38.180 --> 34:40.080 BUILDINGS WERE DAMAGED. 34:40.080 --> 34:43.000 AND WE REALLY WERE AT A CROSS 34:43.000 --> 34:46.000 ROADS IN TERMS OF WHETHER THE 34:46.000 --> 34:47.150 DOWNTOWN AREA WAS GOING TO 34:47.150 --> 34:48.240 SURVIVE OR NOT. 34:48.240 --> 34:51.210 AND THE COMMUNITY REALLY RALLIED 34:51.210 --> 34:54.210 AND SUPPORTED EACH OTHER. 34:54.210 --> 34:57.100 AND WERE ABLE TO COME THROUGH 34:57.100 --> 35:00.120 THE RECOVERY AND RESTORE THE 35:00.120 --> 35:03.150 BUILDINGS, GET BUSINESSES BACK 35:03.150 --> 35:06.150 IN SHAPE AND GET THE ECONOMY TO 35:06.150 --> 35:06.250 REVIVE. 35:06.250 --> 35:10.100 >> IF EVER THERE WAS AN EXAMPLE 35:10.100 --> 35:13.100 OF A TOWN COALESSING AROUND AN 35:13.100 --> 35:14.220 EVENT, IT WAS THAT EVENT. 35:14.220 --> 35:16.280 >> IT MAY NOT BE ALL THAT 35:16.280 --> 35:18.000 DIFFERENT THAN OTHER 35:18.000 --> 35:18.130 COMMUNITIES. 35:18.130 --> 35:20.110 TO US, IT'S REAL AND MAKES US 35:20.110 --> 35:22.000 WHAT IT IS TODAY. 35:22.000 --> 35:24.220 >> IF YOU LOOK BACK AT THE 35:24.220 --> 35:27.020 HISTORY OF WATERBURY, THERE IS 35:27.020 --> 35:30.020 AN ON-GOING THREAD THAT SEEMS TO 35:30.020 --> 35:30.290 CONSTANTLY WEAVE ITS WAY INTO 35:30.290 --> 35:33.040 THE STORIES SHARED ABOUT THIS 35:33.040 --> 35:34.170 LITTLE TOWN. 35:34.170 --> 35:37.170 AND THAT CONSTANT IS COMMUNITY. 35:37.170 --> 35:40.190 REGARDLESS OF GOOD TIMES OR BAD, 35:40.190 --> 35:43.190 THIS COMMUNITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN 35:43.190 --> 35:44.220 THERE TO HELP EACH OTHER. 35:44.220 --> 35:47.100 >> I'M VERY PROUD OF THIS 35:47.100 --> 35:50.020 COMMUNITY AND HOW IT'S RECOVERED 35:50.020 --> 35:51.280 THROUGH RECESSIONS AND FLOODS 35:51.280 --> 35:52.190 AND THINGS. 35:52.190 --> 35:54.210 I THINK IT SHOWS A LOT ABOUT ITS 35:54.210 --> 35:55.260 CHARACTER AND THE PEOPLE THAT 35:55.260 --> 35:56.190 LIVE HERE. 35:56.190 --> 35:59.190 >> THAT KIND OF SPIRIT, THAT 35:59.190 --> 36:01.060 REALLY MADE WATERBURY WHAT IT IS 36:01.060 --> 36:04.040 TODAY FROM ALL THOSE WHO REALLY 36:04.040 --> 36:06.060 WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND LOOKING 36:06.060 --> 36:09.050 FOR WHAT IS NECESSARY TO MAKE IT 36:09.050 --> 36:14.010 A SAFE AND HEALTHY PLACE HERE. 36:14.010 --> 36:17.010 >> I'VE APPRECIATED THE ABILITY 36:17.010 --> 36:19.150 TO STAY HERE AND BE A PART OF 36:19.150 --> 36:21.100 ITS GROWTH AND PART OF VIE 36:21.100 --> 36:21.200 ABILITY. 36:21.200 --> 36:24.070 AND IT'S KEPT ME CONNECTED TO MY 36:24.070 --> 36:25.200 ROOTS, I THINK. 36:25.200 --> 36:27.150 PROBABLY MOST OF ALL, IT'S 36:27.150 --> 36:28.190 PROVIDED AN EXCELLENT PLACE FOR 36:28.190 --> 36:30.140 MY KIDS TO GROW UP. 36:30.140 --> 36:32.220 IT'S HAD THAT SORT OF HOME TOWN 36:32.220 --> 36:33.040 FEELING. 36:33.040 --> 36:34.200 BUT ALSO CLOSE ENOUGH SO THEY 36:34.200 --> 36:39.080 COULD EXPERIENCE OTHER THINGS 36:39.080 --> 36:42.080 AROUND THEM. 36:42.080 --> 36:44.050 AND NOW MY GRANDCHILDREN. 36:44.050 --> 36:45.150 >> I'VE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO 36:45.150 --> 36:46.220 LIVE IN WATERBURY. 36:46.220 --> 36:48.220 >> WATERBURY WAS A GOOD PLACE TO 36:48.220 --> 36:49.010 BE. 36:49.010 --> 36:51.040 I CAN'T IMAGINE A BETTER PLACE 36:51.040 --> 36:52.070 TO GROW UP. 36:52.070 --> 36:54.000 >> I CAN'T REALLY EVER SEE 36:54.000 --> 36:57.090 MYSELF LEAVING WATERBURY. 36:57.090 --> 37:00.110 IT BECOMES PART OF WHO YOU ARE. 37:00.110 --> 37:05.270 >> AND I JUST THINK WATERBURY IS 37:05.270 --> 37:08.270 A SPECTACULAR TOWN WITH A 37:08.270 --> 37:10.150 WONDERFUL BUNCH OF FOLKS WHO ARE 37:10.150 --> 38:05.140 WILLING TO INVEST THEIR TIME AND 38:08.140 --> 38:10.210 >> A TASK TO INTERVIEW DIFFERENT 38:10.210 --> 38:13.050 PEOPLE AND ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR 38:13.050 --> 38:16.040 LIFE IN WATERBURY. 38:16.040 --> 38:19.040 GET A GOOD VIEWPOINT AND MAKE A 38:19.040 --> 38:19.170 DOCUMENTARY. 38:19.170 --> 38:20.230 IT WAS A LOT OF FUN. 38:20.230 --> 38:22.100 >> IT WAS REALLY COOL TO BE A 38:22.100 --> 38:25.100 PART OF A VIDEO INSTEAD OF 38:25.100 --> 38:26.110 WATCHING MINDLESSLY. 38:26.110 --> 38:27.270 IT WAS REALLY NICE TO HAVE A 38:27.270 --> 38:29.180 VOICE IN WHAT'S PRESENTED ON 38:29.180 --> 38:29.280 VERMONT. 38:29.280 --> 38:35.190 >> IN THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS 38:35.190 --> 38:38.190 I SAID IN ADDITION TO STUDYING 38:38.190 --> 38:40.070 VERMONT HISTORY, THIS IS 38:40.070 --> 38:42.110 DESIGNED TO MAKE HISTORY. 38:42.110 --> 38:43.260 AND STUDENTS THEMSELVES HAVE 38:43.260 --> 38:44.270 MADE HISTORY. 38:44.270 --> 38:46.210 IT'S TO THEM I'VE GIVEN A LOT OF 38:46.210 --> 38:47.090 CREDIT TO. 38:47.090 --> 38:49.080 WITHOUT THE STUDENTS, WOULDN'T 38:49.080 --> 38:51.230 HAVE BEEN IN THE FILM. 38:51.230 --> 38:56.060 THIS KIND OF LEARNING IS CENTRAL 38:56.060 --> 38:59.060 TO THE HIGH IMPACT WE OFFER. 38:59.060 --> 39:01.240 WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS THE 39:01.240 --> 39:04.240 WORK OF OUR STUDENTS. 39:04.240 --> 39:11.090 RESEARCHING AND INTERVIEWING 39:11.090 --> 39:14.090 LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 39:14.090 --> 39:15.180 STUDENT PARTICIPATION 39:15.180 --> 39:18.040 EXEMPLIFIES THE LEARNING 39:18.040 --> 39:19.050 EXPERIENCES BOTH WITHIN AND 39:19.050 --> 39:21.240 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM THAT JFC 39:21.240 --> 39:22.050 PROVIDES. 39:22.050 --> 39:23.210 >> AFTER DEVELOPING THE STORY 39:23.210 --> 39:25.250 WITH THE STUDENTS, WE HAD TO 39:25.250 --> 39:26.290 TRACK DOWN MANY PHOTOGRAPHS. 39:26.290 --> 39:29.200 AND LUCKILY, THE HISTORICAL 39:29.200 --> 39:30.010 SOCIETY. 39:30.010 --> 39:31.180 MANY INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES 39:31.180 --> 39:34.040 ALL CONTRIBUTED FOR THIS 39:34.040 --> 39:35.170 PROJECT. 39:35.170 --> 39:38.170 >> I NEVER REALLY KNEW HOW MUCH 39:38.170 --> 39:40.110 LITTLE DETAILS THERE WERE TO BE 39:40.110 --> 39:42.030 AWARE OF. 39:42.030 --> 39:45.030 IT WAS COOL EXPERIENCE. 39:45.030 --> 39:48.100 >> HEARING FROM PEOPLE THAT HAVE 39:48.100 --> 39:51.100 GROWN UP THERE, IT JUST REALLY 39:51.100 --> 39:54.000 BRINGS IT HOME AND MAKES IT HOME 39:54.000 --> 39:54.180 FOR ME. 39:54.180 --> 39:56.170 >> I DON'T KNOW. 39:56.170 --> 40:01.040 I HOPE IT, LIKE, SHOWS PEOPLE 40:01.040 --> 40:04.040 WHO AND WHAT WATERBURY IS. 40:04.040 --> 40:06.190 >> IT JUST GIVES YOU A GREAT 40:06.190 --> 40:09.280 FEELING OF VERMONT HISTORY AND 40:09.280 --> 40:12.280 THE PEOPLE THAT MADE UP THE 40:12.280 --> 40:13.150 HISTORY. 40:13.150 --> 40:15.180 SOMETIMES WE LOSE THAT WITH THE 40:15.180 --> 40:17.090 COVERED BRIDGES. 40:17.090 --> 40:20.090 BUT WE DON'T REALLY LEARN ABOUT 40:20.090 --> 40:23.080 THE PEOPLE IN DEPTH AND LEARN 40:23.080 --> 40:26.080 THEIR EVERY-DAY LIVES. 40:26.080 --> 40:27.020 IT'S THEIR EVERYDAY LIFE THAT'S 40:27.020 --> 40:28.100 IMPORTANT. 40:28.100 --> 40:30.260 >> VERMONT PBS, PARTNERING WITH 40:30.260 --> 40:32.260 LOCAL FILMMAKERS TO BRING YOU 40:32.260 --> 40:36.260 STORIES MADE HERE.