North Country At Work

A man preparing the ground for planting on a farm field in Hermon. Circa 1900-1910. Hermon, NY.

A man and woman pose with a crate of cabbages on an unknown vegetable farm. Circa 1900-1910. Hermon, NY.

A crew of farm workers rest beside stooks (stacks or piles) of corn with a Green Mountain silo in the background. Corn was chopped before being fed into the silo, where winter feed for livestock was stored. This was very dusty work. One worker wears an early respirator. Circa 1900-1910. Hermon, NY.

Man weeding onions with walking hoe on a vegetable farm in Hermon. Circa 1900-1910s. Hermon, NY.

Margot Brooks and Alex Eaton feeding their cows in the barn of Sugar House Creamery, a farm and cheese-making business that makes European-style cheese from twelve Brown Swiss cows. 2016. Upper Jay, NY. Photo is a still from a video produced by Josh Clements Productions for ANCA (the Adirondack North Country Association).

Margot Brooks walks cows into the barn at the Sugar House Creamery farm, where she and the rest of the Sugar House Creamery team make European-style cheese from twelve Brown Swiss cows. 2016. Upper Jay, NY. Photo is a still from a video produced by Josh Clements Productions for ANCA (the Adirondack North Country Association).

George Lamica, Clarence MacIntrye, George Lamica Jr., Kelly, Don Thompson, Herbert Thompson, and Stanley Hurlbut prepare to cut corn on the Hurlbut farm. The crew would move throughout the neighborhood cutting corn at each farm until the harvest was finished. August 1940. Osbornville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.

Stanley Hurlbut reaping oats on his farm. Circa 1940. Osbornville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.

Donald, Clinton and Herbert Thompson in their dairy barn with milk pails. Photograph by Leo Thompson. (Clinton was DeKalb historian Bryan Thompson’s father.) August 1956. Osbornville in Town of De Kalb, NY. Listen to Bryan’s story of his childhood work of chasing cows out of the barn – and failing at it in front of […]

Herbert and Donald Thompson pose on top of the Thompson farm’s last load of hay. 1936. Osbornville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.