Bob Thompson with a registered black model Holstein cow. He kept a herd on his farm and sold surplus cows internationally. 1945. Lisbon, NY. Courtesy of Bob Thompson. For Bob Thompson’s full story, click here.
Jane Thompson and Bryan Thompson hold and are surrounded by a flock of turkeys her family was raising for Heuvelton’s turkey markets. Circa late 1950s. Heuvelton, NY. Photo courtesy of Bryan Thompson. Check out our story on Heuvelton’s turkey days.
Turkey Day in 1905. Farmers are waiting in line with their turkeys towards the railroad station, where turkeys were appraised and bought. A car load of knocked down boxes would arrive to be distributed to the different buyers. These boxes were large enough to hold eighteen medium-sized turkeys in the first two tiers and four […]
Workers transport Benson’s Leghorn Chickens in wooden crates aboard a wagon. Fred C. Benson was the proprietor of Central Meat and Grocery Market at 33 Market Street. Potsdam’s depot is to the right of the wagon. Circa 1920. Potsdam, NY.
Officer Jordan Nason of the Tupper Lake Police Department with JD, the TLPD’s K-9 Unit. 2017. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Tupper Lake Police Department. Read our full North Country at Work story and interview with Tupper Lake Police Department Police Chief Eric Proulx here.
Grandpa Matteson feeding chickens on a Hermon homestead. Circa 1900. 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).
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 […]
Men gathered downtown with horses and wagons for Turkey Day, a day just before Thanksgiving during which farmers sold their turkeys to buyers from cities like New York, Boston, and Montreal. Circa 1910. Lisbon, NY. Click here to read a North Country at Work story on a Lisbon girl who hid notes inside of the turkeys her family […]
