North Country At Work

Interior of early country cheese factory showing cheese vats and interior of milk receiving station. Circa 1890 to 1900. Hermon, NY.

The Hermon Dairy Company was located on Washington Street. Pictured are cheese vats and cheese hoops for forming wheels of cheese in foreground. Employees are standing in background. Circa 1930-1940. Hermon, NY

Casey Galligan, Creamery Manager, gives out samples of cheese in the farm store 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 washing cheeses inside the cheese cave 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 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).

Margot Brooks sweeping the barn floor 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).

Floyd Denesha poses inside the De Kalb Cheese factory. Whey pumps and cheese vats can be seen in foreground. Against the back wall is the press for forming wheels of cheese. 1940. 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 Thompson filters milk into station cans in his milk house. 1956. Osbornville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.