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Joan Lipfert, interviewed by Anu Dudley, September 24, 2004, at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine.

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Identifier
NA 3258 (local)
Date
September 24 2004 (Date created)
Summary

Lipfert discusses moving to Maine 40 years ago with her husband and getting started organic farming; joining the Sagadahoc chapter of MOFGA; volunteering at the Common Ground Fair by managing the craft tent; perceived changes in MOFGA and the fair such as better education about organic farming and the hazards of pesticides; an internal MOFGA Board conflict and its resolution; the importance of the Agriculture in the Classroom Program; MOFGA’s apprentice program; her favorite memories of the fair.

Creator and/or Contributor
Joan Lipfert (interviewee), Anu Dudley (interviewer)
Language
English (Languages)
Other Subject Headings
Horses (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Depression, 1929 (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Farmers' Markets (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
World War II, 1939-1945 (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Agricultural fairs (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Solar energy (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Organic farming (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Maine Organic Farmers' and Gardeners' Association (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Spinning (textile processes) (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Education (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Apprentices (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Rural life (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Temporal Coverage
1930 - 2004
Geographic Coverage
Woowich, Maine (Geonames)
Springfield, Massachusetts (Geonames)
Ottawa, Ontario (Geonames)
Pennington, Cumbria, United Kingdom (Geonames)
Litchfield, Maine (Geonames)
Augusta, Maine (Geonames)
Windsor, Maine (Geonames)
Bath, Maine (Geonames)
Unity, Maine (-)
Related Entities:
Joan Lipfert (interviewee)
Anu Dudley (interviewer)
Related Subjects:
Sue Sergeant (subject)
Chaitanya York (subject)
Donald E Lipfert (subject)
Related Objects
First page of the transcript for NA 3258