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October 21, 2008

Starksboro Town Garage, Starksboro, Vermont

Interviewed by Chester Harvey

Tom Estey is the Starksboro Road Crew Foreman and the Chief of the town’s volunteer fire department. He has lived in Starksboro all his life, growing up in the village on the farm that is now Lewis Creek Farm. He and his wife Cheryl, who is the Starksboro Town Clerk, continue to live in the village.

Tom was interviewed at the Starksboro Town Garage on Rt. 116. The office’s CB radio is sometimes audible in the background.

0:00 – origins

4:00 – road crew

5:00 – Cheryl, high school

6:00 – history of road crew

9:20 – snowstorms

11:20 – fire department

16:40 – historic Starksboro village

17:00 – Mountain View Creamery, Robinson Creamery

21:00 – views on Starksboro development and planning

27:00 – Starksboro Village infrastructure

28:00 – perspectives on town interior

32:00 – historic Starksboro village (cont.)

36:00 – sledding and playing ball in the middle of Rt. 116, Robinson School

42:00 – hunting, Thibault’s camp

43:00 – Town Garage operations

57:00 – Town History

58:00 – Tom: “It’s a pretty nice place to live.”