tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2143961626554476692024-03-05T06:29:54.547-08:00JD APPLE PICKERJD APPLE PICKERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968135582482325684noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214396162655447669.post-7731612116521969092012-05-23T20:14:00.000-07:002012-05-23T20:14:18.122-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fred often spoke about his days with a medicine show called the Ruby Tonic Entertainers. They sold a rhubarb salve made by the South Atlantic Chemical Company.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As Fred told Ray Alden, “We’d leave Galax in the morning and we’d play in Charlotte, North Carolina over WBT. We had an hour program over there. We’d get in the car and leave there to go to Edmund Henry, Virginia and had to do an hour that night. And then we had to be in Roanoke at 6:30 A.M. for an hour. Drive all night long, and then back in Galax and right back all around again. We did that for six months, rawhiding it all the way. At Charlotte, the first broadcast studios were air-tight, doors went together like a money safe, and when that door went together, buddy, that is it! No ventilation, we’d come outta there many a time in summertime and roll foam off our britches with our hands.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In the 1960s he was part of the Camp Creek Boys, one of the finest old-time bands ever. Their playing influenced a couple of generations of younger old time musicians.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 1st Old Time Album I ever owned is "Down to the Cider Mill" Fred Cockerham, Tommy Jarrell and Oscar Jenkins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To learn more about Fred's life and history go to <a href="http://www.fieldrecorder.com/docs/notes/cockerham_alden.htm">Field Recorder's Collective. </a></span>JD APPLE PICKERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968135582482325684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214396162655447669.post-47271655211452441382011-08-26T16:34:00.000-07:002011-08-30T19:14:35.423-07:00North American Banjo Builders - Now Available!!<span style="font-size: small;">I just received an email from Craig "frailin" Evans that the 1st North American Banjo dvd set is now available!! The“East of the Mississippi Banjo Builders” (Volume 1) </span><span style="font-size: small;">(Volume 2 in the works West of the Mississippi)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It's been a long time in the making! Should see my copy in the mail soon!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">For more info click <a href="http://www.northamericanbanjobuilders.com/">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Your Host Craig "frailin" Evans</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.chuckleebanjos.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">Chuck Lee </span></a></div><br />
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JD APPLE PICKERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968135582482325684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214396162655447669.post-8524869246082162802011-07-20T12:33:00.000-07:002011-07-20T12:33:12.957-07:00Black Twig Pickers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I recently found out about The Black Twig Pickers through a forum I responded to on <a href="http://banjohangout.org/">banjohangout.org</a> titled new old time time bands. Which I posted The Can Kickers. Someone posted about Black Twig Pickers and I've been listening to them since. To my surprise they were signed to <a href="http://www.thrilljockey.com/">Thrill Jockey Records</a>. So unexpected..</span>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/9uN3ViPR424?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Banjos and fiddles, boards and bones in hand, the Black Twig Pickers dove into a living tradition of old-time music that surrounds their homes in Southwest Virginia and never looked back. Both scholars of the regional sounds and advocates of an ecstatic and highly personal approach to the music, the Twigs hold down local dance and bar gigs, play all manner of celebrations and every so often, hit the road. Along the way, Isak Howell, Nathan Bowles and Mike Gangloff kept company with some of underground America's heavyweights and haunted the doorsteps of Appalachian fiddle and banjo masters. They've played for the National Council for the Traditional Arts and for audiences overseas. And they've put out a string of acclaimed albums, including 2008's Hobo Handshake and last year's Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers. </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> Ironto Special is an album of traditional Appalachian old-time tunes (and two originals) that they've learned through study of both local old-time musicians and old-time records and field recordings. The instrumentation is all-acoustic and features some of the old-time usuals – fiddle, banjo, guitar – and some less-routinely-heard-in-today's-old-time-scene implements like washboard, bones, fiddlesticks, mouth harp and jaw harp. Plus (on one song) a one-of-a-kind baritone resonator 12-string guitar. Old-time music served, and continues to serve, a variety of functions in Appalachian life – from dance music to somber solo performance to raggier blues and everything in between. Ironto Special is an attempt to celebrate this variety in the old-time tradition through the band's process of learning and growth as they explore the music's many facets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wow I did a fiddle post...? After all we are all playin fiddle tunes right?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I first saw the Can Kickers play at Mass Art in 2004? I was blown away by what these dudes were playing with these small stringed instruments! Looking back I wish I could have seen the light when I saw them back then! 7 Years later I'm still listening and inspired by these guys from New London CT. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Taking Old Time Tunes to another level and putting their own twist such as drums and very upbeat percussion that gives a very punk vibe to the tunes. These guys make amazing dance music.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Wish I knew how old and what banjo Daniel plays! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A great example to follow. Expressing his roots and keeping traditions alive through his music and art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Haywood's strong brushwork and frugal choice of elements in the painting's composition show the idea that childhood is more than a carefree commercial for lemonade. Benita Heath, Lexington Herald Leader. <br />
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Born in a holler in Eastern Kentucky, John Wezley Haywood saw life differently than children who grew up in more economically developed areas. He lived in a small community called Risner that was named for his Mother's family. During this time both Haywood and his community were being changed by outside influences which came into the area by means of mass communication and corporate development. Many of the traditions that had been handed down in the Eastern Kentucky region were forgotten. Today, from his home in Knott County, he paints the real Kentucky. His artwork wallows in the stereotypes and pays tribute to lifestyles that make Kentucky and Appalachia one of the most unique and celebrated places in the entire world. The paintings tell stories of hell raising hillbillies, hardened mine workers, mountain musicians, and more. <br />
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His work can currently be found at the Appalachian Artisan Center, the Mary Stewart Craft Shop, both located in Hindman, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, and the Kentucky Artisan Center of Berea, as well as his studio in Knott County. Established galleries such as the Cinderblock and Swanson Reed Contemporary in Louisville, Kentucky have carried his artwork. In June 2006 he received a professional development grant from the Kentucky Arts Council for a solo exhibition in Ashland, Kentucky. In 2007 he received a Grant from the Kentucky Arts Council and Lincoln Bicentennial Commission for his painting of Abraham Lincoln. In 2009 his artwork and banjo playing was documented by the late Mike Seeger for a yet to be released Southern Banjo documentary. He is also a juried member of the Kentucky Arts Council's Visual Art at the Market program. Haywood can also be found participating in various arts and music festivals across the region. <br />
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His work has been collected by a variety of folks in an out of state. Environmental biologists, college professors, famous banjo players, disc jockeys, and tattoo artists are all proud owners of Haywood's paintings. As the list grows so does the demand for his artwork. I think that with the way things are today, people are looking for work that will connect them to something or someplace. As our culture becomes more and more homogenized, we are loosing many of the characteristics that make us unique, he says. <br />
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Haywood currently resides at the head of Little Doubles Creek near Hindman, Kentucky with his wife, Kelli Brooke Haywood, and his daughters Deladis Rose and Ivy Pearl Haywood. He is also an award winning old time banjo player currently playing with Rich and the Po'Folk, and the Travelin' Snakes. He also performs solo. </span></span><br />
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The Blackstone River flows through the town which during the Industrial revolution provided much of the water power to the town's many textile mills and factories.</span></div><div style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;">Millbury was originally the Second or North Parish of Sutton, Massachusetts. Because traveling from one part of Sutton to the other for town meetings, etc. was difficult and time-consuming, the inhabitants of the Northern Parish petitioned the Massachusetts general Court to split the town of Sutton into two separate towns. The North Parish became the town of Millbury on June 11, 1813 by way of an act of incorporation.</span></div><div style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;">Millbury's industrial history can be traced to the early 18th century, not long after the area's settlement. In 1735, John Singletary began operating a mill on Singletary Brook, a stream flowing out of Singletary Lake. Around 1753, John Singletary built the S & D Spinning mill, which is still in operation today making it one of the oldest continuously operating mills in the United States. The mill is featured on the Town Seal. The mill also makes the red stitching that is on major league baseballs.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2010"> </sup></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, after learning the trade of </span>firearms<span style="color: #444444;"> production from their father, Asa Waters</span><span style="color: #444444;"> II, and his brother Elijah, purchased land along the </span>Blackstone River <span style="color: #444444;">and built mills producing goods such as </span>guns<span style="color: #444444;"></span><span style="color: #444444;"> and </span>sawmill<span style="color: #444444;"> saws. In 1808, Asa and Elijah erected an </span>armory <span style="color: #444444;">which was successful until forced to close suddenly in 1841. It reopened at the start of the </span>Civil War <span style="color: #444444;">in 1861, doing work for the U.S government. </span><span style="color: #444444;"></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0" style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbury,_Massachusetts#cite_note-0"> </a></sup><span style="color: #444444;">With wealth Asa Waters II received from his factories, he began construction, in 1826, of a Federal </span><span style="color: #444444;">style </span>mansion<span style="color: #444444;">, near the town center on Elm Street. Designed by </span>Boston <span style="color: #444444;">architect </span>Asher Benjaman<span style="color: #444444;">, it was completed in 1832. It took two years to collect materials for construction of the house, including </span>marble from Italy<span style="color: #444444;"> and </span>bricks<span style="color: #444444;"> from </span>Baltimore<span style="color: #444444;"> Known as the </span>Asa Waters Mansion<span style="color: #444444;"> it is an icon of the town .</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbury,_Massachusetts#cite_note-1"></a></sup>President William Howard Taft <span style="color: #444444;">spent many summer vacations in Millbury as a young boy, attending the public schools for a season.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbury,_Massachusetts#cite_note-2"></a></sup><span style="color: #444444;"> When he grew older, he visited his grandparents most summers. He visited his aunt, Delia C. Torrey, during his presidency for the occasion of Millbury's 100th birthday. The Torrey House, where President Taft stayed during his visit, is commonly called The Taft House today.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbury,_Massachusetts#cite_note-3"></a></sup><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span><sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2010"></sup><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2010">business after WWII. On my mums side, Gramma Jean </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2010">and my grandfather Ernest Burke both come from farming </sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2010">in West Millbury to start his own. The farm was dairy </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2010">and corn, they had a farm stand etc. and won many blue </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2010">ribbons for their cows!</sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2010">Being able to give Millbury it's first skatepark was </sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is also known for his paintings and writing. Tim has been involved with many art shows with artists such as Russ Pope, Richard Hart, Rich Jacobs and Mike Leslie just to name a few. He was also selected to compete two years in a row in song writing contests held at the then new Kerrville Folk Festival. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really admire Tim because we have a few things in common, the love of Skateboarding and Old Time banjo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">- "old time" music is like punk rock and bluegrass is like heavy metal. - Tim Kerr </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carlin was born in New York City; growing up during the folk revival, he was inspired by the banjo at age five when he saw Pete Seeger in concert. Later he began studying blues guitar with other aspiring folk musicians, including Roy Book Binder. He took up the banjo at age 16 and eventually became the protégé of Hank Sapoznick, who in 1977 appeared with Carlin on his debut album, Melodic Clawhammer Banjo. Later he began studying music under two Appalachian masters, Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham. He and Sapoznick then joined the Delaware Water Gap String Band and recorded a broad range of music that included reggae and swing. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In 1980, Carlin left the group to launch a solo career. He signed to Rounder in 1981 and released Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo. He made two more albums for Rounder before moving to the Merrimac label, where he recorded Take Me as I Am (1990) and Mr. Spaceman (1992). An active participant in trying to save the oldest traditional songs, between 1983-1985 Carlin produced a 12-part documentary, Our Musical Heritage, for PBS radio. In 1988, Carlin recorded the Library of Congress Banjo Collection and later The Banjo on Folkways, Vols. 1 & 2 (1992). He also lectured and offered workshops, spending much of the early '90s researching a comprehensive history of the banjo's place in American music. He continued to record, both as a solo artist and accomplished sideman, appearing with John Hartford and Dolly Parton, among others. In 2003 he compiled and produced Songs and Ballads of the Bituminous Miners for the Library of Congress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is one of my favorite Old Time albums. Amazing title for a banjo fiddle recording. I listen to this on most of my commutes to work on my bike.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Dust Busters are an old-time string band based out of Brooklyn, New York. <span class="bio">Ballads, fiddle tunes & jug-band blues -- their distinct sound is contemporary, meaningful, raw... and foremost, fun!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The Dust Busters have clearly been hanging out with some of my favorite dead guys. And this is the thing: you either fall in love with the dead guys or you don't -- but you can't fake that sort of communion. The Dust Busters are there -- you can hear it in their repertoire, and in the heart with which they play.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="bio"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="bio"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> “The Dust Busters bring back the true spirit of Old Time Music, where every singer invented his own performance. Besides being excellent musicians on fiddle, banjo and guitar, pump organ, harmonica, etc., they sing with the high voices that echo the sounds of young artists heard on the old 78s, evoking the spirit of the “Golden Era” of recording, and the mystery of their own identity.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> They have built their repertoire from some of the best music of the past and they keep it alive and lively. They have found resonance with the intensity of rural music, while delighting in the nuances that preserve the individual uniqueness of the genre. This is music that will keep your mind dancing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The Dust Busters are reaching for new musical highs, and they play the kind of music I want to hear.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span><i><b>- John Cohen, New Lost City Ramblers.</b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><i><b> </b></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/qCQqbnMw9wU?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><i><b> </b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>JD APPLE PICKERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968135582482325684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214396162655447669.post-24307788345908453842011-02-16T09:17:00.000-08:002011-02-16T21:11:46.722-08:00Legendary Kyle Creed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7xPGeoWM20P0M-EBvsW_k0vq2eIy6CF22vbUYcqeXHkW-Eyewi7E4DoEd_GTOSHwZJVALwEJf5O-1H_nXGbD3tOHKc6_JsN0UlVcXtzIAYrOW7qAu9nkEns8MqMBCM-rZkWyJ4t6HM-F/s1600/creed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7xPGeoWM20P0M-EBvsW_k0vq2eIy6CF22vbUYcqeXHkW-Eyewi7E4DoEd_GTOSHwZJVALwEJf5O-1H_nXGbD3tOHKc6_JsN0UlVcXtzIAYrOW7qAu9nkEns8MqMBCM-rZkWyJ4t6HM-F/s400/creed.jpg" width="400" /><span style="color: black;"> </span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Kyle Creed grew up in the Camp Creek area of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Surrey County, NC, and the region gave its name to the string band he formed, the Camp Creek Boys, in the 1930s with Fred Cockerman, Paul Sutphin, Ronald Collins, Ernest East, Verlin Clifton, and Roscoe Russell. The Camp Creek Boys, who ended up recording three albums for the County and Mountain labels in the 1960s, expanded on the normal banjo/fiddle/guitar string band configuration by adding an additional guitar and mandolin, and the group's high-energy take on traditional Appalachian dance reels was highly influential during the old-time music revival of the 1960s. Creed was an outstanding clawhammer banjo player and his clean, bell-like tone and gentle syncopated style have been much imitated. He also built banjos, reportedly even selling them out of the trunk of his car, and original Kyle Creed banjos are now heavily sought by collectors, although, as many have noted, they sounded much better when it was Creed who was playing them. Creed eventually settled in the Galax, VA, area, known for both its banjo and fiddle players. He ran a store there and built a small recording studio next to it, and even ran his own record label for a time. Aside from his work with the Camp Creek Boys, Creed released occasional sides featuring his banjo and fiddle playing, including the delightful Liberty, which was issued on cassette by Bobby Patterson's Heritage Records in 1977 and has since become a much sought-after collector's item. Creed passed away in 1982. His influence on the old-time music community was immense, and traces of his distinctive banjo style can still be heard in the playing of any number of banjoists working in contemporary string bands.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">I recently bought this album from www.elderly.com. This album is much different than most..</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Clawhammer banjo, musicians sought him out to learn his style One of these, Tom Mylet became a close friend of Kyle’s, so close that when Tom came by, they’d sit on Kyle’s back porch and, using Kyle’s recording machine, record these sessions. The second voice and banjo are Tom Mylet’s. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Don't be fooled by the title. This is definitely not a banjo lesson, more like a personal hangout with Mr Creed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The thing I enjoy is how he played over the neck of the banjo and not so much over the head.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Founded in 1733, our farm was the first settlement in the South County area. In 1733, Obadiah McIntyre, of Salem Massachusetts, was given a land grant by King George of England for his services as town constable. The land grant was for 300 acres of wilderness land. He was elected to the first board of selectman when the frontier lands were organized into a district in 1755. Today, down town Charlton is full of his memory. In the common area are the homes of his sons and grandchildren. Samuel McIntyre’s (Obadiah’s oldest son) mansion, at the corner of Old Worcester Road and Main Street, is now the Southbridge Savings Bank.</span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Early in the 1920s through the early 1940s, this farm was used as a cattle stockyard. The old Morton Train Station was located just to the right of our driveway. As many as 50,000 head of cattle, brought in from the western United States, and headed for the eastern city markets were grazed on our fertile pastures. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Local legend tells a story about the last legal hanging in Massachusetts, in the fall of 1937, being held on our farm. Two desperados, ages 19 and 20, killed a local farmer for his money. The 19 year old, stole the farmer’s gold watch and was identified in a local tavern, when he pulled out the watch to check the time. Eager for justice and watching the clock closing on public hangings, the Charlton town’s people voted to hang the two in October of 1937, at the old stockyard across from Morton Station. People from all over Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut came and watched the last public hanging. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Is this tree still on our farm? Possibly! Look to your right as you travel up the driveway. Some of the maple trees along side the property at Old Worcester Road are over 100 years old.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As Central Massachusetts’ development pushed on, the new Route 20 highway was constructed, and the farm suffered in the name of progress. The highway split the farm in half, 140 acres on the south side and 160 acres on the north side of the highway. Today the north side of Route 20 is home to the Charlton Industrial Park and Charlton Landscape Supply Company. The South Farm became Charlton Orchards Farm.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">In the spring of 1949, Nelson Wheeler planted the first apple trees, on the land that latter would be known as Charlton Orchards. Magnificent pin oaks were planted, in 1956, along each side of the road leading to the center of the orchards and the store. By 1960, peaches and blueberries were added to compliment the apple crop. Charlton Orchards opened for business that year, and quickly realized that pick-your-own would be an important part of their business. Mrs. Wheeler says, “ We never advertised. Nice people told nice people.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;"> In 1970, the Wheelers sold the orchard to Brookfield Orchards. The farm was under Brookfield’s ownership, until 1998. Sometime during the 1970s and 1980s portions of the farm were sold off to pay bills and allow for replanting and expansion money. Also during this time the main farm house was disassembled and reassembled at Sturbridge Village. In 1998, the farm was down to only 100 acres, 200 acres smaller than it was over 250 years ago. That was the year we purchased the farm.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">Who are we? We are the Benjamins. Nathan and Patty Benjamin purchased the farm along with their son and daughter-in-law, Nate Jr. and his wife Cathy, and their children, Kaitlyn, Sarah, and Jillian, to continue the traditions of this farm. Today, the farm supplies the area with apples, peaches, pears, plums, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, pumpkins and vegetables. All is sold in the original farm stand the Wheelers built. Of cause it has had a few additions made to it. Pick-your-own, continues to be an important part of the orchard operation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">-</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">I worked this farm for some time while in cahoots of opening a new business. Became great friends with the owners. Everyday I had huge appreciation for the land and the way of life. I even got married there!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">I consider this place to be one of the raddest places!</span><br />
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