Episode 10 "The days can become very long." has been released!

EPISODE 10 "THE DAYS CAN BECOME VERY LONG."
Randy has worked his way up from driving a milk truck to working for the City of Barre. He has worked in both the Water Department and the Cemetery Department. The Cemetery Department covers Hope Cemetery in Barre, which is home to some of Barre’s finest granite memorials. Despite Barre’s multicultural past, some tension arose in the Cemetery Department when the cemetery held a Muslim funeral. Randy’s back in the Water Department, nearing retirement, but, not all is fine and placid: Providing essential services and being a union leader is always hard work.

Oral history transcript to be performed: Randy Edmunds, Work Leader for City of Barre’s Water Department and President of AFSCME Council 93 (2017, original)
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Narrator: Carl Etnier

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SOUND & MUSIC CREDITS
Music: "Cave of Crystals" by Metre. From Free Music Archive. CC BY-NC-SA
Music: "my own space" by Hinterheim. From Free Music Archive. CC BY-ND
Music: "sednoseterces" by Hinterheim. From Free Music Archive. CC BY
Sound Effect: "110801-unloading" by miastodzwiekow. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Fireworks, Close, A (H1)" by InspectorJ. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Kids Birthday Party Crowd" by jakobthiesen. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "lost_maples_waterfall" by wjoojoo. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Milk Bottles clanking" by foxen10. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "passing trucks 008" by tim.kahn. From freesound.org. CC BY-NC
Sound Effect: "pasture ambience LONG 130101_03" by klankbeeld. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "PhoneRinging" by acclivity. From freesound.org. CC BY-NC
Sound Effect: "Summer Barbecue" by nebulousflynn. From freesound.org. CC BY
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