Episode 6 "Poor Devil" has been released!

EPISODE 6 "POOR DEVIL"
Outside of the sheds, work was still dangerous. Workers were crushed, injured, and combusted. Jack gives us a tour of the abandoned quarries, which he punctuates with bittersweet memories and reflections. He tells a joke about a trick laid-off workers used to get a meal. In the end, Jack just wants to be able to get by.
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Oral history transcript to be performed: Jack Gills, Derrick Operator (1930s, Federal Writers’ Project interview)
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VOICE CREDITS
Narrator: Richard Gaiotti

THEME SONG CREDIT
The “John Henry” song at the beginning of our show is from the Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Used courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity.

RESEARCH CITATIONS

• "American Plan". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
• Austin, Michael Louis, "Carving out a sense of place: The making of the Marble Valley and the Marble City of Vermont" (2002). Doctoral Dissertations. 99. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/99
• “Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses (Annual) News Release.” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, 8 Nov. 2018, www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/osh_11082018.htm.
• Kettell, Steven. “Circuits of Capital and Overproduction: A Marxist Analysis of the Present World Economic Crisis.” Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 38, no. 1, 2006, pp. 24–44., doi:10.1177/0486613405283312.
• Liveright, Peter B. “Unionism and Labor Relations in the Granite Industry, Barre, Vermont.” Goddard College, 1943.
• Slayton, F. C, and Horace Davis. Vermont Quarrying. Vermont. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/wpalh002694/>.
• Soderstrom, Carl W., et al. Forty Gavels: the Life of Reuben G. Soderstrom and the Illinois AFL-CIO. CWS Publishing, LLC, 2017.​
• Tomasi, Mari, et al. Men Against Granite. The New England Press Inc., 2004.
• Wagner, Rodd. “'Groundhog Day' Work Fatalities: How They Died In 2017 Tells Us How To Survive In 2019.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 20 Dec. 2018, www.forbes.com/sites/roddwagner/2018/12/20/groundhog-day-work-fatalities-how-they-died-in-2017-tells-us-how-to-survive-in-2019/#1ee1b2d61e14.
• Woodsmoke Productions and Vermont Historical Society, “Vermont in the Great Depression, 1929,” The Green Mountain Chronicles radio broadcast and background information, original broadcast 1988-89.   https://vermonthistory.org/vermont-in-great-depression-1929

SOUND & MUSIC CREDITS
Music: "Unidentified Cajun harmonica tune (II)" by Unidentified [harmonica]. From the Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Sound Effect: "Bar Crowd - Logans Pub - Feb 2007" by lonemonk. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Cableway » Cableway_03" by alessandro.gargiulo. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Flamenquillo_PlazadelSol" by tallers. From freesound.org.  CC BY
Sound Effect: "Hail, Interior, Light, A" by InspectorJ. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Kuppi rikki / Porcelain cup falls and breaks on the floor" by YleArkisto. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Old train » Train 06 (two trains)" by Glaneur de sons. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "Railway station crowd" by arnaud coutancier. From freesound.org. CC BY-NC
Sound Effect: "Rain on a construction site" by oloyolol. From freesound.org. CC BY
Sound Effect: "voices » 20070916.yell" by dobroide. From freesound.org. CC BY