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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Lora Ricketts — a lifetime in the Hilltowns
Description: Lora Ricketts consults a cookbook, with her rolling pin and measuring cup at the ready. At 83, she still lives on the Hilltown farm where she settled well over a half-century ago after a peripatetic childhood. She finished eighth-grade in a one-room schoolhouse, then went on to high school in Woodstock, Vermont. She fell in love at 17 with Raymond Ricketts. He managed a neighboring farm in Vermont but, at 16, couldn’t drive. He’d take her to the movies on the back of a big workhorse. Together, they raised three children on their 80-acre farm in East Berne and were largely self...