These titles are mostly first-person accounts of life in Vermont collected during the Great Depression. Themes of interviews conducted by project workers Robert Beaudette, C. F. Derven, Rebecca M. Halley, John Lynch, Roaldus Richmond, F. C. Slayton and Mary Tomasi include personal histories and reminiscences of people from various walks of life, including a stonecutter, granite workers, a Scotch-Irish derrick man, a veteran quarrymen, and more.