Phil Camp's
Stories
13 Mud Pond Road,
South Kent, Connecticut 06785
Stories
13 Mud Pond Road,
South Kent, Connecticut 06785
..Table of Contents, "Stories and Recollections of Kent".
Gramp's Model T
Knights of the Road
Early Roads
The Hard Way
My Early Recollections of Kent
A Short Ride
Pigtail
Blacksmith Shops
Brown's Forge
Save the School House?
Education, Recreation and Health
Ambulance Barn
A Parking Problem in Kent
The Gypsies
Tradin' at the Store
Sunday Night Prayer Meeting
A Bad Morning, A Good Morning
Woodrow Cannonball
The Story of Hidden Hollow
Circus
New Yorkers
Working in the Woods
Mistakes
A Christmas Story
Runnin' Water
Grandma's Pantry
Cider Time
Trouble Round the Cobble
A Time in Kent
Steve's Auction
The Last Farmer
Old Crumple Horn
Haying Memories
Corn
The Day the Sky Moved
Old Orchards
Calf Buyers, Cattle Dealers
Burn the Swamp
Old Train Whistle
As I Remember the Train Wreck
The Three E's
Fox Hunt
The Hunters and Trappers
A Child's Bank Street Saturday Night
A Happy Childhood
The Hermit Rocks
Girls of Kent and Other Places
Chunk-Heads
Character
Progress in the Country
..Table of Contents, "Country Living in Kent".
Getting the Cows
South Kent
Farm Pets
Spring
The Eccentrics
Black Bear
White Dog
Freddy Ferret
Over the Years
Diet
Farming and Driver Ed
Gaylordsville
Rural Life
The First Developer
Country Girl
Dairying in Kent
Milking Time
The Boarding House Ghost
Cousin Orlo and the Parachute
Hardships
School Kids and Teachers
Bee Trees
The Whip
Death in the Meadow
Low Cost Housing
Gramp and the Power Mower
Beating the Market
Eels and Snapping Turtles
Pa and the Chain Saw
Rough Roads and Late Buses
Discipline
Hall of Fame
Smoking and Dozing
Visitors
Deadlocked Jury
Cutting Ice
Four Buckle Flappers
Remembered Visit
Christmas
Low Pay and High Learning
Old Fashioned Christmas
Christmas Shopping
Daily Papers and Mail Orders
Yankee Thrift
Articulate Farmers
Child Psychology and the Telephone
Overhalls
Foster
Young Dan Duvall
Old Philip
..Table of Contents, "Old Times and Old Timers".
Haystacks
The Dynamiter
Rosie
John Brown
The Deacon's Daughter
Doc Ball
Still of the Night
Dave Smith
Auction Sales
Old Dad and the Horseless Carriage
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Old Cemeteries and Country Roads
Calibrating the Tank
South Kent's Sound of Music
Cultivation and Aggravation
Fred Chase
Old Sawmills
Isinglass Side Curtains
Teamwork
Hanging the Scythe
Water Works in Kent
Burnett Brothers
Vets, Farmers and Cooks
Sammy
Bill S.
Work on a Small Farm
Al Chase
Mother Lode
Artificial Breeding and the Sewing Circle
Dedicated Workers I Have Known
Blacksmith Brothers
Garvey's Barber Shop
Gymnastics with Nathaniel
Frank Beach
Medlicotts
Spring Cooled Milk and Old Lew
Cousin Earl's Seven Passenger Packard
Bob Nisbet
Sixty Years Ago on Wellsville
Millard and the Sorrel Mare
A Trip to Colligans
A Frog Hearing
Storms
Uncle Bob's New Anchor
Sixth Sense
Phinny's Fables
Alert to Danger
To the Poor House
Pickup Trucks
Inland Wetlands
Earth Day
Superstitions, Admonitions, and Humor
Orlo and the Undertaker
First Snowfall
Jennings Farms
S.J. Monroe
Cleaning the Chimney
Milt Hall
Trees
A Funny Farmer and the Covered Bridge
Cousin Orlo and the Trouts
Clint
The Last Hog
Uncle Watt Takes a Bath
Old Prince
Cousin Irv and Lilly
Butterfat and the Housewife
The Punkin Rollers
Summer Kitchen and Water Vat
Milk Stands
A Neighbor's Funeral
The Scents of Christmas
Sal's Famous Remedy
The Hired Men
The Choppers
Excelsior Rabbit and Ghost Fox
Saucered and Blowed
Fishin'
No Lights in the Horse Barn
Shopping at Watsons
First Ford
Catastrophe
Kent Market
Our Barn in Winter
..Table of Contents, "A Lifetime of Stories".
The Critics
Early Life
Charlie Russel and the Last Mile
School Days and Horse Radish Roots
Hazardous Bus Route
Boyd's Auction
Summer of 1930
Gentle As I Be
First Shotgun
Banking
Bargains
Neighbors
Relatives
Thanksgiving and Aunt Gertie
Orlo
The Thomas Family
Gus
Disappearing Relatives
The Old House
The Women
Sympathetic Celie and the Heifer
The Buck Stopped Here
Farming Business
Corn and Maple Trees
The "Vetinarys"
Married Life
Clarence
Old Will Sting
The Air Raid Warden
Coon Hunters and Air Raid Wardens
War Times - Hard Times
Bicycles and Ball Games
Back to Dairying
The Doctors
Dispersal
A New Career
A Criminal Act
School Days at Hudson River
Nanny Bush
Retirement
The Way It Was
Early Morning Mists
..Table of Contents, "Remembering Yesterday". (Sold Out)
Great Gramp's Tonsorial Parlor
Confusion of Pheasants
Pigtail Robin Hood
Chickens and Foxes
The Occupation of Farming
Old Friends
The Hemlock's Christmas
The Deer Slayer
Uncle Gord
Snow Plows
The Bridge Over the Willow Brook
Coyotes
Mail Order Catalogs and How We Used Them
Butchering with the Three Franks
Hunters
Skiing on the New Road
Old Benedict Farm
The Bill Martin Family
School Days
Boys and Tractors
Old Newspaper Accounts
Topsey
South Kent in the 1920's
Yankee Ingenuity
Heredity and Houses
Old '37
Diversified Farming
My Father
Orlo Measures Mosquitoes
First Twenty-two
Photo Finish
Two Sad Sisters
The Whistling Engineer
Train Depots - Rooster Boy
Old Belle
The Farmer
No Family Farms
Unfavorite TV Programs
Sportsman and Unsportsman
Haying Utensils
The Last Steam Shovel
Chester
F & R
Stonewalls
When Farmers Carried Rifles
Snow Chains and a Disgruntled Neighbor
High Standard of Living
The Halls of Kent
Grange at Bull's Hall
Snow Storms and the Media
Seventy Years of Observation
Fixing Freezers
Figures Can Scare You
Hoeing Corn and Changing Times
Along the T.V. Trail
Memories Along a Country Road
..Table of Contents, "Fond Memories".
Crows and Scarecrows
Tom Austin
Never Boring
The Great Depression
Unusual Sunday Morning Service
Fill the Wood-Box
Close Calls
Feudin'
Chipmunks
R.F.D.
Teaching School
Kent High School to HVRHS
Kent Hollow
Advice
Front of the Mountain
A Farmer's Day
Jake's Mules
Barnyard Friends
The Perfectionist
Horse and Buggy Days
Too Much Saleratus
Making a Ladder
Stone Boats
Railroads
Chauncy
Aunt Mary and Uncle Watt
Phil, the Know-it-all
Christmas in the Old Days
Red Top Boots
The Big Red Barn
The Perils of Busing
Sad
The Principal
Chase and Giddings
Colonel Nearing
The Cattle Guard
Consolidation
Pa and the Pie-an-er
Four Generations at Christmas
Wildlife
Enjoying Nature
The Meadow Spring - Poem
The Fur Buyers
Behind in His Work
Old Time Humor
Ted Woodin, Town Father
Fond Memories
Sweepin' and Moppin'
Put Up the Bars
Old Ways
The Four Seasons
Corn Stalks
Camping Out
Waiting for Tomorrow - Poem
..Table of Contents, "More of Phil's Stories".
Back in the Saddle
Bull's Bridge
Christmas at South Kent
The Witch Hazel Brush Cutters
Christmas Trains
February
The Fourth in Kent
Generations
Getting to School
The Old Farm
The Iron Monster
The Lost Soul
Horses
Just Plain Joe
Kent Library
The Ploughman
Snapping Turtles and Wild Game
Old June
Home Place
Landslides and Grandfathers
Skullduggery
Main Street, Kent
Nathaniel Ashman
The Porcelain Claybed
Remembering the Kent Inn
Mom
Willow Whistles
Pa's Skills
Raking After Cart
Recycling Old Orchards
Santa Paul
The Singing Baler
Tough Men
Mr. Russel vs Billy
Skiff Mountain
The South Kent Buses
White Shorts and Mud Baths
A November Hunt
Whip-poor-will
Drowning Out Wood-Chucks
Those I Remember on the South Kent Mail Route
The Drowning at Mud Pond
Jakey and the Stutz Bearcat
Entertaining Events
Remembering South Kent and Hatch Pond
Mud Pond Road
Father Sill and Friends
Fires
The Shootist
Thanksgiving Blizzard, 1938
Frank Fish
Old Time Religion
Old Daisy
The Distillery
Ray Weeks
Miss Ann Hopson
Kent Police Force
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Camp's
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