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Our Storytelling

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Family stories, oral histories, and story telling are an important part of the Clemmons Family Farm legacy.  Our stories are a chapter in the rich history of African Americans, and span 150 years of the fascinating lives of the families of Jack and Lydia Clemmons. Our stories are also woven into the fabric of the history of other African-Americans in Vermont, which dates back to the 1700s- long before the Clemmons family moved to to the state. 

These are the stories of Great Grandmother Margie, who ran away ​twice from a White family who "owned" her in Louisiana in the year 1903, long after Lincoln had proclaimed the end of slavery, and of Great Grandfather Jackson J. Clemmons, who moved from Martinique to North Carolina, where he founded the first African-American grade school.

These are the stories of the fun-loving, laughter-filled Grandpa Howard and Grandma Lucille who, as a teen aged married couple, left their crops in the field and ran off to an oil boom town in Arkansas in 1923. These are the stories of the Becks, who fled from Louisiana to California and changed their last name after a mob of White men, jealous of the farming family's financial success, burned their home to the ground.
These are the stories of the Monroes and Clemmonses who joined the Great Migration of the millions of African-American families who left the racism they experienced in the rural south and moved to the urban mid-West in search of better lives and greater economic opportunities. The stories of a hardworking welder, a talented seamstress, an entrepreneurial hat maker, and one of the first African-American women valedictorians in a mid-Western University.
Finally, these are the stories of Jack and Lydia Clemmons, whose family histories run full circle from life on a farm in a small rural community in the South, to life in the urban areas of the mid-West and California, and back to life on a farm in a small rural community-- this time in Vermont. Their careers and adventurous spirits also brought them to Africa, where they worked and traveled around most of the continent over a span of 20 years.  ​
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Southern & MidWestern Heritage, Farm & Family Stories

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Vermont Farm & Home Stories

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Medicine & Nursing Career Stories

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Contact us at: contact@clemmonsfamilyfarm.org
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  • What We Do
    • Job Openings
  • About
    • Our Team
    • About Us >
      • Our Vision
    • Who We Are >
      • Jack and Lydia's Living Legacy
      • How Jack and Lydia Found and Bought the Farm
      • Holding On to Our Legacies
    • When Are We Open?
    • Press Coverage >
      • Other News >
        • 2019 Visitors Survey: Sneak Preview
        • 2018 Updates
        • 2017 Updates
        • 2016 Updates
    • What Our Community is Saying >
      • 2018 Visitor Survey Findings!
      • Feedback from other Vermont communities
    • Subscribe!
  • Our Programs
    • The Legendary Ingramettes
    • Juneteenth 2022!
    • Storytelling Room >
      • 2021 Kwanzaa Storytelling Program
      • The Power of Image
      • Alone Together With Words That Heal
      • Juneteenth in the Air Program (2020)
      • 2018 To Sing of Common Things
      • Family Storytelling >
        • Farm Storytelling Channel
        • Our Storytelling >
          • Heritage, Farm & Family Stories >
            • Louisiana and Arkansas: 1800s - 1920s
            • From the South to the Mid-West: 1930s to 1950s
            • Finding and Buying the Farm
          • Vermont2Africa and Back Stories
    • K-12 Ethnic Studies >
      • WTAMW Project Director
    • Creating Healthy Communities >
      • Beneath Our Skin
      • Cancelling Miss Rona
      • A Sense of Place >
        • A Sense of Place at NEFA-CCX
    • Art >
      • Farm2Art Program >
        • Summer 2016 Farm2Art Program
      • Culinary Heritage & Arts Program
    • Farm
    • Forest
    • Heritage
  • Artists' Registry
    • Are You Looking for an Artist?
    • Why, Hello there, Artists!
  • Historic Buildings
    • Venue Rentals
    • Stay with Us!
    • Six Historic Buildings
    • The Barn House >
      • The Barn House Legacy
      • The Barn House Library
      • Stay with Us!
    • The Big Barn >
      • "Making History, Creating Place" Videos!
      • The Historic Water Cistern
    • The Main House >
      • About the Black Locust Trees
    • The Shop >
      • Shop Storytelling Videos
  • Please Donate!
    • Subscribe!