Author name: Franklin Local

Too Wet to Plow

By Christina Milliman Documenting Delaware and Otsego County Farmers, Thirty Years Later In 2015, The Farmers’ Museum acquired all of the negatives and photographs by Charles Winters taken for his book with Jean Simonelli, TOO WET TO PLOW. The book documents the story of farmers’ lives through a compilation of stories and Charlie’s memorable photo-documentation.

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Documenting Franklin: The Photography of Arthur Austin

By Christina Milliman Arthur Austin was a professional, and likely self-taught, photographer of the early 20th Century who documented the people, scenery, homes, businesses, public buildings, street scenes and agricultural aspects of daily life in and around Franklin between circa 1900 and 1930. Not a lot is known about this man or his family. It

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