Cuttyhunk Town Meeting, reel #1 and #2 [sound recording]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: Asch Sound Recording 104-105
name: label: Creator
content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
place: label: Place
content: Cuttyhunk Island (Mass.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
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content: Timothy Asch papers
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content: Timothy Asch papers / Series 12: Sound Recordings
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Reels (7 inch)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
label: Type
content: Town meetings
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content: Town meetings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Recording of Gosnold Town meeting that aired on June 8, 1967 on "Listen Here" a radio series on WGBH, Boston. From the June 1967 WGBH Program Guide: "Colorful New England Town Meeting. Recently WGBH radio reporters traveled by boat from New Bedford to the Island of Cuttyhunk to record the Gosnold Town Meeting, one of the most colorful in all New England. Forty-one of the 52 eligible voters showed up to vote appropriations for the town's eight-grade school (a school that has only three students) and to debate the destiny of the privately-owned water supply which the town would like to buy, but not at the owner's price. It's an exciting demonstration of democracy in action."