Jud's Journal: My Favorite Swop of all Time

In a different time, people were willing to swop furniture for farm-fresh eggs and diamonds for wood-burning stoves.

Enjoy this true story about the origins of the Yankee Publishing swop column, recalled with humor by Judson Hale, the Editor in Chief of The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

Watch some other entertaining episodes of Jud’s Journal:

• How Our Gift Shop Started in the Bathroom
• Einstein’s Brain
• Indian Summer
• The Origin of Yankee

And of course, Jud’s videos about his favorite New England States:

• Colonial America and Massachusetts
• Maine
• Vermont
• Connecticut
• Rhode Island
• And drum roll please… The Most Yankee of All States