Margaret Suran wrote:

Bubba Vic, At this time of year, do you still have the Open Air
Markets either daily or once or twice a week (Tagesmarkt oder
Wochenmarkt) with all the farmers bringing their stuff and selling it
the same day they picked everything?

Yes, there is such a market here, open every day except Sunday, around
the year. It is not necessarily farmers themselves selling their own
stuff, though there some such, too.

We have our "Greenmarkets" in
Manhattan, especially the one on Union Square and some of the fruits
and vegetables are wonderful, but those markets cannot compare to the
markets I remember from my childhood. Do they still have the live
chickens and ducks and geese?

No live poultry here, nor in France to the best of my knowledge, but
I've seen live chicken and ducks at markets in Italy and I know there
are similar markets in Spain.

Fresh eggs?

Fresh, free-range chicken and goose eggs are there always. Fresh
free-range (that used to be the default in the Old Days) chicken eggs,
unpacked (you select and pack them yourself) are even available in some
supermarkets here.

The small mountains of
butter from which you can buy as much or as little as you need?

Yes, there are some stalls selling butter by weight. In France, it is
not at all unusual either, not just at the markets but also in many
cheese shops.

I
suppose things are different now, almost seventy years later. (

Not all that much different, really.

Bubba Vic