MF 115 Alexander-Crawford Historical Society Oral History Collection

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Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

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Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History: MF 115 Alexander-Crawford Historical Society Oral History Collection

Number of accessions: 1 with 38 interviews
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1980-1991
Time period covered: 20th century
Principal interviewers: John Dudley and Jane Dudley
Finding aides: none
Access restrictions: none
Description: NA2606 Accession consists of 38 cassette recordings of interviews with residents of the towns of Alexander and Crawford, Maine, conducted under the auspices of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society between 1980-1991. Topics range widely but cover aspects of the history and lifeways of the area; Townsend House; School in the Woods; mills; stage routes; blueberries; Princeton (community); Pembroke (community); woods work; lakes; Alexander Frost; ghosts; and other topics. Deposited by John Dudley for the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society, Alexander and Crawford, Maine, deposited October, 1998.

# Date Person Subject

1 09/80 Hazel Cousins Frost Townsend House and Ghosts
2 10/21/80 Fenderson Family & Breakneck Mtn.
3 12/10/80 Pliney Frost (Alexander Historian)
4 05/05/81 Pliney Frost Ned Lamb family & airline stage
5 07/21/81 A-CHS annual meeting
6 03/16/82 Harold Fenlason
7 4/82 & 5/82 School in the Woods
8 04/20/82 Frank Fenderson St. Croix Island
9 05/15/82 Jane Dudley School in the Woods
10 05/18/82 Reed Holmes
11 09/21/82 John Ahlin Attitudes on Native Americans
12 10/19/82 Roberta Wheaton Early Princeton
13 11/82 Floyd Hunnewell Mills on Pcomoonshine Lake
14 12/14/82 Sammy Saunders
15 12/82 John M. Dudley Grand Lake & Pokey Stories
16 02/15/83 Frank Fenderson Winters Past
17 04/83 Floyd Hunnewell The stage cattle drives, people
18 08/16/83 Sandy Ives Poaching
19 08/21/84 H & F Fenderson Stories
20 12/18/84 A-CHS Christmas coffee
21 02/85 Floyd Hunnewell Blueberries
22 05/17/85 Grace Mahar Taylor Pembroke Memories
23 09/85 John M. Dudley The 20s
24 12/85 Clinton Flood Farming and memories
25 06/30/86 Audrey Ketner Chocolate cakewalk of 1986
26 01/90 Lloyd Blaney Stoll-MacGregor Mill
27 04/11/90 Parks Carle Land Policy (Charlotte)
28 06/13/90 John Ahlin Unity v. Margaretta
29 10/10/90 William Hatfield Cooper Stories
30 04/27/91 Ina Johnson McKaskell family
31 01/16/91 Albert Anderson Mill and Woods work in the 1930s
32 Vowels and commands
33 John M. Dudley Tree Squeaks
34 John M. Dudley Lakes in Alexander and Crawford
35 Millie Winkler Teacher in Alexander
36 John M. Dudley Pokey Dam & Commercial fisheries
37 07/02/86 Pliney Frost Alexander Frost
38 John M. Dudley Tree Squeaks