Newsletters
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Summer – Fall 2007 (in .pdf format):
- Brewer Oral History Project Continues
- AMERICAN FOLK FESTIVAL: August 24-26, 2007
- New Leadership for the Maine Folklife Center
Winter 2006 – Spring 2007 (in .pdf format):
- Maine Humanities Council Supports Oral History Project with Former Eastern Fine Paper Mill Workers The Writing on the Wall—an update
- Maine Folklife Center Leads Students in the History of the Pulp and Paper Industry
- ANNOUNCING: Northeast Folklore Volume XXXX: I Got the Idear: My Love Affair With Maine Language by Marion Kingston Stocking with an essay “Maine Dialects” by Pauleena MacDougall
Winter 2006 (in .pdf format):
- Maine Humanities Council Supports Oral History Project with Former Eastern Fine Paper Mill Workers
- Northeast Folklore Volume XXXIX: “No Flies on Bill”: A Granddaughter’s Tribute
- WAgN, Windsor Chairs, and Hillbilly Music: The 2005 Common Ground Fair
Landing a medium-sized swordfish from a dory ca.1960. (Courtesy of Vernon Conrad)
Winter 2004 – 2005 (in .pdf format):
- Oral History Helps to Answer 4,000 Year Old Question
- Maine Folklife Center Narrative Stage at the National Folk Festival August 28, 29 2004
- Maine Folklife Center receives two grants to support our radio program, Maine Roots.
John Dearborn Sr. image #P7807
Spring – Summer 2004
- The American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront is born
- A Boat Building Story
- Radio Program to be Broadcast Soon
Fall – Winter 2003
- Edward D. “Sandy” Ives awarded Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership at 2003 annual meeting of the American Folklore Society.
- Distinguished Dissertation Award given to Betsy Hedler
- MFC Well Represented at Oral History Conference
- Wooden boat building traditions the subject of current research
- Maine Indian Basketmakers’ Alliance Director Awarded International Prize
- TIMBERRR…A History of Logging in New England by Mary Morton Cowan
- The Continuing Saga of Rob Golding
- A New Face in the Sound Lab
- Archival Notes
- St. John Valley Cultural Assessment Completed
- Planning for 66th National Folk Festival Underway
Spring – Summer 2003
- “In Neptune’s Court”: A New research initiative
- Thirty Minutes on the 1930s in Acadia National Park
- Grant Enhances native Arts Area for 2–3 Festival
- We Know Beans
- Performers at the National Folk Festival
- New and Improved Folk Arts Marketplace
- Musical Instrument Makers Featured at the National Folk Festival South Bristol Oral History featured in new book, Down on the Island, Up on the Maine: A Recollected History of South Bristol, Maine, by Ellen Vincent
- Announcing Our Next Volume: KATAHDIN WIGWAM’S TALES OF THE ABNAKI TRIBES Written by Molly Spotted Elk With an Introduction by Bunny McBride Edited by Pauleena MacDougall XXXVII: 2002
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