MF 169 FO 2/ AY 21/ ANT 221 Introduction to Folklore

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History: MF 169 FO 2/ AY 21/ ANT 221 Introduction to Folklore

Number of accessions: 61
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1986 – 2002
Time period covered: late 19th and 20th century
Principal interviewers: various
Finding aides: none
Access restrictions: none
Description: Papers written by students in Introduction to Folklore at the University of Maine (Fo 2, Ay 21, ANT 221- the IDs changed over time).

0549 By Lynn MacFarland for FO 2, spring 1970, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with variations in the game of Hop Scotch in Maine. Text: 47 pp. paper.

0550 Various, interviewed by Jennie Pettengill for FO 2, spring 1970, South Portland, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with proverbs. Text: 11 pp. paper.

0554 Various, interviewed by Mary Kendall for FO 2, spring 1970, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper is a study of jump rope rhymes. Text: 14 pp. paper.

0557 Various, interviewed by Diana Myers for FO 2, spring 1970, East Machias, Orono, and Old Town, Maine. Paper deals with Scottish superstitions; home remedies; tales and poems. Text: 23 pp. paper.

0558 Various, interviewed by Barbara Harriman for FO 2, spring 1970, Bangor, Bar Harbor, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with ghost stories, especially children’s; concept analysis: what is a “ghost story” to a sixth grade child; fragments of folklore from adults: ghost stories and the supernatural. Text: 31 pp. paper.

0559 Various, interviewed by Margaret Gray for FO 2, spring 1970, Newport and Dixmont, Maine. Paper deals with the Peter Bennett robbery of 1887; haunted house; local character tales; water witching; big woods experience; household superstitions. Text: 17 pp. paper.

0560 By John Parola for FO 2, spring 1970, Dexter, Maine. Paper deals with the folklore of the Dexter Schools and some of the people who worked in and/or attended those schools and includes tall tales, jokes, and songs. Text: 24 pp. paper.

0614 By Daniel Edes for FO 2, spring 1971, Dexter, Bangor, and Brewer, Maine; Concord, Massachusetts. Paper deals with stories of John Young from Dexter, a town character and storyteller. Text: 17 pp. paper.

0615 By Paige Russell for FO 2, spring 1971, UMaine, Orono, Maine. 13 pp. ms. Paper deals with homemade beverages; stories about them.

0616 By Thomas Mercier, Jr. for FO 2, spring 1971, Brewer, Maine. Paper deals with folk speech of amateur and citizens’ band radio. Text: 12 pp. paper.

0617 By Faith Garrold for FO 2, spring 1971, Searsport, Liberty, and Belfast, Maine. Paper deals with tales that concern the unborn infant; predicting the sex of the unborn child; treatment of infantile problems; epitaphs. Text: 36 pp. paper.

0618 By William Whitten for FO 2, spring 1971, Brewer and UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with superstitions held by American athletes and those connected with their field. Text: 49 pp. paper.

0619 By Annette Harson for FO 2, spring 1970, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with use of proverbs among UMaine students. Text: 15 pp. paper.

0620 By Donna Joslyn for FO 2, spring 1971, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with stories about cemeteries and gravestones; Buck Monument. Text: 34 pp. paper. Photos: P 1006 – P 1007.

0628 By Katherine Whedon for FO 2, summer 1971, Bradford, Stillwater, and Millinocket, Maine. Paper deals with ghost stories; a tall tale; life story of a farmer. Text: 16 pp. paper.

0629 By Paul Poirier for FO 2, summer 1971, Swanzey and Keene, New Hampshire. Paper deals with tall tales about Ernest J. Underwood, a tall man. Text: 7 pp. paper.

0630 By Charles Hale for FO 2, summer 1971, Baxter State Park, Castine, Deer Isle, and Vinalhaven, Maine. Paper deals with weather signs and sayings. Text: 24 pp. paper.

0631 By David Morgan for FO 2, summer 1971, Bangor and Orono, Maine. Paper deals with stories about the Al Brady gang. Text: 19 pp. paper.

0632 By Margo Carter for FO 2, summer 1971, Orono and Monticello, Maine. Paper deals with beliefs and stories about horses. Text: 13 pp. paper.

0633 By Noreen Kent for FO 2, summer 1971, Bangor, Otis, and Stetson, Maine. Paper deals with home remedies. Text: 15 pp. paper.

0634 By Janice Cooke for FO 2, summer 1971, Orono, Maine; Braintree, Massachusetts. Paper deals with hiccup cures; wart charming; hangover preventatives. Text: 15 pp. paper.

0635 By Joe Williams for FO 2, summer 1971, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with drug stories; a drinking song; traditional family stories; evil man and innocent girl dialogues. Text: 25 pp. paper.

0636 By Mildred Onyett for FO 2, summer 1971, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with accounts of premonitions and ESP. Text: 44 pp. transcript. Recording: T 0348 1 hour.

0637 By Joan Becich for FO 2, summer 1971, Orono and Stillwater, Maine. Paper deals with haunted house stories and supernatural occurrences; humorous stories; place name legend; curse. Text: 25 pp. paper.

0638 By Daniel Leclerc for FO 2, fall 1971, Orono and Biddeford, Maine. Paper deals with stories about the Saco River curse. Text: 19 pp. paper.

0639 By Paul Gauvin for FO 2, summer, 1971, Greenville, Maine. Paper deals with stories about boarding houses around Moosehead and the woodsmen who lived in them. Text: 13 pp. paper.

0640 Stanley Jackman, interviewed by Mary Marsh for FO 2, summer 1971, West Danville and St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Boston, Massachusetts; Orono, Maine. Paper deals with stories about freezing the old people during the winter; diary of partially successful attempt to find stories on the above in oral tradition; account of interview with Jackman. Text: 9 pp. paper.

0641 By Clare Nickerson for FO 2, summer 1971, Hampden, Hampden Highlands, Maine. Paper deals with weather signs; planting signs; folk remedies; stories about Hampden. Text: 22 pp. paper.

0642 By Frank McDonnell for FO 2, summer 1971, Orono and Veazie, Maine. Paper deals with marijuana and its attendant culture. Text: 7 pp. paper.

0643 By Ann MacKay for FO 2, summer 1971, Danforth and Lincoln, Maine. Paper deals with stories of William MacKay, a character and strongman. Also included: photo of MacKay. Also includes: personal correspondence. Text: 30 pp. paper. Photos: P 1005.

0644 By James Cormier for FO 2, summer 1971, Orono, Old Town, and Rumford, Maine. Paper deals with remedies and beliefs about cuts, burns, and pregnancy; Buck Monument; ghost story. Text: 19 pp. paper.

0645 By James George for FO 2, summer 1971, Orono and Old Town, Maine. Paper deals with seminary stories: two Episcopal priests tell traditional anecdotes of their days at the seminary. Text: 26 pp. paper.

0646 By Catherine Howard for FO 2, summer 1971, Dysart’s Truck Stop in Hermon, Maine. Paper deals with attempts to find out the distribution of the phantom hitchhiker stories; racial jokes; ghost story; tall tale; murder story; all collected from truck drivers. Text: 17 pp. paper.

0647 By Eleanor Hodgkins for FO 2, summer 1971, Ellsworth and Lamoine, Maine. Paper deals with home remedies. Text: 31 pp. paper.

0648 By David Munch for FO 2, summer 1971, Dennysville, Orrington, Brewer, Bradley, and Orono, Maine. Paper deals with home remedies for common cold in humans and mastitis in cows; other home remedies for humans and cows. Accession includes letters from New York City. Text: 41 pp. paper.

0650 By Diane Gagnon for FO 2, summer 1971, Umaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with 20 interviews about how women learned to sew, where, and from whom. Text: 25 pp. paper.

0651 By Kathryn Lothridge for FO 2, summer 1971, Richmond, Gardiner; Boothbay Harbor, and Augusta, Maine. Paper deals with bread-making: recipes and techniques. Text: 17 pp. paper.

0652 By Robert Manning for FO 2, summer 1971, Orono, Brewer, Veazie, and Bangor, Maine. Paper deals with stories about an alleged incident between townspeople of Orono and UM students during the fall of 1919. Text: 22 pp. paper.

0653 By Wayne Young for FO 2, summer 1971, Winter Harbor, Schoodic Point, Steuben, Manset, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with stories about draft evasion; WWII stories; Vietnam stories; sea bird stories. Text: 10 pp. paper.

0655 By Joel Cutler for FO 2, summer 1971, Bangor, Old Town, and Hancock Point, Maine. Paper deals with stories of rum-running in Maine. Text: 12 pp. paper.

0657 By William Nadeau for FO 2, August 1971, Stratford, Connecticut. Paper deals with theatrical customs and beliefs. Text: 16 pp. paper.

0729 By Darah Hueglin for FO 2, spring 1972, NAFOH, Orono, Maine; Tenafly, New Jersey. Paper deals with Hatchet man stories: in dorms, among baby-sitters, lovers, hitchhikers. Text: 37 pp. paper.

0731 By Wayne Dimond for FO 2, spring 1972, Wilton, Maine. Paper deals with remedies, forerunners; superstitions; anecdotes collected from donor’s family. Text: 24 pp. paper.

0732 By Catherine Haskell for FO 2, spring 1972, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with home remedies collected from elderly lady, Ida Hachey, who gives her own and relays the remedies of “Aunt” Fannie Emerson. Text: 7 pp. paper.

0733 By Randolph Oestrich for FO 2, spring 1972, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with beliefs about Jews. Text: 28 pp. paper.

0734 By Gary Herrick for FO 2, spring 1972, West Paris. Paper deals with Indian lore: Mollyocket and other Indian legends. Text: 29 pp. paper.

0809 Lisa Halvorson for FO 2, spring 1973, Orono, Bangor, Orland, Steuben, and Old Town, Maine. Paper deals with the art of quilting; quilt patterns. Text: 28 pp. paper.

0812 By Mona-Jean E. Niles for FO 2, spring 1973, Bradford, Bangor, and Bucksport, Maine. Paper on the legends of Jonathan Buck. Text: 40 pp. paper.

0813 By Nancy Martin for FO 2, spring 1973, Bucksport, Bangor, Presque Isle, and Hudson, Maine. Paper on the legend of the Jonathan Buck Monument. Text: 21 pp. paper.

1011 Various, prepared by Judy Sheppard for FO 2, spring 1973, Orono, Maine; Pennsylvania; Minnesota. 12 pp. ms. Paper deals with a collection of customs, beliefs, superstitions, connected with marriage. Text: 10 pp. paper.

2001 By Karen Joy Ward for AY 221, fall 1986, Madison, Maine. 6 pp. A poem titled “The Waggish Traveler.” Also includes some commentary by Karen Ward. Text: 6 pp. poem.

2166 Horace McKenney, interviewed by Scarlette Parsons for AY 221, October 28 and November 4, 1990, Dexter, Maine. Trans. only. 22 pp. McKenney (Parsons’s grandfather), born July 3, 1878, tells 13 stores, primarily about folk remedies used by his parents and local doctors, but also about his parents (Frank and Bertha); working as a dairy farmer; his wife Lois; his children; his grandchildren. Text: 19 pp. paper. Recording: no tape.

2169 By Christine Marie Schmidt for AY 221, winter 1990, Dexter, Newport, Dover, Guilford, and Parkman, Maine. Trans. only. 11 pp. Baby and childbirth lore Schmidt heard during her pregnancy collected from a variety of sources. Text: 9 pp. paper. Recording: no recording.

2170 By Dawn Pye for AY 221, winter 1990, Orono and Bath, Maine. Trans. only. 18 pp. Paper titled “Ghosts” that deals with of stories relating individual experiences with ghosts. Material was collected from fellow students and friends of the donor. Text: 18 pp. paper.

2171 By Linda Moody for AY 221, winter 1990, Orono, Maine. 5 pp. Student paper on the similarities of accounts of “witch riding” in folklore and the symptoms of narcolepsy/cataplexy syndrome (a neurological disorder). Text: 5 pp. paper.

2285 Residents of Colvin Hall, interviewed by Benjamin John Meiklejohn for AY 221, fall 1992, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. 28 pp. manuscript. Present and former residents of Colvin Hall talk about the ghost of Colvin Hall, a residence hall on the University of Maine campus. Also included is a photocopy of an article titled “Colvin Hall haunted by good-natured ghost” from a 1987 edition of The Maine Campus. Text: 28 pp. paper.

2317 Patricia Mae Hunter, Gary Leigh Hunter, and Cynthia Dawn Risley, interviewed by Cynthia Dawn Risley for ANT 221, fall 1993, Glenburn, Penobscot County, Maine. 22 pp. Paper, titled “Folklore of the Borden and Hunter Families of Aroostook County,” deals with collected folklore of the Harley Borden and Raymond Hunter families. Paper included interviewer’s journal. Text: 20 pp. paper.

2392 Bertha Benoit, interviewed by Daniella Westleigh for AY 221, June 1995, Norway, Maine. 11 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Benoit, who is the granddaughter of Mellie Dunham, the famous fiddler from Norway, Maine, talks about fiddling. Also included are a copy of the Fiddler’s News (January -February 1972), with a feature on Mellie Dunham meeting Henry Ford, and a copy of Westleigh’s journal. Also included are two photocopies of photos of Mellie Dunham. Text: 10 pp. total: transcript, interviewer’s journal, copy of Fiddler’s News. Recording: C 1438. Photos: P00760, P07753.

2536 Richard Raven, Kathryn Cameron, David Cameron, Matt Palmer, and Carol Cameron, interviewed by Carol Cameron for ANT 221, spring/summer 1996. Raven (grandfather), K. Cameron (mother), D. Cameron (brother), Palmer (cousin), and C. Cameron (self), tell true and partially true family stories (20 total) concerning times spent at Casey’s camps on Stevens Point in Spencer Bay, Moosehead Lake, Maine. Also included: family tree. Text: 18 pp. paper.

3518 Jennifer Armstrong, interviewed by Nicholas Wood for ANT 221, March 20, 2002, Belfast, Maine. Text: 6 pp. paper, 22 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 2549.

3869 Samantha Brown. Recording: CD 2546.