MF 130 AY 125/ANT 425/ AY 197/198 Oral History and Folklore: Fieldwork

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History: MF 130 AY 125/ANT 425/ AY 197/198 Oral History and Folklore: Fieldwork

Number of accessions: 193
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1990s – 2000s primarily, but also 1970s and 1980s
Time period covered: 20th and early 21st centuries
Principal interviewers: students in Edward D “Sandy” Ives’ field work courses (AY 125/ANT 425/AY 197/AY 198)
Finding aides: catalogs, transcripts, papers
Access restrictions: NA1803, NA1804, NA2150 (partially), NA2151 (partially), NA2152 (partially), NA2280, NA2284, NA2370, NA3485 (photo), NA3489, NA3550, NA3700, NA374,
Description: Student work done in Edward D “Sandy” Ives’ field work course Oral History and Folklore: Fieldwork (the call numbers changed over the years) at the University of Maine that was not related to special projects such as Argyle Boom. Also included is work done for special topics courses (AY 197, AY 198) which tended to be advanced field work.

1290 Emedy Baillargeon, interviewed by Nancy Tongue for AY 125, fall 1979, Old Town, Maine. 175 pp. Tape: 5 hrs. w/ cats. In a series of interviews Baillargeon talks about working in woolen mill and Old Town Canoe Factory; description of Old Town 50 years ago; biographical material. Accession also included: 60 pp. oral autobiography of Baillargeon, edited by Tongue. Text: 175 pp. detailed catalog. Photos: P 3583 – P 3590. Recording: T 1366 – T 1369.

1292 Philip Arsenault, interviewed by Cindi Robbins for AY 125, fall 1979, Old Town, Maine. 100 pp. Tape: 4 hrs. w/ cat. Arsenault talks about moving from Prince Edward Island to Old Town in 1916; learning English; school; Depression; life’s work as a storekeeper; 30 pp. oral autobiography of Arsenault, edited by Robbins. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1379 – T 1380 4 hours.

1293 Francis Riva, interviewed by Sigrid Waldmann for AY 125, fall 1979, Old Town, Maine. 86 pp. Tape: 4 hrs. w/ cat. Riva, 74, talks about her life’s work as a film projectionist; biographical material; 34 pp. Oral autobiography of Riva, edited by Waldmann. Text: catalog. Photos: P 3635 – P 3637, P 3644 – P 3646. Recording: T 1381 – T 1383 4 hours.

1295 Clifton Moors, interviewed by Kevin Colley for AY 125, fall 1979, Old Town, Maine. 100 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ cat. Moors talks about mill operation and mill union; sports; printing business; biographical material; 30 pp. oral autobiography of Moors edited by Colley. Text: detailed catalog. Recording: T 1384, T 1401 3 hours. Photos: P 3604 – P 3605, P 3608 – P 3622, P 3696 – P 3700.

1299 George Grant, interviewed by David Wilhelm for AY 125, fall 1979, Cardville, Maine. Tape: 2 hrs. Grant talks about his life as an eel fisherman. Text: 17 pp. detailed partial catalog. Recording: T 1391 2 hours.

1300 Virgil Jordan, interviewed by Alexandra Cipuzak for AY 125, fall 1979, Old Town, Maine. 67 pp. Tape: 4 hrs. w/ cats. Jordan talks about his life as a farmer before the Depression; employee of Penobscot Chemical Fiber Company for 30 years; Diamond International for 3 years; Scout and Grange leader. Text: 95 pp. total: catalog, notes, and releases. Recording: T 1399 – T 1400 4 hours.

1301 Myra Burgess, interviewed by Linda Bonham for AY 125, fall 1979, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. 93 pp. Tape: 4 hrs. w/ cats. Series of interviews with Burgess about her childhood, her family, life as a medium and member of the Spiritualist Church; 23 pp. oral autobiography of Burgess. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1402 – T 1404 4 hours. Photos: P 3595 – P 3598, P 3603, P 3623 – P 3628; P 3630 – P 3634.

1307 Beatrice Hamilton, interviewed by Margaret Mills for AY 125, fall 1979, Orono, Maine. 96 pp. Tape: 5 hrs. w/ partial cat. Series of interviews with Hamilton, 74, about her childhood, education, marriage, family and work as store clerk and cook. Text: partial catalog. Recording: T 1414 – T 1419 5 hours. Photos: P 3599 – P 3602, P 3605, P 3607.

1316 James Campbell, interviewed by Cynthia Robbins for AY 198, March 6, 1980 and March 18, 1980, Brewer, Maine. 55 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Campbell, 103, talks about his family and Prince Edward Island; kinship and genealogy; map; news clipping. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1434 – T 1435 2 hours.

1325 Lillian Kilton, interviewed by Cynthia Robbins for AY 198, March 28, 1980, Ellsworth and Prince Edward Island, Maine. 33 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Kilton talks about her life in P.E.I. and here in Maine. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1444 – T 1445 1 hour. Photos: P 3701 – P 3709.

1326 Mr. & Mrs. J. P. O’Loughlin, interviewed by Margaret Leland for AY 198, spring 1980, Bangor, Maine. 65 pp. Tape: 3 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. The O’Loughlins talk about family history; migration from England and Ireland to the Maritimes; genealogical chart. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1446 – T 1447 3 1/2 hours.

1368 Clyde Bickford, interviewed by Nancy Norris for AY 125, October 29, 1979, April 20, 1980, and August 5, 1980, Troy and Dixmont, Maine. 243 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ cats. In the series of interviews Bickford talks about his life on the farm, working in woods, saw mills, and slaughter houses, 1920s to the present; 78 pp. oral autobiography of Bickford; 57 pp. weekly diary (1962); copies of census records. Text: catalog, autobiography, and diary. Recording: T 1485 – T 1487 3 hours. Photos: P 4616 – P 4631, P 4820 – P 4843.

1384 Erroll “John” Haley, interviewed by Stephen Richard for AY 198, summer 1980, Rangeley, Maine. 167 pp. Tape: 5 hrs. w/ cats. Series of interviews with Haley about early logging; booming logs on Rangeley Lake; working for Brown Co.; recollections of the Kempton Lumber Co.; camp life; cooking and foodways. Text: catalogs. Recordings: T 1518 / CD 2435, T 1519 / CD 2436, T 1520 / CD 2439.1-.2, T 1527 / CD 2442, T 1528 / CD 2443 5 hours.

1388 Rodney Richard, Sr., interviewed by Stephen Richard for AY 198, summer 1980, Rangeley, Maine. 25 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Richard, Sr. talks about his work in the woods and logging from 1940s to the present. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1526 / CD 2258 1 hour.

1389 Phil Brockway, interviewed by Jeff Ritter AY 125, fall 1980, Orono, Maine. 176 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ cats. Brockway talks about his childhood; education; work as director of placement office at UM; his writing and painting; 90 pp. of his writing and poetry; a 30 pp. oral autobiography. Text: catalog, plus poetry and autobiography. Recording: T 1529, T 1532, T 1533, T 1536 / V 0032 (Beta) 3 hours. Photos: P 5003 – P 5006.

1397 Chrystal Turner, interviewed by John T. Meader for AY 125, fall 1980, Fairfield, Maine. 47 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Turner talks about her husband, Dell Turner; her family; spiritualist meetings; the KKK. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1534, T 1696 2 hours.

1398 Joyce Meader, interviewed by John T. Meader AY 125, fall 1980, Fairfield, Maine. 51 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Meader talks about her father, Dell Turner; spiritualist meetings. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1535, T 1697 2 hours.

1399 Mary Pearl McEachern, interviewed by John T. Meader AY 125, fall 1980, Bangor, Maine. 27 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. McEachern talks about her brother, Dell Turner; his early years; moving to Maine from New Brunswick; home life. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1537 1 hour.

1400 Newall Perry, interviewed by Kristin Doe for AY 125, fall 1980, Winterport, Maine. 108 pp. Tape: 5 hrs. w/ cats. In a series of interview, Perry, 75, talks about his life fishing on the Penobscot River for forty years; piloting the Vagabond. Text: 103 pp. catalog. Photos: P 5011 – P 5012, P 5017. Recording: T 1538, T 1539, T 1570, T 1667 5 hours.

1408 Sadie Jewell, interviewed by Darcie McCann for AY 125, fall 1980, Montpelier, Vermont. 86 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Jewell talks about growing up on a farm and attending school in Aroostook County in the early 1900s; marriage; children; travel. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1548 2 hours.

1417 Charles Craig, recorded by Terry Craig for AY 125, fall 1980, Mars Hill, Maine. 7 pp. Tape: Video, 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. A musical evening with Craig. Text: brief catalog. Recordings: V 0033 (Beta) 30 min.

1418 Charles Craig, interviewed by Terry Craig for AY 125, fall 1980, Mars Hill, Maine. 7 pp. Tape: Video, 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Craig talks about how to make a wooden whistle. Text: brief catalog. Recordings: V 0034 (Beta) 30 min.

1462 Margaret Knox, interviewed by Abigail Goodyear for AY 125, fall 1980, Northeast Harbor, Maine. 23 pp. Tape: 1 1/4 hrs. w/ cat. Knox, 76, talks about growing up on a farm on the Mira River in Cape Breton; family history; education; teaching; Scottish traditions; forerunners. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1568 – T 1569 1 1/4 hours.

1486 Flora Bosse and Rosalie Flanagan, interviewed by Nancy Whitman for AY 198, spring 1981, Old Town, Maine. 32 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Bosse and Flanagan talk about their lives and work in the Old Town woolen mills as menders and carders, 1920s and 1930s. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1586 2 hours.

1487 Lou Gilman and Myrtle Gilman, interviewed by Nancy Whitman for AY 198, spring 1981, Old Town, Maine. 67 pp. Tape: 4 hrs. w/ cats. The Gilmans talk about their lives and work in Old Town woolen mills. Lou, as a weaver and shop steward at American Woolen, Myrtle as a mender; cloth samples woven by Lou, 2 drop wires. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1587 – T 1590 4 hours.

1488 Ruby Hildreth and Linwood Hildreth, interviewed by Nancy Whitman for AY 198, spring 1981, Milford, Maine. 54 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. The Hildreths talk about their lives and work in Old Town woolen mills as spinners; device used for putting yarn through twister heads, see artifact.
Text: catalog. Recording: T 1591 – T 1592 2 hours.

1489 Margaret Nadeau, interviewed by Nancy Whitman for AY 198, March 14, 1981, March 16, 1981, May 7, 1981, and May 26, 1981, Bradley and Old Town, Maine. 97 pp. Tape: 3 1/2 hrs. w/ cats. Nadeau (age 94) talks about her life and work in Old Town Woolen Mills (later converted to a shoe factory); Striar Mill in Orono; the American Paper Company; being a midwife; the French community, caring for sick people; remedies; dances; poverty; life in Orono, Old Town, and Bradley; her family; working conditions. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1593 -T 1594, T 1653 – T 1654 3 1/2 hours.

1528 By John T. Meader for AY 124, 1981. 33 pp. ms. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ trans. Paper titled “How Limited Must a Transcript Be?” Text: 31 pp. paper and transcript. Recording: T 1627 1/2 hour.

1536 Charles Craig, interviewed by Terry Craig for AY 125, fall 1980, Mars Hill, Maine. 77 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ trans. Craig about his childhood; education; family; local history; work in lumber camps; WWI experiences. Text: transcript. Recording: T 1631 1 hour.

1542 Sarah Cota, interviewed by Nancy Whitman for AY 198, spring 1981, Orono, Maine. 70 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Cota, 65, talks about her life and her work as a mender and second hand in the American Woolen Mill, Old Town for 28 years. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1642 2 hours.

1543 Michael Meader, interviewed by John Meader for AY 198, fall 1981, Fairfield, Maine. 30 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Meader talks about his grandfather, Dell Turner. Text: 27 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1643 1 hour.

1544 Glen Meader, interviewed by John Meader for AY 198, fall 1981, Fairfield, Maine. 31 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. G. Meader about his father-in-law, Dell Turner. Text: 28 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1644 1 hour.

1545 Daryl Buck, interviewed by John Meader for AY 198, fall 1981, Fairfield, Maine. 21 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Buck talks about Dell Turner. Text: 18 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1645 1 hour.

1546 Emery Jordan, interviewed by Peter Miller for AY 125, fall 1981, Osborn, Maine. 28 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Jordan talks about the blueberry business. Text: 24 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1646 – T 1647 / CD 1185 – CD 1186 1 hour. Photos: P 5542 – P 5552.

1547 Judge William Silsby, interviewed by Peter Miller for AY 125, fall 1981, Ellsworth, Maine. 34 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Judge Silsby talks about the blueberry business. Text: 31 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1648 – T 1649 2 hours.

1550 Carl Rogers, interviewed by Peter Miller for AY 125, fall 1981, Ellsworth Falls, Maine. 19 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Rogers talks about his work as an Extension Service agent, Hancock County, especially with the blueberry industry. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1652 1 hour.

1551 Edwin J. Osgood, interviewed by Dawn Ewing for AY 125, Stillwater, Maine. 44 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Osgood talks about his life and his experiences as owner of Penobscot Snowshoe Co., Milford; Silver Slipper Dance Hall; Whitehouse Inn; several other businesses. Text: 14 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1655 1 1/2 hours.

1575 Seth Fuller, interviewed by Andrew Weingartner for AY 125, fall 1981, Albion, Maine. 50 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ cat. Fuller talks about his family; work experiences in the woods and on his farm; local history. Text: 48 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1676 – T 1677 3 hours.

1593 Bertha Lord and Daryl Lord, interviewed by Suzanne Winkelman for AY 125 & LS project, fall 1982 – winter 1983. 685 pp. 21 1/2 hrs. w/ cats. The Lords talk about their lives, including fishing and working experiences in the Bucksport area since 1940; information about the Depression – WWII period. Relates to Winkelman’s M. A. thesis “Work is What Keeps You Going: The Life and Times of Bertha Moore Lord: An Experiment in Biography,” University of Maine, 1986 [copy in MFC Library]. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1686, T 1689 – T 1690, T 1744 – T 1745, T 1762 – T 1764, T 1774 – T 1776, T 1794, T 1825, T 1840 – T 1841, T 1841a [excerpts] 21 1/2 hours. Photos: P 5315 – P 5326, P 5340 – P 5341, P 5404 – P 5443, P 5626 – P 5651.

1635 Ida Roy, interviewed by Anne-Marie Martin for AY 125 fall 1982, Lille Maine. 41 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. French. Roy talks about her personal collection of folksongs from the St. John Valley, St. Agatha region; copies of 29 songs, words only, in French. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1740 – T 1741 / CD 0542 – CD 0545.

1754 Gordon Barton, interviewed by Matthew Day for AY 125, spring 1984, Winter Harbor, Maine. 17 pp. Tape: 3/4 hr. w/ cat. Barton talks about his interest in a wide range of “psychic phenomenon,” including dowsing, non-medical healing, parapsychology, and past-life regression. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1861 3/4 hour.

1803 Ted Dethlefsen, interviewed by Erle Morse for AY 125, spring 1984, Keene, NH. 19 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Dethlefsen talks about his work with anthropologist Jim Deetz on gravestone art in New England; his resignation as President of The Society for Historic Archeology in 1984 because of his association with “Treasure Hunters”. RESTRICTED. Text: catalog. Recording: C 0183 1 1/2 hours.

1804 Jim Deetz, interviewed by Erle Morse for AY 125, spring 1984. Telephone interview from ANT Dept. office in Orono to Berkeley, Ca. 23 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/cat. Deetz, an anthropologist and Director of Lowie Museum, Berkeley, CA., talks about his past work in anthropology and archeology. Includes outline of his career and publications. RESTRICTED. Text: catalog. Recording: C 0184 1 hour.

1805 Gary Samson, interviewed by Erle Morse for AY 125, spring 1984, Durham, NH. 42 pp. Tapes: 1 3/4 hrs. w/ cat. Samson talks about his experiences producing films on the subject of Franco-American migration; his early career; and influences on his work. Text: catalog. Recording: C 0185 – C 0186 1 3/4 hours.

1806 Dr. John D. Bardwell, interviewed by Erle Morse for AY 125, spring 1984, Durham, NH. 36 pp. Tapes: 1 1/4 hrs. w/ cat. Dr. Bardwell, director of the Univ. of New Hampshire Media Services Dept., talks about the work of Gary Samson. Samson is a staff member of Media Services who has produced a series of films on Franco-American industrial workers. Text: catalog. Recording: C 0187 1 1/4 hours.

1807 Bangor Chapter of the Society of American Dowsers (Dana Hashey, et al.), recorded by Erle Morse for AY 125, spring 1984, Bangor, Maine. 23 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Recording of a monthly meeting of the Bangor Chapter of the Society of American Dowsers. Presentations by Dana Hashey, et al. Text: catalog. Recording: C 0188 1 hour. Photos: P 5924 – P 5956.

1830 Ellen Gifford, interviewed by Margaret Mills for AY 125, fall 1981, Orono, Maine. 42 pp. Tapes: 1 1/2 hrs. approx. w/ partial cat. Gifford talks about her childhood and her recollections of what her mother taught her and what she taught her own children. Text: 39 pp. detailed catalog. Recording: T 1895 – T 1896 1 1/2 hours.

2045 Ward Little, interviewed by Nancy A. Whitman for AY 198, spring 1981, Harvey Station, New Brunswick. 19 pp. Tapes: 2 hrs. approx. w/ partial trans. Little talks about the 60 years he spent working at the Briggs and Little Woolen Co; the history of the mill; dying; mule spinning; picking room activities; carding; roving; early wages in the woolen industry. Also, manuscript materials presumably obtained from Little including two handwritten notebooks containing detailed notes regarding the design of various machines used in woolen mills, such as carding machines, gill boxes, backwashers, combing equipment, drawing machines, spinning equipment, and so forth. Little appears to have been a mechanical engineer and the notebooks are filled with technical notes, sketches, plans, blueprints, charts, and tables relating to mill equipment and operations. Two black & white photographs, one showing a piece of equipment being loaded on a truck, and another showing installed equipment in a mill setting. Text: 19 pp. partial transcript. Recording: T 1996.1, T 1996.2. Photos: P 8300 – P 8301.

2150 Carroll F. Terrell, interviewed by Marie McCosh Alpert for ANT 425, winter 1990, Orono, Maine. 95 pp. Tape 3 hrs. w/ trans. Terrell talks about the happenings at the University of Maine in the spring of 1970. Text: 3 pp. index, 87 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0688 – C 0690 3 hours.

2151 John Green, interviewed by Marie McCosh Alpert for ANT 425, fall 1990, Orono and Orland, Maine. 28 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/trans. 32 pp. Green talks about the “Sociology Crisis” at the University of Maine in the Spring of 1970. Text: 1 pp. index, 28 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0691 1 hour.

2152 Nancy Nolde, interviewed by Marie McCosh Alpert for ANT 425, fall 1990, Orono, Maine. Tape: 1 hr. w/trans. 20 pp. Nolde talks about the “Sociology Crisis” of the Spring of 1970. Text: 1 pp. index, 16 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0692 1 hour.

2153 David Bright, interviewed by Wendy Wincote for ANT 425, fall of 1990, Belfast, Maine. Bright talks about the student moratorium at the University of Maine in the spring of 1970 when Bright was editor of “The Maine Campus.” Text: 30 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0693 1 hour. NT
2154 Stan Cowan, interviewed by Wendy Wincote for AY 425, fall 1990, Readfield, Maine. 51 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/trans. Cowan, student senate president, talks about the student moratorium at the University of Maine in the Spring of 1970. Also includes documents: “General Student Senate-Why it Exists & what It has Done,” “The UMO Student Senate in Six Days,” speech by Charles Jacobs, assistant to the president, general student senate. Text: 48 pp. total: 35 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0694 1 hour.

2155 Marlene Spellman, interviewed by Bonnie MacCulloch for ANT 425, fall 1990, Orono, Maine. 11 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/trans. Spellman talks about the campus protests at the University of Maine in the Spring of 1970. Spellman was a student at the time. Text: 1 pp. index, 7 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0695 1 hour.

2156 Melvin Burke, interviewed by MacCulloch, Bonnie, December 5, 1990, for ANT 425 in Orono, Maine. Burke talks about student protests and the events in the Sociology Department at the University of Maine in the Spring of 1970. Text: 1 pp. index, 18 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0696 45 minutes.

2157 Professor Edgar “Al” Cyrus, interviewed by Rita Chesley for ANT 425, winter 1990, Orono, Maine. 7 pp. Tape: 45 min w/ trans. Cyrus talks about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Text: 1 pp. index, 3 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0697 45 minutes.

2158 John Battick, interviewed by Rita Chesley for ANT 425, winter 1990, Orono, Maine. 62 pp. Tape: 2 hr. w/trans. Battick talks about the moratorium of the Spring of 1970 and the problems in the Sociology Department (firing of Professors Stein and Scimecca). Text: 73 pp. total: 29 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0698 – C 0699 2 hours.

2159 Stewart Doty, interviewed by Mark Nicholson for ANT 425, winter 1990, Orono, Maine. 47 pp. Tape: 2 hr. w/ trans. Interview and follow-up. Doty, of the History Department at the University of Maine, talks about the moratorium of 1970. Text: 2 pp. index, 41 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0700 – C 0701 2 hours.

2160 Jerry Nadelhaft, interviewed by Mark Nicholson for ANT 425, winter 1990, Orono, Maine. 19 pp. Tape: 30 min. w/ trans. Nadelhaft of the History Dept. about the 1970 moratorium at the University of Maine. Text: 1 pp. index, 15 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0702 30 minutes.

2161 Mike LeBlanc, interviewed by Darrell Young for ANT 425, winter 1990, Bangor, Maine. 20 pp. Tape: 45 min. w/ trans. LeBlanc describes life on the Orono Campus in 1969 and 1970; the changes that the moratorium brought to everyday student life; dorm living; and personal feelings about the Vietnam protests and the killings at Kent State. Text: transcript. Recording: C 0703 45 minutes.

2162 Peg Dumais Rice, interviewed by Darrell Young for ANT 425, winter 1990, Lincolnville Center and Old Town, Maine. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ trans. 67 pp. Rice talks about the dismissal of Professors Stein and Scimecca in the Sociology Dept. in the Spring of 1970; recollections of the moratorium and other related events. Text: 64 pp. total: 57 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0704, C 0705 2 hours.

2163 Professor James Acheson, interviewed by Julie Sylvester for ANT 425, winter 1990, Orono, Maine. Tape: 30 minutes w/ trans. 63 pp. Acheson talks about the events in the Sociology Dept. in the Spring of 1970; the student moratorium and related events. Text: transcript. Recording: C 0706 30 minutes.

2164 Michael Lewis, interviewed by Julie Sylvester for ANT 425, winter 1990, Orono, Maine. Tape: 30 minutes w/ handwritten trans. 33 pp. Lewis, Professor of Art, talks about his recollections of the events of the Spring 1970, includes moratorium and the firings in the Sociology Department. Text: handwritten transcript. Recording: C 0707 30 minutes.

2165 Professor James Gallagher, interviewed by Julie Sylvester for ANT 425, winter 1990, Orono, Maine. Tape: 30 minutes w/ handwritten trans. 32 pp. Gallagher of the Sociology Dept. talks about the events in the Spring of 1970 at the University of Maine, Orono; the student moratorium; and the firings in the Sociology Dept. Text: handwritten transcript. Recording: C 0707 30 minutes.

2203 Carl Nevells, interviewed by Dana Condron for ANT 425, fall 1991, Orono, Maine. 76 pp. Tape: 1 hour with transcript. Nevells describes his experiences as a Marine in World War II during such campaigns as Guadalcanal and Peleliu. Text: transcript. Recording: C 0843 1 hour.

2204 Carl Nevells, interviewed by Dana Condron for ANT 425, winter 1991, Orono, Maine. 32 pp. Tape: 30 minutes with transcript. Second interview with Nevells in which he describes his experiences as a Marine during World War II during such campaigns as Guadalcanal and Peleliu. Text: transcript. Recording: C 0844 30 minutes.

2205 Denby Larrabee and Geneva Larrabee, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, October 28, 1991, in Knox, Maine. The Larrabees discuss the Frye Mountain community in the 1930s – 1950s; land purchases on the mountain by the government during the Great Depression; resistance of the local farmers to selling; problems with mountain roads; burning of farm buildings; dairy farming; unsuitability of roads for automobiles; lumbering in the 1950s; disagreement with how the land is currently used; and how loss of services forced remaining owners to sell to the government. Text: 23 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0845.

2206 Clayton Littlefield, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, November 14, 1991, Montville, Maine. Littlefield talks about his childhood on Frye Mountain; problem of roads unsuitable for automobiles in most seasons; mountain land as good for farming; local families; federal government purchase of land; burning of the farm buildings; partial relocation of cemetery; failure of government to pay town for lost tax income; employment of local men by CCC, turning mountain into a park; and means of income other than farming. Text: 26 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0846.

2207 Albert Jackson, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, December 2, 1991, Morrill, Maine. Jackson talks about the federal government purchase of Frye Mountain land during the Great Depression; story of his grandfather’s (illegal) still; grandfather’s business as an auctioneer; making and selling bootleg alcohol during Prohibition; community knowledge of the bootlegging; and his grandfather’s experience letting 500 hogs loose on the mountain. Text: 18 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0847 45 minutes.

2208 Roland Stewart, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, December 8, 1991, Freedom, Maine. Stewart talks about the Frye Mountain community in the 1930s; carbide lights; small family farms; his schooling; role of bad roads in prompting people to sell land to the government; the burning of farm buildings; local men hired by WPA to work on mountain; and Frye Mountain in 1991. Text: 20 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0848 45 minutes.

2209 Norman Nash, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, December 9, 1991, Montville, Maine. Nash tells of the Frye Mountain community in the early-to-mid 1900s; problems getting supplies during a particularly harsh winter prior to WWI; problems plowing; selling the land to the federal government during the Great Depression; mail delivery; state attempts to scatter deer population; burning of the farm buildings; theft of belongings stored in the family home after the sale; necessity of selling once neighbors had sold as road no longer maintained; raccoon hunting; anecdotes from life on Frye Mountain; and the prevalence of game poaching. Text: 31 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0849 1 hour.

2210 Maria Troutman, interviewed by Jean C. Murphy for ANT 425, winter 1991, Brewer, Maine. 57 pp. Tape: 2 hours with transcript. Troutman talks about her life experiences; childhood memories of World War II in Italy; her family’s move to Central America after the war; and her experiences since moving to Brewer in the 1970s. Text: transcript. Recording: C 0850, C 0851 2 hours.

2212 Madeline Shay and Irving Ranco, interviewed by Mitchell J. Power for ANT 425, winter 1991, Indian Island, Maine. 33 pp. Tape: 1 hour with transcript. Shay talks about her feelings about the bridge connecting Old Town to Indian Island, concentrating on the effects the bridge has had on the community since it was built in 1950. Interview with Irving Ranco follows the Shay interview. Text: 30 pp. total, 27 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0852 1 hour.

2213 Priscilla Attian, Doug Francis, and Glenn Starbird, interviewed by Mitchell J. Power for ANT 425, winter 1991, Indian Island, Maine. 68 pp. Tape: 1 hour with transcript. Attian, Francis, and Starbird of the community building on the Penobscot Nation Indian Reservation, talk about the effects the bridge connecting Old Town to Indian Island has had on the community since its construction in the 1950s. Text: 63 pp. total: 41 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0853 1 hour.

2214 Ann Pardilla, interviewed by Jennifer Colby for ANT 425, winter 1991, Mattawamkeag, Maine. 52 pp. Tape: 95 minutes with transcript. Pardilla talks about various types of traditional Native-American dances. Text: 1 pp. index, 49 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0854 – C 0855 95 minutes.

2215 Rebecca Sockbeson, interviewed by Jennifer Colby for ANT 425, winter 1991, Orono, Maine. 30 pp. Tape: 1 hour with transcript. Sockbeson talks about her life outside the reservation; snake and feather dances; various foods at the Indian socials and pageants. Text: transcript. Recording: C 0856 1 hour.

2267 Maurice Barter, interviewed by Peggi R. Stevens for ANT 425, fall 1992, Sunset, Maine. 73 pp. Tape: 2 interviews with transcripts. Life history interviews with Barter, 78 years old, a lifelong resident of Isle Au Haut. A map of the island and Stevens’s journal entries are also included. Text: 70 pp. total: 65 pp. transcript, 4 pp. journal entries. Recording: C 1033 – C 1035.

2268 Camille “Ky” Theriault, interviewed by Michelle Theriault for ANT 425, fall 1992, Milford, Connecticut. 100 pp. Tape: 2 interviews with transcripts. C. Theriault, the interviewer’s father, talks about life on a potato farm in Caribou, Maine. Also includes the interviewer’s journal. Text: transcript, interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1036 – C 1038. Photos: P 7159 – P 7166.

2269 Bud Spaulding, interviewed by Darin Knapp for ANT 425, fall 1992, Green Lake, Maine. 98 pp. Tape: 2 interviews with transcripts. Spaulding talks about his amateur archaeological experiences in Maine; his involvement in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Also included is the interviewer’s journal. Text: transcript, interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1039 – C 1040.

2270 Lois Libby, interviewed by Terri Moulin for ANT 425, fall 1992, Newburgh, Maine. 61 pp. Tape: 2 interviews with transcripts. Libby, town and notary clerk of Newburg, about her day-to-day duties and local observances. Also included is the interviewer’s journal. Text: transcript, interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1041 – C 1042.

2271 Mosudi Adegbinden, interviewed by Valerie Akoa for ANT 425, fall 1992, Old Town, Maine. 50 pp. Tape: 1 with transcript. Adegbinden, a native of Nigeria, now a pharmacist in Presque Isle, talks about African religion; witchcraft; superstition; and other African traditions. Also included is the interviewer’s journal. Text: 61 pp. of transcript, interviewer’s journal, and stories. Recording: C 1043.

2272 Milton “Bill” Pinkham, interviewed by Michelle Hannum for ANT 425, fall 1992, Winthrop, Maine. 25 pp. Tape: 2 interviews with transcripts. Pinkham, interviewer’s stepfather, talk about growing up in Readfield, Maine. Also included is the interviewer’s journal. Text: transcript, interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1044 – C 1045.

2273 Michael Gaboury, Royal Fraser for ANT 425, fall 1992, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. 92 pp. Tape: 2 interviews with transcripts. Gaboury, a University of Maine student, talks about being homosexual in Maine and other associated issues. Also included is the interviewer’s journal. Text: transcript, interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1046 – C1047.

2274 Horace McKenney, interviewed by Scarlette Parsons for ANT 425, fall 1992, Dexter, Maine. 41 pp. Tape: 2 interviews, 80 minutes approx. with transcript. McKenney, the interviewer’s grandfather, talks about his life growing up; his later years as a farmer. The interviewer’s journal is also included. Text: transcript, interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1048 – C 1049 80 minutes approx.

2275 Sister Jeanne Plante, interviewed by Crystal Shamas-Douglas for ANT 425, fall 1992, Waterville, Maine. 56 pp. Tape: 2 hours with transcript. Series of interviews. Sister Plante of the Ursuline Order in Waterville, Maine, talks of her experiences as a school teacher during the Depression; her life as an Ursuline nun; and her vows. Also included is the interviewer’s journal. Text: transcript, interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1050 – C 1051 2 hours.

2276 Alton Gerrish, interviewed by Anne Hopper for ANT 425, fall 1992, Winter Harbor, Maine. 69 pp. Tape: 2 interviews, 2 hours with transcript. Gerrish talks about the Prohibition Era in the Winter Harbor area: as a resident of Winter Harbor and as a member of the U. S. Coast Guard on patrol. Also included is a copy of the Bangor Daily News article (January 22, 1931) “Hi-jackers strew shore with high-grade booze” and the interviewer’s journal. Text: transcript. Recording: C 1052 – C 1053 2 hours.

2277 Augusta Genievieve Violette, interviewed by Angela M. Waldron for ANT 425, fall 1992, Milford, Maine. 73 pp. Tape: 2 hours with transcript. In two interviews Violette, 95 years old, talks about her involvement in the Women’s Suffrage Movement (circa 1917) in the Penobscot county area; social history of the Old Town/Indian Island area. Also included is the interviewer’s journal. Text: 71 pp. of transcript and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1054 – C 1056 2 hours.

2278 Marcia Spurling, interviewed by Linda Bradford for ANT 425, fall 1992, Corea, Maine. 53 pp. Tape: 90 minutes with transcript. Spurling, 88 years old, talks about the lives of women in a small fishing village. Also included are the interviewer’s journal and a three-page photocopy from the United States Census of 1910 and 1920. Text: transcript, interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1057 90 minutes.

2279 Scott Joseph Allen, interviewed by Ronald Grother for ANT 425, fall 1992, Orono, Maine. 82 pp. Tape: 2 interviews, 105 minutes approx. with transcript. Allen talks about his experiences in the U. S. Navy. Also included is the interviewer’s journal. Text: 2 pp. index, 2 pp. interviewer’s journal, 68 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1058 – C 1059 105 minutes approx.

2280 Bob French, interviewed by Don DePoy for Fieldwork in ANT 425, fall 1992, Cambridge, Maine. Tape: 3 with transcript. A series of interviews. French, a bluegrass banjo player, talks about the New England bluegrass scene; banjo technique and style. One cassette is of a performance by French. RESTRICTED. Text: 38 pp. paper, 71 pp. total documents. Recording: C 1060 – C 1062.

2281 Clifford Wilson, interviewed by James Marsh for ANT 425, fall 1992, Berwick, Maine. 48 pp. Tape: 2 interviews, 2 with transcript. Wilson talks about his life and youth on a ranch in Colorado. Text: 55 pp. total of journal, transcript, and copies of photos. Recording: C 1063 – C 1064. Photos: P 7151 – P 7158.

2283 David Sanipass, interviewed by James Marsh for ANT 495, spring 1993, Presque Isle, Maine. Video: 2 interviews, 1 VHS tape with no transcript. Sanipass talks about the history, construction, philosophy, and metaphysics of the Micmac spirit drum. Also included is interviewer’s student journal. Text: 8 pp. interviewer’s student journal. Recordings: V 0054 (VHS).

2284 Minnie Grace Scribner, interviewed by Karen Colburn for ANT 425, fall 1992, Orono and Bangor, Maine. 96 pp. Tape: 200 minutes approx. with transcript. A series of interviews. Scribner (maiden name, Toshagvik) of Bangor, Maine, born in Unalakleet, Alaska, talks about her youth in Unalakleet; her parents; other family members. RESTRICTED. Text: 98 pp. journal and transcript. Recording: C 1065 – C 1068 200 minutes approx.

2307 Wesley Francis, interviewed by Tamara Ellis for ANT 425, December 16, 1993, UMaine, Orono, Maine. 61 pp. Tapes: 2 (2 hrs) w/ transcript. Francis, a Penobscot Indian, discussing Native American-white relations, assimilation and his personal views and experiences. Also included is the interviewer’s original journal. Text: 1 pp. index, 46 pp. transcript, 13 pp. interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1122, C 1123 2 hours.

2308 Agatha “Peggy” Hanscom, interviewed by Thomas G. Bertenshaw for ANT 425, October 23, 1993 and December 14, 1993, Enfield, Maine. 21 pp. Tapes: 2 w/ transcript, fieldnotes. Hanscom talks about her in-home post office where she was postmaster for almost 25 years. Text: 21 pp. transcript, 2 pp. interviewer’s original journal. Recording: C 1124, C 1125.

2309 Carlo Ninfi, interviewed by Darin David Stillman for ANT 425, fall 1993, Hall Quarry, Mount Desert, Maine. 19 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Ninfi talks about growing up in Hall Quarry and his life experiences there. Text: transcript. Recording: C 1126.

2310 Welch Everman, interviewed by Ben Meiklejohn for ANT 425 for fall 1993, Orono, Maine. 38 pp. Tapes: 2 w/ transcript. Everman talks about jazz and on his writing style in process. Text: transcript. Recording: C 1127, C 1128.

2311 Elizabeth Ring, interviewed by Sarah Wendel for ANT 425, fall 1993, Portland, Maine. 88 pp. Tapes: 2 w/ transcript. Ring describes her relatives; the Dunn family; Caroline Colvin; the hanging in effigy of President Fellows; her book about the McArthurs of Limington, Maine; and her work with the Maine Historical records. Text: 87 pp. total of notes and transcript. Recording: C 1129, C 1130.

2312 Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, interviewed by Shane P. Duigan for ANT 425, fall 1993, Orono, Maine. 88 pp. Tapes: 3 w/ transcript. Ives talks about how he become interested in Folklore and how it has affected his life; the development of the Northeast Archives, the Northeast Folklore Society, and the Maine Folklife Center. Also included are the interviewer’s original journal and an essay by Sandy titled “Homage to Tex Fletcher.” Text: 81 pp. total transcript, interviewer’s journal, essay. Recording: C 1131 – C 1133.

2313 Mildred “Brownie” Schrumpf, interviewed by Kimberly R. Sebold for ANT 425, fall 1993, Orono, Maine. 73 pp. Tapes: 2 w/ catalog and transcript. Schrumpf talks about her memories of growing up on a Maine farm as well as her work with the Maine Extension Service and the 4-H Club. Also included is the interviewer’s original journal. Text: 68 pp. total catalog, transcript, and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1134, C 1135.

2314 Terry Churchill, interviewed by Perry Lewis for ANT 425, fall 1993, Bangor, Maine. 55 pp. Tapes: 2 w/ transcript. Churchill talks about his life in San Francisco as a hippie during the 1960s. Also included is the interviewer’s original journal. Text: 49 pp. total of transcript and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1136, C 1137.

2315 Karen Laite, Ann Broderson, and Maynard Tolman, interviewed by Patricia Estabrook for ANT 425, fall 1993, Camden, Maine. 178 pp. Tapes: 5 w/ transcript. A series of interviews describing Camden. Laite describes the priests of St. Thomas Church in Camden from 1946-1993. Broderson describes her immigrant experiences in the 1920s – 1950s, from Scotland and Denmark. She also describes Camden in the 1930s – 1950s, and a visit to Denmark in the 1950s. Tolman describes the affairs of the St. Thomas Church from 1956-1993. Also included are some church programs and the interviewer’s original journal. Text: 170 pp. total of transcript, interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1138 – C 1142.

2316 Doris Gilbert Porter, interviewed by Martha Eastman for ANT 425, fall 1993, Vassalboro, Maine. 111 pp. Tapes 3 w/ catalog and transcript. Porter talks about her memories hearing of the attack on Pearl Harbor while living in Vassalboro; her experience in home nursing from 1915-1950s. Also included are photocopies of the 1920 census for Ms. Porter’s neighborhood and the interviewer’s original journal. Text: 105 total of catalog, transcript, and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1143 – C 1145.

2318 Mildred DeSpain Carson, interviewed by Elizabeth Emerine for ANT 425, fall 1993, Orono, Penobscot County, Maine. 63 pp. Tapes: 2 w/ transcript. In two interviews DeSpain talks about her life; changing women’s role during the past 28 years. Included also is the interviewer’s original journal. Text: 60 pp. total: transcript, interviewer’s original journal. Recording: C 1146 – C 1147.

2354 Chuck Hydek, interviewed by Thomas Witt, for ANT 425, fall 1994, Maine. 48 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Hydek talks about his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail in the 1980s. Text: 45 pp. of transcript and field journal. Recording: C 1399.

2355 Lloyd George and Sterling Diamond, interviewed by Elwood Watson for ANT 425, fall 1994, Orono and Bangor, Maine. 30 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. George and Diamond, two African Americans who belonged to the Black Masons, talk about African Americans in Maine. Also included is the interviewer’s original journal. Text: 28 pp. of transcript and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1400.

2356 Ruth Darr, interviewed by Steven Rappeport for ANT 425, fall 1994, Boston area, Massachusetts. 13 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Darr talks about social work in Boston from 1936 to 1980 and the Jewish, Black, and Chinese communities of Boston. Text: 19 pp. of field notes and transcript. Recording: C 1401.

2358 Ron Libby, interviewed by Jim Nichols for ANT 425, fall 1994, Sorrento, Maine. 57 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Libby talks about growing up in Lincoln, Maine, and about his work as a Maine State Police Officer. Text: 54 pp. of field notes and transcript. Recording: C 1402, C 1403.

2360 Geneva Duncan, interviewed by Jennifer Duncan for ANT 425, fall 1994, Aurora, Corinna, and Orono, Maine. 147 pp. Tape: 9 w/ transcripts. Two interviews with the interviewer’s mother, G. Duncan, regarding Hazel Welch, the interviewer’s great-grandmother. Three interviews with Welch, born in 1904 regarding growing up in Maine and her family. Also included is a copy of the interviewer’s journal. Text: 143 pp. of transcript and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1405 and C 1406; C 1428 – C 1434.

2363 Blaine Macomber, interviewed by Todd Knight for ANT 425, fall 1993, Brewer, Maine. 30 pp. Tape: 3 w/ transcripts. Two interviews with Macomber regarding his years as a professional boxer in Maine and about boxing in general. Also included is the interviewer’s original journal. Text: 27 pp. of transcript and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1410 and C 1412 (side A only).

2364 Matthew Brooker, interviewed by Todd Knight for ANT 425, fall 1993, Orrington, Maine. 8 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Brooker talks about his memories of hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Mr. Brooker was in high school in Millinocket at the time of the attack. Text: 5 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1409 (side A only).

2367 Emily Wetherall, interviewed by Willow Wetherall for ANT 425, fall 1994, Orono, Maine. 59 pp. Tape: 3 w/ transcript. Two interviews with E. Wetherall in which she describes living in New York City during the 1960s; working as a nurse; Woodstock; creating a commune with friends from New York City and Belgrade, Maine; travels in Central America and the Caribbean; her trip to Canada to join the Nuclear Free Community; how she met Chris Wetherall; and a macrobiotic house in Stillwater, Maine. Also includes the interviewer’s original journal. Text: 55 pp. of transcript and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1413 – C 1415.

2368 Albertine Parent, Alfred Parent, and Louise Parent, interviewed by Don Cyr for ANT 425, fall 1994, Van Buren, Maine. 95 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. The Parents describe their lives in Lille, Maine; the history of Lille; the old and new Catholic Churches in Lille; the Daughters of Wisdom (an order of nuns); devil stories; French songs; smuggling; digging for buried treasure; Latin; healers and healing springs. Also includes table of contents and Xeroxed photocopies. Text: 92 pp. of transcript, interviewer’s journal, table of contents, and copies of photos. Recording: C 1417.

2369 Blanche Parent, interviewed by Don Cyr for ANT 425, fall 1994, Van Buren, Maine. 50 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Parent describes the Catholic Church in Lille, Maine; her childhood; the history of Lille; the Daughters of Wisdom (an order of nuns); dowsing for buried treasure; dowsing; music; outbreak of plague; and various people she has known. Also include: table of contents and Xeroxed photographs. Text: 47 pp. of transcript, table of contents, fieldworker’s journal, copies of photos. Recording: C 1418.

2370 Ella Thompson, interviewed by Chris Keenan for ANT 425, fall 1994, Brewer, Maine. 20 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Two interviews with Thompson of Cherryfield, Maine about poaching. No tape for first interview. RESTRICTED: no depositors form. Text: 14 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1419 (second interview only).

2371 Vesta Rand, interviewed by Claire R. Grindel for ANT 425, fall 1994, Monroe, Maine. 38 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Two interviews with Rand of Monroe, Maine in which she talks about the Bangor Fire of 1911; going to school during the 1910s; and growing up in Ellsworth and Bangor from 1909-1912. Also includes Xeroxed copies of the interviewer’s journal. Text: 34 pp. of transcript, Xeroxed copies of the interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1420 – C 1421.

2372 Chester Kane, interviewed by Ralph Lovely for ANT 425, October 14 and 29, 1994, Ellsworth, Maine. 32 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Two interviews with Kane, who talks about Martin Starkey (who was repeatedly in trouble with the law): stories about Maine; his early years; his jail and army experiences. Text: 21 pp. transcript, 5 pp. interviewer’s journal with story index, 2 pp. paper. Recording: C 1424, C 1425. Photos: P 7251 – P 7252.

2379 Truus Geraets, interviewed by Victoria Morrill for ANT 425, fall 1994, Blue Hill, Maine. 33 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Geraets, proprietor of a shop called “African Market” located in Blue Hill, Maine, talks about her visit to South Africa and about starting a school for both black and white children there during the 1980s; sings the African National Anthem and a traditional bushman song; talks about teaching techniques that use dance and music; describes some of the South African handmade dolls she sells. Accession includes two photocopied sheets showing some of the dolls. Text: 29 pp. transcript and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1391.

2399 Mary Frazier, interviewed by Kristin L. Frazier for ANT 425, fall 1995, Bangor, Maine. 45 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcripts. M. Frazier talks about her experiences during WWII in Newfoundland working on the U. S. Argentia Naval Base as a telephone operator. Photo of M. Frazier, photocopies of pages of book: Uprooted! by Eileen Houlihan. Text: 39 pp. of transcript and photocopies of book. Recording: C 1444 and C 1445. Photo: P 8160.

2400 Arthur Curtis, interviewed by Lawrence T. Cole for ANT 425, fall 1995, Fort Point Lighthouse, Searsport, Maine. 56 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Curtis talks about his about family and their experiences at the lighthouse. Also included are 6 pages containing photocopies of 11 photographs. Text: 49 pp. of transcript, interviewer’s journal, and photocopies of photos. Recording: C 1446 and C 1447.

2401 Clayton Harvey, interviewed by Peter Nordell for ANT 425, fall 1995, Orono, Maine. 43 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Harvey, a chef at the TKE Fraternity House at UMaine, talks about his life of cooking. Text: 36 transcript and photocopies of interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1448 and C 1449.

2402 Mrs. Matula, interviewed by Jonathan Reitz for ANT 425, fall 1995, LaGrange, Maine. 35 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Matula talks about her life story; stories of her family; food preparation; shopping; and eating. Text: 28 pp. of transcript and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1450 and C 1451.

2403 Lance Many Crows, interviewed by Tracey Swanteson for ANT 425, fall 1995, Ellsworth, Maine. 34 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. In two interviews with Crows, a Native American Indian of the Chiracahua Apache and a Native American artist, talks about his background; where he learned his trade. For further information of contents see NA 2403, pages 001, 004, 017. Also, 9 photos with “disk” negatives, 6 pages of her notes. Text: 26 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1452 and C 1453. Photos: P 8151 – P 8159.

2421 David Foster and Hunter Smith, interviewed by David Ciciotte for ANT 425, February 1995. 57 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Two interviews on the subject of Japanese orientation and science fiction character costumes. Foster talks about Japanimation and costumes. Smith, roommate of Foster, talks about costumes and general information about Foster himself. Text: 50 pp. transcript and interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1465 and C 1466.

2424 Norman Davis, interviewed by Scott Davis for ANT 425, February 1996, Eustis, Maine. 76 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Davis talks about hunting; hunting camp; moose hunt; deer hunt at Third St. John Pond, Indian Pond; hunting techniques and signs; deer behavior. Text: transcript. Recording: C 1469 and C 1470.

2425 Andrea Lawler, interviewed by Rachel Case for ANT 425, fall 1995, Orono, Maine. 52 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Lawler talks about art education; art; and gender issues. Text: 3 pp. notes, 50 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1471 and C 1472.

2426 Irene Dysart, interviewed by Mary Ellen Barnes for AY 425, fall 1995, at Dysart’s home in Dixmont, Maine. Dysart discusses family history; information on operation and development of Dysart’s Truck Stop. Text: 81 pp. total: 66 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 1473 – C 1475. Photos: P 7258 – P 7262, P 7763 – P 7765.

2427 Debra McCrum, interviewed by Barbara Millios for ANT 425, fall 1995, Orono, Maine. 60 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Video: 2 audio. McCrum talks about her experiences as a deaf person. Included is an audio cassette of translation from ASL to English. Text: 53 pp. total: 26 pp. journal, 25 pp. transcript, 2 pp. report. Recordings: V 0144, V 0145 (VHS), C 1476.

2507 Laurel Regan, interviewed by Charlotte Martin for ANT 425, fall 1997, Orono, Maine. 70 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Regan talks about her interest in rock climbing and her experience on the UMaine High Angle Rescue Team. Text: 72 pp. total: summary, transcript, notes. Recording: C 1591.1 – C 1591.2.

2512 Tom Breitweg, interviewed by Christine Whittington, 1997, Newport, Maine. Breitweg talks about his 50 year career as a tattoo artist in the New York’s Bowery; the 1930s and 1940s; tattoo humor, including some jokes. Text: 90 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1600 – C 1601. Photographs: P 8161 – P 8174.

2513 Father Frank Murray, interviewed by Michael Bell for ANT 425, fall 1997, Bangor, Maine. 44 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Murray is the Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Bangor, Maine. Text: 28 pp. total. Recording: C 1602 and C 1603.

2514 Christine Chernesky, interviewed by Elizabeth Hedler for ANT 425, fall 1997, Eddington and Bangor, Maine. 38 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Chernesky talks about her experiences with the organizations Woven Lives and WomanKind, in Washington County; her experience as an auctioneer and co-owner of an antique store in Cambridge, Mass. Text: 36 pp. of transcript, interviewer’s journal, and forms. Recording: C 1604 and C 1605.

2515 Charles Carter, interviewed by Eric Sherman for ANT 425, fall 1997, Shirley, Maine. 40 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Carter talks about the Squaw Mountain Inn which burned on June 30, 1968. Text: 36 pp. of notes and transcript. Recording: C 1606 and C 1607.

2516 Glen Vaughn, interviewed by Shawn Macleod for ANT 425, fall 1997, Swanville, Maine. 40 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Vaughn talks about the lobster fishing industry. Text: 37 pp. notes and transcript. Recording: C 1608 and C 1609.

2517 Maggie Keppie, interviewed by Muriel Curtis for ANT 425, fall 1997, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. 28 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Keppie talks about Scottish dance. Text: 2 pp. journal, 22 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1610.

2518 Duncan Keppie, interviewed by Muriel Curtis for ANT 425, fall 1997, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. 30 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Keppie talks about Scottish dance. Text: 3 pp. journal, 27 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1611.

2522 Al Glossian, interviewed by Barbara Lindsay for ANT 425, fall 1997, Orono, Maine. 40 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Glossian talks about Native American issues and personal history. Text: 33 pp. report and transcript. Recording: C 1615 and C 1616.

2523 Eugene A. Herbest, interviewed by Mark Thomas Herbest for ANT 425, fall 1997, Portland and South Berwick, Maine. 54 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. E. Herbest (interviewer’s father) talks about his life in Maine and his military career in the U. S. Army (1957-1972) including memories of experiences serving in Vietnam. Text: 49 pp. total: notes, transcript, documents. Recording: C 1617, C 1618.

2526 Vivan Bates, interviewed by Betty Duff for ANT 425, fall 1997, Hermon, Maine. 68 pp. Tape: 2 w/ transcript. Bates talks about farm life in Maine during the early 1900s; childbirth; medical and veterinary care; marital relations; her children; how her family handled death of a boy and girl in the family. Text: 64 pp. of transcript, interviewer’s journal, forms. Recording: C 1620 and C 1621.

2607 Accession consists of two sets of interviews and papers by Nancy P. Alexander. 1) Aldiverd Norton and Dorothy Norton, interviewed by Alexander for ANT 425, October 23, 1998. Paper titled “Interview with Aldiverd Norton and Dorothy Norton.” The Nortons talk about their home on 700 Acre Island in the town of Islesboro; A. Norton’s ownership of the boatyard; their two children; WWII; A. Norton’s health problems; Norton’s Island. Also included: follow-up note; map of 700 acre island. 2) Jack Leach, Ralph Gray, and others, interviewed/collected by Alexander for ANT 597, spring 1988. Paper titled “A Law Which Was Meant to be Broken: Rum-running in Islesboro During Prohibition, based on oral histories and stories. Leac, and Gray talk about rum-running during the Prohibition; Ralph Leach. Text: 1) 19 pp. paper, 1 pp. note; 2) 35 pp. paper, 2 pp. notes, 2 pp. transcript excerpt. Recording: 1) C 1858 – C 1860.

2608 Ed Levy, interviewed by Frank Booker for ANT 425. Levy, who grew up in Canada on a reservation called Medowbenaghia (or Red Bank), talks about his childhood; Native American culture; preservation through performance; prayer; lack of respect for beliefs; mixed aspects of culture; issues with tribal organizations. Text: 20 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1861 – C 1862.

2609 Bruce Pratt, interviewed by Kevin Champney for ANT 425, at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine, October 16 and December 4, 1998. The October interview focused on Pratt’s experiences playing and traveling with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott; mentions Jack Nicholson, Tom Waits, Dave Van Ronk, Doc Watson, Eric Anderson, Bob Weir, and many others. The December interview deals with Pratt’s views on the music industry; his own career; and the current state of folk music. Recording: C 1863 – C 1865.

2610 Betty Duff, interviewed by Stephanie Harp for ANT 425, September 30 and November 20, 1998, Old Town, Maine. Duff talks about her childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky; religion. Also included: map; report from ancestor’s church; interviewer’s journal, genealogy document, minutes from the 12th annual ASHE Baptist Association meeting (printed from online). Text: 31 pp. transcript for the September 30 interview, 41 pp. for the November 20 interview, additional paper material. Recording: C 1866 – C 1869.

2611 Charlene Brassbridge, interviewed by Thomas McCord for ANT 425, October 19 and November 25, 1998. Brassbridge, lay leader of the Frankfort Congregational Church, talks about the history, rituals, and family life, 1950s to 1960s, of Frankfort Congregational Church, a United Church of Christ affiliate. Text: 37 pp. transcript; interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1870 – C 1871.

2612 Brian Rafuse, interviewed by Malika Osborne for ANT 425, October 18, at Lisa Ladd’s home in Northport, Maine, and December 02, 1998, at his home in Montville. Rafuse talks about his youth; coming to Montville; building his home and the surrounding trail system on Twitchell Hill in Montville Maine, where he has lived since the early 1980s; his subsistence lifestyle: bee keeping, gardening, electricity generation, etc. Also present at the Northport interview were Lisa and Angela Ladd. Text: 12 pp. transcript (October interview), 16 pp. transcript (December interview); interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1872 – C 1873.

2613 Stephanie Pavenski and Peter Pavenski, interviewed by Lynne Nelson-Manion for ANT 425, September 20 and November 8, 1998, Peabody, Massachusetts. The Pavenski’s talk about raising a family in the 1950s; her being a working mom; her job as the supervisor at New England Sportswear in the 1950s; leather factories in Peabody; women working in the leather industry in the 1950s; how her mother lived with them and did the cooking and child rearing; difficulties of being a mother in the 1920s and 30s, especially as a first generation immigrant; his experience in WWII; his point of view as a father. Text: 30 pp. transcript (September interview), 38 pp. transcript (November interview); interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1874 – C 1876.

2614 Muriel Haley, interviewed by Orion Thompson for ANT 425. October 20 and November 29, 1998, Dexter, Maine. Haley, born in 1921, talks about growing up on a rural farm in Dexter, Maine, during a time of industrialization; getting a tractor; getting a car; siblings; Muma-bear (Thompson’s grandmother, Doris Soucy); father; dairy farming; getting electricity; farm magazines; the Depression; food; sickness; weddings; telephone lines; plumbing; ice house. Also present during the November interview: Joel and Ann Haley (her son and daughter-in-law) and Thompson’s mother and stepfather (no names given). Text: 11 pp. transcript (October interview), 16 pp. transcript (November interview); interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1877 – C 1878 / CD 0818 – CD 0819.

2615 Tom Breitweg, interviewed by Christine Whittington for ANT 425, Tatts Tommy’s Den of Iniquity, spring 1998 (April 22 and a later date), Newport, Maine. Breitweg, one of the oldest working tattooists in the U. S. and the first to hold a Maine tattoo license, talks about his tattoo studio, the Den of Iniquity; his experiences tattooing aboard his ship during WWII; types of designs he applied to other sailors; traditional tattoo techniques; tattooing among sailors; magical beliefs relating to specific tattoos; how he learned to tattoo; how his son learned to tattoo. Text: 38 pp. transcript (April interview), 34 pp. transcript; interviewer’s journal. Recording: C 1879 – C 1880.

2616 Lloyd Brimigion, interviewed by Robin Fre, February 7, 1997 and February 23 and 24, 1998, at his home in Stonington, Maine. In the first interview Brimigion talks about life in Stonington during the 70 years he lived there; differences in lifestyle between now and then; difficulties and advantages of automobiles on the island in the 20s and 30s; community activities; use and decline of steamboats near the island; mail ferry; stores on Deer Isle; Stone Quarry; effects of winter; cutting and hauling stone; Opera House; entertainment; basketball; pool rooms; movies; first opera house burned in 1912. In the second interview Brimigion talks about his interests and passions; Deer Isle Historical Society; Salomie Seller’s house and artifacts; Sunset Post Office building donated to historical society; historical society programs; antique car club; Stonington Centennial Booklet; 1956 Dodge convertible; Bruce Greenlaw’s Model A’s; travel; safe places to stop and sleep; automobile insurance; country-western dancing; Crotch Island; Deer Isle Granite Corporation; John L. Goss Corporation; Italian stonecutters; Bartlett’s store; buildings that used Crotch Island granite; quarry stone used for graves of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy; tugboats and schooners; life of Lloyd Kenneth Brimigion, Senior; life of his mother Jenny May Brimigion (Jones); sardine canneries; Port Clyde Sardines; Stinson Packing Company; Stone Museum; preservation of the island’s history; family history. In the third interview Brimigion talks about his relatives who lived in Stonington; Madge Brimigion Small; Charles William Brimigion; family homestead; Christian Scientists; Latterday Saint Church; Green’s Landing; shelves (sheets) of granite under the town; Russ family; Thurlow family; Goss family; William Welsh family; other families who lived in Stonington; Captain Frank Goss; Normal Schools for training teachers; schools. Text: 15, 23, 16 pp. transcripts. Recordings: C 1881 – 1883.

2617 Jim (Valmore) Greenlaw, interviewed by Robin Fre, January 20 and June 3, 1998, at his home in Oceanville, Maine. Greenlaw’s first name was changed from Valmore to Jim by his Uncle John when he was 3 years old. Topics include family history; Tories; . children; past jobs; Certificate of Recognition for his farm having been in the same family for 200 years; building boom; trip to Stonington to live with his Uncle John; Opera House; Howard Hansen; The Depression; stone dust; Nellie; home; Grammy McCoy; Dr. Noyes; fertility mystery; Uncle John out west. In the second interview Greenlaw talks about his relatives; grandparents Helen and Jim Moulden; mother’s death; Unvle John; carpentry; Civilian Conservation Corps; guns; homesteads; Darlene; five Greenlaw generations; Grammy McCoy; Jim McCoy; song Jimmy Crack Corn; Charlie Nevells; Bill Brimigion; Bill the Barber; the Fuller job; Sherwood Pink granite. Text: 26 pp. and 28 pp. transcripts. Recordings: C 1884, 1885.

2618 Theodore Nevells, interviewed by Robin Fre, February 2 and April 27, 1998, at his home in Stonington, Maine. Nevells talks about his family; work as stonecutter and for Port Clyde Foods; stonecutters and quarrymen; stone dust; arch stones; fluted stones; granite for John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington Cemetery; different tools used to cut stone; Granite Museum; Oddfellows; Settlement on Crotch Island with its segregation of Italian immigrants who came to cut stone; lobstering and fishing industries; problems with overfishing; his mom’s work as a midwife; burning of the Noyes house; Charlie Nevells and Roger Stone’s violin making; history of the Bartlett family and store; Freedman family; poll tax; crime; the Depression; entertainment around Stonington; Centennial celebration; burning of the original Opera House and Methodist Church; changes the town has gone through; events at The Red Barn and Opera House. In the second interview Nevells talks about his favorite teachers as a child; his father Forest; the canning factory; stone quarries near Stonington; eels; his brother Charlie, a local musidian; Charlie’s accident; musical talent; album with Roger Stone; property evaluations; Board of Selectmen; Bartlett’s store and others along Main Street; Goss family; Russ family; Thurlow family; descriptions of old photographs of the town. Text: 47 and 16 pp. transcripts. Recordings: C 1886 – C 1888.

3483 Adolphine M. Bowen, interviewed by Andrea Bond, April 4, 2007, Norridgewock, Maine. Bowen, Bond’s grandmother, talks about growing up in Czechoslovakia and moving to the US after WWII. Text: 21 pp. total: 13 pp. transcript, 8 pp. introductory report. Recording: C 2517.

3484 Ferne Given, interviewed by Michelle Martin on February 23, 2007 and March 16, 2007, Millinocket, Maine. Given (b. 1909 in New Brunswick), Martin’s great-grandmother, talks about her life at the turn of the 20th century in Maine and New Brunswick and the Ford plat in Detroit, MI. Also included: newspaper article “Happy 96th Birthday!”. Text: 56 pp. total: 42 pp. transcript, 2 pp. newspaper article, 6 pp. introductory report, 6 pp. biographical information. Recordings: C 2518. Photos: CD 1160 (images).

3485 Bob Sullivan, interviewed by Jennifer Smith-Mayo, March 26, 2007, Blue Hill, Maine. Sullivan talks about the Old Ackley Farm in Blue Hill, Maine, which he owns with his wife Ruth Sullivan and in general about sustainable and organic small-scale farming practices and farm product delivery in Maine. Text: 52 pp. total: 19 pp. transcript, 33 pp. paper with table of contents, photographs, and bibliography. Recordings: CD 1161. Photos: P 12774 – P 12791.

3486 Jon Ellsworth and Jennifer Schroth, interviewed by Daniel Newman, April 06, 2007, Brooklin, Maine. Ellsworth and Schroth talk about their farm, Carding Brook Farm, Brooklin, Maine and their syrup operation, timber-framing, and logging and about organic farming in general. Also included: 2 pp. table of contents, 4 pp. introductory report. Text: 35 pp. total: 29 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2519.

3487 Jeanne Carville, interviewed by Tiffany Warzecha, February 23, 2007, Orono, Maine. Carville talks about All Maine Women, a local senior women’s honor society. Text: 26 pages total: 18 pp. transcript, 2 pp. questionnaire, 6 pp. introductory report. Recordings: C 2520.

3488 Clifton Thompson, interviewed by Heather Cox, February 18, 2007, Manomet, Massachusetts. Text: 27 pp. transcript, 2 pp. index, 7 pp. introductory report, 2 pp. table of contents. Recordings: C 2521, C 2522. Photos: P 13031 – P 13042 (on an image CD).

3489 Dewey Gilliam, interviewed by Colin McGovern and Kevin McGovern, March 7, 2007, Orr’s Island, Maine. Text: 7 pp. introductory report, 19 pp. transcript. Recordings: CD 1162.
3490 Tim Tremble, interviewed by Elaine Bard, March 15, 2001, Greenfield, Maine. Text: 31 pp. transcript, cover letter, 13 pp. introductory report, 6 pp. content index. Recordings: C 2523, C 2524.

3491 Reidy Wilson, interviewed by Cheryl Daigle, March 14, 2001, Eastport, Maine. Text: cover letter, 23 pp. transcript, 8 pp. introductory report. Recordings: C 2525 1 hour 30 minutes.

3492 Justina Jenkins, interviewed by Jesse Dunn. Also included: 12 pp. e-mail correspondences between Jesse Dunn and Barbara Dyer. Text: 17 pp. paper, 2 pp. index, works cited, e-mail correspondences. Recording: C 2526.

3494 Margaret White, interviewed by Kristina Wickett, March 12, 2004. Text: 33 pp. transcript, 9 pp. paper, 2 pp. questionnaire. Recording: C 2528.

3497 Edward Flannagan, interviewed by Lynn Laweryson, March 15, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana. Text: 6 pp. paper, 14 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 2530.

3498 Charlene Williams, interviewed by Lynn Laweryson, March 14, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana. Text: 6 pp. paper, 16 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2530.

3499 Beatrice Souza, interviewed by Andrea Masiello, April 23, 2000. Text: 7 pp. paper. Recordings: C 2531.

3510 Margaret Rogers, interviewed by Cheryl Coats, April 5, 2001, Belfast, Maine. Text: 10 pp. paper, 3 pp. tape index. 21 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 2542.

3514 Anna Sprague, Karen Sprague, and Gerald Nelson, interviewed by Dawn Dambroise, April 30, 2000. Recordings: C 2546, C 2547.

3520 Bernard Ward, interviewed by Allison M. Ouellet, March 11, 20002, Columbia Falls, Maine. Text:18 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 2551.

3521 Ike Hubbard and Nancy, interviewed by Allison M. Ouellet, March 13, 2002, Jonesport, Maine. Text: 14 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 2552.

3522 Dell Emerson, interviewed by Allison M. Ouellet, March 14, 2002, Jonseboro, Maine. Text:15 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 2553.

3523 Sharyn Morin, interviewed by Terrence Gifford, April 5, 2001, Old Town, Maine. Text: 16 pp. transcript, 10 pp. paper, 12 pp. draft of transcript. Recordings: C 2554.

3524 Elders Sonnenberg and Thompson, interviewed by Terrence Gifford, April 9, 2001, Bangor, Maine. Text: 4 pp. survey, 2 pp. tape index, 10 pp. paper, 1 summary page. Recordings: C 2555.

3525 John Arthur Jura, interviewed by Megan Smist, October 27, 2000, Union, Maine. Also included: map of plots. Text: 40 pp. transcript, 2 pp. outline of interview, 32 pp. paper, newspaper article, letter, questionnaire. Recordings: C 2556.

3526 Raymond Reitze Jr., interviewed by Daniel McDonley, April 15, 2000, Canaan, Maine. Text: 8 pp. research journal:, 2 pp. questionnaire, 2 pp. tape index, 8 pp. paper. Recordings: C 2557, C 2558.

3527 Nancy Reitze, interviewed by Daniel McDonley, April 17, 2000. Text: 1 pp. questionnaire, 2 pp. tape index, 3 pp. paper. Recordings: C 2559.

3528 Thomas Duffy, interviewed by Tara Duffy, April 19, 2002, Winterport, Maine. Text: 7 pp. paper, 7 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 2560.

3529 Milton Bailey, interviewed by Mari T. Carello-Bigner and Dr. Kathryn Olmstead, March 12, 2002, Presque Isle, Maine. Text: 16 pp. transcript, 1 pp. tape index, 13 pp. paper, 2 pp. Appendix B. Recordings: C 2561 1 hour 15 minutes.

3532 Heidi Daub, interviewed by Isaac Chittenden, March 3, 2004. Text: 18 pp. transcript; 6 pp. questionnaire; 7 pp. paper. Recordings: C 2564.

3533 Bob French and Grace French, interviewed by Mary Cook, March 27, 2003, Cambridge, Maine. Also included: article from “Bluegrass Unlimited” pp. 60-65. Text: 31 pp. transcript, 7 pp. paper, 2 biographical data sheets; 1 pp. tape index. Recording: C 2565.

3550 Winifred Simpson, interviewed by Lars Hill, March 12, 2002. Text: 10 pp. paper.

3551 Patrick Kolment and Nina Hallbert, interviewed by Anne Schwan, March 16, 2007, Belfast, Maine. Text: 7 pp. paper, 11 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 2586.

3552 Patrick Kolment, interviewed by Anne Schwan, March 9, 2007, Belfast, Maine. Text: 7 pp. paper, 8 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 2586.

3639 Heinrick Snyder, interviewed by Helen M. York, February 10th, 2009, Civic Center, Bangor, Maine. Snyder talks about “Moogret.” Also included: 1 pp. “Walking Tour of Bangor Historic Track”, 3 pp. photocopied newspaper“Celebrities”. Text: 2 pp. tape index, 22 pp. transcript. Recordings: CD 2105.

3641 Doug Ludwig, interviewed by Helen M. York, February 15th, 2009, Newcastle, Maine. Ludwig talks about Groton School. Text: 1 pp. tape index, 8 pp. transcript. Recordings: CD 2106.

3642 Doug Ludwig, interviewed by Helen M. York, March 31, 2008, Newcastle, Maine. Ludwig talks about Vietnam era protesting. Text: 3 pp. tape index, 19 pp. transcript. Recordings: CD 2107 – CD 2108.

3643 Aurora York, interviewed by Helen M. York, April 1, 2009, Hampden, Maine. York talks about Sheep and Showing Sheep. Text: 2 pp. tape index, 13 pp. transcript. Recordings: CD 2109.

3644 Nick Spitzer, interviewed by Helen M. York, April 7th, 2009, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Text 2 pp. tape index, 23 pp. transcript. Recordings: CD 2110.

3645 Joel Mann, interviewed by Helen M. York, May 21, 2009, East Orland, Maine. Mann talks about radio. Text: 1 pp. tape index, 7 pp. transcript. Recordings: CD 2111.

3646 Meredith DeFrancesco, interviewed by Helen M. York, May 21, 2009, WERU studios, East Orland, Maine. Text: 2 pp. tape index, 15 pp. transcript. Recordings: CD 2112.

3647 David Averill, interviewed by Helen M. York, March 15, 2009 , New Sharon, Maine. Averill talks about sheep; farming; and fairs. Text: 3 pp. tape index, 27 pp. transcript. Recordings: CD 2113.

3694 Sanford “Sandy” Phippen, interviewed by Thomas Hannington for ANT 425, April 14, 2009, in Neville Hall at UMaine, Orono, Maine. Phippen talks about his experience while attending UMaine from 1960-1964: early years of his life and upbringing; years at the University; Vietnam and anti-war and pro-war sentiment on campus; JFK’s visit to the campus and assassination; Blacks in Maine; involvement with civil rights movement; Blacks on campus; poor people in Maine. Text: 10 pp. transcript, 2 pp. index, 2 pp. field notes. Recordings: CD 29 minutes.

3695 June K. Carter, interviewed by Thomas Harrington for ANT 425, April 14, 2009, in the East Annex at UMaine, Orono, Maine. Carter talks about her experiences while attending and teaching at the University of Maine Orono campus; her early childhood years and education; her father’s death when she was 8 years old; World War II; the Hungarian Revolution; the Asian flu; life on campus during the mid and late 1950s from a female’s perspective as well as the changes that have occurred over the years. Text: 13 pp. transcript, 2 pp. index, 1 pp. field notes. Recording: CD 39 minutes.

3700 Veronica Dodge, interviewed by Nancy H. Dewey, August 15, 2008, Little Deer Isle, Maine. Dodge talks about her work as a crab picker; her beginnings as a clam shucker at Blake’s Clam House; her work at home picking crabs with the help of her family; how to pick the crab meat out of the shell; difference between crab fishing and lobster fishing; federal laws covering crab fishing and crab picking; HASOP regulating sanitation in the processing of crab meat; federal inspections; lysteria; gossiping while crab picking; schedule from 5:30 AM to 1:00 PM; injuries while picking crabs; cooking and cooling the crab meat; measuring the temperature of the meat so it won’t turn black and have to be thrown out; price of crab meat; pay of workers; ignorance about where crab meat comes from; likes and dislikes of crab picking; picking crabs from April to October; making Christmas wreaths from November to December; doing income taxes from January to April; recreation; marriage; college degree; favorite story. Text: 12 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2605 35 minutes.

3703 Helen York for for PCA/ACA, 2009. Paper, titled “Blue Ribbon Subversion, Apple Pie Deception: Meaning and Myth in the American Country Fair,” deals with fairs and festivals: yearly state agricultural fairs which are anachronistic, ritualistic and countercultural despite the outer trappings of wholesomeness, patriotism, and good-old-fashioned “republican” values; history of fairs; agricultural societies as advocates for scientific farm management and new professional farming methods; prize money encouraged deceptive practices; space rented to independent commercial establishments; games of skill and chance; carnival rides; beer tents; side shows; freak shows; “Hootchie Cootchie” shows; outlet for local creative types to show their performing or artistic skills; non-farm American families attend country fairs for entertainment; strengthen community of work; underlying myth of normality and all-American wholesomeness. Text: 17 pp. paper.

3704 Jovan Belcher and Nabil Salim, interviewed by Fernando Marin for ANT 492 (in conjunction with Fieldwork in ANT 425), March 8, 2008, at Marin’s apartment, Old Town, Maine. Text: paper, 2 pp. of field notes, 4 pp. index. Recording: CD as yet unnumbered.

3710 Paul Stubing, interviewed by Nancy H. Dewey for ANT 425 taught by Pamela Dean, March 22, 2008, in Paul Stubing’s home on Deer Isle. Stubing talks about family genealogy (Haskell); descriptions about growing up on the Union River in Maine and in New Rochelle, New York; service during WWII; a deep love and understanding for island living, community, and boats. Also included: hand-drawn map. Text: 21 pp. tape index and field notes, 2 pp. of questions and follow-up questions. Recording: C 2608, C 2609 2 hours.

3711 Janet Gerrish Buffett and Johanna Smith, interviewed by Neil Buffett for ANT 425 taught by Pamela Dean, February 7, 2009. Buffett and Smith talk about where Buffett was born; school and World War II memories; Winter Harbor High School; Smith’s memories of Sumner High School. Text: 7 pp. transcript, 1 pp. index. Recordings: C 2610 / CD 2369 8 minutes.

3712 Janet Buffett, interviewed by Neil Buffett for ANT 425 taught by Pamela Dean, March 10, 2009, at Janet’s home in Winter Harbor, Maine. Buffett talks about her employment experience; Serene Cottage in Boston; Grindstone; Acadia Lodge; Gerrish’s Store in Winter Harbor; Johnson’s Florist in Newport; Woodbine Cottage; The Clapps; studying to become a Certified Nurse’s Aide. Text: 7 pp. transcript, 2 pp. field notes and index. Recording: C 2611 10 minutes.

3713 Danny Backman, interviewed by Neil Buffett for ANT 425 taught by Pamela Dean, April 16, 2009, at Danny’s home in Winter Harbor, Maine. Backman talks about building wooden boats; use of fiberglass in boat building; steel boat built by Charles Soper in Orland; grandfather Otto and Otto’s brothers Donald and Benny were boat builders; boat molds; materials and techniques of wooden boat building; design of wooden boats; building techniques; types of wood used. Text: 18 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2612 58 minutes. Photos: Xerox copies of 11 photographs.