MF 171 AY 122/ANT 322/ANT 422 Folklore of Maine and The Maritime Provinces

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History: MF 171 AY 122/ANT 322/ANT 422 Folklore of Maine and The Maritime Provinces

Number of accessions: 135
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1976 – 2006
Time period covered: late 19th and 20th century
Principal interviewers: various
Finding aides: none
Access restrictions: none
Description: Papers by students enrolled in ANT 422/AY 122/ AY 322 (the number changed) at UMaine. Class description: A survey of the genres of folklore found in the major linguistic traditions (English, French, Native American) of the Northeast, with emphasis on Maine. Special attention given to the occupational traditions of farming, fishing and lumbering.

1020 Raynor “Razor” Crossman, interviewed by Richard Bulger for AY 122, spring 1976, Corinna, Maine. 24 pp. ms. Tape: 1 1/4 hrs. w/ brief cat. Crossman talks about about being a Maine auctioneer and his life as an auctioneer. Also included: recording of an actual cattle auction (tape side 2); auction announcements (1 pp.). Text: 21 pp. total: 5 pp. brief catalog and 16 pp. paper. Recording: T 1031 1 1/4 hours.

1027 Alice Philbrook, interviewed by Joyce Smith for AY 122, spring 1976, Alton, Maine. 17 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ brief cat. Philbrook, 76, talks about her mother’s work as lumberman’s wife and midwife; her own school days; her life as a working girl; engagement and marriage ceremonies; 1920s. Text: brief catalog. Recording: T 1039 2 hours.

1028 George Bagley, interviewed by Ronald Bean for AY 122, spring 1976, Lambert Lake, Maine. 13 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ brief cat. Bagley talks about Matt Noble and his son Harry, song-makers; information on Amos Noyes, George Bean, and Howard Kneeland, who used to sing the old songs; and information on Shep Haley, Florence Carey, and other local characters. Text: brief catalog. Recording: T 1040 – T 1041 1 1/2 hours.

1029 Charlie Noyes, interviewed by Ronald Bean for AY 122, spring 1976, Topsfield, Maine. 6 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Noyes, 62, singing “Little Brown Bulls,” and telling about his father Amos Noyes, a singer in the lumbercamps; recounts stories about George Bagley, Howard Kneeland, and Bernie Mallory. Text: brief catalog. Recording: T 1042 1/2 hour.

1030 George Smith, interviewed by Ronald Bean for AY 122, spring 1976, Lincoln, Maine. 8 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Smith tells stories about George Magoon; discusses running sporting camps; working on log drives and booms; and 4th of July celebrations at Grand Lake Stream. Text: brief catalog. Recording: T 1043 1/2 hour.

1034 Adelbert “Del” Clewley, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, Eddington, Maine. Also present: Mrs. Clewley, his wife. Clewley talks about being born in Eddington; using a pung as transport; going to school in Eddington Village; hunting for deer and the two deer maximum; how his family stored food through the winter; hauling ice from Eddington Pond; the first car in the area; the local mills; the baseball team; dances held around the area; skating and sledding; taxes; homemade clothes; not being affected by the Depression; playing cards; local stages; working days in fall, winter, spring, and summer; what he ate for meals throughout the day; his family; children’s jobs on the farm; ways to predict the weather; the local socials; village medicine; blacksmith’s shops; orphans; poor farms; pulling contests; moose meat; newspapers; chivarees; peddling turnips in Bangor; and snow shoeing. Text: 7 pp. catalog, interviewer’s notes, interview summary, 58 pp. transcript. Recording: T 1047 1.5 hour. Photos: P00678 – P00682.

1035 Verna (Mrs. Roscoe) Higgins, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, Eddington, Maine. Higgins discusses entertainment in the early 1900s; the Young Ladies Sociable; the Grange Hall; attending the local school in Eddington; how her family preserved meat; women’s jobs in the early 1900s; Bangor, the region’s central marketplace; Thursday, market day; food that was made for social events; how the Depression affected the area; Grange Hall meetings; the size of most farms in her day; local doctors; Sunday dinner; courtship rules; musicians in the area; summer plays; town meetings; when electricity came to Eddington; and mail delivery. Text: 20 page transcript. Recording: T 1048 45 minutes.

1036 Gracie Strang, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, East Eddington, Maine. Strang talks about growing up in Eddington in the early 1900s; her father’s and then her work as an agent for the telephone company out of their house; being a teacher at the local school house; the owner of the first automobile in the area; self-sufficiency; holding dances in Eddington Grange hall; sledding or “sliding” for fun in the winter; ice skating; making her own clothes; celebrating Christmas; mayflowering; snow shoeing; peddlers; the local fortune teller; going into Bangor; summer theater; The Young Ladies Sociable; Fourth of July celebrations; mortuary practices; local remedies; Halloween; listening to the phonograph; listening to the radio; and berrying in the summer. Text: 28 page transcript. Recording: T 1049 1 hour.

1037 Clarence Grover, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, Eddington, Maine. Grover talks about knowing the people who drove the stage along the Airline (now route 9); getting married in 1930; how the Airline used to go over Chick Hill; poaching; working in his father’s mill; the first automobile; working to build the road around Chick Hill; working in a lumber camp; songs sung in the camp and at home; the Grange Hall in Amherst; his father; people who owned stills during Prohibition; fishing; working horses and driving horses; water-dowsing or water-witching; Jim Cranie, a healer, specifically a blood stopper; the farmers’ almanac; working with oxen; barn raising; what Christmas was like; knitting with his mother; and river driving. Text: 32 page transcript. Recording: T 1050 1 hour.

1038 J. Herbert Comins, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 25, 1976, Eddington, Maine. Comins talks about living in the same house he was born in; being a tree farmer; owning a dairy farm; his family history; serving three terms in the Sate Legislature; attending the school in East Eddington; driving the school team while in high school; how much of the food he ate was raised by his family; Thursday, market day; hunting; how they kept the meat; The Young Ladies Sociable; putting on plays; sewing circles; the local newspapers; getting and keeping ice; types of wagons his family owned; epidemics; mortuary practices; his wedding; town meetings; forecasting the weather; river travel; living through the Depression; and what Christmas was like in the early 1900s. Text: 31 page transcript. Recording: T 1051 1.15 hour.

1039 George Knox, interviewed by Joan Brooks, May 7, 1976, Holden, Maine. Knox talks about moving to Eddington, Maine, in 1902; raising their own meat; Frank Davis, a local market hunter; the route the old Airline road took; peddling in Bangor; trapping; poaching; Cal Graves; moose meat; going to dances; card games; what weddings were like; Halloween pranks; dowsing; weather lore; working in the woods; camp songs; men who made up songs in the area; working as a river driver; working for Great Northern; the other George Knox; and how he met his wife. Text: partial transcript. Recording: T 1052 1.75 hour.

1040 Various, interviewed by Richard Sterling for AY 122, spring 1976, Orono, Maine. 165 pp. ms. Seventy individuals talk about the “Hook Story,” reactions and comments to it, when and where they heard it, variations, belief in the story. Text: 163 pp. manuscript.

1041 Arnold Davis, Betty Maker, and Kenneth Maker, interviewed by Kimberly Maker for AY 122, spring 1976, Jonesboro, Maine. 26 pp. ms. Davis, Maker, and Maker talk about Carl E. Davis and his life. Text: 21 pp. paper.

1042 By Helen Freeman for AY 122, spring 1976, Milford and Wiscasset, Maine. 11 pp. ms. Paper, titled “Tales of Lumbering and Others in Wiscasset, Maine: 1911-1920,” deals with investigations of the Silver Slipper Dance Hall in Milford, Maine. Text: 10 pp. paper.

1043 By Karen Anne Eames for AY 122, spring 1976, Milo, Maine. 32 pp. ms. Paper on the funeral and burial traditions in Milo, Maine and photocopied articles and notices. Text: 67 pp. total: 22 pp. paper.

1044 By Sara Dufour for AY 122, spring 1976, Howe Brook, Maine. 23 pp. ms. Paper on the history of Howe Brook and Howe Brook fires with map and sheet music. Text: 22 pp. paper.

1045 By Candace Jewett for AY 122, spring 1976, Troy, Maine. 20 pp. ms. Paper on barn and kitchen dances and on the history of Troy, Maine. Text: 34 pp. total: 15 pp. photocopy of “How to Find Out: In Anthropology” and 19 pp. paper.

1046 By Kathy Taylor for AY 122, spring 1976, Maine (10 towns). 18 pp. ms. Paper on socialization in selected 4th class post offices in Maine, including: Exeter, Hudson, Blue Hill Falls, West Sullivan, North Sullivan, Passadumkeag, Enfield, Burlington, Garland, and Stetson. Text: 16 pp. paper.

1047 Reginald Toothaker and Tom Clements, interviewed by Ronald Brewster for AY 122, spring 1976, Newburgh, Maine. 40 pp. ms. Tape: 1 hr. No cat. or trans. Toothaker and Clements talks about their lives as trappers, woodsmen, and potato pickers; history of Dixmont, Maine. Text: 36 pp. paper, no catalog or transcription. Recording: T 1053 – T 1054 1 hour.

1085 By Deke Dalrymple for AY 122, spring 1976, Mapleton, Maine. 8 pp. ms. Paper on the lynching of Jim Cullen in Mapleton, Maine about 1880. Text: 8 pp. paper.

1106 Elbridge Cousins, Bert Thompson, Donald Costain, Edmond Doucette, Wilbert McInnes, Frank Stevens, Mrs. Peter Dalton, Kevin Howard, Lloyd Cooke, Mr. Riley, Roy Oulten, John Busta, Freddy Gallant, Freddy Gallant, Gabe Sharbel, Mrs. Enman, Elmer Cooke, and others, interviewed by Sister Katherine MacDonald for AY 122, January 1977, Prince Edward Island. 37 pp. Tape: approx. 3 1/2 hrs. w/ brief cat. & trans. Accession consists of four audio cassettes containing interviews with 20 residents of PEI about the Phantom Ship of Northumberland Strait (also known as the Burning Ship of Northumberland Strait), various transcripts, tape logs and notes submitted by the collector, a typescript copy of a poem called “The Prince Edward Island Version of the Escuminac Disaster” composed and recited by Elmer Cooke; and two small booklets (aimed at educators) titled “Prince Edward Island through Song and Dance” and “Folk Songs to Accompany Prince Edward Island Through Song and Dance.” Informants too numerous to list. One cassette contains a call-in radio program about the legend which concerns mystery lights seen in the Strait that separates Prince Edward Island from mainland New Brunswick. Recording: T 1130 – T 1132, C 1714 – C 1717 (Originals), CD 0028 – CD 0030.

1109 Louis A. Smith interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives for AY 122, summer 1976, Orono, Maine (NAFOH). 5 pp. Tape: 1/4 hr. w/ brief cat. Smith talks about Charlie Merrill, who was reported to have sold his soul to the devil. Merrill was also a magician of some local renown. Text: brief catalog. Recording: T 1133 1/4 hour.

1181 By Edward Saxby for AY 122, spring 1978, Harrison, Maine. 14 pp. ms. Paper on town meeting in Harrison, emphasizing meeting as a major social event as well as a place to conduct town business. Text: 14 pp. paper.

1182 By Michael Chaney for AY 122, spring 1978, Wiscasset, Maine. 22 pp. ms. Paper on “The Witch of Windmill Hill,” search for a folktale that centers around Castle Tucker. Text: 22 pp. paper.

1183 By Sharon Pierce for AY 122, spring 1978, UMaine, Orono, Maine. 14 pp. ms. Paper on the prevalence of the “Same State” study method used by residents of Androscoggin Hall. Text: 14 pp. paper.

1184 By Willis Young for AY 122, spring 1978, Manchester, Belgrade, and Augusta, Maine. 35 pp. ms. Paper deals with a collection of the “Devil’s Foot Meeting House” stories. Text: 35 pp. paper. Photos: P02412 – P02417.

1189 Barry Thomas and Cecil (Mort) Long, interviewed by Anna Mary Milam for AY 122, spring 1978, East Blue Hill and Mount Desert Island, Maine. 48 pp. Tape: 1 1/4 hrs. w/ trans. Thomas, of Mount Desert Island, and Long, of East Blue Hill, talk about lobstering; buoys; and lobstering tales. Also an 18 pp. ms. titled “Buoys, Lobstering and Tales.” Text: 48 pp. transcript, 18 pp. paper. Recording: T 1248 – T 1249, C 1740 – C 1742 (originals) 1 1/4 hours.

1193 By Marilyn Cameron for AY 122, spring 1978, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. 30 pp. ms. Paper deals with a collection of home remedies recalled by fellow workers at the local counseling center in Dover-Foxcroft. Text: 30 pp. paper.

1194 James Grant, Doris Grant, Carolyn Grant, Mrs. Joe Mussetti, interviewed by Susan O’Neill for AY 122, spring 1978, Hall Quarry, Maine. 61 pp. ms. J. Grant, D. Grant, C. Grant, and Mussetti talk about the history of Hall Quarry and the granite operations there. Accession includes rough transcripts, but no tapes, of interviews, and a map. Text: paper, rough transcripts. Photos: P02409 – P02411.

1213 Barbara Bond, interviewed by Connie Skillings for AY 122, spring 1978, Saco, Maine. 124 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Bond, donor’s mother, talks about family storytelling; paper on “Family Stories,” copies of two stories published in magazines and an illustrated copy of the adventures of “The Little Green Monkey,” written by Bond. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1270 – T 1271 2 hours.

1263 By Cynthia Robbins for AY 122, spring 1979, Searsport, Swanville, and Belfast, Maine. 38 pp. ms. Paper on the life of Enoch Robbins. Also included: photocopies of ballad, sermon, and military records. Text: 38 pp. paper.

1264 By Nancy Tongue for AY 122, spring 1979, New Harbor and Lincoln County, Maine. 23 pp. ms. Paper on the traditions of lobster trap building. Text: 23 pp. paper.

1265 By John McDonald for AY 122, spring 1979, Vinalhaven, Maine. 38 pp. ms. Paper deals with a collection of stories about John Perry; local Revolutionary War hero; Polly’s Cove; and War of 1812 raids. Text: 38 pp. paper.

1266 By Mary Brawn for AY 122, spring 1979, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. 25 pp. ms. Paper on Peter Brawn (1770-1855) and a bear on Sebec Lake; recollections of the bear story by family and community members. Text: 25 pp. paper.

1267 By Elizabeth Tracy for AY 122, spring 1979, Monroe, Maine. 15 pp. ms.  Paper deals with a trying to collect stories about the history of Monroe, Maine; getting personal stories from informants; and trying to find out about Peggy Lilly, a former Negro slave from Virginia who, disguised as a man, served in the Revolutionary War, settled in Monroe, Maine, said to have bewitching powers. 14 pp. paper. 

1268 By Jock Crothers for AY 122, spring 1979, Sorrento, Maine. 23 pp. ms. Paper on weir-fishing in Sorrento area. Text: 23 pp. paper.

1269 By Cinder Thompson for AY 122, spring 1979, UMaine, Orono, Maine. 18 pp. ms. Paper deals with a collection of songs and games associated with drinking. Text: 18 pp. paper.

1270 By Laurence Hueras for AY 122, spring 1979, Maine. Paper titled “Clubs and Clubhouses: Their Purpose, and Folklore’s Role In Them.” Text: 13 pp. paper.

1271 By Bill Papuzynski for AY 122, spring 1979, Houlton, Maine. 61 pp. ms. Paper on a collection of stories about Earl A. Frame, local character. Text: 61 pp. paper.

1272 William Richard, Rodney Richard, Sr., Rodney Richard, Jr., interviewed by Stephen Richard for AY 122, spring 1979, Rangeley, Maine. 33 pp. ms. The Richard’s, three generations of woodcarvers, talk about woodcarving; peach pit carving; fans. Text: 33 pp. paper.

1273 By Geraldine Rankin for AY 122, spring 1979, Mabou and West lake, Inverness County, Nova Scotia. 31 pp. ms. Paper on the process of cheese making in these areas. Also included: diagram and photos, P05997 – P06008. Text: 31 pp. paper.

1274 By Wanda Raynard for AY 122, spring 1979, Glenwood, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Paper on quilting as done in the Glenwood-Argyle area. Also included: four samples of quilted material. Text: 25 pp. paper.

1320 By Christopher Keefe for AY 122, spring 1980, Old Town, Maine. 15 pp. ms. Paper on stories found at and about the Old Anchorage Inn, now Moriarty’s Inn, in Old Town, Maine. Text: 15 pp. paper.

1321 By Sharon Weiss for AY 122, spring 1980, Islesboro, Maine. 37 pp. ms. Paper deals with stories collected on Islesboro about shipwrecks; Ryder’s Light; ghost lights; rum-running; forerunners and ghost stories. Also included: news clipping. Text: 37 pp. paper, news clipping.

1327 Dell Turner, interviewed by John T. Meader for AY 122, spring 1980, Fairfield, Maine. 171 pp. Tape: 5 hrs. w/ cats. Series of interviews with Turner about his life, woods cooking, lumber camps, farming, fishing stories. Text: 56 pp. oral autobiography of Turner. Recording: T 1448 – T 1450. Photos: P04662 – P04667. T 1448: Topics covered include leaving home at age 9 and becoming a hobo; the hobo lifestyle; learning to cook at Spencer Mountain; building outhouses; tending hogs; pay; learning to cook; cooking in Patten; riding the tramway; log driving on the Roach River and Chamberlain Lake; working with Bill Russell, Archie McDonald, Lewy McDonald, Tom Kelly, Al McNeil, Lester Turner, Earl McNeil-Neil, George Turner; potato farming on the Christly Farm in Aroostook County. Fishing with Maurice Libby on Duck Lake, Mud Brook, Coldstream, Wilson Pond, among others; staying at Nugent’s camp on Chamberlain Lake; Chamberlain Farm; baking fish on Stragely Lake; saltwater fishing; sea sickness. T 1449: Topics covered include his service in the United States Army during World War I at the age of 21; fighting at Ginney Ridge, France, and getting injured; being sent home injured to Camp Davis outside of Boston; the flu epidemic at Camp Devans; being drafted; finding his uncle while traveling in Scotland; working for his second cousin George Turner in Mapleton; meeting his future wife Crystal in 1922; working with horses; a barn fire. Barn fire; working with horses; working for Lewly Turner; the death of Lewly Turner; working for John Washburn on his ice cart in Fairfield; traditional medicine and a woman healer; birthmarks. T 1450: Topics covered include working for Guilford Carter in Mapleton on his potato farm; Guilford Carter’s attempted suicide; cooking in a logging camp; bean hole beans; teaching a head cookee; cooking at a sawmill in Masardis on the Blackwater; working for Cooboth and Anderson near Haystack Mountain; working at 9-14 [possibly T9-R14]; log haulers; G-poles; tag chains. 1343 Edda Briggs for AY 122, spring 1980, Augusta, Maine. 23 pp. ms. Paper titled “Aspects of Mobile Home Living in Central Maine.” Also included: 221 photos. Text: 23 pp. paper. Photos: P04143 – P04364.

1343 Edda Briggs for AY 122, spring 1980, Augusta, Maine. 23 pp. ms. Paper titled “Aspects of Mobile Home Living in Central Maine.” Also included: 221 photos. Text: 23 pp. paper. Photos: P04143 – P04364.

1471 By Pamela Bemis for AY 122, spring 1981, Levant, Maine. 12 pp. ms. Paper on the last tarring and feathering in Levant, Maine. Text: 12 pp. paper.

1472 By Susan Hanks for AY 122, spring 1981, Augusta, Maine. 31 pp. ms. Paper on Allie Jenks, town character. Text: 31 pp. paper.

1473 By Janet Hendershot for AY 122, spring 1981, Orono and Turner, Maine. 27 pp. ms. Paper on family jokes. Text: 27 pp. paper.

1474 By Eric Kangas for AY 122, spring 1981, Rockland, Maine. 12 pp. ms. Paper on big buck hunting stories. Text: 12 pp. paper.

1475 By Michael Snell for AY 122, spring 1981, Strong, Maine. 53 pp. ms. Paper deals with a collection of stories told by Ruben Campbell about bears, rat-charming, ghosts, jacking, game wardens. Text: 53 pp. paper.

1577 By Dugald Sturges for AY 122, spring 1982, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Paper titled “Ach A Bheil E Beo: Gaelic Songs & Songmaking on Cape Breton in the Nineteen-Eighties.” Text: 11 pp. paper.

1578 By Michael Clancy for AY 122, spring 1982, Bangor, Maine. 27 pp. ms. Paper on Maine ax handles and handle-makers. Also included: drawings. Text: 25 pp. paper.

1579 By Kathryn Roberts AY 122, spring 1982, Orono, Maine. 41 pp. ms. Paper deals with a collection of “oral tradition” home remedies for hangovers. Text: 41 pp. manuscript.

1580 Paul Counihan and Vivian Violette Counihan, interviewed by James Counihan for AY 122, spring 1982, Vernon, Connecticut. 27 pp. The Counihans talk about Counihan family folklore. Text: 27 pp. transcript.

1583 By Kelley Newton for AY 122, spring 1982, Northport, New York. 35 pp. ms. Paper titled “Tales of Northport and its Surrounding Areas.” Text: 33 pp. paper.

1584 By Theresa Beckett for AY 122, spring 1982, Gorham, NH. 52 pp. ms. Paper on people who work for the Appalachian Mountain Club Huts System in New Hampshire. Text: 50 pp. paper.

1643 By Brenda L. Kennedy for AY 122 spring 1983, Houlton, Maine. 18 pp. ms. Paper on tales collected in Paddy’s Hollow section of Houlton and other areas of Houlton. Text: 18 pp. paper.

1644 By Nathan Lowrey for AY 122, spring 1983, Aroostook County, Maine. 90 pp. ms. Paper, titled “Poachin’ (as a fine art),” deals with a collection of poaching stories. Text: 90 pp. paper.

1656 By Adam Jenkins for AY 122, spring 1983, Bangor, Maine. 20 pp. ms. Paper on Everett Cornelius and his many hunting experiences and stories. Text: 20 pp. paper.

1657 Clarisse Simard for AY 122, spring 1983, Winterport, Maine. 22 pp. ms. Paper on tales of the tunnels in Winterport, Maine and their validity. Also included: map. Text: 22 pp. paper.

1658 Deanna Webb for AY 122, spring 1983, Penobscot and Hancock Counties, Maine. 11 pp. ms. Paper dealing with the “Three Nephite” legends among the Latter Day Saints in the State of Maine. Text: 9 pp. paper.

1772 By Sophia Scheetz for AY 122, spring 1984, Chesterville, Maine. 25 pp. ms. Paper deals with stories and information from local people about the “Old Currier” farm. Text: 25 pp. paper

1773 By Suzette Lalime for AY 122, spring 1984, East Vassalboro, Maine. 17 pp. ms. Paper deals with stories about an imaginary man named “Trapper Dan” and his adventures as told by Ronald F. Lalime. Text: 17 pp. paper.

1774 By Gretchen Meech for AY 122, spring 1984, UMaine, Orono, Maine. 13 pp. ms. Paper deals with popular murder stories told by students on the University of Maine campus at Orono. Text: 13 pp. paper.

1775 By Arthur Newhall for AY 122, spring 1984, Belfast, Maine. 23 pp. ms. Paper based on stories told by musicians about “bad gigs,” first jobs, how they got started, disasters on the road, etc. Text: 23 pp. paper.

1776 By Carolyn Masse for AY 122, spring 1984, Orono and Orrington, Maine. 28 pp. ms. Paper based on home remedies for various ailments, especially warts. Text: 28 pp. paper.

1777 By Randall Budden for AY 122, spring 1984, Washington County, Maine. 9 pp. ms. Paper deals with stories about the Blacks Woods in Washington County, Maine. Text: 9 pp. paper.

1778 Fern Browne Spring, interviewed by Stephen Spring for AY 122, spring 1984, Rockland, Maine. 45 pp. ms. Tape: 2 hrs. No cat. or trans. Spring talks about her life from her birth until her marriage. Text: 42 pp. paper. Recording: C 0169 – C 0170 2 hours.

1779 Diane Deans and Rachel Deans, Bertha Delaney, and Thelma Welch, interviewed by Prudence Johnson for AY 122, spring 1984, Bangor, Veazie, and Bunker’s Harbor, Maine. 54 pp. ms. Tape: 3/4 hr. No cat, or trans. Paper based on recorded interviews with the Deans, Delaney, and Welch about the tradition of knitting mittens. Text: no catalog or transcript. Recording: C 0171 – C 0172 / T 1871 3/4 hour. Photos: P05979 – P-5984.

1780 Frank Edwin Rice and Joanne E. DeWitt, interviewed by Pamela DeWitt for AY 122, spring 1984, Orono and Pemaquid, Maine and Dinuba,California. 15 pp. ms. Tape: 1 hr. No cat, or trans. Collection of family stories focusing on the High Sierras and the San Joaquin Valley as told by Rice and DeWitt. Recording: C 0173 1 hour.

1781 By Deanne Bertrand for AY 122, spring 1984, Bath, Maine. 41 pp. ms. Paper based on unrecorded interviews with local people about history of Front Street in Bath, Maine. Text: 41 pp. paper.

1820 Franklin Beal, interviewed by Margaret Martin for AY 322, spring 1985, Milbridge, Maine. 14 pp. Tape: 3/4 hr. w/ trans. Beal talks about building models of Maine lobster boats. Text: 16 pp. total: 10 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0195 3/4 hour.

1821 Charles Beal, interviewed by Margaret Martin for AY 322, spring 1985, Milbridge, Maine. 10 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ trans. Beal talks about building models of Maine lobster boats. Text: 1 pp. index, 7 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0196 1/2 hour.

1822 Elvestin Beal, interviewed by Margaret Martin for AY 322, spring 1985, Milbridge, Maine. 10 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ trans. Beal talks about building models of Maine lobster boats. Text: 1 pp. index, 7 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0197 1/2 hour.

2181 By Gayle Alaimo for AY 422, spring 1991, Carmel, Maine. Paper titled “Days Gone By” which deals with personal stories of emergency medical fieldwork based on 15 years of experience with the Carmel Ambulance Service. The stories are “The Fire Phones”, “First Ambulance Call”, “The Ambulance Finally Arrived”, “A Family Of Victims”, “Impatient Patient”, “Working Together”, “Bugs Overtake Attendants”, “Student Becomes Patient”, and “Fashions of the Volunteer.” Text: 24 pp. paper.

2182 By Margaret Pinsky for AY 422, spring 1991, Orono and Machias, Maine. 25 pp. manuscript. Paper, titled “Four Month Journey into Handclapping,” which explores children’s hand clapping in the Orono and Machias areas. Text: 25 pp. paper.

2184 Maurice Fontaine, interviewed by Glenn Patrick Davis for AY 422, spring 1991, Lewiston, Maine. 40 pp. Tape: 1 hour with transcript. Fontaine talks about the history of L’Association Saint Dominique of Lewiston (1886-1941); characterizes and describes life in the Franco-American community. Text: transcript. Recording: C 0735 1 hour.

2185 By Kimberly Holman for AY 422, spring 1991, Long Island and Winter Harbor, Maine. 45 pp. manuscript. Paper titled “Ways of Dealing with a Declining Population on Long Island, Maine.” Text: 45 pp. paper.

2186 Verna McKeen, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen for AY 422, spring 1991, Rockland, Maine. 38 pp. Tape: 2 hours with transcript. V. McKeen talks about family history; poems; songs. Text: 1 pp. index, 34 pp. paper. Recording: C 0736, C 0737 2 hours.

2216 By David D. Doughan for AY 422, spring 1991, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with the sport of Ultimate Frisbee. Text: 17 pp. paper.

2217 By Deborah Davis for AY 422, spring 1991, Manchester, Maine. 14 pp. manuscript. Paper titled “Jump Rope Rhymes.” Text: 14 pp. paper.

2218 By Marie McCosh Alper for AY 422, spring 1991, Orono, Maine. 16 pp. manuscript. Paper titled “Baked Beans and Bean Hole Beans as Experienced in Maine Families.” Text: 16 pp. paper.

2219 By John M. Goodleaf for AY 422, spring 1991, Bangor and Orono, Maine. 55 pp. manuscript. Paper deals with a compilation of material culture which brings good luck. Text: 55 pp. paper.

2220 By Linda S. Bradford for AY 422, spring 1991, Bangor and Orono, Maine. 52 pp. manuscript. Paper deals with children’s game lore, to determine if children were still playing the same types of games in the same way as when author was a child, and if they were played the same way across the US or whether they were influenced by geography. Text: 52 pp. paper.

2221 By Sarah Cebulla for AY 422, spring 1991, Orono, Maine. 12 pp. manuscript. Paper, titled “A Bear What?” which consists of a collection of stories about bear plugs. Text: 12 pp. paper.

2222 By David Spooner for AY 422, spring 1991, New Sweden, Maine. 11 pp. manuscript. Paper consisting of a collection of home remedies. Text: 11 pp. paper.

2223 Earle W. York, Jr. “Junior York”, interviewed by Patricia Vadas for AY 422, spring 1991, Millinocket, Stacyville, Maine. 37 pp. manuscript. York, who spent 50 years as a Maine guide, tells stories and folklore from the Millinocket region, including Wassataquoik Valley, the Daicey Pond Camp, and the Sourdnhunk Falls area of the West Branch of the Penobscot River. Text: 36 pp. paper.

2224 By Lori Boyington for AY 422, spring 1991, Mars Hill, Maine. 12 pp. manuscript. Collection of children’s stories. Text: 12 pp. paper.

3493 Gladys Shumaker, interviewed by Amy L. Stevens, April 21, 2002, Brewer, Maine. Also included: 3 Polaroid images. Text: 12 pp. student paper. Recording: C 2527.

3495 Virginia Torrey and Shirley Cooke, interviewed by Sherry Roussel, December 14, 2000. Text: 9 pp. paper, 4 pp. video index. Recording: V 0327 (8 mm 120).

3504 Eva Lenfest, interviewed by Anne Mason, November 20, 2000. Text: 12 pp. paper, 2 pp. tape index. Recordings: C 2536.

3505 Albert Warren, interviewed by Anne Mason, November 21, 2000. Text: 3 pp. tape index. Recordings: C 2537.

3506 Frances Gray, interviewed by Anne Mason, November 21, 2000. Text: 3 pp. tape index. Recordings: C 2538.

3507 Ray and Lurline Webb, interviewed by Anne Mason, November 27, 2000. Text: 3 pp. tape index. Recordings: C 2539.

3508 George Varney, interviewed by Anne Mason, November 27, 2000. Text: tape index. Recordings: C 2540.

3509 Kathryn Boger, interviewed by Anne Mason, December 4, 2000. Text: tape index. Recordings: C 2541.

3513 John Daley, interviewed by N. Willow Yerxa, April 24, 2002. Text: 13 pp. paper. Recording: C 2545.

3515 Etta Morrison, interviewed by Nina Barufaldi, December 15, 2000, New Harbor, Maine. Text: 2 pp. tape contents, 13 pp. student paper. Recordings: C 2548.

3516 Jill Barufaldi, interviewed by Nina Barufaldi, December 14, 2000. Text: 13 pp. paper, field notes, letter.

3517 Judith Barufaldi, interviewed by Nina Barufaldi. Text: 13 pp. paper, 2 pp. interview index, e-mail correspondence.

3519 Robert & Donna Francis, interviewed by Allison M. Ouellet for ANT 425, August 12, 2001. Text: 11 pp. paper, 17 pp. capstone, 1 pp. tape index. Recording: C 2550. Photos: P09117 – P09134.

3530 Ruth Carver, interviewed by Tricia Carver, March 8, 2004, Zephyr Hills, Florida. Text: 10 pp. paper; 16 pp. transcript, 4 pp. questionnaire. Recordings: C 2562.

3531 Patty Henner, interviewed by Naomi Smethurst, April 30, 2001, Paige Farm Museum, Maine. Text: 1 pp. questionnaire; 7 pp. paper. Recordings: C 2563.

3535 David H. Hackett, interviewed by Connie Lewis, April 15, 2006, Harpswell, Maine. Also included: Pamphlet, Exhibit 1 (3 pp. photocopies of article); Exhibit 2 (pamphlet); Exhibit 5 (a 6 pp. synopsis of the interview); index of attachments; Exhibit 6 (5 pp. “Fair Harpswell” Captain L.H. Stower); Exhibit 7 (4 pp. “Legends”). Text: 12 pp. paper. Recording: C 2567. Photos: P09061 – P09070.

3537 Ralph Miller, interviewed by Kevin Young, November 28, 2006. Also included: map of the Saint John River; fishing hook. Text: 14 pp. paper; 1 pp. index. Recording: CD 1164, CD 1165.

3538 Sully Greenwood, interviewed by Erin Daggett and Elena Banker, April 14, 2006, Farmington, Maine. Accession includes paper by Daggett titled “Chester Greenwood Day!” and cassette tape of interview. Also included: 9 pp. photocopy of “Notes for National Cyclopeida of American Biography”; newspaper article; sticker. Text: 11 pp. paper, 9 pp. photocopied material, 1 pp. newspaper clipping. Recordings: C 2569.

3539 Thomas Sawyer, interviewed by Erin Daggett, April 14, 2006, Franklin Savings Bank, Maine. Accession includes paper by Daggett titled “Chester Greenwood Day!” and cassette tape of interview. Text: 11 pp. paper. Recordings: C 2570.

3541 Zack Hill, Pat Landry, Robert Tibbets, and Frank Hill, interviewed by Lars Hill, Bristol, Maine. Text: 10 pp. paper, 2 pp. tape index, 1 pp. picture index. Photos: P 9077 – P 9088. Recordings: C 2572.

3542 Richard Levesque, interviewed by Frances O’Hare, April 12, 2005 and April 29, 2005. Text: 14 pp. paper, 4 pp. tape index for 1st interview, 5 pp. tape index for the 2nd. Recordings: C 2578, C 2579.

3543 George Stetson, interviewed by Bert Macdonald, October 21, 2006. Text: 11 pp. paper. Recordings: CD 1166, CD 1167.

3548 Robert Croce and Jill Martel, interviewed by Andrew Croce, December 9, 2006. Text: 13 pp. paper, 1 pp. tape index. Recordings: C 2584, C 2585. Photos: P09089, P09090.

3553 Harold “Dynamite” Payson, interviewed by Steven Bailey, May 3 2002, South Thomaston, Maine. Text: 24 pp. Recordings: C 2587. Photos: P09071 – P09076.

3554 By Susan Z. Woodward. Report on Bath/Brunswick. Text: 1 pp. letter, 21 pp. paper. Photos: 24 pp. (photocopies images).

3555 Tim Brown, interviewed by Amanda Gammon, December 16, 2006, Turner Maine. Wayne Gammon, interviewed by Amanda Gammon, December 13, 2006. Text: 5 pp. transcript of Brown interview, 2 pp. transcript of W. Gammon interview, 11 pp. paper. Recording: C 2588 (Brown interview only).

3556 Neal Evan Parker, interviewed by Danielle Lossier, May 2 2006. Also included: “The Nightingale” by Danielle Lossier; survey pages 1, 5, 6; 2 pages photocopied from “Slave Ships and Slaving”. Text: 11 pp. paper, field journal. Photos: P09091 – P09101.

3557 Mildred Stafford and George Stafford, interviewed by Ann Ater, April 20 2002, Arrowsic, Maine. Text: cover page, letter, 1 pp. table of contents. Recordings: C 2589.

3558 Carrie Morris, interviewed by JoAnne P. Young, April 2, 2002. Also included: 11 pp. “John Hale’s Ride”. Text: 2 pp. letter. 14 pp. paper, 5 pp. paper, 40 pp. transcript with songs. Recordings: C 2590 – C 2592. Photos: P09006 – P09013 (3 with Moses Adams) (3 with James Crane) (2 with John Hale).

3559 By Joseph Donald Cyr. Paper on Madawaska Settlement. Text: 26 pp. paper.

3561 Hanna Ives, Gail Aloisio, Larry Corbett, Caroline, Joshua Firmin, Alaric Faulkner, Chris Houle, Joe Dupere, interviewed by Terrence J Gifford. Videotape recording of contra dance. Text: 13 pp. paper, notation of video, interviewees’ questionnaires. Recordings: V 0311.

3562 By Patricia Hanson. Paper on burial sites on Mount Desert Island and Trenton, Maine. Also included: 2 pp. Epitaphs (Appendix A); 3 pp. “Heavnely Crown” Rich (Appendix B). Text: 11 pp. paper. Photos: P09014 – P09020.

3564 Doris Curtis and Marylee Bowden, interviewed by Elizabeth Bunten, December 10, 2000. Text: 11 pp. paper. Recordings: V 0328.

3566 Richard Miles, interviewed by Daniel Colby. Also included: report by Richard Miles. Text: 10 pp. paper, 3 pp. report. Images: P09108 – P09116.

3567 By Marsha Anderson. Paper on the lineage of the Devereux family and travails of the JP Ellicott. Accession includes: photocopied letters, images, rosters, and lineages. Text: 1 pp. table of contents, 4 pp. introductory report, photocopied envelopes, 2 pp. photocopied images, letters, 3 pp. lineage, generation description, 1 pp. ship terminology.

3568 By Matt Frongillo. Paper on Vernacular Architecture of Northeast Harbor, Maine. Also included: 30 4×6 photographs; 1 pp. “A Note of Apology.” Text: 13 pp. paper. Photos: P09021 – P09050.

3569 Charles E. Colburn, Gayland Hachey, and Fred W. Bean, interviewed by Arsenault, 2000. Colburn, Hachey, and Bean talk about Atlantic Salmon Folk Culture and Legends on the Penobscot River. Also included: map of Penobscot River, 3 pp. program description, Pamphlet: “Fish Friends”, 3 pp. (6 images) printed images. Text: 16 pp. paper. Photos: P09135 – P09140.

3570 Jean Kilbreth, interviewed by Elizabeth Havener, May 2, 2006, Turner, Maine. Text: 9 pp. paper. Recordings: C 2593. Photos: P08953, P08955, P08956, P08975.

3571 Peggy Dowe and Sherry Deshaine, interviewed by Elizabeth Havener, May 2, 2006, Turner, Maine. Text: 9 pp. paper. Recordings: C 2593. Photos: P08954, P08975.