MF 182 World War II Collection

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History: MF 182 World War II Collection

Number of accessions: 152
Time period covered: WWII
Description: This is an arbitrary collection of accessions created in June 2014 to bring together interviews that focus on WWII.

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

0672 Joseph White, interviewed by Charles O’Leary, Harold Noddin, and John Hanson, March 14, 1972, Woodland, Maine. White talks about working in woods of Lincoln, moving to Woodland, joining Local #27 Pulp and Sulfite Workers; difficulties during Depression; trying to change dangerous working conditions at mill during 1920s and 1930s; involvement of union in politics; Ben Dorsky’s visit to Washington Co.; Labor Day celebrations in Woodland; running of the mill during WWII; spy in mill reports workers actions to management; fire in mill in 1925 or 1926; Noddin and White speak of Lincoln mill. Text: 35 pp. transcript with brief catalog. Recording: T 0375 / CD 0607.

0700 Lloyd Burke, Kingdom Burke, Kenneth Burke, Hauk Anderson, and anonymous man, interviewed by Frederick Pratson, July 20, 1972, East Dover, Nova Scotia. The group of inshore fisherman discuss their early 20th century experiences in and around East Dover; how they began fishing; how television spoiled social evenings; shoveling the road; being at sea during bad weather; working in a munitions factory during WWI; shipwrecks; impact of pollution; ghost stories; getting lost on the water; dangers of whales; running rum; pensions; working at the mercy of the weather; near-deaths at sea; sharks and the dangers of catching them; tales of pirate treasure; Halifax Explosion of 1917, sighting German submarines during WWII; and why inshore fishing was no longer economically advisable in 1972. RESTRICTED. Text: 115 pp. transcript with some gaps. Recording: T 0417 – T 0420 4 ½ hours.

0712 Arthur Lebel, interviewed by Jay McCloskey, August 19, 1972, at the offices of the Maine State Federated Labor Council, Bangor, Maine. Lebel talks about being employed at Bath Iron Works as an electric arc welder until 1935; joined union in 1934; worked at Four River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts for two years then returned to Bath; participated in the organization of a union at Bath; learning to be arc welder; attitudes of citizens toward union and elections; rates of pay and benefits over the years; helped organize shipyards in Portland and South Portland; compares CIO and the AFL; effects of WWII on labor in Maine; changes in CIO and AFL through the 1950s and 1960s; opinions of union then and now. Text: 22 pp. transcript. Recording: T 0452 / CD 0622.

0748 Frank Dyer, interviewed by Becky Elwell for FO 197, spring 1973, Lincolnville, Maine. Also included: newspaper clipping; 5 pp. interview schedule; 2 pp. biography of Dyer. Dyer, born on High Island on April 2, 1896, talks about Warren Island; his grandparents; school on 700 Acres Island; moving to Maker’s Island (La Salle’s Island); tending traps with his father, a lobster fisherman; working on the roads in Camden, Maine; being in the Army in WWII; odd jobs he worked; going back to lobstering at age 29; loosing boats to a hurricane; his wife picking and selling crabs he catches; children and grandchildren; duck hunting; whittling; knitting the heads for the traps he builds. Text: 72 pp. transcript with 2 pp. catalog/biography. Recording: T 0574 – T 0576 2 hours.

0777 Alton Urguhart, interviewed by Mary O’Meara for American Folklore Seminar, George Washington University, August 24, 1973, Ellsworth, Maine. Urguhart talks about his life as a lobster fisherman from the vantage point of his 76th year; his background and childhood; learning lobstering from his father; lobster boats in the 1910s; his wife; types of traps used then; Beal’s Island; wet-well smack; different kinds of smacks; lobster shells for fertilizer; storms; regulations of seasons; in Coast Guard in WWI and WWII; types of motors and engines prior to WWII; hard getting back in after serving; buoys; different methods of fishing; hawling vs hauling traps; fishing in Southwest Harbor; blessings and hardships on the sea; summer people; ghost stories; 7-year lobster cycle; effect of off shore fishing; hatcheries . Also included: personal correspondence. Tape: T 0644 – T 0646 2 hours. Text: 7 pp. catalog; 27 pp. of extracts of O’Meara’s paper and draft.

0885 Ernest Marriner, interviewed by Ellen Beach, November 27, 1974, Waterville, Maine. Marriner discusses Colby College in the first half of the twentieth century; the career of Ninetta Runnals at Colby; the history of women at Colby and the coordinate system of co-ed college; boarding off-campus; tuition increases over time; Colby during WWII and the college training attachment of the Army Air Force; and WWII causing equality of women at Colby. Text: 16 pp. transcript. Recording: T 0855 1 hour.

0886 Alta Mitchell, interviewed by Sarah Jane Adamski for IDL 105, October 27, 1974, Sanford, Maine. 24 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Mitchell talks about her life and travels during the first half of the twentieth century; her thoughts on early twentieth-century US presidents; why she worked to repeal Prohibition; working for women’s suffrage; her views on Nixon and the Watergate scandal; meeting Truman and his propensity for cursing; welfare work in Germany after WWII; teaching in Taipei circa 1954; and the importance of voting. Text: 24 pp. transcript; brief catalog . Recording: T 0856.

1019 Madella “Mae” Nevells interviewed by Marilyn Reuter, April 13, 1975, Sedgwick, Maine. Nevells discusses her life in during the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries; dances; medicine shows; sliding in the winter; how she came to have the telephone office in her home 1928-1954; changes in the telephone office over time; minimal changes during WWII other than blackouts; her wedding and wedding dress; and Fourth of July and Christmas celebrations when she was a child. Text: 27 pp. transcript, plus 7 pp. catalog. Recording: 1 hour T 1030.

1087 Lois Derosiers, interviewed by Sheila Comerford, October 29 – 31, 1976, Orono, Maine. Derosiers talks about her life and events of the mid twentieth century and trends of the 1970s; her childhood in the Bangor area and entertainment she enjoyed; growing up during the Great Depression; importance of rules and discipline during her childhood; impact of WWII on everyday life; her views on women’s liberation and equality; increasing violence and crime; and the abdication of King Edward VIII of England. Text: 17 pp. transcript, plus 5 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1108 ½ hour.

1088 Max Gass, interviewed by Cheryl Berg, November 16, 1976, in Bangor, Maine. Gass talks about his life experiences on a Maine farm and during WWII, as well as perspectives on the 1970s; childhood on a farm in the 20s and 30s; choosing to enter the Navy when he was drafted in 1943; war effort in the Bangor area; Victory in Europe Day while stationed in Hawaii; radio programs circa 1941; importance of the bombing of Pearl Harbor; his views on women’s liberation, equality, and the ideal woman; his belief, as his father held, that Jewish people should not date or marry non-Jews; dating his wife; problems of the 1970s, and his experiences as a parent. Text: 18 pp. incomplete transcript, plus 9 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1109 1 hour.

1089 Ernest Melvin, interviewed by Rebecca Amsden, November 1, 1976, Bangor, Maine. Melvin discusses his stations in WWII, none of which saw action as he was in a construction battalion; bombing Hiroshima as the right thing to do; the ideal man; his duties in the military; liberty in China and shopping in Peking; and how politics in the 1970s could be improved. Text: 19 pp. transcript, plus 6 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1110 ½ hour.

1090 John Chapman, interviewed by Tona Smith, November 10 and December 8, 1976, in Hampden, Maine. Chapman tells of his childhood in Bangor and WWII on the home front; childhood games in the 1930s; sliding in Bangor during the winter; importance of the Lindbergh kidnapping; listening to the radio; Victory in Japan night; employment of prisoners of war and the merits of German POWs as workers; changes WWII brought to life and the community; Brady Gang gunned down in Bangor in the 1930s; stories he was told by a river driver; rationing during WWII; demand for hotel rooms during WWII; and bombing of Hiroshima as the greatest lifesaver of the war. Text: 31 pp., incomplete transcript, plus 11 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1111 1 ½ hours.

1091 Sylvia MacEldowney, interviewed by Ann Mills, November 18, 1976, Orono, Maine. MacEldowney discusses important events of the 1930s and 1940s; how her family survived during the Great Depression; her experiences as a female engineer after WWII; college education at Rhode Island State College and the scarcity of male students due to WWII; American entry into WWII and the attitudes of her peers in high school; her decision to return to college in her fifties; radio programs of the 1930s; description of a WWII military installation disguised as a cluster of cottages; writing to soldiers as a pen pal; the Hindenburg disaster; special editions of magazines; and the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. Text: 27 pp., incomplete transcript, plus 16 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1112 1 ½ hours.

1092 Margaret Hatch, interviewed by Donna E. Gray, November 18 – 29, 1976, Orono, Maine. Hatch discusses her views on the women’s liberation movement; the Great Depression and its impact on her childhood; WWII; her reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor; and wartime activities. Text: 11 pp., incomplete transcript, with 5 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1113 – T 1114 1 hour.

1093 Rev. Arthur C. Woodward, interviewed by Sarah Jane Miller, November 1, 1976, South Brewer, Maine. Woodward talks about his life and historical events that influenced it; his childhood in Gouldsboro, ME, in the 1920s and 1930s, including chores, education, and recreation; attending vocation school at Quoddy, where he met Eleanor Roosevelt and officials from her husband’s administration; lack of racial difficulties with the African-American students; students traveling to Canada to fight in WWII before US involvement; his inability to enlist because of his civilian work at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard; why men his age wanted to enlist; bootlegging and rum-running commonplace during Prohibition; the Great Depression; his father’s career for Maine’s Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries; Roosevelt’s initiatives; unity of purpose during WWII; psychological conditioning of soldiers; radio programs of his youth; his perception of the lack of morality in the 1970s. Text: 40 pp., incomplete transcript, plus 10 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1115 1 ¼ hours.

1095 Mary Elizabeth Wood, interviewed by Jane S. Bechtel, November 7 – 14, 1976, Brewer, Maine. Wood discusses World War II; radio during the late 1930s; her family’s victory garden during WWII with particular emphasis on tomatoes; shortage of shoes during the war; blackouts; remembrance of Victory in Japan Day; and the necessity of dropping the atomic bomb. Text: 21 pp. transcript plus 8 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1118 ½ hour.

1097 Ruth True, interviewed by Linda True, October 31 – November 29, 1976, in Orono, Maine. True discusses World War II and its impacts on life in Orono; rationing and the difficulty of planning meals; land made available at the University of Maine for victory gardens; recycling and volunteering for the war effort; blackouts and dimouts; joining the Navy as a hospital aide; teaching blind servicemen life skills; why she chose not to join the celebrations on Victory in Japan Day; her Navy uniforms; advantages of being in the military in terms of preferential treatment and reduced fares; radio shows of the 1930s; the importance of education in her family; changing perceptions of smoking and women smokers between the 1940s and 1970s; aircraft spotting during WWII; and the shooting of the Brady Gang in Bangor. Text: 27 pp., incomplete transcript, plus 6 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1121 – T 1123 1 hour.

1130 Mrs. Arthur Andrews, interviewed by Ann Merriam, November 11-13, 1977, Camden, Maine. Andrews talks about her childhood in Cutler, Maine, in the 1950s; preparations for winter; recreation; the independent nature of Cutler inhabitants; medical care and childbirth; her high school experience; the advantages of a one-room schoolhouse education; her courtship and marriage; being scared during WWII; concerns about spies during the war; polio scares, especially when her family lived in Connecticut; her views on women’s liberation; and her concerns for the future. Text: 37 pp. incomplete transcript, plus 9 pp. catalog. Recording: 1 ½ hours T 1191 – T 1192.

1131 Jo Ann Nivison, interviewed by Connie Allen, November 6 – 11, 1977, Winslow, Maine. Nivison discusses her mother’s struggle to raise seven children alone in the 1930s and 40s; potato picking in northern Maine; her responsibilities as the only daughter; buying a TV in 1956; the Christmas Fair to benefit St. John’s school in the 1970s; Victory in Japan Day; the significance of the atomic bomb; WWII air raids and blackouts as exciting to a child; Kennedy’s assassination; her views on women’s liberation and Vietnam draft dodgers. Text: 29 pp. transcript, incomplete, plus 5 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1193 – T 1194 1 ¼ hours.

1136 Russell Christensen, interviewed by Maryellen McCallum, December 2, 1977, Orono, Maine. Christensen talks about his childhood in Gardiner, Maine, in the 1930s and 40s; jobs he held; finding the strength to be open about his Marxist beliefs; significance of Trotsky’s murder; reaction to Kennedy’s assassination; his view of women’s liberation; military service in Korea and desire to emulate WWII heroes; dire predictions for the future unless humanity embraces socialism; and China as a model of the good socialism can do. Text: 20 pp. transcript, plus 2 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1198 ½ hour, C 0502 1/4 hour.

1141 William Randall, interviewed by Debra Lee Osgood, November 17 – December 20, 1977, Orono, Maine. Randall discusses his childhood in Old Town, Maine, in the 1940s and 50s; life being less satisfactory in the 1970s despite having more material goods; his job as the head baker in Stodder Commons at the University of Maine; celebrations at the end of WWII; growing up as one of twenty-two children; his involvement with St. Joseph’s Church in Old Town; his first experience with television; his thoughts on women’s liberation; Christmas in his childhood and the 1970s, how it became commercialized; and why things were better “back then.” Text: 38 pp. incomplete transcript, plus 5 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1204 1 ½ hours.

1195 Dr. Joyce White, interviewed by Marietta Flagg, April 14 – May 13, 1978, Newport, Maine. White discusses her childhood in the area of Canaan, Maine, in the 1930s and 40s; the sense of disaster during the Great Depression; responsibilities, recreation, and education; sexual mores of the late 1940s/ early 1950s; rationing and recycling during WWII, including picking milkweed pods; her personal growth when she returned to college in 1967; regrets over her attempts to raise perfect children; the problem with values in the 1970s; how psychology could be misused to keep people in “the system”; her unconventional approach to psychology; and the importance of Kennedy’s assassination and WWII. Text: 20 pp., incomplete transcript, plus 5 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1254 1 ½ hours.

1202 Don Mitchell, interviewed by Roger Mitchell, his son, in 1976. Series of interviews about Mitchell senior’s life and work as a woodsman and farmer formed the basis of Northeast Folklore XIX: “I’m a Man That Works.” C 0017 Side 2: Topics covered include the social security system; work ethics; WWII; Roger Tozier’s stories; Old Bake not taking ether; Les Curtis and Graden Murphy; Dill and Tracey Brook; hunting stories; Clint Corey’s camp; Bake’s camp.

1259 Paul Belyea, interviewed by Melody Rose, May 16, 1979, Orono, Maine. Belyea talks his childhood in Presque Isle, Maine in the 1930s and 40s, and the impact of isolated country living; differences between his childhood and that of his children; toys and shoes scarce during WWII; taxis during WWII as bringers of bad news; radio during his childhood; US dependence on foreign oil in the 1970s; his views on the Equal Rights Amendment; the education system; and his optimism for the future. Text: 24 pp. transcript. Recording: T 1335 1 hour.

1261 Carolyn Folsom, interviewed by Maureen Kane, April 19, 1979, Bangor, Maine. Folsom talks about her childhood in northern Maine in the 1930s and 40s; games and fun for poor children; responsibilities and division of labor in her marriage; celebration of the end of WWII in Millinocket, Maine; assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr.; racism in the South; movies of her childhood; her concerns for the future; changes in Millinocket; fashions when she was in high school; school dances; and perspectives on technology. Includes brochure for the paintings of Carolyn and Clyde Folsom and photocopy of a newspaper picture. Text: 27 pp. transcript. Recording: T 1337 1 hour.

1288 David Priest, interviewed by William Warner, September 26, 1979 – March 9, 1980, Winn, Maine. Priest, a retired game warden, talks about his life and work in the Maine woods; his interest in hunting, trapping, and fishing as a child; trapping as more profitable than service as a game warden, which led him to abandon his first stint as a game warden; the seasonal cycle of trapping and working as a fishing guide; application process to become a game warden; responsibilities of a game warden in the late 1940s and early 1950s; the methods of gangs whose business was selling poached deer to hunters; changes over time in how confiscated illegal game and road kill was distributed; anecdotes from his years as a game warden; skinning animals and preparing the pelts; techniques of deer poachers; hunting bobcats with dogs; emotional connection and respect for the animals he hunted and trapped; bears terrorizing lumber crews; guns and which guns he used for specific purposes; his childhood in the 1920s and entering the workforce during the early 1930s; using skunk scent in traps; various traps for bear and beaver; legal manner of trapping, his dislike of Maine game laws, particularly those which allow Native Americans exemptions; combat in Italy during WWII; a poem about game wardens written by a fellow warden; changes in trappers’ attitudes and methods over time; definition of “woods queer” and an example of such a man; multiple cases of searching for people lost in the woods; hunting porcupines; apprehending poachers; discussion of photographs; release of caribou onto Mt. Katahdin; tragedies on Mt. Katahdin; use of his woodsman and hunting skills in the Army; poisoning foxes; odd jobs that made him money during his childhood; traditional medicine used by his grandmother; canoe designs and which ones are most useful for which tasks; cookouts as an outdoor guide; cases where the legal system did not serve justice, particularly as regards to unjust and biased judges; night hunting and apprehending poachers; pine martins and ways to trap them; responsibilities of an outdoor guide; varieties of snowshoes and materials used to make them; a notable poacher who used a plane to spot beaver; his respect for poachers and lack of personal animosity; use of salt pork to heal infection; anecdotes about encounters with wildlife; interview with Lillian Priest about life as David Priest’s wife, particularly while he was in the military during WWII; decline of sportsmanship over time; state regulations allowing for too many animals to be taken by 1979; coyotes as a menace; blowing ledges and beaver dams; fishing stories, guiding for Wilson’s East Outlet Camps; proportions of resident versus nonresident lawbreakers; and food served at camps. Text: 244 pp. catalog; plus copies of information sources related to Priest and his work, including genealogical history, newspaper articles, and official state documents, for which major themes are the search for people lost in Baxter State Park, notably the Mott brothers in 1965, and news relating to Baxter State Park laws and regulations; Warner’s biography of Priest is also included. Recording: T 1370 – T 1372, T 1389 – T 1390, T 1411, T 1467. Photographs: P 3473 – P 3490, P 3629, P 3647 – P 3682.

1319 Robert Bourget, interviewed by Rhonda Lee Walfield, March 20, 1980, Bath, Maine. Bourget talks about events and trends of the mid-twentieth century; the growth of purchase on credit; early television; his WWII Navy service; corruption and problems with the political system; Kennedy’s assassination and his disbelief at the official stance on it; American dependence on foreign oil; his views on women’s equality; and the Battle of Iwo Jima and why dropping the atomic bomb was necessary. Text: 32 pp. transcript. Recording: T 1440 1 hour.

1511 Alice Hunnewell, interviewed by Rita Breton, spring 1981, Augusta, Maine. 36 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Hunnewell talks about life during the Depression and WWII; teaching experiences, 1928 to 1954; Cooperative Extension work, 1954 to 1967; news clipping. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1614 2 hours.

1512 Doris Ladd, interviewed by Rita Breton, spring 1981, Hallowell, Maine. 25 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Ladd talks about life during the Depression in Brownville Junction & Milo, Maine; WWII years in Bath, Maine; Cooperative Extension work, 1950s and 60s. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1615 2 hours.

1513 Edna Dickey, interviewed by Rita Breton, spring 1981, Gorham, Maine. 43 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Dickey talks about college and teaching experiences during the Depression; her work as a farmerette in Maine’s Women’s Land Army during WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1616 2 hours.

1514 Charlotte Lovejoy, interviewed by Rita Breton, spring 1981, Westbrook, Maine. 54 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Lovejoy talks about college and teaching experiences during the Depression; life as a young wife and mother during WWII; copy of 1930s bank book; ration coupons. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1617 2 hours.

1535 Mrs. Avis “Ma” Dudley, interviewed by Rita Breton, fall 1981, Mapleton, Maine. 31 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Dudley, 85, talks about growing up on Aroostook County farm; effect of the Depression and WWII; her volunteer work with Extension Service and Red Cross in 1930s and 40s; cookbook. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1630, CD 2253 (2 CD set) 2 hours. Photos: P 5248 – P 5250.

1567 Lucy Shieve, interviewed by Rita Breton, winter 1982, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. 42 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Shieve talks about her Extension Service work with rural farm families in Piscataquis and Aroostook Counties, 1927 – 36; effects of WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1669 2 hours. Photographs: P 5282 – P 5286.

1568 Hortense Monaghan, Evelyn Miller and Stacy Miller, interviewed by Rita Breton, winter 1982, Orono, Maine. 47 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Monaghan and the Millers talk about their work as Extension Service agents in Maine during the Depression; how Depression and WWII affected their personal lives. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1670 2 hours.

1569 Mabel Lovejoy, interviewed by Rita Breton, winter 1982, Veazie, Maine. Unrecorded interview. 20 pp. Lovejoy talks about her childhood and education; college years at UMaine: 1920s; making do during the Depression and WWII. Text: 17 pp. paper. Recording: unrecorded. Photos: P 5275 – P 5281.

1570 Lu Oliver, interviewed by Rita Breton, winter 1982, Orono, Maine. 24 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Oliver talks about effects of Depression; her volunteer work for the Grey Ladies during WWII at Dow Field Hospital, Bangor, Maine. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1671 1 hour. Photograph: P 5271 – P 5275, P 5311.

1571 Jackie McCarthy, interviewed by Rita Breton, winter 1982, Old Town, Maine. 30 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. McCarthy talks about growing up in Old Town during the Depression; her work as a welder at South Portland Shipyard during WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1672, 1 1/2 hours.

1573 Alice Keefe, interviewed by Rita Breton, winter 1982, Bangor, Maine. 25 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Keefe talks about work on WPA records and sewing projects, and school hot lunch programs during the Depression; effects of WWII; experiences running a bar/restaurant business in Bangor for 35 years. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1674 1 hour.

1574 Charlotte Davis, interviewed by Rita Breton, winter 1982, East Eddington, Maine. 38 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Davis talks about life during the Depression and WWII as mother of seven children and worker in fish factories and blueberry fields in Jonesport, Maine. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1675, 1 1/2 hours. Photograph: P 5313.

1576 Dr. Carlene Hillman, interviewed by Rita Breton, winter 1982, Kenduskeag, Maine. 51 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Dr. Hillman talks about growing up on farm during the Depression; college and teaching experiences; her work as director of canning center and hot lunch program during WWII; piece of grain bag material. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1678 2 hours. Photos: P 5287 – P 5296.

1586 Olive Fish, interviewed by Suzanne Winkelman for AY 125, fall 1982, Bucksport, Maine. 50 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Fish talks about growing up and raising a family during the Depression and WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1679 – T 1680 2 hours.

1592 Evelyn Ran, interviewed by Rita Breton, fall 1982, Bangor, Maine. 62 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Rand talks about hardships of the Depression; her work as an auto mechanic during WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1685, 1 1/2 hours. Photographs: P 5262 – P 5270.

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.

1594 Ida Wood, interviewed by Suzanne Winkelman for AY 125, fall 1982, Orland, Maine. 22 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Wood talks about life and work experiences during the Depression and WWII in Old Town and Bucksport areas. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1687 1 hour.

1597 Alice Hickson, interviewed by Debbie Brooks for AY 125, fall 1982, Bangor, Maine. 59 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ cat. Hickson talks about her life and experiences during the Depression and WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1692 – T 1693 3 hours.

1598 Lucy Stewart, interviewed by Steven Sullivan for AY 125, fall 1982, Owls Head, Maine. 131 pp. Tape: 6 hrs. w/ cats. Stewart talks about life and experiences during the Depression and WWII. Text: catalogs. Recording: T 1694 – T 1695, T 1708 – T 1709 6 hours.

1599 Martha Phillips, interviewed by Nan Lincoln for AY 125, fall 1982, Southwest Harbor, Maine. 17 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Phillips talks about work with coal miner’s children in Kentucky during the Depression; experiences as a bomber pilot for the WAFC during WWII; copies of news clippings and magazine photos. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1698 1/2 hour.

1600 Mazie Smallidge, interviewed by Nan Lincoln for AY 125, fall 1982, Pretty Marsh, Maine. 19 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Smallidge talks about teaching experiences in rural Maine and her recollections of life in Maine during the Depression and WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1699 1/2 hour.

1601 Simone Michaud, interviewed by Anne-Marie Martin for AY 125, fall 1982, Lewiston, Maine. 32 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Michaud talks about her memories of the Depression and WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1700 1 hour.

1602 Martine Pelletier, interviewed by Anne-Marie Martin for AY 125, fall 1982, Van Buren, Maine. 38 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Pelletier talks about her memories of the Depression and WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1701 1 hour.

1605 Elnor Goodwin, interviewed by Patrick Dunn for AY 125, fall 1982, West Gardiner, Maine. 39 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Goodwin talks about her life during the Depression and WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1704 1 1/2 hours.

1606 Dorothy Probert, interviewed by Patrick Dunn for AY 125, fall 1982, Bangor, Maine. 10 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Probert talks about her memories of the Depression and her experiences as a military officer’s wife during WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1705 / C 1781 1/2 hour.

1607 Lois Bridges, interviewed by Patrick Dunn for AY 125, fall 1982, Gardiner, Maine. 25 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Bridges talks about life during the Depression and WWII; college life (Colby College) and teaching experiences in the 1940s. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1706 [cassette original = C1782] 1 hour.

1608 Iola Cobb, inteviewed by Patrick Dunn for AY 125, fall 1982, Gardiner, Maine. 32 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Cobb talks about her memories of the Depression; WPA projects; WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1707, T 1746 [cassette original = C1783], 1 1/2 hours.

1609 Regina Toole, interviewed by Lizabeth MacDonald for AY 125, fall 1982, Bangor, Maine. 33 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Toole talks about the Depression and WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1710 2 hours.

1610 Geraldine Toole, interviewed by Lizabeth MacDonald for AY 125, fall 1982, Bangor, Maine. 46 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Toole talks about life during the Depression and her work as a welder at the Bath shipyard during WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1711 2 hours.

1611 Ruth McGinley, interviewed by Lizabeth MacDonald for AY 125, fall 1982, Bangor, Maine. 46 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ cat. McGinley talks about life during the Depression and WWII; college life (Univ. of Maine) and work experiences in the 1930s and 40s. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1712 – T 1713 3 hours.

1612 Josephine Doe, interviewed by Nan Lincoln for AY 125, fall 1982, Pretty Marsh, Maine. 13 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Doe talks about her memories of the Depression and WWII; her experiences as a college student (Castine Normal School), teacher, and professional reader. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1714 1/2 hour.

1613 Betty Flanders and Reg Flanders, interviewed by Nan Lincoln for AY 125, fall 1982, Pretty Marsh and Mount Desert, Maine. 15 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. The Flanders talk about their memories of the Depression and WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1715 1/2 hour.

1614 Irene Marinke, interviewed by Nan Lincoln for AY 125, fall 1982, Bar Harbor, Maine. 13 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Marinke talks about her recollections of Bar Harbor during the Depression and WWII; photos P 5356 and P 5358. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1716 1/2 hour. Photos: P 5356 and P 5358.

1616 Marie Wheaton, interviewed by Eric Allen for AY 125, fall 1982, Millinocket, Maine. 20 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Wheaton talks about life in Medway during the Depression and her move to Portland during WWII; college experience (Aroostook Normal School) and teaching in rural Maine in 1930s. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1718 1 hour.

1617 Margaret Albert and Gertrude Grant, interviewed by Eric Allen for AY 125, fall 1982, Old Town, Maine. 26 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Albert and Grant talk about growing up in Old Town during the Depression and the effects of WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1719 1 1/2 hours.

1618 Gertrude Grant, interviewed by Eric Allen for AY 125, fall 1982, Old Town, Maine. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Grant talks about hard times during the Depression and WWII; her family life. Text: 10 pp. detailed catalog. Recording: T 1720 1/2 hour. Photos: P 5368 – P 5372.

1619 Olive Hannaford, interviewed by Eric Allen for AY 125, fall 1982, Bar Mills, Maine. 25 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Hannaford talks about life in Bar Mills during the Depression and WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1721 1 1/2 hours.

1621 Mary Gabriel, interviewed by Debbie Brooks for AY 125, fall 1982, Princeton, Maine. 32 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Gabriel talks about growing up on the Passamaquoddy Indian Reservation, Princeton; her experiences during the Depression and WWII; Indian burial hymn sung by Lillian Gabriel.
Text: catalog. Recording: T 1724 – T 1725 1 1/2 hours. Photographs: P 5353 – P 5357.

1623 Juliette Filteau, interviewed by Margaret Lanoue, October 8, 1982, in Lewiston, Maine. Filteau discusses growing up near Quebec in the 1910s; moving from Canada to Lewiston circa 1921; childhood experiences with nuns; living and working during the Great Depression; Franco-American food; operating a restaurant which sold alcohol; the advent of WWII; and her thoughts on cultural identity in Lewiston. Exhibit poster included. Text: catalog plus poster. Recording: T 1728 2 hours.

1626 Cecile Boisvert, interviewed by Margaret Lanoue for AY 125, fall 1982, Lewiston, Maine. 52 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Boisvert talks about growing up in Lewiston; working in textile mills; remembrances of Depression and WWII; experiences as state legislative representative. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1731 2 hours.

1627 Ruth Morin and Virginia Morin, interviewed by Kathleen A. “Kathy” Morris for AY 125, fall 1982, East Millinocket, Maine. 5 pp. Summary of unrecorded interview with the Morins about their work in SPAR, the women’s branch of the Coast Guard, during WWII. Text: summary of unrecorded interview.

1628 Alice LaChance, interviewed by Kathleen A. “Kathy” Morris for AY 125, fall 1982, Orono, Maine. 10 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. LaChance talks about her memories of WWII and its effect on the Bangor area. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1732 1/2 hour.

1629 Jeannette Gardner, interviewed by Kathleen A. “Kathy” Morris for AY 125, fall 1982, East Millinocket, Maine. 15 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Gardner talks about her experiences as the wife of a bombardier pilot during WWII; effects of war on everyday life. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1733 1 hour.

1630 Luella Michaud, interviewed by Kathleen A. “Kathy” Morris for AY 125, fall 1982, East Millinocket, Maine. 12 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Michaud talks about her memories of WWII, especially food stamps, Civil Defense work, its effect on the East Millinocket and Portland areas. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1734 1/2 hour.

1631 Kathleen Albert, interviewed by Kathleen A. “Kathy” Morris AY 125, fall 1982, East Millinocket, Maine. 8 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Albert talks about her childhood memories of WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1735 1/2 hour.

1632 Agnes “Tot” Doe, interviewed by Kathleen A. “Kathy” Morris for AY 125, fall 1982, East Millinocket, Maine. 7 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Doe talks about her experience as one of first women workers at Great Northern Paper Co. during WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1736 1 hour.

1633 Ruby Stratton, interviewed by Kathleen A. “Kathy” Morris for AY 125, fall 1982, East Millinocket, Maine. 23 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Stratton talks about her work in the WPA Sewing project during the Depression and her memories of WWII; copies of ration stamp books. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1737 2 hours. Photographs: P 5375.

1634 Clarice Mitchell, interviewed by Rita Breton spring 1982, Dixmont, Maine. 43 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Mitchell talks about life in the Depression years and work as as Civil Defense leader during WWII. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1738 1 hour. Photos: P 5314.

1640 Mildred “Brownie” Schrumpf, interviewed by Elizabeth Dougherty for AY 125, fall 1982, Orono, Maine. 59 pp. Tape: 2 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Schrumpf talks about attending UMaine: 1921-1925; working as State 4-H Club leader for Cooperative Extension Service, 1926-1931; effects of the Depression and WWII; copies of ration stamps. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1758, T 1759 2 1/2 hours.

1641 Jeannette Cleaves, interviewed by Elizabeth Dougherty for AY 125, fall 1982, Bar Harbor, Maine. 54 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Cleaves talks about life during the Depression; her travel to army training camps with her husband during WWII; copy of Mrs. Cleaves 1940s travel journal. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1760 – T 1761 2 hours. Photos: P 5359 – P 5367.

1673 Raoul Pinette, interviewed by Raymond Pelletier and Mark Silber, May 14, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Pinette talks about his father’s career as an undertaker/funeral director; the importance of education; working for his father during WWII; his identity as an ‘American with French-Canadian heritage’; how being Franco-American can be a benefit; and developments in funeral services. Text: 25 pp. transcript. Recording: T 1793 1 ¼ hours.

1695 Juliette Filteau, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Mark Silber, February 19, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Filteau discusses her childhood in Canada during the 1910s and 20s; moving to Lewiston in 1923; working in the shoe shop as a teenager; nuns and a convent in Canada; raising her daughter’s children; dates with her future husband; importance of religion and changes in Catholicism; leaving her alcoholic first husband, her catering business; opening her restaurant; dealing with drunks; buying black market food during WWII; serving Franco-American food; taking care of her parents; and making maple sugar in Canada. Text: 34 pp. partial transcript. Recording: T 1816 1 hour.

1819 Henri and Mimi Willcutt interviewed by Wendy (Willcutt) Tomblyn, February 1969, Davis, California. Tape: 1/2 hr. Interview conducted 1969 by Wendy Tomblyn with her parents about their youth in Germany before WWII. Text: 1 pp. brief index. Recording: T 1891 1/2 hour.

1907 Richard Gaddis, interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, March 10, 1986, in East Machias, Maine. Gaddis discusses working along the Machias River, particularly with his family lumbering and blueberry business; log driving; explanation of photographs and documents; wages in the 1930s; use of housing on horses; logging season dictated by need for frozen lakes and ground; construction of woods camps; use of both horses and tractors; sizes of wood desired; company supplying horses and tools; care for injuries; tricks to avoid logjams; WWII service; combining lumber and blueberries for full-time work; and a typical day cutting trees after and before WWII. Includes photocopies of documents including logging agreement; account books for Gaddis camps 1920-1940 and some records from 1940s and 1950s; daybook from 1906-1908; Machias Log Driving Co. ledger for 1853 and 1855; and Pope Harris & Co. ledgers from 1890s. Text: 47 pp. transcript. Recording: T 1925 – T 1926 1 1/3 hours. Photographs: P 6146 – P 6162.

1943 R.E. Gafferty, interviewed by Margaret Martin, November 5, 1985, Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Gafferty discusses the history of his ship, British schooner Rosa Lind, built 1903; dipping luggers being obsolete by 1911; how WWII halted fishing in England; repairing his boat and early adventures on it in the 1960s; and why living on boats is bad for young children. RESTRICTED. Text: 22 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0440 ½ hour.

1968 Gene Henkel, interviewed by Margaret Martin, November 24 – December 8, 1985, Daytona Beach, Florida. Henkel talks about his ketch, the Sea Fever, and its design features; safety features; why fiberglass boats are preferable to wooden boats; sailing in inclement weather; an acquaintance who builds oyster boats; spending time ashore; getting his brother into the Army Air Force during WWII; putting out boat fires; sailing along the New England coast; characteristics of liveaboard boaters as a community; difference between yachtsmen and liveaboards; child liveaboards; his sense of liveaboards as most often sophisticated and skilled; willingness to volunteer; and centrality of involvement with the boat. Text: 75 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0462 – C 0463 2 hours.

2031 Elise Jones, interviewed by Linda Zuch, summer 1988, Newport, Maine. 4 pp. Tape: 45 min. Jones talks about her experiences in the work force during WWII; teaching in Maine; her move to New Jersey to work for a pharmaceutical company; and her eventual return to Maine. This is the first in a series of interviews by Zuch on women’s work experiences during the war. Recording: T 1992 45 min.

2032 Myra Wood, interviewed by Linda Zuch, summer 1988, Newport, Maine. 4 pp. Tape: 1 hr. Wood talks about her experiences as a welder at the South Portland Shipyard before and during WWII. See NA 2031. Recording: T 1993 1 hour.

2033 Charlotte Rowe, interviewed by Linda Zuch, summer 1987, Etna, Maine. 27 pp. Tape: 45 min. w/ trans. Rowe talks about her experiences at Stewart Manufacturing, a company which made army-related clothing during WWII. See NA 2031, 2032. Text: 1 pp. index, 23 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0511 45 min.

2034 Martha Maynard, interviewed by Linda Zuch, summer 1987, Newport, Maine. 24 pp. Tape: 45 min. w/ trans. Maynard, employed by the company before, during and after WWII, talks about her work experiences at Banton Brothers, manufacturers of wooden goods; discusses the changes that occurred in the war years. See NA 2031, 2032, 2033. Text: transcript. Recording: C 0512, 45 min.

2035 Edna Fraser, interviewed by Linda Zuch, summer 1987, Newport, Maine. 27 pp. Tape: 45 min. w/ trans. Fraser discusses her work at the Moosehead Woolen Mill during WWII. See NA 2031-2034. Text: 2 pp. index, 23 pp. transcript. Recording: C 0513 45 min.

2039 Alex Sachno and Maria Sachno, interviewed by Joan M. Sakalas, spring 1984, Gardiner, Maine. 68 pp. Tapes: 2 1/4 hrs. approx. w/ trans. The Sachnos talk about growing up in the Ukraine after the Russian Revolution; the effects of collectivization on their own families and Ukranian society; Ukrainian culture; the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s; and their experiences in German work camps during WWII. Text: transcript. Recording: C 0519, C 0520, C 0521 2 1/4 hours approx.

2111 Ethel LeClair, interviewed by Matthew LeClair for AY 325, spring 1988, Orono, Maine. Tape: 1 hr. 10 min. w/trans. LeClair talks about the influences on her life; how she coped with the adversities in her life; what life was like for a child during WWII in Maine; what it was like growing up in Hermon, ME; during the 1940s; going to a one-room schoolhouse. Text: transcript. Recording: C 0647, C 0649 1 hour 10 min.

2399 Mary Frazier, interviewed by Kristen L. Frazier for AY 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.

2460 Lyle Door, Vera Roberts, Harvard Tracy, Olive Coffin, Ira West, Lucy Palmer, Handy Pinkham, Mildred Dinsmore, Pauline Robinson, Marilyn Grant, Wayne Grant, Jeannette Leighton, interviewed by Anne L. Hopper, January 1997, Steuben, Maine. 86 pp. Video: 1 w/ paper. Master’s thesis titled, “Folklore and Oral History in the Middle School Curriculum: A Down East Project.” Includes a 30 min. VHS videotape entitled, The Way Things Were, an Ella Lewis School eighth grade project. A booklet is included with the tape. Booklet contains photocopies of photos. The Way Things Were contains the interviews of twelve Steuben area residents on their recollections of the period from the Great Depression through the post WWII period ending in 1948. The video was produced by teacher Anne Hooper and the eighth grade class at Ella Lewis School in Steuben, Maine in 1994. Produced by Anne Hooper. Running time: approx. 30 minutes. From the opening of the video, “This is a project to document and preserve memories. In the spring of 1994, a group of students set out to gain understanding of what life was like during the Depression and WWII. Rather than rely on textbooks and newspapers, they tapped an invaluable resource: people. By speaking with neighbors who had lived through the era, the students received first hand accounts. This videotape is a compilation of some of those interviews.” Interviewees: Lyle Door, Vera Roberts, Harvard Tracy, Olive Coffin, Ira West, Lucy Palmer, Handy Pinkham, Mildred Dinsmore, Pauline Robinson, Marilyn Grant, Wayne Grant, Jeannette Leighton.

2465 Elmer Goff, interviewed by Rebecca Leonard for HTY 104, spring 1997, Union, Maine. 13 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Goff talks about his experiences as a guard at a German POW Camp in Montana during WWII. Text: 9 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1547.

2466 Kathleen Nickless, interviewed by John D. Nickless HTY 104, spring 1997, Rockland, Maine. 40 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. K. Nickless talks about her experiences as a young woman in Bucksport, Maine during WWII. Text: transcript. Recording: C 1548.

2467 Dyson Jameson, interviewed by Stephen Gleason HTY 104, spring 1997, Warren, Maine. 18 pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Jameson talks about his experiences in the Army Air Force stateside during WWII. Text: transcript. Recording: C 1549.

2473 By Kendall F. Adams, June 1997, South Solon, Maine. 104 pp. Writings by Adams titled, “Happenings on the Old Farm in South Solon.” A collection of memories of growing up on a farm in South Solon, Maine during the 1920s and early 1930s; going to school in a one-room school house; going to the Farmington Normal School to be a teacher in 1933-36; stories about his time in the army in WWII; his love and knowledge of gardening; bee keeping; and different pets and animals he has had in his life. The accession includes two pages of commentary (1997) by Assoc. Prof. Richard Hale regarding novelist Holman Day’s character of Abe Skeets who was apparently based on a real life person, Abraham Brown of West Athens, Maine. The comments apply to the treatment of mentally retarded (“daft”?) persons in Maine around the turn of the century. Other photocopied pages from John Gould’s book, Yankee Drummer, describe community treatment of paupers and the insane and mention Abe Brown. Text: memoir, 2 pp. commentary.

2474 By Frances Robinson Mitchell, June 1997, Maine. 21 pp. Paper written February 1993 titled “Material Concerning the Great Depression and World War II,” by Mitchell, a World War II Woman Marine. Paper gives background information on the culture and history during and right before WWII and her experience as a woman in the Marine Corps. See also NA 2440 for form. Text: 21 pp. paper.

2505 Louis Philippe Rodrigue, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, 1997, Aylmer and Quebec, Canada. 4 pp. Tape: 2 w/ no transcript. L. Rodrigue talks about personal and family history about grandfather about grandfather; WWII; the Cold War. Text: 1 pp. copy of The Ottawa Citizen. Recording: C 1585 – C 1586.

2570 By Tom Ledwell, May, 1999, St. Peter’s Bay, Prince Edward Island. Three manuscript items as follows: 1) Tom Ledwell, Old Timers and Old Times, 83 pp. A personal memoir of life on Prince Edward Island, written in 1997, includes family history and genealogy charts for Ledwell and Gillis lines; discusses life during the Depression and WWII; covers schooling at Nova Scotia Tech; experiences in the RCAF; and other topics. 2) Marquis Memory Songs, 46 pp. Compilation of several hundred song lyrics ranging from Broadway to folksongs to pop songs of the 1940s. No music. 3) Mrs. Anna Ledwell, collector. St. Peter’s Bay Remembers / St. Peter’s Bay Remembered. 47 pp. Collection of poems, songs, anecdotes from Prince Edward Island.

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. Leach 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.

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.

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.

2658 Vernon Wardwell, interviewed by Anu Dudley, August 1, 2001, Bucksport, Maine. Wardwell discusses the CCC in Acadia National Park; leaving home to work as a farmhand at 14; applying to the CCC in October 1938; military structure of the camp; expense of smoking; hitchhiking home to visit his mother; Franco-Americans in the CCC; boys who went to high school while in the CCC; daily routine; commissary; souvenir pillow cover he bought his mother; seniority and earning stripes; camp officials; carpentry projects; hip roof buildings; CCC classes; going into town; camp recreation; WWII service in the Marines; postwar jobs; benefits of the CCC. Text: 64 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1944 90 minutes.

2662 Damien Blanchette, interviewed by James Moreira, August 13, 2001, Fort Kent, Maine. Blanchette discusses the CCC in Acadia National Park; his childhood in Stockholm, Maine in the 1920s and 30s; receiving military surplus; applying to the CCC; CCC boot camp; accommodations at Southwest Harbor camp; wages; earning extra money by ironing; KP (kitchen police or patrol) duty; jobs related to building roads; CCC educational courses; using dynamite in road work; recreational activities, particularly music; transfer to Camden; working in the dispensary and as ambulance driver; serving as staff driver for the regional commander of CCC; jobs done in Camden; survey of photographs of the Camden and Southwest Harbor camps; Christmas Day menu; 1940 Camden roster; leaving the CCC when he got a job; joining the Navy when US entered WWII; career as a Navy baker; serving on ships around Bikini Atoll during atomic bomb tests. Text: 83 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 1950, C 1951 146 minutes.

2760 Benoit Bouchard, interviewed by James J. Bishop and Amy Bouchard Morin, August 19, 1993, at his home in Old Town, Maine. For the “Islands and Bridges” project. Bouchard discusses the use of French on French Island, 1914-1920; starting school and learning to speak English; music; operation that allowed him to walk; WWII ration stamps; interior layout of the school; having to speak English in school; effect of language barrier on educational opportunities; Helen Hunt school; playing violin in a traveling orchestra, at dances in the area; introduction of radio to the area in 1920s; Old Town High School and Machias Normal School; prejudice against Catholics; St. Joseph’s church; teaching at Herbert Gray school in Old Town; flu epidemic of 1918; changes on the Island after WWII. Text: 29 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1483 – C 1484. See also Nos Histoires de I’lle: History and memories of French Island, Old Town, Maine (1999); www.old-town.lib.me.us/nos

2763 Norman Brilliant, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, August 25, 1993, at his home in Old Town, Maine. For the “Islands and Bridges” project. Also present, Benoit Bouchard. 18 page transcript. Brilliant discusses life on French Island; father’s work; neighbors; businesses; swimming in the Penobscot River; St. Joseph’s school and coming home for lunch; food; Christmas; children’s and adult’s entertainment; Fourth of July; Helen Hunt school; English and French at home and school; WWII in the Pacific; outhouses; weddings on Mondays; funerals; LaBree’s bakery. Text: 18 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1489.

2769 Clayton Landry, interviewed by Albert Michaud, October 6, 1993, at his home in Old Town, Maine. For the “Islands and Bridges” project. Landry discusses moving to French Island; boxing matches; neighbors; the Shuffle Inn; grocery stores; cutting ice from the Penobscot River; entertainment and children’s games; changing French names to English; St. Joseph’s school; children’s economic activities; community garbage disposal; pulpwood river drives; heating (or not) with wood stoves; holidays; Catholic Order of Foresters; Ku Klux Klan; and his service in WWII. Text: 20 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1497.

2770 Patrick (Leo) Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, June 4 or 6, 1993, at his home in Westbrook, Maine. For the “Islands and Bridges” project. Lagasse talks about his memories of French Island in Old Town; nicknames; French and the French Island school; factory and mill work; Great Depression; dairy farming and milk as part of the daily diet; cutting ice from the Penobscot River; lumberyard on Hildreth Street; polio; Benoit Bouchard and Herbert Gray School; children’s and adult’s entertainment; grocery stores; Great Depression and WPA work; Old Town airport; Monday wash day; boxing matches; plumbing and the first bathtub on French Island; automobiles; Prohibition, homebrew, and bootleggers; shining shoes at the University of Maine; and WWII. Text: 15 pp. partial transcript. Recording: C 1498 – C 1499.

2772 Albert Morin and Bernice Morin, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, August 27, 1993, at their home in Old Town, Maine. For the “Islands and Bridges” project. Also present, Benoit Bouchard. The Morins talk about family history; parent’s immigration from Canada to French Island; schools; neighbors; children’s entertainment; holidays; work, at lumber mill, and factories; Great Depression and WPA work; funerals and weddings; boxing and softball; LaBree’s bakery and other French Island businesses; WWII; automobiles and roads; women’s textile crafts; arrival of electricity; prices; clothing; peddlers; and the 1918 flu epidemic. Text: 23 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1501.

2780 Joseph C. “Spike” Richard, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin and Benoit Morin, July 29, 1994, at his home in Bradley, Maine. For the “Islands and Bridges” project. Richard talks about growing up on French Island in Old Town; and his involvement in the boxing matches held on the Island. Other topics include: schools; family relationships; his time in the CCC; children’s entertainment; parent’s work; traditional food; electricity; homebrew; and WWII, with the National Guard in Florida and New Zealand. Text: 19 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1509 – C 1510.

2798 Phil Gilbert, interviewed by Judy Cyr for EDW462-472 taught by Pamela Dean, October 9, 2001. Gilbert talks about his memories growing up in Monson, ME and Providence, RI during WWII. Text: 10 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1993.

2799 Viola Lander, interviewed by Judy Cyr for EDW462-472 taught by Pamela Dean, October 31, 2001. Lander talks about growing up during WWII. Text: 5 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1994.

2800 Sylvester Cobbs, interviewed by Jon Millet for EDW462-472 taught by Pamela Dean on October 19, 2001. Cobbs talks about growing up in Philadelphia during WWII. Text: 29 pp. total: 23 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1995.

2801 Ruth Ferbach, interviewed by Jon Millett for EDW462-472 taught by Pamela Dean. Ferbach talks about life during WWII in Augusta, Maine; Depression; WWII rationing; canning and preserving food; social life; black market; leisure activities; black outs. 2 pp. biographical sketch; 2 pp. tape index. Text: 4 pp. partial transcript, 2 pp. biographical sketch, 2 pp. index. Recording: C 1996.

2813 Alexander Morin and Shirley Morin, interviewed by Donna Miles for HTY 210, taught by Pauleena MacDougal, spring 2002. Paper titled “Life in Old Town During WWII.” The Morins talk about their experiences living in Old Town, ME during WWII: family life; CCC and WPA work during the Depression; military service in WWII; paratroop training; early education; home-front during WWII; working at Bath Iron Works as a welder. Text: 10 pp. paper.

2815 Richard G. Harmon, interviewed by Tyler A. Harmon for HTY 210 taught by Pauleena MacDougall, April 29, 2002, Saco, Maine. Paper titled “My Grandfather’s WWII Experiences.” Topics covered include the beginning of WWII; the draft; joining the Navy’s V12 program and attending Portland Junior College and Bates College; wartime ambience of San Francisco and Pearl Harbor; Eniwetok, Marshall Islands; service on USS New Orleans; surviving a typhoon; battle at Okinawa; Kamikazes; hearing about the atomic bomb. Text: 17 pp. paper.

2817 Murielle Melason, interviewed by Caleb McNaughton for HT Y210 taught by Pauleena MacDougall, spring 2002. Biographical sketch of Melason. Topics covered include family history; early childhood in Marcottre Orphanage; training as welder and working at Bath Iron Works during WWII; working in hotels in Lewiston, Maine, and in Rhode Island; marriage to Arthur Melanson; raising children on a hardscrabble farm in Leeds, Maine. Includes photocopies of photographs. Text: 18 pp. paper.

2819 Cecile Laurette Provencher, interviewed by Alicia L. Carroll for HTY 210 taught by Pauleena MacDougall, spring 2002, Limerick, Maine. Provencher talks about memories of growing up in a French Canadian/American family in rural Maine and Quebec during the 1930s and 1940s: family background; schooling; farming; WWII; working in a shoe factory; courtship and marriage; becoming a cook/caterer. Text: 10 pp. paper.

2921 Dorothy Dingwall, interviewed by Helen K. Atchison, circa 1971-1972. Brief index. Dingwall, of Presque Isle, talks about the Army Base in Presque Isle during WWII – the reasons for the base; kinds of planes; the role of the base on the Atlantic run to Europe; the Arctic Rescue team; hospitals for the wounded; prisoners of war; visiting V.I.P.s; a comparison with Vietnam antiwar attitudes; and the building of the Limestone base. Text: brief index, 2 pp. single spaced transcript. Recording: C 0132, CD 0521 20 minutes.

2952 Carlos Lowell Dean (1906-1995), interviewed by Pamela Dean, his daughter, January 2, 1982, December 25, 1990, May 22 & 23, 1991, July 16, 1991, and January 3, 1992, at his homes in Ellsworth, Maine, and Barefoot Bay, Florida. C. Dean talks about his family background and childhood in Michigan; his parents, Ira Dean, a train guard for Western Union, and Nellie Lowell; his brother Lindley Dean; early work selling newspapers on trains; education; attending the University of Michigan during the Depression; serving as a porter and waiter on luxury cruises to China and South America; training as a marine engineer; graduate school at University of Michigan; marriage to Blanche, and children, Linda, Sandra, Carla; joining the Navy; service at Bath Iron Works at beginning of WWII; meeting his second wife, Beulah Lunt, there; service at Adak and Kodiak, Alaska; post war career in ship repair at Long Beach, California, and Washington, D. C.; retiring from Navy and moving to California; heading dry dock facilities at National Steel Co. in San Diego, California; retiring and living in motor home for seven years; travel in US, Mexico, and Europe. Tapes/CDs: C 2005 – C 2014 / CD 0678 – CD 0691.

2963 Bert Frost, interviewed by Richard Lunt, March 20, 1970, Jonesport, Maine. 49 page transcript. Frost talks about his boyhood in Nova Scotia and his father’s lifetime there, including boat characteristics, singing; transition from sail to motorized boats; characteristics of a Nova Scotia type lobster boat (Novie boats); move to Beals Island in 1912; history of boat designs in Beals Island area; characteristics of these changing boat designs; return to Nova Scotia during World War One; return to Jonesport after the war; first square-stern boat, 1924; rum-running boats; Jonesport lobster boat races; how to use fiberglass; canoes; converting a sail yacht to a dragger during WWII; design characteristics lobstermen want in their boats, Jonesport vs. New Jersey; sources for lumber and hardware; and boat buyers from out of state; Frost and a visitor debate design choices in boats; performance and durability of various materials, different wood; and seaworthiness of various designs. Text: 49 pp. transcript. Recording: T 0319 / CD 2126.

2999 James E. Criner, interviewed by Davida Kellogg, June 10, 2002. 17 page transcript, two photocopied newspaper clippings, and 20 color-photocopied photographs. Criner talks about his childhood; joining the Civilian Conservation Corps; joining the Army in 1935; enlisting in the Navy in 1939; his career in the Navy; convoy duty during WWII; his duties as a radioman; on a water distilling ship in the Pacific; on shore assignments; radar; teaching at the Naval Academy; year in Vietnam; and retiring. Text: 17 pp. transcript, 2 photocopied newspaper clipping, photocopied photographs. Recording: C 2040.

3027 Charles Ulrich, interviewed by Davida Kellogg, November 13, 1989, at Maine Maritime Academy. 25 pp. transcript. Ulrich talks about convoys; mines, submarines, and aircraft as threats to convoys; changes in weapons and convoys between WWII and 1989; makeup of convoy escorts; administrative details; convoy formations; performance characteristics of modern merchant ships; helicopters; identifying ships within a convoy; crew sizes; problems of keeping a convoy together without alerting enemy to its position; continuing advantage of convoys; issues of whether escort should leave convoy to hunt submarine attackers or not, in both WWII and 1989 context; master mariner’s readiness conference; evolution of military technology; possibilities of arming merchant ships; and arrangement of ships within convoys. Text: 25 pp. transcript (text appears on both sides of paper, and each side is separately numbered). Recording: C 2087.

3057 Adelaide Biladeau, interviewed by Jay McCloskey, August 23, 1972, Millinocket, Maine. Biladeau talks about his first work and union experiences at the International Paper Co. in New Hampshire and at the Great Northern Paper Co.; 1908 strike involving paper companies throughout the country; mergers and name changes of unions throughout the years; pay at mill in New Hampshire; being blacklisted during strike of 1908 and the conditions of hire at Great Northern; paid vacations and pensions; wage reductions during WWI; walkout at Great Northern during 1906; offices he had held in the union; CIO’s attempts to organize at Great Northern; separation of Pulp Workers and Paper Makers; union’s relationship to the State Federation of Labor and legislative involvement; extent of union’s social function and its economic functions; development of the seniority system; establishment of a company store in Millinocket and its eventual demise; operation of company during the Depression and WWII; union shop and dues payment. Recording: T 0451 / CD 0621.

3059 Alexander Anastasoff, interviewed by Ken Morgan, August 20, 1972, Biddeford, Maine. Anastasoff, a member of the Textile Workers Union of America, talks about family history; learning to be a weaver in 1933; general strike in 1933 at plant; how FDR and NRA program affected workers; union resurfaced in 1939; local union created and brought many benefits (vacation, pay raises, etc.) to workers; becoming recording secretary and shop steward of the local; worker’s grievances and the response of union and management; rise and fall of weaving industry in Eastern Maine from WWII to 1970; helping to organize in York, Sanford and Portland ME during 1940s; Taft-Hartley and Right to Work Act; the future of the industry and of the union in Maine. Recording: T 0453 – T 0455 / CD 0623.

3086 Bruce Hallett, interviewed by Peggy Yocum, August 25, 2002, at the Arts and the Woods Narrative Stage. Hallett, a native of Howland, Maine, speaks about model boat-building; his fifty-five plus years of boat-building; his family history; spending the WWII era in Cape Cod with his grandfather, who owned a boat shop; the models “Newsboy,” the Coast Guard Cutter “Eagle,” the whaler “Charles W. Morgan,” the “USS Constitution,” the “Wyoming,” the “A.G. Jewett,” the “Bowdoin,” the “Bluenose I,” the “Red Jacket,” and the “Mary Catherine;” how the different parts of a model boat are constructed; being a non-precision model builder; approximate costs for the model boats; his grandmother Mary Catherine’s Scooting Along the Shore and Quahog Chowder recipes; templates for carving; the mechanics of boat-building; building from templates, pictures, paintings, and memory; materials used, including Bass Wood and Pine; and problems experienced with clientele. Text: no transcript available. Recording: C 2130.

3097 Wallace d’Entremont, interviewed by James Moreira and David Sanger, July 17, 2003, at the home of d’Entremont in Lower West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, Canada. d’Entremont talks about his experiences as a swordfisherman; not being raised in a fishing family; completing school through 8th grade; working for a logging company that shipped wood to Germany after leaving school prior to WWII; working for a short time as a carpenter in the Navy shipyard in Halifax until taking up fishing in 1945; sighting whales and porpoises could be a sign swordfish were also in the area; the differences between a swordfish and a shark is observed in the tail; temperature and water conditions best for swordfishing. Text: 38 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2613 1 hour 30 minutes.

3149 Dorothy Plummer, interviewed individually by Nancy Herter, February 16, 1985 and Martha A. Timothy, February 27 and March 13, 1985, Portland, Maine. Plummer, born April 4, 1899, describes her life on the family farm near the Nonesuch River; Emerson School; Waynefleet High School; Wellesley College; Northern Army at Eastern Promenade; Fat Man’s Club; Red Cross in WWII; Knights of Pithius; Redman club and Moose organization; Saint Lawrence Congregational Church and Sunday School; National Guard drill; Flu Epidemic of 1918. Text: information sheet; 3 pp. index with selected transcription. Recording: C 1027, C 1028, C 1029 3 hours.

3200 Agatha Guthrie and Mary Shutze, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough. Guthrie, talks about completing her training at Camp Coy, WI; being stationed in England and Germany. Shutze talks about completing her training at Fort Devans; being stationed in Manila and later Germany; talking about serving in WWII in the Army Nurse Corps. Text: 31 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2300.

3201 Delores Hainer, interviewed by Rebecca Pelletier and Elizabeth Fowler, November 10, 2000, Hampden, Maine. Hainer talks about joining the army after WWII; her basic training in Camply, VA; and being stationed in San Antonio, TX. Text: 34 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2301, C 2302, CD 1047, 1048 1 hour 17 minutes.

3225 Louise Cirillo, interviewed by Angela Nickerson, March 17, 2002, Pittsfield, Maine. Cirillo (b. 1912) talks about being growing up in Germany; working as a cook; coming to the U. S. in 1936 to escape Hitler’s Germany; meeting the Von Trapp family; first impressions of America; training to be a nurse; treating patients with malaria; difficulty joining the Navy as a German; her leisure time; working in a military hospital; secret marriage; hearing about the end of WWII; her military leave; living in Boston with her husband; private duty nurse at Deaconess Hospital in Boston; public health nurse in Springfield, MA; husband studied to be a lawyer; his job offer in Pittsfield, Maine in 1950; husband served as District Attorney for 3 terms in Skowhegan, ME; meeting Galen Cole; experiences of her parents in Germany during and after the war; how life in Europe was different after the war. Text: 36 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2329 1 hour.

3230 Lydia Franz, interviewed by Angela Nickerson, April 7, 2002, at her home in Owl’s Head, Maine. Franz talks about her experience in WWII as a WAC cryptanalyst; code and Japanese water-code; military secrecy and security; family home front and military experience; reaction to Pearl Harbor; recruitment and placement; basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, GA; work at Arlington Hall and the Pentagon in Washington D.C.; Japanese surrender and reaction to Hiroshima; early IBM computers; cracking code for Douglass McArthur; relationship between the military and the media; reaction to article by Drew Peterson; the Japanese change from Enigma code; propaganda and feelings toward the Japanese; women’s place in the military; experience as a foreign legion clerk in China; amoebic dysentery; arrival in San Francisco; childhood in Chicago; G. I. Bill education; experience as a realtor in Illinois. Text: 33 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2335, CD 2221 1 hour.

3276 Anna Greenlaw, interviewed by Bill Reed, June 26, 1996, at the Holden School House at the Page Farm and Home Museum in Orono, Maine. 4 page interview index. Greenlaw talks about teaching in rural Maine in 1933; her family background; box socials; primary and secondary education; her daughter Mary Anne Gardiner; teaching retirement 1977; Holden schoolhouse; women teachers; teaching during WWII and the Depression; Ridge School; Fort Fairfield settlement and history; Irish Potato Famine; disease and health education; farming and education; educational policies; marriage in 1941; teaching in Caribou, ME; living in Island Falls, ME; writing, penmanship and the Palmer method; Aunt R. Crandall; degrees at the UMaine; principal at Island Falls; school house and supplies; education methods; religion and school; the Depression and the home; electricity; transportation; the differences in teaching in 1933 and 1977; the family farm; crops; shopping and commerce in Fort Fairfield. Text: 66 pp. transcript, 4 pp. index. Recording: C 2407, C 2408 2 hours.

3285 Mary Deering Wirths, interviewed by Bill Reed, April 13, 1998, November 30, 1998, April 5, 1999, and November 29, 1999, at her home in Falmouth, Maine. 6 page interview index for cassette tapes C 2418 – C 2421. On November 30, 1998, White talks about her husband Roland in WWII; husband’s family from Belgium; friend Betty Drumond; Orono High School; current events in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s; author Edith Patch; Farm and Home Week; UMaine graduation in 1938; Cornel home economics department; living in NY, meeting with Ray Fogler; living in Augusta, ME; MoPang; father’s notes and UMaine; Harry Sutten and the Sutten Lumber Company; the Fogler Library; Marcus Urann; gardening; her brother Bob; childhood games and activities; household chores for children; winter activities; outdoor activities and tennis; education at Birch Street School in Orono, ME; Webster School; high school graduation in 1934; medical procedures; father’s leiomyosarcoma; marriage; Mary Hale Sutten; trip to Fort Knox; author C.A. Stevens; Christmas celebrations; Hills family neighbor; sisters’ Marnie and Helen; Al Nutting; the Depression; stocks; the effect of the Depression on the UMaine and the town of Orono; vagrants; married life in Orono, ME. Text: 6 pp. index for C 2418 – C 2421. Recording: C 2418 – C 2429 12 hours.

3290 Gilford W. Full, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, June 3, 2004, at his home in Brooklin, Maine. Full talks about his experiences as a boat surveyor; his childhood in Marblehead, MA; yacht building during the Great Depression and WWII; how political changes resulted in a decrease in yacht production; reasons for becoming a yacht surveyor; working on yachts as a professional skipper; processes of examining and inspecting boats; his examination of “The Calypso,” a yacht that appeared in TV shows and films; doing purchase surveys; Navy minesweepers; yacht construction; old versus new designs; owning boats; moving to Brooklin, ME; Wooden Boats’ summer school; matching people to boats; surveying plank fastenings, bolts, wood, decks; recaulking seams with oakum, cotton, and rubber; mechanical systems on a boat; structural framework; the dangers of surveying boats; fatalities in the field; improper inspections; legalities; licensure and certification; liabilities; the charge of surveying; his admiration of local builders; recommendations for boat repairs; craftsman Tommy Hodgkins of Blue Hill, ME; modern materials and technologies; Washburn and Doughty of East Boothbay, ME. Text: 23 pp. transcript (.doc). Recordings: CD 0893, CD 0894 58 minutes.

3327 Agnes E. Flaherty, interviewed by Melissa Piselli, February 22 and April 26, 2005, South Portland, Maine. Interview 1: 35 minutes, interview 2: 21 minutes, summary for interview 2, indexing for interviews 1&2. Flaherty, born in Portland, Maine, talks about her parents, Anna and Mark Flaherty; her family’s involvement in nursing; enlisting in the military during WWII as a nurse in the Army Air Core; working out of Grenier Field in Manchester, New Hampshire; her experiences and favorite memories as a flight nurse; early medications; experiences with the Women’s Army Core (WAC); patriotism during WWII; serving in the Pacific as a flight nurse; working out of Hicomb Field in Oahu, Hawaii; relationship between nurses and doctors then and now; G.I.’s teasing the nurses; transporting psychiatric patients; landings at Terowa and Canto; experiences with patients suffering from head trauma; Elaine McCarty, a nurse during the Vietnam War; working at Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital; serving as president of the Maine State Nurses Assoc.; how nursing has changed since. Also included: WWII Flight Nurses Association Pamphlet; reservation request form for World War II Flight Nurses Association; mailed article “No Time for Fear”; pamphlet. Text: 33 pp. transcript, 1 pp. photocopy of article, 3 pp. index, summary for interview #2
Recording: CD 0949 1 hour 35 minutes (CD MIA).

3333 Fran Loring, interviewed by Amanda Whitney, March 04, 2005, Bangor, Maine. Loring talks about her mother, Elchie Rackless Overnan; her father’s death in WWII; attending Joseph Butler School in South Thomaston, Maine, Rockland High School in Rockland, Maine, and UMaine; getting her associate’s degree at UMaine at Augusta and her BA at UMaine; working as a psych tech at the Bangor State Hospital; working as a nurse’s aide at Westgate Manor in Bangor; being a non-traditional student; doing clinicals in Camden, Rockland, Waterville, and Togas; working at Eastern Maine Medical Center; participating in the traveling nurses program and working in San Jose, California and Florida; advice for those who want to do traveling nursing; working in administration; colleague Lorraine Margerson; her regrets about not becoming a nurse sooner; advice for new nurses. Text: 19 pp. transcript, biographical profile, summary. Recording: CD 2365.

3335 Susan P. McGrath, interviewed by Kyla Stearns, February 14 and April 4, 2005, Bangor, Maine. McGrath talks about why she became a nurse; her education at the New England Hospital in Boston, MA; the impact of WWII on nursing education; moving to Maine after her husband died; taking Guidance and Counseling courses at UMaine; working in administration; getting her degree at Boston College; working at Eastern Maine Medical Center in the faculty program; getting her MA; working as the Director of Education at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s; being a nurse educator; setting up a hospital in Saudi Arabia; Project Hope; her work in China; advice for upcoming nurses; nursing in the future; nursing as an art; involvement of lawyers in healthcare; psychiatric patients; preparing medication; her work with the Student Nurses Assn.; the American nurse; mentorship’s place in nursing; stresses related to nursing; continuing education for nurses; her work with the Massachusetts Nurses Assn.; technological advances; being a member of Theta Tau. Text: 49 pp. transcript, index, summary, biographical profile. Recording: CD 0956 97 minutes (CD MIA).

3348 Amelia Willette, interviewed by Betty Parker Duff, March 12, 2002, at Willette’s home in East Millinocket, Maine. Willette talks about her parents moving from Lithuania to East Millinocket; how she met her husband; her husband working for Great Northern; her experience as a housewife; the church organization Daughters of Isabella; her friends in the neighborhood; going to the movies; cooking; breaking her hip in her fifties; and memories of WWII. Text: 16 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2474 30 minutes.

3349 Fred Morrison and Leatha Morrison, interviewed by Betty Parker Duff, March 10, 1999, at the Morrison’s home in Millinocket, Maine. Duff’s husband, David, participated in interview. The Morrison’s talk about Italians helping to build and afterward, working for, Great Northern in the early 1900s; delivering babies at home with the help of midwives; women’s groups in the churches and their influence on the town; Great Northern incorporating Millinocket in 1901; the process of building Millinocket; different cultures attending the same church; employment during WWII; and the percentage of women working after marriage. Text: 12 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2475 1 hour.

3426 Arthur R. Tilley, Sr. interviewed by Amy L. Stevens, February 24, 2006, at Direct Way in Brewer, Maine. Tilley talks about his time at Eastern Fine Paper Company; serving in WWII; management training at the mill; typical day at the mill; working as a chief accountant; interactions with union and union members; start of Brewer Federal Credit Union; cafeteria at the mill; mill’s guest house and some of associated activities; Eastern Fine’s baseball team; mill ownership during time he worked there; what he did after leaving Eastern Fine; restarting mill back up with Frank Knight and Bruce Hamilton; operations under Standard Packaging Company; work as the call controller; work as a budget director; reasons for the mill closing while under Standard Packaging; Standard Packaging’s hand in reopening of mill after its closing; transition of ownership from himself, Bruce Hamilton, and Frank Knight to George Weston with E.B. Eddy paper operations; the most recent closing of the Eastern Fine paper mill. Also included: 2 items of correspondence; 3 pieces of canvas type rolls used for design impressioning on paper; 12 page history and information about Eastern Fine from Tilley. Text: 29 pp. transcript, 2 pp. biographical data form. Recordings: C 2640 / CD 2417 1 hour 18 minutes.

3450 Moe Williams, interviewed by Amy L. Stevens, April 27, 2006, at his home in Brewer, Maine. Williams talks about starting work at the Eastern Fine Paper Mill part-time in 1944 unloading pulp cars; piles of pulp wood; teenagers at the mill; schooners transporting logs to the mill; how they were loaded; from Bucksport to Bangor by schooner; 1960s no more pulp mill; Russian schooners; one sunk by a submarine; oil spill in Penobscot in the 1930s; odor from pulp operation; colors of the Penobscot river during papermaking; swimming in the river; fourth generation at the mill; grandfather Samuel Williams, father Hatch Williams, mother Helen Williams; 47 years at the mill; summer work for children of employees; Bruce Hamilton; Frank Knight; Joe Torras; first shutdown and startup; bonds sold to reopen mill; selling timber rights; paper for government use, food stamps and maps; machines sold to Malaysia; chemical plant buried-location; copper piping still underground; dynamiting woodpiles in winter; processing logs into pulp; finishing foreman’s job description; Archie Verow in office; other mills; Bruce Hamilton; union vice president; Williams’ view of plans for the site; contaminated soil; dams; Ronnie Holland; reasons for closure; injuries; Al Filbert’s burns; women at mill during WWII; counters/sorters; Epstein’s; father was a digester cook; baseball team; eels; memories of South Brewer; skunk pelts; rabbits. Text: 40 pp. transcript. Recordings: C 2646 / CD 2425 1 hour 5 minutes.

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.

3627 John Connors, interviewed by Chace Jackson and Rob Rosenthal, August, 2008, at the Story Bank Folk Festival, Maine. Connors, age 75, from St. Frances, Maine, talks about his childhood memories of 1930s and 40s Depression era; the lack of jobs and social programs; how being in a rural area meant they had some resources; how his grandparents raised him; life on a homestead farm; having to walk a mile to school; how times have changed and the importance of conserving energy today; New Deal programs like the WPA and the CCC; the economic changes brought about as a result of WWII; the atomic bomb; how everyone contributed to the war effort (he salvaged 8 pounds of lead); what the draft was like; and the importance of the current generation understanding how thing were then. Recording is in English. Text: 10 pp. transcript. Recordings: CD 2084.

3640 By Peter Harvey, donated by Jane Harvey Meade. Harvey, from Bucksport Maine, was a professional singer from a very young age who went on to have a music career.Accession is a library of Peter Harvey’s work and includes 10 CDs of music and stories and a book of his life given to folklife center. Book is compilation of news stories, pictures and life stories around Peter Harvey’s life. CD 2097 “Peter Harvey’s Family Favorites.” CD 2098 St. Patricks Day Party 2 cds. Live recording of Peter Harvey in connecticut St. Patricks Day Music and funny stories. CD 2099 Broadway Songs 2 cds. CD 2100 Litchfield Ct. WWII Concert 2 cds collection of WWII songs and funny stories. CD 2101 WWII Show 2 cds, Worcester MA. with full orchestra and choir includes many unknown funny WWII stories and songs. CD 2102 Family XMAS Gift 1 cd. CD 2103 Sacred Songs 1 cd. CD 2123 Song Fest. CD 2124 Peter Harvey live at the Needham MA. elementary school 1999. CD 2125 Original Song, “Bucksport Outta the Boy” by Peter Harvey.

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.

3834 Willard Colson and Peter Colson, interviewed by Keith Ludden, July 30, 2011, Southwest Harbor, Maine. W. Colson, who was born in 1923 and went to work for Stinson in 1943 and retired in 1990 when Stinson sold the plant, and his son P. Colson, who also worked at the Stinson Sardine cannery, talk about a typical day at the cannery; bus driver for workers; how workers were notified they were to work that day; W. Colson worked as shipping room foreman, then assistant manager, then manager, and finally Vice President of Operations; his children also worked at Stinson; Peter was born in 1955; description of retort; during WWII a big percentage of sardines went to the troops; early 1950s was peak of sardine industry; lack of fish was contributing factor to decline of the industry; fishing methods changed; weirs; fire in 1968; within a year plant was rebuilt; family; one of Peter’s first jobs was helping pump fish out of boat; pranks; process for manufacturing cans; story about using sardines to attract bears; changes in technology; modernized Prospect Harbor plant in 1987; primary brand was Beach Cliff; fires; mustard; story about electrician falling into barrel of mustard; description of processing of sardines in the cannery; sardines now promoted as healthy food; impact of regulation; competition for labor; personal attachment to sardine industry. Text: 28 pp. transcript, 6 pp. interview log. Recording: CD 2446 1 hour. Photos: P09623 – P09626.