Maine Folklife Center Publishes 40th Issue of ‘Northeast Folklore’
Contact: Pauleena MacDougall, (207) 581-1848
ORONO — The Maine Folklife Center at UMaine has announced the release its 40th issue of “Northeast Folklore,” an annual publication that serves as a way of bringing to the public parts of its collection of traditional and cultural materials from and about Maine.
This year’s book, is titled “I’ve Got the Idear: My Love Affair with Maine Language” by Marion Kingston Stocking. The 80-page book includes an introduction and essay, “Maine Dialects,” by Pauleena MacDougall, associate director of the Maine Folklife Center.
Marion Stocking’s work involves her placing many of her observations about Maine speech in the context of her memories of teaching at the University of Maine beginning in 1943, when many soldiers returned to school on the GI Bill. Intrigued by the way her students spelled the way they pronounced their words, Stocking began saving the samples, adding to them later with samples other from literature, newspapers, from signs and other sources.
The book can be ordered by sending $15 to the Maine Folklife Center at 5773 South Stevens Hall, University of Maine, Orono, 04469, or by calling (207) 581-1891, or emailing: folklife@maine.edu.