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Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 9, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 9, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter
During the past academic year the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History at the University of Maine at Orono completed several major accessioning projects. From Lynn Franklin of the Portland Press Herald, they received almost 70 taped interviews with Mainers from all walks of life. James R. Wilson of Rutgers donated his collection of Miramichi Valley (N.B.) material: field tapes, recordings of the Miramichi Folksong Festival, and dubbings from the Louise Manny Collection. And the indefatigable David Littleton-Taylor deposited still more interviews with lobster fishermen. Several smaller accessions from independent researchers such as John J. Kelly, Jr., and Norman …
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 8, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 8, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter
I dedicated my book, Lawrence Doyle, first to "Big Jim Pendergast (whom I called, quite rightly, "My first friend on Prince Edward Island") and then to Joe Walsh, "my first friend in King's County." They both died within the month of January. Joe, at eighty-one, had gone down under his house to thaw out some pipes with a propane torch when some straw insulation caught on fire; the whole house went up and that was the end for Joe. Jim died very quietly at ninety-five after years of confinement. I will miss them both; in fact, I already do. — …