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Mf117 Frye Mountain Interviews / Jeffrey "Smokey" Mckeen, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf117 Frye Mountain Interviews / Jeffrey "Smokey" Mckeen, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
Interviews done by Jeff "Smokey" McKeen concerning the farming community of Frye Mountain in Waldo County and its acquisition by the federal government in the 1930s. Interviews cover the problems like having to selling land to the government, bad roads for automobiles, and other issues.
Mf053 Ricker College Student Folklore Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf053 Ricker College Student Folklore Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
Papers written by students enrolled in a folklore class at Ricker College (Houlton, Maine) taught by Gifford Stevens. Topics include jokes, home remedies, proverbs, ghost stories, games, folktales, superstitions, graffiti, and children's folklore.
Mf144 Women In Military, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf144 Women In Military, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
The Maine Women Veterans Oral History Project collected oral interviews with women veterans through a collaborative effort of the Maine Commission on Women Veterans, the Maine Studies program at UMaine, and the Women Studies Program at the University of Maine. The collection also includes interviews from MF135 National Folk Festival and MF147 Nursing Collection.
Mf020 George Carey Collection Of Student Folklore Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf020 George Carey Collection Of Student Folklore Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
A collection of approximately 1200 student papers by various students of George Carey and Rayna Green, 1972-1992, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, collected by George Carey, and concerning the folklore of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont. The papers cover an extremely wide range of folklore; folklife; ethnic heritage; local history topics; various location in the US. A list of titles is available, but no further indexing has been done. Note: a small portion of the accession was digitized. These are marked with an * next to their identification number in the arrangement note.
Mf032 Louise Manny / Lord Beaverbrook Collection Of New Brunswick Folksong, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf032 Louise Manny / Lord Beaverbrook Collection Of New Brunswick Folksong, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
Accession consists of eleven tape reels containing approximately 125 songs and ballads dubbed in the early 1960s from Louise Manny’s original acetate disc field recordings (1950s-1960s) which are collectively known as known as the “Lord Beaverbrook Collection of New Brunswick Folksong.” The tape copies were supplied by James Reginald Wilson in conjunction with the National Museum of Canada which also has taped copies.
Singers include MacDonald, Ramsay, Coughlan, Tozer, Thibodeau, Stymiest, Campbell, MacLean, MacMahon, W. MacDonald, S. MacDonald, Robichaud, A. MacDonald, Crocker, Duplessis, Hare, and many others. Note: not all of the material is contained on these service copy reels. …
Braunschweig And Ansbach-Bayreuth Troops At Fort George, Penobscot, During The American Revolutionary War, Anette Ruppel Rodrigues
Braunschweig And Ansbach-Bayreuth Troops At Fort George, Penobscot, During The American Revolutionary War, Anette Ruppel Rodrigues
Maine History Documents
Fort George, Penobscot, a British Fortification during the American Revolutionary War was reinforced with German troops. Why Fort George was important to the Crown and who these German troops were to help secure the fort is the focus of this article.
Contents: Introduction -- French Interest in Fort George -- End of Hostilities in North America but Continued French Interest in Fort George -- Braunschweig Troops at Fort George -- Ansbach-Bayreuth Troops at Fort George -- Did Time in the British Service in North America Influence the Germans' Future? -- Conclusion
Rendezvous At Chesuncook: A Chronicle Of Surveyors, Landowners, Loggers, Settlers, & Sports, William W. Geller
Rendezvous At Chesuncook: A Chronicle Of Surveyors, Landowners, Loggers, Settlers, & Sports, William W. Geller
Maine History Documents
Abstract provided by the author:
Rendezvous at Chesuncook, 1827-1902 is the only comprehensive history of Chesuncook Lake and Chesuncook settlement (village) from 1827 through 1902.
The text’s two major focal points are people and old photographs. Over 350 biographical sketches include surveyors, landowners, lumbermen, drive bosses, loggers, settlers, and builders of dams and boats. For the 170 plus pictures this book is their only aggregate presentation. The photos communicate a history of what the landscape and settlements once looked like and how they changed over the decades in this book.
This book purposely ends December 30, 1902. Through 1902 the …
Mf064 Veazie History And Architecture Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf064 Veazie History And Architecture Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
This collection consists of a series of interviews about the local history, geography, and domestic architecture of Veazie, Maine. Many of these were the result of a fieldwork course taught by University of Maine professor Edward D. "Sandy" Ives in 1977 and 1978. The collection also includes architectural survey forms, photos, and floor plans of pre-1940 houses in Veazie. In addition, there are twenty-nine interviews conducted by students in the classes. Three earlier interviews with Addie Weed about Veazie history have been assigned to the collection as has one accession (NA1107) of letters on the same topic.
For additional Veazie …