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Mf144 Women In Military, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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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

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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

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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. …

Mf064 Veazie History And Architecture Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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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 …

Mf167.1 Edward D. “Sandy” Ives Collection: Research, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection consists of interviews conducted by Sandy Ives on Prince Edward Island between 1969 and 1970, as part of his work to document the folk songs of Prince Edward Island, specifically the songs “made by” Joe Scott, Larry Doyle, and Larry Gorman. Material included in this collection served as source material for Ives’ later publications, Lawrence Doyle: The Farmer-Poet of Prince Edward Island (1971); Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs (1977); Joe Scott: The Woodman Songmaker (1978); and Drive Dull Care Away: Folksongs from Prince Edward Island (1999). This collection includes recordings of interviews conducted as well …

Mf013 Cranberry Culture In Massachusetts Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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A series of 20 accessions featuring interviews done by Stephen Cole and Linda Gifford (1982-1983) documenting cranberry growing in southeastern Massachusetts. Content of this collection is available for educational purposes only.

Mf206 Aslambek Apaev, Chechnyan / Barry H. Rodrigue Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Materials donated by Barry H. Rodrigue (primarily of USM) of personal experience interviews he conducted (with Irina Petranek and Natasha X, two Russian translators) with Aslambek Apaev. RESTRICTED. No signed release forms.

Mf148 Margaret "Mimi" Killinger / Helen Nearing Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Interviews by Margaret "Mimi" Killinger about Helen and Scott Nearing whose lives as homesteaders in Vermont and Maine came to embody the simple living philosophy of Agrarianism that became the core of America's "Back to the Land" Movement of the 1960s, 1970s, and 2020s.

Mf042 Frederick Pratson Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Independent collection of folklore material contributed to the Maine Folklife Center by Frederick Pratson. Contains interviews in connection with donor's "Oral and Visual History and Talent Development Program Among Indians and Inshore Fishing People of the State of Maine, The Canadian Maritime Provinces, and Quebec," done under the sponsorship of the New England-Atlantic Provinces- Quebec Center at the University of Maine (Orono), 1972. The interviewees were a group of Nova Scotia fishermen, a Maine lumberjack, and a Micmac chief living on the Indian Island Reservation in New Brunswick.

Mf024 Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Collection of various recordings by Maine Public Broadcasting Network. Copyright belongs to original broadcaster. For reference and educational use only. May not be copied.

NA1346 Esther Wood, interviewed by Virgil Bisset, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, 1980, Blue Hill, Maine. 29 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Two radio interviews with Wood, Prof. Emeritus, Gorham State Teachers College, about her memories of rural life; Maine schools; spring house cleaning; spring signs; Memorial Day.

NA2132 Susan Tibbets, hosts concert with 20 singer and songwriters, featuring Kendall Morse, Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, Lisa Null, and Slim Clark, deposited by Maine Public Broadcasting Network, …

Mf181 Hunting, Trapping, Poaching, And Recreational Fishing Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Collection of interviews relating to hunting, trapping, poaching, and recreational fishing compiled in June 2014 from holdings across the archive.

Mf018 Folksong Student Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection contains a series of student projects on folksongs in America.

Mf045 One Year Later: The Closing Of Penobscot Poultry And The Transition Of A Veteran Employee, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Traveling exhibit of photos and oral history text panels based on a series of interviews with Linda J. Lord in which she talks about the work she did for 20 years at Penobscot Poultry, her feelings about being unemployed after Penobscot closed and general conversations about her life in Maine.

The exhibit traveled in 1988-1989 to East Millinocket, Orono, Machias, Portland, and Augusta, with panels, presentations, and forums occurring at each opening. Speakers and panelists included Jay Davis, Bernard Lewis, Dr. Richard Barringer, Dr. Paula Petrik and Carolyn Chute. Primary researchers were Cedric Chatterly and Stephen Cole.

Mf028 "The Last Smokehouse" Film Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Collection consists of video received from filmmaker Truppin relating to the 1989 film project about the dying of the herring smoking industry on the coast of Maine. The project was called "The Last Smokehouse: Lubec and the Herring Smoking Industry of Maine."

Mf111 Folksong In February Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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NA2596 David Mallett, David Ingraham, Charlie Nevells, Larry Kaplan, Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, Kendall Morse, Margaret MacArthur, Norman Kennedy, Louis and Sally Killen, Yodelin' Slim Clark, Charlotte Cormier, Sparky Rucker, Sandy and Caroline Paton, Hazel Dickens, Tim Woodbridge, Joe Hickerson, Debby McClatchy, Gordon Bok, Sean Corcoran, Bill Shute and Lisa Null, by Maine Folklife Center, February, 1977, Orono, Maine. Recordings of a folk music concert program called "Folksongs in February" held at the University of Maine in February, 1977. Accession includes 8 black & white contact sheets of 35 mm photos of the performances. Text: 36 pp. index and copies …

Mf 106 "Value Formation In Lesbian Lives" / Deo Mckaig, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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A series of interviews by Deo McKaig for her Master’s Thesis: “Value Formation in Lesbian Lives.” Due to the sensitive nature of the material, only the first names of the interviewees are given.

Mf211 Little City, Bangor Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Interviews conducted by then MA history student Sarah K. Martin with Louis Rolnick, Dorrice Trickey Wetzler, and Suzanne “Sue” Hodgins Mock on their experiences growing up in the Little City neighborhood in Bangor, Maine.

Mf068 Women In Maine Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The collection consists of a series of interviews conducted from 1974 to 1980 by students for a course (IDL 105, Women in Maine: An Autobiographical Approach) taught by Maryann Hartman in the department of Speech and Communications at the University of Maine. Students asked a variety of informants for their opinions about the present and future roles of women in Maine. Each informant discussed this in the context of their own lives and experiences, therefore the individual interviews cover a wide range of topics. See individual accessions listed below for more details.

Mf025 Honest Woodsman Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection consists mainly of a series of interviews with David Priest, retired game warden, about his experiences as a warden, trapper, and guide.

Mf027 Edward D. Ives Papers, 1871-2006, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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SERIES I. Biographical

NA3746 Series I. Box 1. Biographical documents. Memorabilia. Contains a preliminary inventory of the Edward D. Ives Papers (2 p.); a reference list of offprints related to Canadian Folk Music (7 p.); various newspaper and magazine profiles about Sandy Ives; a list of descriptions for photographs in the Ives collection (21 p.); photographs taken at the time of Ives' retirement from UMaine; photo of Ives with his wife Bobby; college notes for a psychology course, circa 1949; Early Irish Literature, circa 1980; a copies of the Penobscot View Press newsletter created by the children of Dr. and …

Mf082 C. Richard K. Lunt Collection (Jones Tracy & Boat Builders), Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection consists of two series. The first, Jones Tracy, is a series of interviews conducted by Richard Lunt in 1963 and 1964 which served as the basis for Lunt’s University of Maine M.A. thesis. Some material was also published as Jones Tracy: Tall Tale Hero from Mount Desert Island (Northeast Folklore, Vol. X). Interviewees recorded on tape include: Chauncey Somes, Ralph Tracy, Laurie Holmes, John Carroll, Robert Smallidge, George Tracy Reed, Lydia Storer, Clark Manring, Gus Phillips, and Phillip and Charles Carroll. Material appears to include many hunting and fishing stories, some genealogy of the Tracy family and other …

Mf174 Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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A series of interviews with people who knew and lived with Fannie Hardy Eckstorm (1865–1946) of Brewer, Maine. Hardy Eckstorm was an American writer, ornithologist, and folklorist who earned recognition as one of the foremost authorities on Maine's history, wildlife, and cultures. Hardy Eckstorm served as the first female superintendent of schools in Brewer, Maine from 1889-1891. Though she authored many works, Hardy Eckstorm maybe best known for her book The Penobscot Man, first published in 1904.

See: Volume XVI of Northeast Folklore Fannie Hardy Eckstorm: A Descriptive Bibliography by Jeanne Patten Whitten, 1975.

See also: Fannie Hardy Eckstorm …

Mf046 Eastport History / Hugh French Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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In 1979-1980 Hugh French received a National Endowment for the Humanities "Youth Grant" to curate an exhibit on the history of the Eastport, Maine, waterfront, 1890-1920. Edward D. “Sandy” Ives of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History (now Maine Folklife Center) at the University of Maine acted as academic sponsor for this project. French subsequently worked with SALT, a documentary program in Portland, Maine, and founded the Tides Institute in Eastport, Maine.

This collection includes twenty-eight interviews with thirteen Eastport residents, plus manuscript material collected as part of French’s research. In addition to the general history of Eastport, …

Mf129 Emigration From The Maritimes / John Myers Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Interviews with individuals of Anglo-European descent about immigration from the Maritime Provinces to Maine.

Mf001 Airline Road & Airline Community Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The collection consists of six interviews conducted by Joan Brooks and Jack Beard for an oral history fieldwork course taught by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives at the University of Maine in 1976. The interviews focus on the history of Eddington, Maine and the Airline Road (Rt. 9 from Bangor to Calais, ME) and the Airline community ca. 1900.

Mf003 Argyle Boom Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The Argyle Boom was one of several locations at which logs that were cut upriver and floated or “driven” down the Penobscot River were sorted before being sent on to the lumber mills in Old Town, Orono, Veazie, Bangor, and Brewer, Maine, from approximately 1900 to 1930. See also: Argyle Boom , Northeast Folklore, XVII (1976) and SpC MS 0398 Penobscot Lumbering Association, 1854-1953.

Mf002 "Anna May: Eighty-Two Years In New England" Julie Hunter Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Series of interviews with Anna Sevigny about her life history. Interviews were conducted by Julia Hunter in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1977. Topics covered include Irish immigrant ancestry; education levels; misunderstandings of different cultures; living conditions as a new arrival to the United States; disposition of parents.

North Hartland, Vermont - descriptions of social life and mills in the region as well as tenants; learning women's roles; chores; marriage; sewing and cloth-making; food preparation; winemaking; entertainment; pets and livestock owned; travel and transportation over time; schooling; playing pranks; holiday celebrations; community church; lumbering; tensions with tourists; the introduction of electric …

Mf009 Rum Running / Bootlegging, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Collection of interviews with informants about rum-running, bootlegging, and illegal alcohol during Prohibition in Maine. A box of supplemental material for NA2487 William Cavallini is located in the library annex. Access restrictions are in place for several series in this collection.

Mf004 Aroostook Oral History Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The Aroostook Oral History Project, 1971-1972, which resulted in a collection of 119 cassettes (now digitized), totaling 73 hours. Interviews of more than 150 people were conducted by Helen K. Atchison covering a wide range of topics including early county history, early farming and machinery, the Aroostook War, railroading, lumbering, potato farming, maple sugar making, folk songs, folklore, folk medicine, politics, town meetings, cross-border migration, smuggling, Indians, sporting camps, schools and schooling, tall tales, superstitions, and many other aspects of the county's cultural heritage. Twenty tapes recorded in French and two tapes recorded in Swedish have not been abstracted and …

Mf010 Cowing's Tavern Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection consists of three interviews about the history of Cowing’s Tavern in Lisbon Falls, Maine.