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Maine Folklife, Vol. 17, Iss. 1-2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 17, Iss. 1-2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
The Maine Folklife Center has embarked on an ambitious project to digitize the entire collection of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. To that end, the University of Maine has contracted with George Blood L.P. of Philadelphia to provide audio digitization services to create a digital preservation master of each of our sound files for the Library of Congress and the University of Maine from our original copies of analog tapes (reel to reel, cassettes, and VHS). George Blood L.P. was chosen from a group of companies who responded to a request for proposals because his company was …
Transcript Of The Kiwanda Fish Company, Kristina Hogevoll, Martin Knopf
Transcript Of The Kiwanda Fish Company, Kristina Hogevoll, Martin Knopf
All Story Transcripts
This story is an excerpt from a longer interview that was collected as part of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project. In this story, Kristina Hogevoll briefly describes her family’s first fishing company in Pacific City and then describes, in great detail, the work involved in their second, larger company, the Kiwanda. Marty Knopf describes how the Kiwanda Fish Company looked out for all the fishermen and how that contributed to the special Pacific City dory community.
Transcript Of Creating The Dory Days Posters, Carol M. Johnson
Transcript Of Creating The Dory Days Posters, Carol M. Johnson
All Story Transcripts
This story is an excerpt from an interview collected as part of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project. The on-the-spot interview was conducted on the beach at Cape Kiwanda during Dory Days 2012. In this story, Carol Miles Johnson, Pacific City artist and dorywoman, describes the inspiration and process involved in the design of her series of Dory Days posters, which she began creating in 2004.
Interview No. 1636, Olga Kohlberg
Interview No. 1636, Olga Kohlberg
Combined Interviews
A radio dramatization of Olga Kolberg’s life presents her educational efforts in El Paso. Mrs. Kohlberg describes the concept of kindergarten, and the importance of education in very young children. A narrator details Mrs. Kohlberg’s efforts to raise money and establish a kindergarten in El Paso. El Paso’s school system had the first kindergarten in the state of Texas thanks to the work of Mrs. Kohlberg and the other women. In 1894, the women formed the Current Events Club, later renamed the Womens Club, and led by Mrs. Kohlberg. This group set out to accomplish a number of projects, including …
Lesson Plan: Using Oral History To Explore Changes In My Neighborhood (Grades 9-12), Gala Gates
Lesson Plan: Using Oral History To Explore Changes In My Neighborhood (Grades 9-12), Gala Gates
Project Documents
No abstract provided.
Lesson Plan: Oral History (Grades 6-8), Anna Gregory
Lesson Plan: Oral History (Grades 6-8), Anna Gregory
Project Documents
No abstract provided.
Lesson Plan: Local Oral History Project Of Warrensville Heights (Grades 9-12), Malik Austin, Kevin Mcintyre
Lesson Plan: Local Oral History Project Of Warrensville Heights (Grades 9-12), Malik Austin, Kevin Mcintyre
Project Documents
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Lesson Plan: Comparative Working Conditions - An Oral History (Grades 9-12), Justin Hons
Lesson Plan: Comparative Working Conditions - An Oral History (Grades 9-12), Justin Hons
Project Documents
No abstract provided.
Lesson Plan: Grand Person Oral History Project (Grades 6-8), Mark Hach
Lesson Plan: Grand Person Oral History Project (Grades 6-8), Mark Hach
Project Documents
No abstract provided.
Lesson Plan: Family Oral History Project/Picture Book (Grades Pre-K-5), Vicki Challenger, Marian Kopp
Lesson Plan: Family Oral History Project/Picture Book (Grades Pre-K-5), Vicki Challenger, Marian Kopp
Project Documents
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Lesson Plan: Oral History Project 9/11 (Grades Pre-K-5), Zakiyyah Bergen
Lesson Plan: Oral History Project 9/11 (Grades Pre-K-5), Zakiyyah Bergen
Project Documents
No abstract provided.
Lesson Plan: Oral Histories: What Can We Learn? (Grades 6-8), Zakiyyah Bergen
Lesson Plan: Oral Histories: What Can We Learn? (Grades 6-8), Zakiyyah Bergen
Project Documents
No abstract provided.
Lesson Plan: My "Grandperson" Oral History Project (Grades 6-8), Debra L. Quarles
Lesson Plan: My "Grandperson" Oral History Project (Grades 6-8), Debra L. Quarles
Project Documents
No abstract provided.
A Historical Narrative Of The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Schools And Their Legacy For Contemporary Youth Leadership Development Programming, Leslie K. Etienne
A Historical Narrative Of The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Schools And Their Legacy For Contemporary Youth Leadership Development Programming, Leslie K. Etienne
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
During what became known as the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) established alternative temporary summer "Freedom Schools" in communities throughout the state. SNCC was a civil rights organization led by young, mostly African American college students and ex-students that worked against racial discrimination during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, they were poised to lead Freedom Summer, a massive effort that aimed to transform the brutal white dominated power structure of Mississippi, a stronghold of extremely violent southern racism. During the planning for Freedom Summer, SNCC field secretary Charles Cobb suggested that the summer …