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Finding Aid To The Collection Of Osborne Family Materials, Osborne Family, Colby College Special Collections Jan 2018

Finding Aid To The Collection Of Osborne Family Materials, Osborne Family, Colby College Special Collections

Finding Aids

The Osborne Family Collection centers on the members of an early African American family who settled in Waterville, Maine after the Civil War. The collection contains materials relating to Samuel Osborne (1883-1904), his wife, Maria Iverson Osborne (1836-1913), and their children: Flora Molly Osborne Strange (1854-1921), Amelia Osborne (1857-1930), and Lulu Clifton Osborne Connor (1864-1907?), all born in slavery in Virginia. The remaining Osborne children: Isabelle Osborne (1868), Annie J. Osborne (1869-1901), Alice E. Osborne (1871-1968), Edward Samuel Osborne (1874-1956), and Marion Thompson Osborne Matheson (1878-1954) were born in Waterville, Maine. Samuel Osborne worked as the Colby College Janitor for …


The Colby Community In World War I, Eleanor A. Hanson Jan 2018

The Colby Community In World War I, Eleanor A. Hanson

Honors Theses

This thesis discusses the roles of members of the Colby community during World War I from 1914 until after the Armistice. It covers the roles of soldiers, students, and members of the home front, all somehow related to Colby College to discover how Colby and its community engaged with the war.


Franco Memory Through Song: Les Troubadours Of Lewiston, Maine, Colby College Mu493 Apr 2017

Franco Memory Through Song: Les Troubadours Of Lewiston, Maine, Colby College Mu493

Theatre Programs and Songbooks

Songbook, including lyrics in both French and English and sheet music, of the repertoire of Les Troubadours, an all-women's Franco-American choir based in Lewiston, Maine. Songs included are primarily those representative of day-to-day life, such as lullabies and children's songs. Also includes biographical sketches of three members of Les Troubadours: Aliette Couturier, Irene Mercier, and Jeannine Doucette.

Compiled in Spring 2017 by students from Professor Natalie Zelensky's MU493 class at Colby College.


Vermette, Jean, Annie Holland, Olivia Tryon-Nadeau Nov 2016

Vermette, Jean, Annie Holland, Olivia Tryon-Nadeau

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Jean Vermette, born in 1954, is a transgender woman from Skowhegan, Maine. At the age of three, Jean knew that her biological sex did not match her gender identity. When Jean came out as transgender to her wife in the 1980s, her marriage soon dissolved. After Jean filed for divorce, she spent five years transitioning. In addition to working as a self-employed electrician, Jean has dedicated her adult life to advocating for Maine’s transgender community. She created the Maine Gender Resource and Support Service and spent over fifteen years speaking publicly to Maine college students and medical professionals about the …


Contributors To Indian Catholicism: Interventions And Imaginings, Mathew Schmalz Sep 2016

Contributors To Indian Catholicism: Interventions And Imaginings, Mathew Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

Contributors to Indian Catholicism: Interventions and Imaginings, the inaugural issue of the Journal of Global Catholicism.


Dead Town Dreaming -- A Novella And Selected Poems, Caleb Dolan May 1996

Dead Town Dreaming -- A Novella And Selected Poems, Caleb Dolan

Senior Scholar Papers

No abstract provided.


Pivoting: A Novel, Glenn Cummings Apr 1987

Pivoting: A Novel, Glenn Cummings

Senior Scholar Papers

No abstract provided.


What We Bury: Poems And Epilogues, James Harry Nicholas Martin Jan 1985

What We Bury: Poems And Epilogues, James Harry Nicholas Martin

Senior Scholar Papers

The manuscript, What We Bury: Poems and Epilogue, consists of two major parts. The first is comprised of eighteen poems, selected from the thirty-two that I had written by the end of March. Included in the eighteen, in accordance with what I had stated to be one of my aims in undertaking this project, are three poems written out of inherited forms: two, "The October Wind," (p.22) and "Wandering By the Sea For the First Time," (p.23) are sonnets and one, "Brewster Station, "(p.10) is a sestina that in the final draft was broken. Also adhering to one of my …


Dancing With Mr. Penrose And Other Stories, Geoffrey Becker May 1980

Dancing With Mr. Penrose And Other Stories, Geoffrey Becker

Senior Scholar Papers

Stories:

Fallen Angel

The Inheritance

Schlog's Dance

The New World

Dancing With Mr. Penrose


As Maine Goes: Fred K. Owen, 1865-1940 Maine Journalist, Raymond S. Owen Oct 1977

As Maine Goes: Fred K. Owen, 1865-1940 Maine Journalist, Raymond S. Owen

Maine History

This article reviews the life and work of Fred K. Owen a newspaper editor in Maine in the late19th and early 20th century.


Eyes On The Branches: Poems, And An Essay On Contemporary Poetry, Richard Cass May 1973

Eyes On The Branches: Poems, And An Essay On Contemporary Poetry, Richard Cass

Senior Scholar Papers

The thirty poems collected here were written durin 1972-197. They begin as rather imagistic pieces, but the imagist tendencies are tempered with a preoccupation with the process of emotion. The poems progress through a middle period of finding a poetic voice by combining elements of other styles with the stylistic tendencies that rise out of myself. The subject matter is deliberately varied. The poems emerge, in the last few pieces, as the beginnings of a voice which combines a preoccupation with man in the unity of the world, the state of natural world and the nature of its retaliation for …


To Joseph S. Ford - December 21, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Dec 1895

To Joseph S. Ford - December 21, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - December 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Dec 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - December 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - December 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Dec 1895

To George W. Latham - December 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Joseph S. Ford - December 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Dec 1895

To Joseph S. Ford - December 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - November 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Nov 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - November 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Chauncey G. Hubbell - November 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Nov 1895

To Chauncey G. Hubbell - November 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - November 11, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Nov 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - November 11, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - November 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Nov 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - November 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Arthur R. Gledhill - November 3, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Nov 1895

To Arthur R. Gledhill - November 3, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - October 31, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Oct 1895

To George W. Latham - October 31, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - October 6, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Oct 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - October 6, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - September 22, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Sep 1895

To George W. Latham - September 22, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - September 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Sep 1895

To George W. Latham - September 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - August 29, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Aug 1895

To George W. Latham - August 29, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Arthur R. Gledhill - August 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Aug 1895

To Arthur R. Gledhill - August 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - August 19, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Aug 1895

To George W. Latham - August 19, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - June 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Jun 1895

To George W. Latham - June 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - June 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Jun 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - June 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - June 9, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Jun 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - June 9, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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