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Frank Speck’S Office, Edmund S. Carpenter
Frank Speck’S Office, Edmund S. Carpenter
Maine History
Edmund S. Carpenter studied anthropology under Frank Speck at the University of Pennsylvania and taught at the University of Toronto, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the New School for Social Research, and other institutions. An internationally recognized expert on tribal art, his numerous publications include Oh, What A Blow That Phantom Gave Me!, Eskimo Realities, They Became What They Beheld, and the 12-volume Materials For The Study Of Social Symbolism In Ancient And Tribal Art. He remembers Frank Siebert at Penn with the regulars in Frank Speck ’5 office.
A Penobscot Assessment Of Frank Siebert, Eunice Baumann-Nelson
A Penobscot Assessment Of Frank Siebert, Eunice Baumann-Nelson
Maine History
Dr. Eunice Baumann-Nelson is the author of The Wabanaki: An Annotated Bibliography. She was bom on Indian Island, and she became the first Penobscot to get a B.A., and later got an M.A. in Child Psychology and a Ph.D. in Human Relations at N. Y. U. Later still she received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Maine. She served in the Peace Corps in Peru and Bolivia, was the head of the Vassar art library and head librarian at The Museum of the American Indian in New York City. She has long been a student …
Frank Siebert -- Then, And More Than "Forty Years On”, Richard B. Singer M.D.
Frank Siebert -- Then, And More Than "Forty Years On”, Richard B. Singer M.D.
Maine History
Richard B. Singer; M.D., is a consultant in medical risk appraisal and lives in Falmouth, Maine. He and Frank Siebert went to school together in the late 1920s. At a class reunion in 1980, they rediscovered each other and have corresponded since. In what follows, Singer describes their encounters over the past seven decades.
Some Memories Of Frank Siebert, Dean F. Snow
Some Memories Of Frank Siebert, Dean F. Snow
Maine History
Dean R. Snow, a professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and author of numerous books and articles on the archaeology and ethnohistory of Native Northeastern America, was once on the faculty of the University of Maine at Orono and was a frequent visitor at Indian Island. He has known Frank Siebert for almost thirty years and has this to say about Frank as colleague and as field worker.
Journal Cover, Toc, And Preface, Maine Historical Society, Willard Walker, Harald E. L. Prins
Journal Cover, Toc, And Preface, Maine Historical Society, Willard Walker, Harald E. L. Prins
Maine History
Cover, Editors and Editorial Board and Table of Contents with authors names. Also Preface.
Encounters With Frank Siebert, Ives Goddard
Encounters With Frank Siebert, Ives Goddard
Maine History
Ives Goddard, Curator of the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, is the author of “Eastern Algonquian Languages," in The Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15. He co-authored, with Kathleen f. Bragdon, Native Writings n Massachusetts and more recently edited The Handbook Of North American Indians, Vol. 17, Languages.
Siebert As Algonquianist, Karl Van Duyn Teeter
Siebert As Algonquianist, Karl Van Duyn Teeter
Maine History
Karl V. (van Duyn) Teeter learned Japanese as a U.S. Army draftee during the Korean War. Upon his discharge from the military in 1954 he went to Berkeley, majoring in Oriental Languages. He entered Berkeley ’s linguistics program and did fieldwork with the last speaker of Wiyot, a language indigenous to northern California that has since been demonstrated to be genetically related to all the Algonquian languages. After coming to Harvard in 1959 he studied Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and, for several years, chaired Harvard’s linguistics department. He is now Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus at Harvard. What follows is his assessment of Frank …
My Relationship With Frank Siebert, Richard Garrett
My Relationship With Frank Siebert, Richard Garrett
Maine History
The next essay was written by Richard Garrett, who created the Penobscot Primer Project, a continuing exhibit at the Hudson Museum, University of Maine. Garrett lives in Wellington, Maine and, since 1995, has been the Principal Investigator and Project Director of the Siebert Project, funded by the National Science Foundation.
Siebert And His Correspondence, Paul Proulx
Siebert And His Correspondence, Paul Proulx
Maine History
Paul Proulx is certainly one of the most insightful and prolific of the many scholars who share Frank Siebert's fascination with the Algonquian languages, their histories, and their implications for the reconstruction of the social and cultural histories and prehistories of the Algonquian peoples and their precursors. His description of some encounters with Frank Siebert follows.
Chronicles Of Dr. Frank T. Siebert Jr ., Martha Young
Chronicles Of Dr. Frank T. Siebert Jr ., Martha Young
Maine History
Martha Young, who has written twenty-two grant applications in the last ten years for educational, research, and community projects, lives in Wellington, Maine, with her husband, Richard Garrett, and, since 1995, has been Frank Siebert’s research assistant. She wrote the following account of Frank and her relationship with him. This is followed by a Siebert bibliography that she and Frank compiled together.
Bibliography Of Frank T. Siebert, Frank Siebert, Martha Young
Bibliography Of Frank T. Siebert, Frank Siebert, Martha Young
Maine History
Bibliography of Frank T. Siebert as appended to Chronicles of Dr. Frank T. Siebert
Chief Big Thunder (1827-1906): The Life History Of A Penobscot Trickster, Harold E.L. Prins
Chief Big Thunder (1827-1906): The Life History Of A Penobscot Trickster, Harold E.L. Prins
Maine History
Harald E.L. Prins is a native of the Netherlands, where he was trained in anthropology and history. Currently a professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, he taught previously at Bowdoin, Colby, and the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands). From 1981 until 1991 he served the Aroostook Band of Indians as staff anthropologist in its successful bid for federal recognition and land claims settlement. In addition to writing The Mi’kmaq: Resistance, Accommodation; And Cultural Survival, he has produced a documentary film on Mi ’kmaq basketmakers ( “Our Lives in Our Hands, ” 1986), co-edited a book on the …
The Wabanaki Confederacy, Willard Walker
The Wabanaki Confederacy, Willard Walker
Maine History
Willard Walker is a Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at Wesleyan University who lives in Canaan, Maine. He did field work with the Great Whale River Crees in the 1950s and the Passamaquoddies in the 1960s. He wrote “The Proto-Algonquians ” in Linguistics And Anthropology: In Honor Of C. F. Voegelin; “A Chronological Account of the Wabanaki Confederacy, with R .Conkling and G. Buesing in Political Organization Of Native North Americans; “Gabriel Tomah’s Journal,” Man In The Northeast (1981); “Literacy, Wampums, the Gudebuk, and How Indians in the Far Northeast Read, ” Anthropological Linguistics (1984); and …
Etymology Of Tuscarora, Blair A. Rudes
Etymology Of Tuscarora, Blair A. Rudes
Maine History
Dr. Blair A. Rudes has conducted linguistic and ethnographic work with members of the Tuscarora Nation of Indians in New York State since the early 1970s. In 1987 he published with Dorothy Crouse, a Tuscarora and historian, a two-volume collection of texts in Tuscarora and English entitled The Tuscarora Legacy of J.N.B. Hewitt: Materials for the Study of the Tuscarora Language and Culture. He is presently completing a dictionary of the Tuscarora language. Dr. Rudes received his doctorate in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976.
Presidential Visits Down East, William David Barry
Presidential Visits Down East, William David Barry
Maine History
No abstract provided.
Education And The Rural Middle Class: Limington Academy, 1848-1860, Lynne Benoit-Vashon
Education And The Rural Middle Class: Limington Academy, 1848-1860, Lynne Benoit-Vashon
Maine History
The founding of academies in Maine during the early nineteenth-century expanded educational options for rural families, but academies also played an important role in the development of a rural middle class. In her study of Limington Academy, Lynne Benoit-Vachon finds that the school's by-laws, curriculum, course materials, and extra-curricular activities all worked to inculcate middle-class values of hard work, sobriety, self-improvement, and self-reliance in the Academy's young charges - training which would lead many of them into middle-class occupations beyond Limington’s borders. Benoit-Vachon, a graduate of the University of Maine, works as Education Programs Coordinator at the Currier Gallery of …
The Milk Connection: Portland’S Infant Milk Station And Public Health Education, Annette Vance Dorey
The Milk Connection: Portland’S Infant Milk Station And Public Health Education, Annette Vance Dorey
Maine History
Progressive Era reformers worked to improve the health standards and living conditions of poor and immigrant populations in United States cities. In this article, Annette K. Vance Dorey highlights the often overlooked work of the nurses who managed “milk stations” - early public health clinics established for distributing clean milk in urban neighborhoods. Dorey argues that these nurses, who also conducted parent education classes and provided access to a range of health services, played an important role in the reduction of urban infant mortality rales and the development of the public health profession. Dorey is an educator specializing in teacher …
The Misses Martin’S School For Young Ladies Portland, Maine, 1803-1834, Yvonne Souliere
The Misses Martin’S School For Young Ladies Portland, Maine, 1803-1834, Yvonne Souliere
Maine History
During the Early Republic, education for the daughters of Portland's elite families usually included “ornamental” subjects such as needlework, music, and painting in addition to the “useful” subjects of reading history, arithmetic, and geography. This curriculum mirrored that of fashionable schools for young ladies in New York, Philadelphia, and, of course, Boston. The “Misses Martin's School for Young Ladies, ” opened in 1803 by the English “gentlewoman” Penelope Martin, instructed girls in “useful” and “ornamental ”subjects while also offering Portland’s best families the added cache of sending their daughters to a British-style boarding school for training as “proper” young ladies. …
Sir Hiram Maxim And His Gun: A Literary Trail, Charles Shain
Sir Hiram Maxim And His Gun: A Literary Trail, Charles Shain
Maine History
Hiram Maxim, born near Sangerville, Maine, in 1840, enjoyed a brilliant career as an inventor and self-promotor. His best-known invention, the Maxim gun, proved appallingly successful during the British imperialistic ventures in Africa at the turn of the century and later in World War I. In this article, Emeritus Professor Charles Shain traces the literary usages for Maxim ’s invention, both as noun and as a verb - describing the scything action of the gun as it mowed down an advancing foe. Charles Shain published and taught in the field of American Studies at Carleton College and for twelve years …
Maine Lumber Production, 1839-1997: A Statistical Overview, Lloyd C. Irland
Maine Lumber Production, 1839-1997: A Statistical Overview, Lloyd C. Irland
Maine History
Complementing the qualitative account of forestry's impact provided by Geoffrey Carpenter, Lloyd Irland gives us a broad statistical overview of the industry, its changing economic fortunes, and its impact on the environment of the north woods. The data, while not always precise, reveal the terms upon which the state's decision-makers historically viewed the forest and its future. Mr. Irland is private forestry consultant in Winthrop, Maine, who has written widely on New England forestry topics, including Wildlands and Woodlots: The Story Of New England's Forests (1982).
African-Americans And Maine, William David Barry
Deforestation In Nineteenth-Century Maine: The Record Of Henry David Thoreau, Geoffrey Paul Carpenter
Deforestation In Nineteenth-Century Maine: The Record Of Henry David Thoreau, Geoffrey Paul Carpenter
Maine History
Thoreau’s Maine Woods, a record of three trips made between 1846 and 1857, offers a combination of literary metaphor and precise botanical and topographical observation. Comparing Thoreau’s journals with recent advances in forest ecology, author Geoffrey Paul Carpenter reveals a detailed picture of the various ways in which logging activity changed the forests, lakes, and rivers of Maine. Carpenter demonstrates that a precise understanding of forest history depends not only on traditional statistical sources, but also on the subjective personal testimony found in the literary record.
The Attempt To Repeal Maine’S Personal Liberty Laws, Jerry R. Desmond
The Attempt To Repeal Maine’S Personal Liberty Laws, Jerry R. Desmond
Maine History
Many issues divided the nation before the Civil War. One in particular involved the passage of Personal Liberty laws in the northern states, which circumscribed the conduct of officials handling fugitive slaves. While Maine was not a prominent destination for runaway slaves, its Personal Liberty laws, redrafted in 1857 by the state's new Republican majority, were particularly forceful and therefore particularly odious to Southern planters. As the secession crisis loomed, Maine reconsidered the constitutionality of the laws and their political expediency: Would the state bend to the needs of national reconciliation? Mr. Desmond, born in Island Falls, Maine, received M.A. …
From Isolationism To Interventionism In Maine, 1939-1941, Francis Rexford Cooley
From Isolationism To Interventionism In Maine, 1939-1941, Francis Rexford Cooley
Maine History
In 1939, with world war looming in Europe, Maine’s all Republican delegation in Congress remained predominantly isolationist, with Representative James C. Oliver the state ’s leading critic of pro-British internationalism. Over the course of a few months in 1941, the delegation made a remarkable turnabout, leaving Oliver to face the winds of political change. While the decisions made by the Maine delegates were shaped by unfolding events in Europe, they also reflected, as the author points out, the perception that preparedness would benefit Maine economically. Mr. Cooley is the Lecturer-in Academic-Studies at Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, and …
The Maine Remembered: Responses To The Spanish-American War In The Pine Tree State, Elizabeth Hazard
The Maine Remembered: Responses To The Spanish-American War In The Pine Tree State, Elizabeth Hazard
Maine History
The Spanish-American war marked the emergence of the United States from a country concerned primarily with its own internal development to one that exercised its power and influence on the world stage. Maine citizens and the state’s political leaders understood that they were witnessing an historic turn in the nation’s history. They were not passive observers, however. Many participated eagerly in the war effort. Others vehemently protested an expansionist foreign policy and the ambitions of the war's promoters. This article tracks the war's progress through the experiences of Maine people who lived through it and assesses the contributions they made …