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A General Interview Guide, Edward D. Ives

Northeast Folklore Monographs

What follows is in no sense exhaustive or complete. I started from O'Sullivan's Handbook of Irish Folklore (that's where the basic structure comes from), and then I adapted it to the scene here in the Northeast by adding some questions and changing others. For any one of the aspects covered here, you can get more suggestions by looking al O'Sullivan's work.

I don't recommend trying to work straight through this guide with an informant. Nor do I particularly recommend interviewing with "guide in hand," and I'm dead against it for the first interview. Read the Guide through a few times …

The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide, Irene Jackson

Northeast Folklore Monographs

The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide is a way to bring life into Maine Studies curricula by personalizing history and creating new connections between students and their communities. The guide is geared to help teachers fulfill the Maine Department of Education Learning Results (July, 1997), many of which call for primary research and the understanding of individual lives in an historical context. Specifically, the guide presents an introduction to using the Maine Folklife Center and four units: one on conducting oral histories, one on games, and two on the lumbering life. The games and lumbering units are based on selections …

Northeast Folklore Volume 5: Twenty-One Folksongs From Prince Edward Island, Edward D. Ives

Northeast Folklore Monographs

From the introduction by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives: "The twenty-one songs printed in this little volume are a representative sample of the songs I collected on Prince Edward Island during the summers of 1957, 1958, and 1963. ... As a matter of fact, I wasn't even "collecting songs" in the usual sense of that term; I was very specifically looking for songs by Larry Gorman and for biographical. Information about him, and when L wasn't asking about Larry Gorman I was asking about Joe Scott. Thus the present collection is neither the result of my general acquaintance with the traditions …

Northeast Folklore Volume 4: Eight Folktales From Miramichi, Edward D. Ives, Wilmot Macdonald, Louise Manny

Northeast Folklore Monographs

Volume 4 of Northeast Archives marked a change in the publication. No longer was it published in four editions throughout the year with a variety of small articles, but now it was a single monograph published generally once a year. The focus of the first monograph is Wilmot MacDonald, a singer and storyteller from Miramichi, New Brunswick. Helen Creighton and Edward D. Ives had both collected from MacDonald and this publication came from their collaboration on that material.

Eight Folktales from Miramichi: as Told by Wilmot MacDonald

Table of Contents:

Wilmot MacDonald by Louise Manny

Introduction

1) The Bull Story …

Northeast Folklore Volume 3 Numbers 1-4, Edward D. Ives

Northeast Folklore Monographs

The third issue of Northeast Folklore was published in the spring of 1959 under the editorship of Edward D. Ives (known as Sandy) and Bacil F. Kirtley through the Department of English at the University of Maine. The four editions that year were later bound into a single volume.

Table of Contents:

Number 1 (Spring):

The Legend of Molly Ockett by Joseph A. Perham

A Penobscot Indian Story of Colonial Maine by Nicholas N. Smith

The Maid of Tide Head

Notes and Queries

Book Review
Bluenose Ghosts (Creighton) by Horace P. Beck

Number 2 (Summer):

Bibliography of New England-Maritimes Folklore …

Northeast Folklore Volume 2 Numbers 1-4, Edward D. Ives, Bacil F. Kirtley, E. G. Huntington, James F. Flynn, Charles A. Huguenin, Frank A. Hoffmann, Evelyn K. Wells, Horace P. Beck, Helen Creighton

Northeast Folklore Monographs

Description

The second issue of Northeast Folklore was published in the spring of 1959 under the editorship of Edward D. Ives (known as Sandy) and Bacil F. Kirtley through the Department of English at the University of Maine. The four editions that year were later bound into a single volume.

Table of Contents

Number 1 (Spring):

Two Songs from Martha's Vineyard by E.G. Huntington

The Deer Isle Hoax by James J. Flynn and Charles A. Huguenin

Folklore from Aroostook County, Maine, and Neighboring Canada edited by Bacil F. Kirtley

Notes and Queries

Number 2 (Summer):

Bibliography of New England-Maritimes Folklore …

Northeast Folklore Volume 1 Numbers 1-4, Edward D. Ives, Richard M. Dorson, Miriam B. Webster, Bacil F. Kirtley, Alden A. Nowlan, Raymond Whitely, Frank A. Hoffmann

Northeast Folklore Monographs

The first ever issue of Northeast Folklore was published in the spring of 1958 under the editorship of Edward D. Ives (known as Sandy) and Bacil F. Kirtley through the Department of English at the University of Maine. The four editions that year were later bound into a single volume.

Table of Contents

Number 1 (Spring):

Mishaps of a Maine Lobsterman

Maine Winter Menus: A Study in Ingenuity

“Young Jimmy Foulger:” A Hitherto Unrecorded Ballad in the Northeast

John Ellis – Hunter, Guide, Legend

Number 2 (Summer):

Bibliography of New England-Maritimes Folklore

Selected Bibliography of New England-Maritimes Folklore Collections and …