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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.

Mf012 Lumberman's Life Series, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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An assembled series of accessions created in May 2002 to bring together interviews that focus on lumbering, woods work, and river drives that are not associated with specific projects. Many were previously assigned to the Maine/Maritime Folklore Collection, the General Collection, or those of individual interviewees or collectors.

Mf039 Traditional Music Of Maine Project Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Field recordings made primarily by Jeffrey “Smokey” Mckeen for use in developing a series of radio programs devoted to traditional music in Maine. The collection includes 37 cassette recordings of interviews with 44 individuals in addition to performances. The programs were later packaged and released by the Maine Folklife Center as a series of four cassettes entitled “Traditional Music of Maine, Vols. 1-4.”

Traditional Music of Maine celebrates the musical legacies of a variety of Maine folk communities by exploring their cultural and historical significance through oral history interviews with musicians and other community members. The tapes introduce …

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 …

Mf180 Woods Music Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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An assembled collection of accessions containing songs from or about the lumberwoods. Some are the written version, some are sung.

Mf108 Norman Soucie Photo Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Norman Soucie photo collection, 1974, Allagash and St. John, Maine. Collection of 36 black and white photographs depicting woods work and woods life in the region of Allagash and Saint John, Maine, ca. 1900-1930. Images show men working in batteaux (boats) to free jammed logs and other aspects of river work; scenes of lumber operations along the river; woods scenes showing Lombard log hauler; pulpwood train; sleds; camp scenes; horses; sluiceways; log piles; log marks; sorting gap; river rapids; cribwork piers, etc. Photos: P00453 - P00487.

Mf033 Machias River Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection consists of nineteen interviews totaling approximately thirty-two hours conducted by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives in 1986 with men who worked in the woods and on the river drives along the Machias River. In part it grew out of the "Stump to Ship" project in which the 1930 logging film was revived and shown around the state. Many of the interviewees in the Machias River Project came from the audiences for the film.

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 …

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 …

Mf006 Bowdoin College Folklore Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Twenty-six student papers written for a course in folklore offered at Bowdoin College during the fall semester, 1980.

Mf008 Norman Cazden Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Norman Cazden (1914-1980) was an American composer, musicologist, and faculty member of the University of Maine who had a long-standing interest in traditional American folk music. This collection reflects his career as both collector and composer and is comprises twelve accessions and approximately 60 hours of tape.

See also Norman Cazden Papers which includes tape recordings of Cazden’s own compositions and teaching tapes. Material related to Cazden’s involvement with Camp Woodland in the Catskill Mountains of New York can be found in the Norman Studer Collection at SUNY-Albany..

Mf017 F.O.L.K. (Focus On Local Knowledge) Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Collection consists of video tapes (150 hours approx.) produced by Don DePoy, founder of F. O. L. K., Inc. (Focus On Local Knowledge) "a nonprofit Maine based corporation dedicated to the performance and preservation of traditional music." Tapes contain raw footage and edited masters for a series of TV programs titled "Mainely Bluegrass" broadcast on Maine Public Television in 1996. Footage features music groups taped at the Breakneck Mountain Bluegrass Festival in Crawford, Maine (1994) and the Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival in Sydney, Maine (1995).

Artists include Evergreen, the Stevens Family, Sassygrass, Bluegrass Supply Company, the Gibson Brothers, the Sandy …

Mf037 “Life Of The Maine Lobsterman” Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The bulk of the nineteen accessions (33 hours) in this collection consists of interviews by David Taylor conducted during the summer of 1974 focused on Maine lobster fishermen.

Mf040 Maine Women During The Depression And World War Ii, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection began with the research done by Rita Breton as part of her graduate work in history at the University of Maine. Breton conducted approximately twenty interviews with Maine women about their lives and work during the Great Depression and World War II. In addition, in the fall of 1982, students in Edward D. Ives’ class were asked to locate and interview people on the topic of womens’ lives during the Depression and WWII. The semester project yielded forty-five accessions. Collection also contains numerous photographs. Some of the interviews relate to Winkelman’s M. A. Thesis “Work is What Keeps …

Mf052 “Remnants Of Our Lives: Maine Women And Traditional Textile Arts” Project & Exhibit, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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"Remnants of Our Lives: Maine Women and Traditional Textile Arts" was an exhibition, sponsored and curated by the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History in collaboration with the Hudson Museum, the University of Maine's anthropology museum within the Maine Center for the Arts. The exhibition celebrated the skills, talent, and creativity of fifteen Maine women, representing the state's diversity of folklife communities, through a selection of textile objects, narrative texts based on oral history interviews with the artists, photographs, and interpretive panels.

The exhibit focused on the theme of rites of passage, a motif which resonates through all of …

Mf085 Thomas "Archie" Stewart Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The Stewart family of Newburgh, New York, had a long association with the eastern Maine area where they had a camp. Rob Golding of Perry, Maine, acted as their guide for many years in the first half of the twentieth century. This collection consists of a series of interviews with Golding, a renowned storyteller, conducted by Archie Stewart; a manuscript history of the Stewart family; and video copies of Stewart family home movies.

Mf175 Naacp & Civil Rights In Maine Project / Charles Lumpkins, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Interviews by Charles Lumpkins about NAACP & Civil Rights in Maine. Lumpkins conducted this series of interviews as part of his Master's thesis “Civil Rights Activism in Maine from the 1940s to 1971: Black Mainers, Black and White Activists, and the Resistance against Racism.” Interviews discuss the reason for a Civil Rights movement in Maine. Lumpkins received a Master’s Degree in History in 1992 from the University of Maine.

NA2149 Gerald Talbot, interviewed by Charles L. Lumpkins, fall 1990, Portland, Maine. Talbot talks about his life as an African-American Mainer; his activism in the Maine Civil Rights movement …

Mf021 Morgiana Halley Projects, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Research materials assembled by Morgiana P. Halley (1942-2019) for her PhD “An Ethnography of Marine Convoys of World War II”, completed October 1995 at the University of Sheffield. The collection includes interviews conducted by Halley as part of her research related to marine convoys and those who played a part in them during the Second World War. 87 audiotapes copied September 1991. Tapes: C 0747 - C 0833. Text: 243 pp. paper. Thesis: 382 pp. paper.

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.

Mf007 Canada Road Survey, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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A series of interviews by historian Barry H. Rodrigue on immigration into Maine from Quebec, Canada, along the Canada Road.

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.

Mf016 Deering Lumber Company Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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A project undertaken by Michael Chaney in the summer of 1980 which led to the publication of White Pine on the Saco: An Oral History of River Driving in Southern Maine (Northeast Folklore XXIX: 1990). Collection consists of fourteen interviews with employees of the Deering Lumber Company.

Mf011 R. B. Hall And The Community Bands Of Maine / Gordon W. Bowie, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Interviews and photographs compiled by Gordon Bowie relating to band music in Maine, and leading to Bowie’s UM dissertation entitled R. B. Hall and the Community Bands of Maine (May, 1993). Collection includes interviews with nine individuals. Topics covered include local performances at dance halls, theaters, and radio stations, musicians, Musicians Union Local 768, and other matters relating to community bands.

NOTE: A very large collection of materials relating to R. B. Hall and community bands of Maine and New England is located in Fogler Library Special Collections. This collection includes approximately 800 reels of tape containing performances and interviews …

Mf015 Curran Family Homestead Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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A series of student interviews done for Edward D. “Sandy” Ives’ class focused on the Curran Family Homestead, a living history museum in Orrington, Maine. Interview topics include: memories of Alfred, Eddie, and Catherine Curran; dairy farming in East Orrington during the first half of the twentieth century; MA Crook and Sons Hillside Dairy; relationship between the Kimball family and the Currans; swimming in the Fields Pond in the summer; tobogganing on the Curran property in the winter; a genealogy of the Curran family; growing up in Orrington and spending time on the Curran farm; daily management of the farm; …

Mf049 Penobscot River Commercial Fisheries Project / David Taylor, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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This collection consists of a series of interviews conducted by David Taylor with eight fishermen about the commercial fisheries of the Penobscot River in Maine. Taylor interviewed men who fished for smelt, salmon, sturgeon, alewives, eels, and cod; also an eel wholesaler. Methods discussed include net fishing; weir fishing; and winter fishing. Towns discussed include Winterport; Frankfort; and Bangor.

Mf019 Foxfire Bicentennial Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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Part of a nationwide project coordinated by E. Wigginton, founder of Foxfire, of interviews with the elderly about their lives and their hopes and fears for the future of the nation.

Mf023 “Hancock County Elders” Hancock County Cooperative Extension Service / Roberta Chester, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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A series of interviews by Roberta Chester sponsored by the Hancock County Cooperative Extension Service. Interviews discuss family, farm, and community life.

Mf080 Nash Island Light Project Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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A series of two interviews with Jenny Cirone, age 86, done on behalf of a group wishing to restore the Nash Island Lighthouse, by Anu Dudley in October, 1998. The interviews primarily focused on Jenny Cirone’s reminiscences of growing up on Nash Island, Maine, where her father was the lighthouse keeper. Topics include: raising and shearing sheep; fishing; lobstering; clamming; gardening; schooling; tending the Nash Island lighthouse; tourists; ice skating; hurricanes; games; boats; clothing; social life; storms; and wrecks.

NA2545 Jenny Cirone, interviewed by Anu Dudley, September 29, 1998, at Mrs. Cirone’s home in South Addison, Maine. Cirone, age 86, …

Mf047 “Penobscot Bay Fisheries And Industries Project”, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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A series of thirteen interviews, totaling twenty-four hours of recordings, conducted in 1973-1974 by David Taylor under contract for the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, with fishermen from the Penobscot Bay region. Themes include equipment used and techniques; fisheries locations, species, and extent; dangers and satisfactions of the fisherman’s life; industry economics; family and community networks. Includes some photographs.