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Mf117 Frye Mountain Interviews / Jeffrey "Smokey" Mckeen, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

Interviews done by Jeff "Smokey" McKeen concerning the farming community of Frye Mountain in Waldo County and its acquisition by the federal government in the 1930s. Interviews cover the problems like having to selling land to the government, bad roads for automobiles, and other issues.

Mf056 Skinner Settlement Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

A series of interviews about farm life in Maine at the turn of the twentieth century, conducted by students in Oral History and Folklore: Fieldwork in the fall of 1974. The interviewees discuss life at the Skinner Settlement in East Corinth, Maine; including house layouts, furnishings; farm buildings; machinery; clothing; and social customs.

Mf215 Guide To Farming Deer Foot Farm, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

Oral history of the multi-generational Johnson-Mink Farm, later known as Mink Dairy Farm, then Deer Foot Farm, Appleton, Maine. Chris Roberts interviews his grandparents Keith and Grace Mink, his mother Sue Ellen Mink-Roberts, and great-aunt Natalie Irene (Mink) Gushee about the family farm and its operation through the first three generations of ownership. The property was acquired in 1897 and became a truck farm producing produce, eggs, and dairy.

Mf121 Maine Organic Farmers And Gardeners Association (Mofga), Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

This collection contains interviews with people associated with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) and the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. Themes include the process of beginning to farm organically, the early development of MOFGA and its growth; the Common Ground Fair and its expansion; marketing organic food; farming strategies; raising livestock; and MOFGA's interactions with conventional farmers and the wider community.

Toxicants, Entanglement, And Mitigation In New England’S Emerging Circular Economy For Food Waste, Cindy Isenhour, Michael Haedicke, Brieanne Berry, Jean Macrae, Travis Blackmer, Skyler Horton

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

Drawing on research with food waste recycling facilities in New England, this paper explores a fundamental tension between the eco-modernist logics of the circular economy and the reality of contemporary waste streams. Composting and digestion are promoted as key solutions to food waste, due to their ability to return nutrients to agricultural soils. However, our work suggests that food waste processors increasingly find themselves responsible for policing boundaries between distinct “material” and “biological” systems as imagined by the architects of the circular economy—boundaries penetrable by toxicants. This responsibility creates significant problems for processors due to the regulatory, educational, and structural …

Mf013 Cranberry Culture In Massachusetts Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

A series of 20 accessions featuring interviews done by Stephen Cole and Linda Gifford (1982-1983) documenting cranberry growing in southeastern Massachusetts. Content of this collection is available for educational purposes only.

Mf004 Aroostook Oral History Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

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 …

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

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

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; …

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

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

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.

Mf176 Maine Ethnographic / Barry H. Rodrigue Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

This collection contains items deposited by Barry H. Rodrigue that contains the sub-collection, Ashland Family Collection.

The Human Dimensions Of Pollinator Conservation : Perception, Practice, And Policy In The Lowbush Blueberry Industry, Kourtney K. Collum

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation presents comparative research of diverse agricultural actors involved in lowbush blueberry productions in Maine, USA and Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, in order to explore the factors that influence on-farm pollinator conservation. The research is presented through three distinct projects. In the first project, my collaborators and I ask: how do growers perceive and understand pollination in agricultural systems, and how do growers’ perceptions influence their willingness and ability to enact on-farm bee conservation? Drawing on semi-structured interviews with conventional growers, we present growers’ cultural models of pollination management and pollinator conservation. Our analysis reveals that the messages …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Viginia and her child find a place in Maine's broccoli harvest, where 350 migrants “try to make it a home.”Content

• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Soon the Salt Center will expand to Seventeen Pine next door, doubling its size and expanding its educational programs.
• 4 Contradancing: Rowdies and Revivalists Maine has its “rowdies” that dance and play their music like the old time country dances of 50 years ago. And it has its “revivalists” that practice English contradances learned from Boston.
• 20 Broccoli Harvest Move over potatoes, here comes the broccoli …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Pristine Castine. Harvesting Granite. Good Earth Farm. Tattoo Ernie, like many Mainers, marches to a different drummer. So do stone cutter Henry Bray and farmer Eric Brandt-Meyer.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street How this issue of Salt was made and who made it.
• 4 Fast Forward and Rewind A new feature. We look ahead at what’s to come and readers comment on what’s behind.
• 5 Salt Sense: Editorial In Salt’s 20 years of documenting Maine people, we have grown accustomed to remarkable lives — but unremarkable deaths. This changed with the life …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Making Minyan. Family Dairy Farm. Digging for Gems. Tradition dies hard when it’s part of your life and nine more people need you on Congress Street at five o'clock or sooner.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 The Photographer’s Voice Five Maine photographers talk about their work in an open forum with Salt’s photographic students. Here are the voices that inform the images of Tom Donaldson, Arthur Fink, Tony King, Jack McConnell, and Marta Morse.
• 8 Digging For Gems Oxford County’s mineral-rich veins keep rockhounds like …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Artists in Belfast. Aroostook Potato Farm. City Street Scenes. Streets like Tyng and Tate in the West End of Portland have seen it all — longshore families, slums, urban renewal, and boom times.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal The passing of Emmy McLean, Harvey Bixby, and other tales of the region, with a nod to Ronald Blythe.
• 7 A Sense of Place: Having It, Losing It What happens to the people of Maine communities undergoing change? Like the gentrification of old Belfast. Or …

Salt, Vol. 9, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Flea Markets. Jamaican Apple Pickers. Peaks Island. Flea Markets are as Maine as pine trees and lobsters. What’s a flea? “Anything that’s been used, abused, and ready for resale.”

Content

• 3 Eating in Maine If you want to eat where the locals eat) this is where you’ll find them-where prices are right and the talk is familiar.
• 7 Letters to the Editor
• 9 View from Pier Road The end of an era for Salt and the beginning of a new one, as we move north to Portland.
• 10 Flea Market What …

Salt, Vol. 9, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Life at the Mall. Vassal of the Farm. The Farming Edge. Malls may not be the village square, but people meet in the neon light of the concrete beast to forge the same old links of belonging.

Content

• 5 View from Pier Road
• 8 Vassals of the Farm Hired hands and owners of the Rancourt dairy farm in Vassalboro are bound to the farm in relentless work days. For some it beats the mill. For others it is peonage, long hours, poor pay and little to call your own.
• 22 Community …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Hot clouds clamp a lid over the wild blueberry barrens of Maine. A bumper crop ripens too fast, 45 million pounds in a vast oven. Two tousand rakers race the heat. “Beat the sun. Ya gotta beat that sun, cause she’ll wear it right outta ya...”

Content

Hot clouds clamp a lid over the wild blueberry barrens of Maine. A bumper crop ripens too fast, 45 million pounds in a vast oven. Two tousand rakers race the heat. “Beat the sun. Ya gotta beat that sun, cause she’ll wear it right outta ya...”
• 2 Short Takes From Alberta Redmond’s 100th …

Salt, Vol. 3, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 A Time to Celebrate After four years of life, Salt is going into book form with the publication this June of The Salt Book — and we’re all going to celebrate!
• 4 Tuna Fishing Ken Hutchins of Cape Porpoise shares the secrets he has learned about catching the big game fish of the sea with rod and reel.
• 14 “I’d Like To See the Pounds of Butter I’ve Made With That Churn!” Mary Turner of West Peru makes butter with a churn that her mother used before her. She shows us how.
• 23 Mary’s Molasses Cookies After churning, …

Salt Bicentennial Maine, Vol. 3, No. 1 & 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Maine Bicentennial

Contents — From the Sea

• 6 Twelve Miles Off the Mainland Natives of the rocky island of North Haven, Maine tell how they get what they need to survive.
• 14 Goat Island Lighthouse It takes a special kind of person to live on an island alone and tend a lighthouse. The Goat Island lighthouse keeper and his wife describe their life.
• 28 Gill Netting Herbert Hutchins takes Salt out gill netting for the day and we learn how it’s done.
• 34 Ships in Bottles Richard Nickerson of Arundel gives a step by step demonstration of how to construct …

Salt, Vol. 1, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.”

Contents

• 2 Settin’ on his Independence Clifford Jackson farms the old way with ‘gimcracks’ and horse power, and then “sets” on his independence.
• 18 How to Build a Lobster Trap Stilly Griffin shows how to make a lobster trap.
• 26 Dowsing Looking for water with a dowsing stick still works for some people in Maine. who tell how it’s done. …

Salt, Vol. 1, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.”

Contents

• 2 “Years ago almost everybody had a barn.” The handsome barns of Maine, inside and out, are shown to us by their owners.
• 18 “Down She Goes” Shrimping with Dave Burnham and Herb Baum on the Capt. Jim.
• 26 Town Meetin’ Arundel town meeting, a lively example of the old New England town meeting form of government, where people …

Salt, Vol. 1, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.”

Contents

• 1 Dedication
• 2 Sampling SALT
• 4 The Stilly Story Stilly Griffin tells about lobstering in Kennebunkport.
• 8 ‘No One Ever Beat Me’ Clamming with Helen Perley to get nine barrels a day.
• 11 Arden’s Garden Arden Davis harvests sea moss — his garden is the seacoast.
• 16 Planting’s only half of it Reid Chapman, an 80-year-old farmer shares his …