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Mf057 History Of The University Of Maine Oral History Project / David Smith, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf057 History Of The University Of Maine Oral History Project / David Smith, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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A series of interviews conducted by Shirley Tardiff for David C. Smith, a professor of history at the University of Maine, in 1971, about the history of the University of Maine in Orono. See Smith's book, The First Century: A History of the University of Maine, 1865-1965.
Mf 036 Maine Leaders Oral History Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf 036 Maine Leaders Oral History Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Interviews with Senator Margaret Chase Smith (1990), James Russell Wiggins (1988) (Editor of the Ellsworth American). The interviews were supported with funds from the University of Maine President’s Office.
Mf041 "Me And Fannie" Interviews, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf041 "Me And Fannie" Interviews, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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This series of interviews resulted in the publication of the 1973 XVI edition of Northeast Folklore (Me and Fannie: The Oral Autobiography of Ralph Thornton of Topsfield, Maine, ed. by Wayne Bean). Note: The Fannie in "Me and Fannie" refers to Ralph Thornton's wife, maiden name Fannie Hamilton.
Mf066 When I Grew Up Long Ago / Alvin Schwartz, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf066 When I Grew Up Long Ago / Alvin Schwartz, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Interviews conducted as part of research for When I Grew Up Long Ago, by Alvin Schwartz, published by J. B. Lippincott Co., 1978. RESTRICTED: For in-house use only. Publication in any form, written or aural, not permitted without written permission of Schwartz. Use in student papers permitted. In all cases, material should be cited as research done for When I Grew Up Long Ago, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1978, by Schwartz.
Mf055 American Thread Company / Russell Carey, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf055 American Thread Company / Russell Carey, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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A collection of fourteen series deposited by University of Maine graduate student, Russell Carey between March, 1992 and November, 1993. The collection features videotaped and or audio interviews with workers at the American Thread Company's wooden spool mill in Milo, Maine, and contributed to research for Carey's Master's thesis entitled, "3,750,000,000 Perfect Wooden Spools" (University of Maine, 1994). The collective oral history of the mill's workers documents conditions, issues, history, occupational lore, and people's feelings about the mill from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Mf163 Somalis In Lewiston, Maine Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf163 Somalis In Lewiston, Maine Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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This collection includes interviews with five Somali women living in Lewiston, Maine in 2003. The interviews were conducted by Elizabeth Hoyt Hannibal and Dianne Schindler for a project for ANT 425 taught by Dr. James Moreira at the University of Maine. Included is a narrative of how Hannibal and Schindler set up the interviews with Fatuma Hussein, Azeb Hassan, Hawa Kahin, Kiih Issa, and Ayan Ismail. Interviews took place in Lewiston at Daryeelka, Inc., a resource for families that assists them in becoming economically independent and active participants in community life. Also included in the collection is a paper by …
Mf102 Miramichi Folksong Festival Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library
Mf102 Miramichi Folksong Festival Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library
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This collection includes a series of interviews relating to the Miramichi Folksong Festival and recordings of various years of the festival. The Miramichi Folksong Festival takes place annually in Newcastle, New Brunswick. It was founded by Louise Manny in 1958 as a means of showcasing and preserving the traditional songs and ballads of New Brunswick, especially those found in the Miramichi River region. See also: MF 032 Louise Manny / Lord Beaverbrook Collection; MF 008 Norman Cazden Collection; and MF 027 Edward D. Ives Collection.
Mf061 Tom Tilton: Coaster And Fisherman / Gale Huntington, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf061 Tom Tilton: Coaster And Fisherman / Gale Huntington, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Interviews with Tom Tilton, 92, about his life, coasting, fishing, and Martha's Vineyard, 1979. Basis of Northeast Folklore XXIII: Tom Tilton: Coaster and Fisherman (1982). All of the tapes are on file at the Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society, (formerly Dukes County Historical Society), Edgartown, Massachusetts, with duplicates here at the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. RESTRICTED.
Mf089 Marshall Dodge Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf089 Marshall Dodge Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Rob Golding and Earl Bonness give humorous stories and anecdotes of Downeast about local people and events, and these anecdotes reflect the quintessential Downeast character and type of humor later made famous by Marshall Dodge in his stories of “Bert and I” and may suggest the origins of the types of characters and humor Dodge used in his “Bert and I” records.
Mf050 Popular Music Of Newfoundland Project Recording Dubs / Michael Taft & Shelley Posen, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf050 Popular Music Of Newfoundland Project Recording Dubs / Michael Taft & Shelley Posen, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Dubs of tapes on deposit at the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archives. Newfoundland Popular Music Project, sponsored by a grant from the Canadian Folk Music Society. RESTRICTED. Rights controlled by the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archives.
Mf104 Whitewater Raft Guides Project / Ian Cameron Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf104 Whitewater Raft Guides Project / Ian Cameron Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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This collection consists of a series of interviews with whitewater rafting guides conducted by Ian H. Cameron in 1986 as part of an independent study class at the University of Maine. Cameron interviewed four whitewater rafting guides on the West Branch of the Penobscot river and some of the experiences they had.
Mf063 Um Augusta Communication Course Interviews, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf063 Um Augusta Communication Course Interviews, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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The collection consists of a series of interviews done for a University of Maine at Augusta course in Speaker-Audience Communications, Fall 1977. Topics covered include: the Farnsworth Museum; the Robert Abbe Museum; Lucy Farnsworth; Rockland, Maine, in the early 1900s; Northport in the War of 1812; Waldoboro News Stand; Knox Arboretum in Warren, Maine; lace mills and the lace business in St. George, Maine; lime kilns; Clark Island Quarry and quarry stone cutting; farm life in Vassalboro in the 1930s and 1940s; the Children's Aid Society; Sweetser Children's Home in Saco, Maine; Fleming's Upholstery Shop in Rockland; Stockton Springs; work …
Mf071 Pride Of Maine Fair, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf071 Pride Of Maine Fair, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Music performances and narrative workshops recorded at the Pride of Maine Fair held at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, July, 1979. 38 hours.
Mf035 Maine Folklife Survey, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf035 Maine Folklife Survey, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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The survey was developed to identify and document folklife resources within the state. Material culture collections were identified, and traditional festivals and community events were recorded using audio and video equipment. Almost a hundred interviews were conducted with informants during the course of the project. The interviews have been accessioned in summary form instead of with full transcriptions, and they are open to the public. Through a series of questionnaires and interviews, fieldworkers were able to locate and document private collections of photographs, artifacts, family records, etc. The materials found within the Maine Folklife Survey are most valuable to researchers …
Mf224 Maine Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf224 Maine Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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The Maine Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project was conducted under the supervision of Christopher Beam, director of the Edmund Muskie Archives, Bates College. The project captured the recollections of Mainers who participated in a controversial watershed in U.S. history, the Vietnam War. Five students from Bates College, Lewiston-Auburn College, and the University of Maine at Farmington conducted 32 oral history interviews with veterans living in central and western Maine during the summer of 1999. Funding was provided by the Maine Humanities Center.
Mf043 Northeast Harbor Library Oral History Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf043 Northeast Harbor Library Oral History Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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These accessions were brought to the Northeast Archives by Pamela Dean. They are copies of tape-recorded interviews about the history of Northeast Harbor, Maine, and are from the Northeast Harbor Library's oral history collection. They provided part of the source material for Dean's M.A. Thesis, "Us and Them: An Oral History of Life on the Summer Estates in Coastal Hancock County, Maine." University of Maine, 1984. See also MF 119 "Us and Them" Summer Estates Collection. For access, contact Northeast Harbor Library.
Mf168 Crab-Picking Project / Blossom Kravitz, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf168 Crab-Picking Project / Blossom Kravitz, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Interviews about crab-picking in Maine. This research led to Crab Picking: An Endangered Maine Cottage Industry, Northeast Folklore XLVI.
Mf208 Oral History Of The University Of Southern Maine's School Of Social Work / Barry H. Rodrigue Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf208 Oral History Of The University Of Southern Maine's School Of Social Work / Barry H. Rodrigue Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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A collection of interviews from 2016 and 2017 related to the origin and history of the School of Social Work at the University of Southern Maine (USM). Interviews conducted by Dr. Barry H. Rodrigue and Sandra Wachholz. Materials: 22 cassette tapes, 16 release forms/ biographical data forms/audio and video recording logs, 2 binders with institutional history, 41 pp. collection index.
Mf038 Labor Relations In Maine, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf038 Labor Relations In Maine, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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A collection featuring two sets of interviews. The first was conducted from 1969-1973 under the auspices of the Maine State Federated Labor Council. Topics range widely over the spectrum of organized labor issues in Maine, but seem to deal primarily with unions, union organizing, and elections. Interviewees include top ranking union officials as well as lobstermen, longshoremen, bricklayers, quarry workers, textile and paper millworkers, sulfite workers, iron workers, shipbuilders, railroad workers, typesetters, building trade workers, electricians, garment workers, and shoe makers. Also represented are union organizers, labor historians, and publishers of labor periodicals such as "Labor News." The second set …
Mf162 Immigrants And Identity, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf162 Immigrants And Identity, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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In 2005 the Maine Folklife Center and the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine proposed to study and present the ways that immigrants in central and eastern Maine connect themselves with their ethnicity. These fifteen interviews were conducted from February to June 2005 by the Maine Folklife Center staff with members of the local African, Hispanic, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and Eastern European immigrant communities in preparation for the Folk Festival in August. An exhibit of panels consisting of interpretive text, excerpts from the oral histories, portrait photos, and objects was prepared by the Hudson Museum.
Mf140 Victoria Society Portland Oral History Series, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf140 Victoria Society Portland Oral History Series, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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A series of 36 interviews about the history of Portland, Maine with index and partial and full transcripts. The Victoria Society, fall 1992. Interviews concerning life in Portland during the 1930s to the 1940s, most interviewees are 75 years old or older.
Mf058 "Suthin" Project, 1976, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf058 "Suthin" Project, 1976, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Ten interviews totaling 23 hours conducted for a course at University of Maine taught by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives in 1976 about a pulpwood operation at Little Musquash Lake run by Grover Morrison. This project included the publication of Northeast Folklore: "Suthin," XVIII. These interviews were the basis of "Suthin:" It's the Opposite of Nothin': An Oral History of Grover Morrison's Wood's Operation at Little Musquash Lake, 1945-1947 (Northeast Folklore XVIII: 1977 ). Collection includes the text of the poem, "Suthin'"; other poems; information about daily work in the woods and with the portable sawmill; life in the woods camp; …
Mf067 "Wildfire Loose" Oral History Project / Joyce Butler, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf067 "Wildfire Loose" Oral History Project / Joyce Butler, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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The “Wildfire Loose” Collection consists of a series of 37 interviews conducted by Joyce Butler in preparation for her book of the same title about the fires in Maine in October 1947. The interviews cover geographic areas in York, Oxford, and Hancock Counties including the communities of Kennebunk, Cape Porpoise, Goose Rocks, Kennebunkport, Saco, Biddeford, East Waterboro, Brownfield, Somesville, and Bar Harbor. Donated in 1979. When possible, obituaries for informants were collected by Special Collections staff as additional documentation of informants.
Mf070 Umaine During The Vietnam War Era / Laura Finkel Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf070 Umaine During The Vietnam War Era / Laura Finkel Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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A series of fifteen interviews recorded between 1994 – 1997 by Laura Finkel concerning antiwar movement, protests, and activities on the campus at the University of Maine during the Vietnam War era (1964 – 1973).
Mf164 Maine Pack Basket Makers Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf164 Maine Pack Basket Makers Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Maine Pack Basket Makers Tradition consists of nine interviews conducted by Bill Mackowski between 2010-2012 with basket makers in several communities involving Maine basket making techniques.
Mf056 Skinner Settlement Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf056 Skinner Settlement Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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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
Mf215 Guide To Farming Deer Foot Farm, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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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
Mf121 Maine Organic Farmers And Gardeners Association (Mofga), Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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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.
Mf117 Frye Mountain Interviews / Jeffrey "Smokey" Mckeen, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf117 Frye Mountain Interviews / Jeffrey "Smokey" Mckeen, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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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.
Mf053 Ricker College Student Folklore Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf053 Ricker College Student Folklore Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Papers written by students enrolled in a folklore class at Ricker College (Houlton, Maine) taught by Gifford Stevens. Topics include jokes, home remedies, proverbs, ghost stories, games, folktales, superstitions, graffiti, and children's folklore.