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Hartford, Maine History, Wilbur A. Libby

Maine Collection

Hartford, Maine History

by Wilbur A. Libby (1985)

Photocopy of author's original typed manuscript placed into a binder and presented to the USM Gorham Library in 1985. A collection of the author's recollections and writings on local history and genealogy, along with copies of maps, photographs, census pages and news items.

Contents: 1607 Settlement failed-conquest - England, France & Indians / The Pilgrims and what happened to them / Passengers on "Anne" "Little James" & "Fortune" / Earliest Settlers, 21 in both Towns / Petitions to Mass. for land grant (15) / Samuel Butterfield's first trip to this area / …

Violence In Southern Literature, Lucy Katherine Tejero

Theses

This thesis explores the recurring theme of violence in the works of key Southern writers—William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Robert Penn Warren. It argues that violence in Southern literature is not merely sensational or gratuitous, but deeply tied to the region’s historical, social, and cultural realities, particularly the legacies of slavery, the Civil War, and entrenched racial hierarchies. By situating each author within this context, the study demonstrates how acts of violence in their fiction serve as a lens through which to examine moral conflict, social change, and human frailty.

Faulkner’s depictions of brutality are shown …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 1, Clement Valletta, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Sara L. Matthews, Allen G. Noble, Jean M. Danis

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Ritual and Folklore in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Region: Old to New World Wonder
• Ordinary Architecture of the Pennsylvania Germans: The Turnpike Houses
• "Set thy House in Order": Inheritance Patterns of the Colonial Pennsylvania Germans
• The Literature on Fences, Walls and Hedges as Cultural Landscape Features
• Aldes un Neies

Joaquin Murieta: Fact, Fiction And Folklore, Thomas J. Gordon

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This work explores the legendary 19th-century California bandit Joaquin Murieta as he is manifest in the history, literature and folklore of the West. The first section of the work examines in some detail the historical milieu which gave rise to widespread banditry during the California gold rush, at which time Murieta is said to have been active. The second section traces the development of the literary hero Joaquin Murieta from his creation by John Rollin Ridge through a number of American, Mexican, Chilean, Spanish and French incarnations. Section three similarly traces Murieta as a folk hero through a cycle of …

Arroyo De Los Muertos And Other Prehistoric Terrace Sites Along The Rio Grande, Laredo, Texas, A. Joachim Mcgraw

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

During early 1980, personnel from the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, were involved in intensive survey and limited testing operations at archaeological sites in a proposed pipeline right-of-way along the Rio Grande, Webb County, Texas. Eight terrace sites, located just south of the city of Laredo, were investigated to determine potential eligibility for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places and for selection as State Historical Landmarks. Both historic and prehistoric cultural materials were identified at these sites including the remains of two previously unrecorded prehistoric burials.

The Comic-Humanizing Character Of Charlie Chaplin And The Literature Of World War I, Lawrence W. Markert

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

James Welch, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

On their way to work, Americans hurried past disciples of Hare Krishna, orange-robed and seemingly from another planet, chanting in the streets. Home again that night they watched Neil Armstrong tread the lunar rubble, or they gaped at villages swelling up in instant clouds of napalm. In a land that idolized youth, college students were “trashing” their own campuses, while young blacks, in a strange counterpart to the war in far-off Asia, were setting fire to their own ghettos. The greatest scandal since Teapot Dome was about to give yet another violent shake to Americans’ confidence in who they were …

A Note On Poe’S “Berenice”: A Classical Source For The Narrator’S Fantasy, Hal Blythe, Charlie Sweet

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Climbing Learners' Hill: Benedictines At White Earth, 1878-1945, Carol J. Berg Osb

Saint Benedict’s Monastery Publications

Benedictine sisters and monks administered and staffed a boarding school on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota from 1882-1945, responding to a request from the local bishop and to the Peace Policy of President Grant. Church denominations were asked to cooperate with the government in Christianizing and “civilizing” the Indians—on and off-reservations. With significant aid from federal funds, various denominations, primarily Catholic and Protestant, built churches and schools to educate and “convert” Indians. This was done in the cause of assimilation, with most of the missionaries, lay or religious, deliberately undermining the traditional cultures. Benedictines came late to the Indian …

American Irish Newsletter - September - October 1980, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Transformation Of Albuquerque, 1945-1972, Robert Turner Wood

American Studies ETDs

From Chapter 1:

Although we usually measure time in uniform units, some months and years seem much longer and more packed with significance than other spans of approximately the same duration. Sometimes years and even centuries can roll by with the normal incidence of new fashions, changes of government, economic booms and busts, wars and other detail of the sort that enlivens most of our history books, yet nothing really substantial seems to have taken place. To most appearances and in most respects, the people at the end of the period acted largely like their predecessors several generations earlier. But …

Reluctant Warriors And The Federalist Resurgence In New York, 1808-1815, Harvey Strum

The Courier

Harvey Strum details the tumultuous political environment in New York in the events leading up to and during the War of 1812. The main struggle was between the dominant Republican party, and a resurgent Federalist party. The Republicans wanted war with Britain and an embargo on trade with Canada, while the Federalists wanted to preserve the trade that was so crucial to the economic well-being of New York. This led to clashes between central New York residents breaking the embargo and the local militia. The Federalist resurgance was a temporary interruption of the dominance of the Republican Party in New …

Ethnohistoric Notes On Indian Groups Associated With Three Spanish Missions At Guerrero, Coahuila, T. N. Campbell

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Three Spantsh missions, San Francisco Solano, San Juan Bautista and San Bernardo, were established near the Rio Grande at present Guerrero, northeastern Coahuila, during the years 1700-1703. Remnants of at least 88 distinctively named Indian groups at various times came to live at one or more of these missions. In 1975- 1976, the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas San Antonio, supported by funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Kathryn O'Connor Foundation, conducted archaeological excavations at two of these missions, San Juan Bautista and San Bernardo. Since the cultural debris recovered from excavations is …

The Fort Sam Houston Project: An Archaeological And Historical Assessment, Andrea Gerstle, Thomas C. Kelly, Cristi Assad

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

In March 1977, a contract was effected between the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio (CAR-UTSA), and the Fort Worth District Army Corps of Engineers to conduct an archaeological and historical survey of Fort Sam Houston and its south-central Texas properties. This contract (DACA 63-77-6-0081) is part of an overall Environmental Impact Statement required by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1959, implementing Department of Defense Directive 6050.1 and Army Regulation AR 200-1.

The survey was designed to provide an inventory and evaluation of rapidly disappearing archaeological and historical resources and to evaluate impacts and …

Alfred Henry Lewis, Abe C. Ravitz

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

He was a cowboy and a lawyer, a journalist and a novelist. At ease passing the time of day with drifters in front of Melinda's House of Call at Watrous (Mora County) in the sparse territory of New Mexico or debating socio-economic philosophy with sophisticated Tammany politicians just outside City Hall in New York, Alfred Henry Lewis—Western regionalist and Eastern muckraker—was enchanted by America’s land of legend and myth beyond the frontier, and he forever glanced backward with nostalgia at his “pampas years,” when he roved "for many moons" between “the Canadian in the Panhandle and the Gila in Arizona.” …

Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa), Marion W. Copeland

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Because Charles Eastman’s best known book is his earliest, Indian Boyhood (1902), and because that autobiography and its sequel, From the Deep Woods to Civilization (1916), have been most often used as sources for studies of the cultural transition of the Sioux, the literary value of those and of Eastman’s later books has gone largely unexamined. Eastman subtitled the 1916 volume The Autobiography of an Indian, but one cannot therefore assume that the conventions of European-American autobiography control Eastman’s work.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, Folk Festival Supplement, Nancy A. Delong, Marie E. Deverter, John F. Dreibelbis, Robert F. Ulle, Laverne H. Stevens, Carl Ned Foltz, Robert R. Hoppes, Martha S. Best, Theodore W. Jentsch, Rita Grim, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Bonnets, Bonnets, Bonnets
• Theorem Painting on Velvet
• Spinning, Weaving and Lace Making
• Mennonites: A Peaceful People
• Special Police Force Directs Traffic
• Candle Dipping and Molding
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• The Old One-Room School
• The Art of Making Brooms
• Koom Rei, Huck Dich un Essa (Come In, Sit Down and Eat)
• Old Fashioned Apple Butter Making
• Fraktur: An Enduring Art Form
• Covered Bridges: Folk Festival Questionnaire

Josiah Gregg And Lewis H. Garrard, Edward Halsey Foster

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

New Mexico and that vast region spanned by the Santa Fe trail—a region utterly unlike anything east of the Mississippi—must have seemed enormously exotic and exciting to Americans a hundred and fifty years ago. It was a segment of the continent which most Americans knew only through books, and there were many of them, highly colored and occasionally inaccurate, to satisfy, or increase, their curiosity. American interest in the region expanded as the decades passed and culminated, of course, in the Mexican War and American possession of the Southwest.

San José Studies, November 1976, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1970s

Volume 2, Issue 3

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 3, Don Yoder, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Mac E. Barrick, A. Russell Slagle, Ronald L. Michael, Ronald Carlisle, William T. Parsons

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Pennsylvania Germans and the American Revolution
• The Blooming Grove Colony
• The Salebill
• The Schlegel Family and the Rosicrucian Movement
• A Log Settler's Fort/Home
• Pennsylvania Dutch Studies at Ursinus College, 1976
• The Country Sale: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 43

Sipapu: A Cultural Perspective, Paula Gunn Allen

American Studies ETDs

This three-essay study examined European-American political and social treatment of Native Americans, and European-American interpretations of Native American literature. It proceeds from the hypothesis that the Euro-American conception of Native America differs greatly from the Native American's conception of himself. Recent examinations of the relations between European and Native Americans have revealed that the American treatment of aboriginal people was a consequence of basic European attitudes, rather than a reaction to Native American conduct. These same attitudes have colored literary studies just as they have colored all aspects of American-Native American relations.

The aims of the research were to study …

Jack Schaefer, Gerald Haslam

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

In 1945 Jack Schaefer, then a Norfolk, Virginia, newspaper editor, decided to write a story “to prove that there is no reason why an attempt cannot be made to create literature about the west as about the east or the south or any place anywhere.” He set his story in a Wyoming valley torn by conflict between pioneer farmers and a resident cattle baron trying to retain the open range. Then he introduced a palladin figure called Shane.

Frederic Remington, Fred Erisman

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

To an entire generation of readers, Frederic Remington was the spokesman for the American West. For almost a quarter of a century, from 1886 until his death in 1909, his drawings and paintings, published in Harper’s Weekly, The Century, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Collier’s, and other large-circulation magazines of the time, gave to many readers their only glimpses of Western life and the western landscape. The popular acclaim for his work was echoed by the American art establishment. During his lifetime, Remington was elected to membership in the National Academy of Design and awarded an honorary Bachelor of Fine Arts …

The Wide World Of Jack London, Howard Lawrence Lachtman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The high apostle of the adventure tale in the Strenuous Age, Jack London has never really relinquished the popularity which made him before his death one of the best known and, most widely read writers in the world. It is true that more than one pontiff of literary taste has consigned him to the same, "obsolete" file that contains the remains of Richard Harding Davis, David Graham Phillips, William Sidney Porter, but such reports of London's demise have undoubtedly been premature. Indeed, the contemporary momentum of Jack London studies affords excellent evidence of the critical rediscovery of an American legend. …

White County Heritage 1972 No. 3, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by W.C. Welch
Isaac Aaron Miller Diary
From the Museum Shelf by Ellen Key
The Murder of Albert Parker by Vernon E. Bass, Jr.
They Came to Arkansas (Wood and Guthrie Families) by Mrs. Leister E. Presley
Tax List - White County, Ark. 1837
Old Weir Cemetery by Mrs. W.H. Collinson, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Strayhorn
The Hunter's Luck (copied)

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 3, Wasyl O. Luciw, George Wynnysky, Donald M. Hines, Lester Breininger, Louis Winkler, Mac E. Barrick, C. Lee Hopple, Friedrich Krebs

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Ukrainian Pysanka and Other Decorated Easter Eggs in Pennsylvania
• The Development of Folklife Research in the United Kingdom
• Just a Bone
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology: Almanacs
• Central Pennsylvania Fishing Spears
• Spatial Development of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Community to 1970: Part II
• 18th-Century Emigrants from the Palatinate, Lower Alsace, and Rheinhessen
• Tobacco and Tobacco Culture: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 23

"Acadia For Moderns: The Fulfilling Environment" (Is America Possible? Lecture 3), René Dubos, Portland State University

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

The Observer Vol. 14, Issue No. 3, 09/27/1971, University Of Maine Portland-Gorham

Observer, The (1972)

Trustees Consider Rebate -- Yearbook Merger Unwise: Staff Anticipate Monies -- Class Ring Hoax Is Officially Hoax -- SAC Attempts To Create Sub-Committees -- Draft Counseling Now Available -- SCOGIS Marks Beginning -- Portland Lot Draws Fire -- VVAW Organize Campus Drive -- Newsstand Plans Opening Soon

The Observer Vol. 12, Issue No. 14, 01/04/1971, University Of Maine Portland-Gorham

Observer, The (1972)

Dr. Louis Calisti Named UMPG Head -- Govt. of UMPG: Progressive -- Mr. PoGo U Pageant Here

The Observer Vol. 13, Issue No. 9, 11/09/1970, University Of Maine Portland-Gorham

Observer, The (1972)

Governance Calls For Contribution -- Bomb Threat Brings Anger And Frustration -- Sandburg Took Much Planning, Hard Work -- Scranton Commission Fair -- Poet Raworth Here Wed. -- Film Retrospective -- Whose Who's Who -- Food Service Defends Meal Policy Hardening