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Library Storytelling Team Guidebook, Jane E. Haskell, George W. Morse

Business & Community

Library Storytelling Team Guidebook, Paper 1 describes how a public library can organize a team to report its advocacy stories. Section 1 addresses the question, “Should we start a library storytelling project?” Changes in the public’s willingness to fund libraries and the changing roles of libraries in the 21^st century are outlined. An overview of advocacy library stories and a team approach for an effective storytelling program follow. This section concludes with pointers to determine when it may not be appropriate to start this effort. Section 2 discusses the roles of the team members and when a consultant may …

Reporting Library Advocacy Stories To Increase Funding: Guidebook For Story Reporters, Jane E. Haskell, George W. Morse

Business & Community

Reporting Library Advocacy Stories to Increase Funding: Guidebook for Story Reporters, Paper 2 describes how a public library can report advocacy stories effectively in the 21^st century. Section 1 covers the basics of library advocacy stories. Section 2 describes the story plot in detail, with examples, and integrates numerous references. The Appendices and a Glossary provide a number of tools useful to Story Reporters and other key players in the library’s story telling team. Companion paper to Library Storytelling Team Guidebook, Paper 1

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

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

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.

Mf145 Jeffrey “Smokey” Mckeen Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

The original donation, which focuses on country music in Maine, was added to the archive in the summer of 2006. The focus was expended to music in Maine generally as well as storytelling (especially about Herbert F. Jackson) and jokes when other interviews were added by McKeen.

Fifteen accessions comprise the collection, which include Hal Lone Pine radio shows and oral interviews. These materials were gathered and donated by Jeff “Smokey” McKeen. The interviews were conducted by McKeen with country musicians and listeners in the 1990s to the present. Several other accessions outside of this collection are related to McKeen, …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Mussel Wars. One Room Schoolhouses. No to Nuclear Waste. Lobstermen are losing their turf to aquaculture, say three generations of Carlsons in Tenants Harbor. A million more pounds of mussel meat than lobster meat were landed in 1985 as the sea is “fenced” for farming.

Content

• 3 The View from Pier Road A new feature starting this issue in Salt.
• 6 Deacon’s Bench Tom Bradbury’s column reflects the native Mainer’s attitude about party going.
• 7 “Crazy Avery” Avery Kelley, Beal’s Island storyteller, is a direct descendant of the giant Barney Beal. His yarns are as funny as Barney was strong. …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Bangor Truckstop. Portland’s Philosopher-Bookman. McCurdy’s Smoke House. “The movies make trucking so glamorous. It ain’t though. I want my boy to see what it’s really like.” Dysart’s Truckstop in Bangor, a Maine institution for truckers and locals. “From Kittery to Canada it’s the only one.”

Content

• 4 Crazy Avery Goes to New York A very Kelley tells about the time he hauled his traps on Beal’s Island, Maine, and “struck a dust for New York.”
• 12 Bangor Truckstop Ken Kobre, photojournalist, turns his lens on Dysart’s Truckstop south of Bangor, a Maine tradition for 18 years.
• 19 Around the Clock …

Salt, Vol. 5, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents

• 5 On Being Ten Salt celebrates its 10th anniversary and looks forward to the next ten years.
• 6 Salt’s New Home A new piece of history is now being lived in Pinkham’s Hall in Cape Porpoise, Maine, as Salt finds a new home.
• 8 Gems of Cape Porpoise The islands off Cape Porpoise, Maine, have retained their gemlike beauty as villagers save them, one by one.
• 14 No Human Trace Jessica Jenkins learns to leave an island just as she found it, without human trace.
• 15 Semester in Maine Salt launches a new Semester in Maine program for college …

Salt, Vol. 5, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents

• 2 Mount Desert Island: ‘They Were Rich and We Weren’t’ Through the eyes of native Mainers, we see what happens to an island dominated by millionaires.
• 4 The Theater in Bar Harbor’s Changing World Showplace of the ’30s, Bar Harbor’s art deco theater is a witness to changing times, from the chauffeur-driven limousines of the Rockefellers, Fords and Vanderbilts to the campers of today.
• 18 ‘Livin’ Where You Want to Live’ Draper Liscomb of Mount Desert Island tells how to make a living in Maine — “so you can live where you want to live.”
• 34 The Search (A …

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

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 River Driving on the Kennebec Salt interviews 24 men and women of northwest Maine about river driving, the now outlawed act of driving logs through the mighty rivers of Maine to the mills where they are processed.
• 6 The Men The “rough, solid, individuals” that have worked on the river and in the woods.
• 9 Herding Logs How the logs are transported across lakes and down river.
• 19 Drivin’ a Stick-and Other Jobs Jobs on the river and tools of the trade.
• 21 Logging in Winter The same men who hurled cantdogs in the spring and summer were …

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. 2, 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 Winter Lobstering in the De-Dee-Mae Few boats brave the winter seas for lobstering, but the De-Dee-Mae does.
• 8 Old Remedies Some of the old cures people still use.
• 9 ‘My Mother Used to...’ Eleanor Wormwood tells about old remedies used by her mother and grandmother.
• 17 Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Ethel and Edie Furbish, 86 year old …