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Mf002 "Anna May: Eighty-Two Years In New England" Julie Hunter Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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
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 …
Mf007 Canada Road Survey, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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.