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Maine Folklife, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

As the incoming director of the Folklife Center, I [James Moreira] have been asked to write a short piece to introduce myself to the members and supporters. It seems, after all, the traditional thing to do in such circumstances.

Originally from Nova Scotia, I have spent much of the past twenty years living in Newfoundland, most recently on the stunningly beautiful west coast where I was teaching at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. I earned a masters and Ph.D. at the Department of Folklore at Memorial University in St. John's.

Maine Folklife, Vol. 5, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, founder of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History and the Northeast Folklore Society announced that he will retire after forty-four years of teaching at the University of Maine.

Maine Folklife, Vol. 4, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

Northeast Archives welcomes Archivist Stephen Green. For the first time in its forty-year history, a highly trained professional archivist manages Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. I am extremely pleased to be able to introduce Stephen Green, Archivist. Stephen comes to us from the University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, where he has been Library Director since 1996. Previously he served as Sound and Image Librarian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for the Southern Historical Folklife and Oral History Collections. He also served as Archivist for the Appalachian Center Sound Archives at …

Maine Folklife, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

It's nice to be able to report good news — very good news, indeed — to all of you who have supported the Maine Folklife Center in recent years, and to those of you who have supported us even longer when we were just the Northeast Archives. We learned late in the Spring that a new budget had been appropriated by the University Administration that would provide support for staff salaries and a modest operating budget.

With this kind of support, Sandy and I are very excited about the prospects for the coming year, and for what this kind of …

Maine Folklife, Vol. 3, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

As you are undoubtedly aware, Sandy has operated the Archives on a shoe-string (sometimes almost no-string) budget for nearly forty years. Howevever, with the help of some well-thought-out grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, some smaller grants from foundations, and donations from our members, he and his staff have been able to turn out some pretty good projects (some of them award-winning) including videos: "An Oral Historian's Work," "Woodsmen and River Drivers," thirty-two volumes of Northeast Folklore, and four cassettes of the Maine Traditional Music Radio Program series.

Maine Folklife, Vol. 2, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

In the last newsletter, we told you of the different preservation survey work that the Center was undertaking. Well, three "experts" visited the Center — we've been poked, prodded, examined with a magnifying glass — and have we learned a lot! Though we can't possibly summarize everything in this article, we want to share the gist of their findings so that you're aware of the major issues facing the Center.

The Center was very pleased when the Northeast Document Conservation Center awarded us a subsidized preservation survey. In March, Beth Patkus, with training in archives administration and preservaton, traveled from …

Maine Folklife, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

Sandy, Pauleena and Jeff (Smoky) McKeen have embarked upon a new project which will tap a significant portion of our field recordings of music for a series of documentary sound recordings on CD and cassette tape. Our collections include various musical genres representing historical, social and cultural issues and events such as immigrant experiences, occupations, traditions and lifestyles. We have decided to first focus upon the songs of the Maine lumberwoods, Franco-American music, Penobscot Bay maritime occupations, and the Native Americans of the Northeast.

Maine Folklife, Vol. 1, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

In 1987 Ernie Freeberg and Jeff (Smoky) McKeen produced two radio programs, "Music of the St. John Valley" and "Maine's Finnish Communities." The programs consisted of a series of interviews interspersed with samples of music. The goals of the project were twofold: to document Maine's rich musical traditions and to bring to the forefront the history and traditions of Maine's varied heritage. Eight programs were completed, supported by the Maine Folklife Center with funds from the Maine Arts Commission and the Maine Community Foundation. The radio series was broadcast for the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. The Maine Folklife Center offers …

Maine Folklife, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

So much has happened since the last Newsletter appeared that it will be impossible to cover it all, but perhaps a little history would help. Back in 1983 when I became Chair of Anthropology, Rita Breton came on line as Archives Manager...

At about this time we decided to change our name to the Maine Folklife Center, in de facto recognition both that archival work was only a part of what we were doing and that we were getting more and more into public programming. A further part of our plan was to absorb Northeast Folklore and the Northeast Folklore …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 35, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

When we brought out Tom Tilton: Coaster and Fisherman back in 1984 (actually it was Northeast Folklore -XXIII: 1982) we included a story about a Captain Pinhead on page 62, just the way Tom told it to Gale Huntington. The book hadn't been out long before I got a smoklngly angry letter from one Robert O. Walsh saying he was Captain Pinhead and that story was all wrong and he wanted us to do something to set the record straight. The only thing I could think of was to suggest he write up what really happened and we'd publish it …

Ua68/6/1 Broomsedge Chronicles: Farm Living In South Central Kentucky, Wku English, Wku Glasgow

WKU Archives Records

A collection of essays written by English 100 Freshman Composition and English 200 Introduction to Literature students attending WKU Glasgow from 1983 through 1992 taught by Loretta Murrey. Student authors are: Joyce Alford, Joyce Amer, Jeff Ballard, Sandie Barrick, Jerry Bean, Shela Bingham, Brent Bledsoe, Steven Bunch, Billy Carver, Angela Cowan, Karen Decker, Betty Dillahay, Dibbie Dilley, Amy Doyel, Jeff Duncan, Craig Emmitt, Barbara England, Kathy Fancher, Amanda Gillon, Michelle Glover, Jeanelle Gooch, Faye Johnson, Celena Martin, Sonia Martin, Tracy Mathews, Ila Moody, Angela Morris, William Myatt, Judy Parker, Dorothean Powell, Maria Pulanco, Diane Rather, Jennifer Reneau, LaDarra Rich, Pam …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 34, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

On November 17, the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History and the Maine Arts Commission sponsored the "Traditional Culture in the Classroom" workshop at the University of Maine, Orono campus. The workshop was attended by elementary and secondary educators from across the state. Sessions addressed the use of folklore and oral history in the classroom, suggestions and techniques for projects, and classroom activities. The afternoon forum provided the opportunity for educators to share their experiences in developing and coordinating folklife and oral history projects. The successful event was met with requests for additional materials and workshops. As the Northeast …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 32, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

Readers of this Newsletter will be saddened to hear of the death of Dr. Helen Creighton, Canada's foremost collector of folksongs, on Tuesday, December 12, [1989], in Halifax. She was 90 years old. There is little I can add to Stephen Pedersen's fine article from the Halifax Chronicle-Herald (12/16/89) reprinted below beyond a couple of recollections of my own.

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 33, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

The Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History is pleased to announce two new additions to its staff: Teresa L. Hollingsworth of Berea, Kentucky, who is filling the newly created position of Folklife Coordinator, and Mary E. O'Meara of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., who will replace Alicia Rouverol as the Archives' Associate Director. Ms. Hollingsworth, a graduate of the Folk Studies Program at Western Kentucky University, was the staff folklorist at the Kentucky Folklife Program at Berea College, and conducted extensive folklife surveys along the Ohio and Kentucky River Valleys.

A History Of Christian Island And The Beausoleil Band, Janet Trimble

History Publications

A research report about the history and culture of the Beausoleil Band and Christian Island. In collaboration with the Museum of Indian Archaeology (now Museum of Ontario Archaeology) in a project funded by the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture. This a project of the MA Public History program.

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 31, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

The Last Smokehouse: Lubec and the Herring Smoking Industry of Maine. Funded initially by the Maine Humanities Council, this hour-long documentary film will explore the problems of the smoked herring industry in the state of Maine. The goal is to increase public awareness not only of the plight of small local industries in the modem mega-business world but also — and perhaps more importantly — of what happens to a community when one of its long-time traditional industries dies. The filmmakers, Andrea Truppin and Michel Chalufour, are now in the scriptwriting stage.

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 30, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

On July 26, 1985 — almost two years ago! — Robert O. Walsh, now of Yuma, Arizona, wrote us in response to an account of an incident mentioned in Tom Tilton: Coaster and Fisherman (Northeast Folklore XXIII 1982), starting on page 62, in which he is identified only as "Pinhead." Here is his own account of that incident, and our thanks to him both for sending it and for being so patient in waiting for us to publish it...

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 29, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

This issue is coming simultaneously with Northeast Folklore XXIV and XXV, "The Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History : A Catalog of the First 1800 Accessions." This 200+ page guide to the holdings at the Northeast Archives has been long-awaited by many, and I am sure will enlighten many more on the depth and breadth of material available in Orono. In addition to the Society's publishing the Catalog , the Archives has been involved-over the past year with the production of From Stump To Ship : A 1930 Logging Film . Details on this historic film are included in …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 28, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

A selection of eight photographs from the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History has been reproduced as postcards and are being sold by the Society...

The black and white photographs date from the early 1900's and show the North Lincoln sorting gap with crew, river drivers and a batteau in the St. John Allagash region, a pair of horses with woodsmen on top of Mt. Chase, a lumber crew with horses posed in front of a woods camp, the steamboat M. E. Shaw at the Forest City landing on Spednic Lake with townspeople ready for the annual Fourth of …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 27, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

Professor J. Barre Toelken, Director of the Folklore and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Oregon, will deliver the Marshall Dodge Memorial Folklore Lecture Thursday, February 21, at 7:30 p.m. in 100 Nutting Hall on the University of Maine (Orono) campus. His topic will be "You've Got to Watch His Lips: Image and Meaning in American Indian Humor."

Barre Toelken is one of the most distinguished folklorists in the business. He's been President of the American Folklore Society, Editor of the Journal of American Folklore, Chairman of the Folk Arts Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts, and …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 26, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

There is much activity in the northeast in folklore and oral history. On April 28 the New England Association of Oral History will observe its tenth anniversary at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, the site of the founding meeting. The New England Task Force on Folklife is continuing its work in promoting an awareness of the various research projects in folklore and folklife in the New England region. The Apprenticeship Journal was christened in Rockport in the Spring of 1983, and the Massachusetts Council of the Arts and Humanities has a full-time Folk Arts Coordinator. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 25, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

The 25th anniversary meeting of the Northeast Folklore Society, held 13 August 1983, at the University of Maine, included a tangible vote of thanks to NFS Secretary Joan Brooks for her work for the Society, an announcement of the Lynn Franklin Fund honoring the recently deceased and a presentation by Amanda McQuiddy on her folk arts in the schools program. The meeting was followed by a party worthy of the occasion at which Society President Ives was presented with a volume of letters of appreciation for his 25 years of leadership and inspiration...

* FLASH! Thanks to the combined support …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 24, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

The versitility of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History has again been demonstrated by the visit of an English professor from Japan who is doing a comparative study of the Maine accent and Shakespearean pronounciation. Professor Tsuneko Ikemiya of Tezukayama University in Nara, Japan, a specialist in acoustic phonetics, has been working in the Archives since March listening to tapes of Mainers from different parts of the state.

While she is primarily concerned with similarities in the pronounciation of contemporary Maine dialects and Elizabethan English, Professor Ikemiya reports that she has also found herself so interested in what …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 23, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

The Society's Annual Meeting was held on Saturday, June 12, at the Memorial Union on the University of Maine (Orono) campus. The morning session was devoted to the business meeting, the minutes of which are summarized elsewhere in this Newsletter, followed by an Open House at the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. In the afternoon, there were three short presentations on the general topic, "Folklore Field Work in the Maritime Provinces." Carole Spray of Fredericton, N.B., spoke on "Collecting Folklore in New Brunswick: An Amateur's Experiences"; Catherine Jolicoeur of the Centre Universitaire, Saint-Louis-Maillet, Edmundston, N.B., spoke on "Collecting …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 22, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

Marshall Dodge of "Bert and I" fame was killed when struck from behind by a car while he was riding his bicycle on a back road in Hawaii, Wednesday, January 27 [1982]. That's a real loss for the State of Maine; Marshall was nothing short of an institution, and a beloved one at that. When it came to telling that particular kind of story — what I've come to call the "St. Botolph's Club tradition"-there was simply no-one who could touch him. He didn't invent the genre; generations of Maine-loving summer people before him did that. But he was the …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 21, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

The Maine Folklife Survey finished up its 18-month stint here at the Northeast Archives with a great deal of good work done and several products available for school and community use. We have enclosed in this issue of the Newsletter the brochure, with ordering information, for two photographic exhibits and a slide-tape show entitled Maine's Folklife. This slide show illustrates folk art, horse-pulling, folk architecture, and coastal life as it occurs in Maine. This 80-image slide show has a tape running under 30 minutes.

...Another major product of the Maine Folklife Survey is a publication, The Maine Folklife Index: Resources …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 20, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

This statement by Sandy Ives at a meeting of the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Orono, Maine, February, 1981.

"I have no desire either to tilt windmills on the one hand or to defend the obvious on the other, yet I will risk both to make a simple plea not so much for greater breadth as for greater depth in support for the arts, for reaching out to help more people celebrate what it is in life that touches them and moves them to create significant forms that can be shared with others. I am not talking …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 19, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

The year of the Maine Folklife Survey is drawing to a close at the end of January. We are in the wrap-up phase, having completed fieldwork in October. Six field workers visited some 300 homes throughout the State, and worked in some 130 townships in every county over the summer, gathering information of all kinds from axe handle making to step dancing to baking bean-hole beans. People have been marvelously friendly, have understood why we were gathering traditional materials, and certainly have been helpful. Though we have felt stretched thin on budget and time to get to see and meet …

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 18, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

Dr. Richard K. Lunt, folklorist and author of Northeast Folklore Volume X ("Jones Tracy, Tall Tale Teller from Mt. Desert Island"), is currently directing the Maine Folklife Survey. The project, a statewide effort made possible by grants from the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, will assess the current status of folk and traditional arts and crafts in Maine. The interest is in the here and now, what traditional activities are still being performed.

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 17, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

FOLKLORIST, to initiate and carry out folklife survey of the State of Maine, working in conjunction with the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. Duties will include extensive field work collecting and documenting the folklore and folklife of Maine; overseeing the activities of another fieldworker and any other staff that may be assigned to the project; keeping the public informed of the survey's progress; keeping up with the requisite paperwork; preparing a Maine Folklife Dictionary, a slide/tape show on Maine folklife, and a brochure describing both...Salary $14,000 for twelve months.