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Description
A series of student interviews done for Edward D. “Sandy” Ives’ class focused on the Curran Family Homestead, a living history museum in Orrington, Maine. Interview topics include: memories of Alfred, Eddie, and Catherine Curran; dairy farming in East Orrington during the first half of the twentieth century; MA Crook and Sons Hillside Dairy; relationship between the Kimball family and the Currans; swimming in the Fields Pond in the summer; tobogganing on the Curran property in the winter; a genealogy of the Curran family; growing up in Orrington and spending time on the Curran farm; daily management of the farm; food preparation during the winter; an ice house; farm livestock; making alcohol during prohibition; working on the Curran farm; Alfred’s younger years; farming practices; life in Orrington in the early part of the 1900s; the layout of East Orrington in the 1920s-1930s; East Orrington’s saw mill; and the Audubon Society.
Publication Date
2020
Keywords
Agriculture, Community life, Dairy farming, Farm life
Disciplines
Folklore | Oral History
Size of Collection
18 items
Dates of Collection
1996
Manuscript Number
MF015
Recommended Citation
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine, "MF015 Curran Family Homestead Project" (2020). Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids. Number 13.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ne_findingaids/13