![Albert “Hap” Collins](https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/songstorysamplerartists/1000/thumbnail.jpg)
Name
Albert “Hap” Collins
Files
Biography
Albert “Hap” Collins was, except for a few years in the 1940s, a lifelong resident of the Blue Hill, ME area. He worked most of his adult life lobstering and operating a sawmill in the summer, and supplementing his income with masonry, blacksmithing, scalloping, logging, or a variety of other jobs in the Winter. But he was also much more: a painter, poet, story teller, fiddler, and boat builder. All of these arts were largely self-taught, and he was popular among local residents and tourists for his skill in all of them.
Date of Birth
1912
Date of Death:
1990
Keywords
storyteller, Blue Hill, Maine, sawmill, lobstering, painter, poet, fiddler, boat builder, “Mail Story”, Jeff Todd Titon
Disciplines
Folklore | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Collins, Albert Hap, "Albert “Hap” Collins" (1912). Maine Song and Story Sampler Artists. 1.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/songstorysamplerartists/1
Location
Blue Hill, ME
![Albert “Hap” Collins](https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/songstorysamplerartists/1000/thumbnail.jpg)
Works
“Mail Story” collected by Jeff Todd Titon