Document Type
Oral History
Interviewer
Amy Bouchard Morin
Interview date
2-18-1994
Interview location
Old Town, Maine
Time
00:31:42
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Abstract
Benoit Bouchard, Bernard “Bing” Bouchard, Albert “Bert” Morin, Walter Nadeau, and Beatrice Morin, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, February 18, 1994, at Albert and Amy Morin's home in Old Town, Maine, for the "Islands and Bridges" project. The group reminisces about life on French Island: family relationships; where specific families lived; stores; carpenter work; Great Depression; prices; homebrew, bootlegging, and Prohibition; nicknames; music and dances; cutting and storing ice from the river; coal and grain from the railroad; cellar flooding; property ownership and land use on the island; drainage and sewers; food packaging, barrels and boxes of pickles, crackers, molasses, etc.; buying gasoline; driving in the 1920s; stretching candy; smoking; buying houses in the 1940s and 1950s; fishing; delivering mail; nosy neighbors; funerals; helpful neighbors; college students.
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Disciplines
Oral History | United States History
Nation of origin
Canada
Home state/Territory
Maine
Ethnicity
European-American
Ethnic group
Franco-American
Headings
Maine History; Old Town Maine History; Franco-Americans History; Franco-américains Histoire
Collection name
Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine / French Island Collection
Collection number
MF026
Item number
NA2761
Recommended Citation
Bouchard, Benoit; Bouchard, Bernard; Morin, Albert; Nadeau, Walter; and Morin, Bertrice, "Benoit Bouchard, Bernard “Bing” Bouchard, Albert “Bert” Morin, Walter Nadeau, and Beatrice Morin, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, Part 3" (2023). MF026 Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine. 10.
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