Document Type

Oral History

Title

Albert Michaud, Walter Simon, Rand Trembly, and Ernest Dubay, interviewed by James Bishop, Part 2

Interviewee name

Albert Michaud
Walter Simon
Rand Trembly
Ernest Dubay

Interviewer

James Bishop

Interview date

2-25-1994

Interview location

Old Town, Maine

Time

00:31:54

Files

Streaming Media

Abstract

Albert Michaud, Walter Simon, Rand Trembly, and Ernest Dubay, interviewed by James Bishop, February 25, 1994, in Old Town, Maine. For the "Islands and Bridges" project. The group talks about their experiences and memories of growing up on French Island: sports and games, especially softball, boxing (the fights); scrounging donuts under the Milford bridge; swimming in the Penobscot River; conflict between St. Joseph's school children and the Island school children and between Islanders and Old Town; religious curriculum at St. Joseph's school; basketball; nicknames; Helen Hunt Junior High; newspapers; stores and taverns on the Island; work & factory jobs; food in the Great Depression; funerals, floods, and neighborliness; holidays, esp. Fourth of July and Mardi Gras; milk delivery; getting a driver's license; speaking French.

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Part 2. mfc_na2768_c1495_02
Part 3. mfc_na2768_c1496_01
Part 4. mfc_na2768_c1496_02

Disciplines

Oral History | United States History

Nation of origin

United States

Home state/Territory

Maine

Gender

Male

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

NA2768

Recommended Citation

Michaud, Albert; Simon, Walter; Trembly, Rand; and Dubay, Ernest, "Albert Michaud, Walter Simon, Rand Trembly, and Ernest Dubay, interviewed by James Bishop, Part 2" (2023). MF026 Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine. 28.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/28

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