Document Type
Oral History
Interviewer
Amy Bouchard Morin
Interview date
8-27-1993
Interview location
Old Town, Maine
Time
00:31:17
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Abstract
Albert Morin and Bernice Morin, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, August 27, 1993, at their home in Old Town, Maine. For the "Islands and Bridges" project. Also present, Benoit Bouchard. The Morins talk about family history; parent's immigration from Canada to French Island; schools; neighbors; children's entertainment; holidays; work, at lumber mill, and factories; Great Depression and WPA work; funerals and weddings; boxing and softball; LaBree's bakery and other French Island businesses; WWII; automobiles and roads; women's textile crafts; arrival of electricity; prices; clothing; peddlers; and the 1918 flu epidemic.
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Disciplines
Oral History | United States History
Nation of origin
United States
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
NA2772
Recommended Citation
Morin, Albert and Morin, Bernice, "Albert Morin and Bernice Morin, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, Part 1" (2023). MF026 Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine. 38.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/38
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