Document Type
Personal Narrative
Interview date
3-12-1991
Files
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Abstract
Compilation of excerpts from several letters written by Van Geroux to Leona Taylor (March 12, 1991), and Lelia Richards (several during 1994-1995). In these excerpts, Geroux reminisces about life on French Island in Old Town, Maine: the Shuffle Inn; baseball; children's entertainment; boxing; grocery stores; French Island characters; an extensive list of nicknames; taverns, barbershops, lumber yard, and railroad; street cleaners; movie theaters; priests; horses; feeding and butchering pigs; skiing; pickling and canning food; and beanhole beans. This typed transcript of compiled excerpts lacks overall context of each communication. There are no notations of the length of each excerpt, the original dates of letters, or to whom each letter was sent.
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
NA2787
Recommended Citation
Geroux, Van, "Excerpts from letters written by Van Geroux to Leona Taylor and Leilia Richards" (2023). MF026 Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine. 69.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/69
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