Document Type

Oral History

Title

Benoit Bouchard, Bernard “Bing” Bouchard, Albert “Bert” Morin, Walter Nadeau, and Beatrice Morin, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, Part 2

Interviewee name

Benoit Bouchard
Bernard Bouchard
Albert Morin
Walter Nadeau
Bertrice Morin

Interviewer

Amy Bouchard Morin

Interview date

2-18-1994

Interview location

Old Town, Maine

Time

00:30:24

Files

Streaming Media

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 2" (2023). MF026 Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine. 9.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/9

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