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MF001 Airline Road & Airline Community Project
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
The collection consists of six interviews conducted by Joan Brooks and Jack Beard for an oral history fieldwork course taught by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives at the University of Maine in 1976. The interviews focus on the history of Eddington, Maine and the Airline Road (Rt. 9 from Bangor to Calais, ME) and the Airline community ca. 1900.
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MF002 "Anna May: Eighty-Two Years in New England" Julie Hunter Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Series of interviews with Anna Sevigny about her life history. Interviews were conducted by Julia Hunter in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1977. Topics covered include Irish immigrant ancestry; education levels; misunderstandings of different cultures; living conditions as a new arrival to the United States; disposition of parents.
North Hartland, Vermont - descriptions of social life and mills in the region as well as tenants; learning women's roles; chores; marriage; sewing and cloth-making; food preparation; winemaking; entertainment; pets and livestock owned; travel and transportation over time; schooling; playing pranks; holiday celebrations; community church; lumbering; tensions with tourists; the introduction of electric light and telephones.
Franklin, New Hampshire - working in a hosiery mill; meeting her husband and courtship practices; training to be a nurse in Manchester, New Hampshire; living conditions with first marriage; strikes in the mills; moving to Boston.
Boston, Massachusetts - her husband's drinking problems; prohibition; entertainment and nursing in Boston, getting separated and moving to Woodstock, Vermont.
Also covers social life during the Depression; her first car; getting divorced and living alone in Lebanon, New Hampshire; being a nanny; the Chicago World's Fair; working in Florida during World War II; her second marriage; hobbies and volunteer work; travels; shoulder accident; life after Mr. Sevigny's death; living in White River Junction, VT; learning to fly; and aging and living in a nursing home. See also Northeast Folklore XX: "Anna May: Eighty-Two Years in New England."
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MF003 Argyle Boom Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
The Argyle Boom was one of several locations at which logs that were cut upriver and floated or “driven” down the Penobscot River were sorted before being sent on to the lumber mills in Old Town, Orono, Veazie, Bangor, and Brewer, Maine, from approximately 1900 to 1930. See also: Argyle Boom , Northeast Folklore, XVII (1976) and SpC MS 0398 Penobscot Lumbering Association, 1854-1953.
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MF004 Aroostook Oral History Project
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
The Aroostook Oral History Project, 1971-1972, which resulted in a collection of 119 cassettes (now digitized), totaling 73 hours. Interviews of more than 150 people were conducted by Helen K. Atchison covering a wide range of topics including early county history, early farming and machinery, the Aroostook War, railroading, lumbering, potato farming, maple sugar making, folk songs, folklore, folk medicine, politics, town meetings, cross-border migration, smuggling, Indians, sporting camps, schools and schooling, tall tales, superstitions, and many other aspects of the county's cultural heritage. Twenty tapes recorded in French and two tapes recorded in Swedish have not been abstracted and have only brief descriptions of contents. This collection was placed into the public domain by the Cary Library (Houlton, Maine).
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MF006 Bowdoin College Folklore Papers
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Twenty-six student papers written for a course in folklore offered at Bowdoin College during the fall semester, 1980.
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MF007 Canada Road Survey
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
A series of interviews by historian Barry H. Rodrigue on immigration into Maine from Quebec, Canada, along the Canada Road.
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MF008 Norman Cazden Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Norman Cazden (1914-1980) was an American composer, musicologist, and faculty member of the University of Maine who had a long-standing interest in traditional American folk music. This collection reflects his career as both collector and composer and is comprises twelve accessions and approximately 60 hours of tape.
See also Norman Cazden Papers which includes tape recordings of Cazden’s own compositions and teaching tapes. Material related to Cazden’s involvement with Camp Woodland in the Catskill Mountains of New York can be found in the Norman Studer Collection at SUNY-Albany..
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MF009 Rum Running / Bootlegging
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Collection of interviews with informants about rum-running, bootlegging, and illegal alcohol during Prohibition in Maine. A box of supplemental material for NA2487 William Cavallini is located in the library annex. Access restrictions are in place for several series in this collection.
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MF010 Cowing's Tavern Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This collection consists of three interviews about the history of Cowing’s Tavern in Lisbon Falls, Maine.
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MF011 R. B. Hall and the Community Bands of Maine / Gordon W. Bowie
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Interviews and photographs compiled by Gordon Bowie relating to band music in Maine, and leading to Bowie’s UM dissertation entitled R. B. Hall and the Community Bands of Maine (May, 1993). Collection includes interviews with nine individuals. Topics covered include local performances at dance halls, theaters, and radio stations, musicians, Musicians Union Local 768, and other matters relating to community bands.
NOTE: A very large collection of materials relating to R. B. Hall and community bands of Maine and New England is located in Fogler Library Special Collections. This collection includes approximately 800 reels of tape containing performances and interviews recorded (ca. 1950-1985) by Thomas Bardwell, Sr. and Thomas Bardwell Jr. of Vineyard Haven, Mass.
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