MF138 Yankee Moderns : Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890-1920 / Michael Hoberman

Authors

Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine

Files

Description

Series of interviews done for Hoberman's book, Yankee Moderns: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890-1920 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000). In his work, Hoberman "explores the convergence of folk regional identity—a culturally based sense of place—with the social, economic, and psychic pressures that have come with modernity. Focusing on the oral traditions of a small place, the Sawmill Valley of western Massachusetts, he finds that the folklife of apparently isolated rural communities is far more dynamic and adaptable to change than is popularly supposed."

Publication Date

2025

Keywords

Lumbering, Farming

Disciplines

Folklore | Oral History

Size of Collection

14 items

Dates of Collection

1992

Manuscript Number

MF138

Recommended Citation

Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine, "MF138 Yankee Moderns : Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890-1920 / Michael Hoberman" (2025). Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids. Number 126.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ne_findingaids/126