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MF122 Page Farm Museum History Project
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
A series of interviews on farming and rural life in Maine conducted for the Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine, 1996-99 and 2001. The primary interviewer was Mary Jo Sanger. Includes eight photographs across the interviews.
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MF123 Spiritualist Church / Bonita Freeman Witthoft Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This collections consists of a series of interviews and recordings of various meetings and sessions of the Spiritualist Church in Maine and especially at Camp Etna. They were conducted by Bonita Freeman Witthoft in connection with her thesis From the Other Side of Life: Modern Spiritualism in Maine, c.1975.
Witthoft was primarily interested in fundamental religious concepts, forms of apprenticeship, acquired patterns of perception and behavior, the discipline of mediums as spokesmen for spirit guides, and on the complex act of delivering messages. Among topics covered are healing, physical versus mental mediumship, projection, trance, controls and guides, and automatism.
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MF124 John Kelly Jr. Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
A collection of five accessions, mostly interviews conducted by John Kelly, Jr., in 1971 and 1974 mostly dealing with Kelly's family and with life and fishing in Long Harbor, Newfoundland; and rum running in Quincy, MA. The contents of this collection are restricted. Copyright is retained by the interviewees.
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MF125 David Ingraham Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This collection consists of multiple interviews about writing songs in Maine about Maine, by songwriter David Ingraham. Ingraham was a local songwriter and singer from Ellsworth, Maine. Seven of these accessions consist of recordings of Ingraham talking about his songwriting and singing songs he composed about the local people and incidents that happened. The other five accessions include interviews with other songwriters and singers about the process of writing songs; interviews with local people about the incidents Ingraham described in his songs, and about traditional songs and how they related to local history in Ellsworth and Chesterville, Maine.
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MF126 Florence Ireland Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This is a collection of ten interviews conducted by Florence Ireland on a variety of topics including family history, farming, folksongs, woods work, International Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies), and the H. P. Clearwater Medicine Co.
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MF128 Jeff Todd Titon Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
A collection of seven accessions, interviews conducted by John Kelly, Jr., between 1975 and 1989, dealing with Kelly's family and with life and fishing in Long Harbor, Newfoundland; and rum running in Quincy, Massachusetts, and the storytelling and poetry of "Hap" Collins of Blue Hill, Maine.
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MF129 Emigration from the Maritimes / John Myers Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Interviews with individuals of Anglo-European descent about immigration from the Maritime Provinces to Maine.
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MF140 Victoria Society Portland Oral History Series
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
A series of 36 interviews about the history of Portland, Maine with index and partial and full transcripts. The Victoria Society, fall 1992. Interviews concerning life in Portland during the 1930s to the 1940s, most interviewees are 75 years old or older.
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MF144 Women in Military
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
The Maine Women Veterans Oral History Project collected oral interviews with women veterans through a collaborative effort of the Maine Commission on Women Veterans, the Maine Studies program at UMaine, and the Women Studies Program at the University of Maine. The collection also includes interviews from MF135 National Folk Festival and MF147 Nursing Collection.
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MF145 Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
The original donation, which focuses on country music in Maine, was added to the archive in the summer of 2006. The focus was expended to music in Maine generally as well as storytelling (especially about Herbert F. Jackson) and jokes when other interviews were added by McKeen.
Fifteen accessions comprise the collection, which include Hal Lone Pine radio shows and oral interviews. These materials were gathered and donated by Jeff “Smokey” McKeen. The interviews were conducted by McKeen with country musicians and listeners in the 1990s to the present. Several other accessions outside of this collection are related to McKeen, especially in MF 039 (Traditional Music of Maine Series) and MF 130 (Fieldwork in Folklore and Oral History/AY 425).
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