Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

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  MF121 Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA)

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

  This collection contains interviews with people associated with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) and the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. Themes include the process of beginning to farm organically, the early development of MOFGA and its growth; the Common Ground Fair and its expansion; marketing organic food; farming strategies; raising livestock; and MOFGA's interactions with conventional farmers and the wider community.

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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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  MF131 Dell Turner / John T. Meader Collection

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

  A series of interviews conducted by John T. Meader with his grandfather, Dell Turner, and others about Dell Turner. Began as a class project in Sandy Ives's Maine and the Maritimes Folklore class at the University of Maine and continued in his Fieldwork in Folklore and Oral History class, this series is the basis for Dell Turner: The Stories of His Life. Northeast Folklore XXVII: 1988.

  *This collection includes discussion about the Ku Klux Klan in Maine.*

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  MF134 Burwash and Lakenwild Project

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

  This collection includes a series of interviews by Margaret Owings conducted in 1981 for (AY125) Oral History and Folklore: Fieldwork taught by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at the University of Maine. The interviews focus on the Burwash and Lakenwild real estate scam that publicized lakeside developments and recreational areas on Big Lake near Princeton in Washington County, Maine. Accessions include research notes, correspondence, and Owings final paper for the course.