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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.
NA0669 Loretta Fairjeon, Forest Dinsmore, Marjory Flewelling, Elmer Stewart, Frank Libby, Margaret Stevens, Henry Gardiner, interviewed by Bonita Witthoft, 1971 - 1972, Etna, Bangor, and Orono, Maine. Accession includes interviews and recordings of church meetings, healing sessions, etc. in connection with the Spiritualist Church.
NA0673 Rev. Henry Gardiner, Rev. Emily Hewitt, Pierre Fairjeon, Loretta Fairjeon, Irene Vitello, Gladys LaLiberté, Rev. J. Raymond Keith, Rev. Clifton Mountain, Forest Dinsmore, Mary Kendall, Mrs. Flanders, Elmer Stewart, and William R. Ellis, interviewed by Bonita Witthoft, 1971-1972, Etna, Bangor, and Orono, Maine. Accession includes interviews, recordings of meetings at Camp Etna, and healing session in connection with the Spiritualist Church.
NA0710 Clarence Stewart, Elmer Stewart, Robert Simpson, Louise Hagar, Vera McGregor, Loretta Fairjeon, Helen Morgan, Millie Glover, Zelma Dickerson, and Bernice Damon, interviewed by Bonita Witthoft, summer 1972, Etna, Maine. Series of interviews in connection with Witthoft’s dissertation. Interviewees talk about spiritualism at Camp Etna, a Spiritualist Church camp. Text: 420 pp. transcript with brief catalog. Recording: T 0435 - T 0450 16 hours.
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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.
NA1186 Alice R. Stewart, interviewed by John Myers, May 9, 1978, Orono, Maine. 6 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Stewart talks about the Stewart family and its emigration from New Brunswick to Linneus and Whitneyville, Maine, subsistence farming and potato farming.
NA1187 Edgar and Ruth McKay, interviewed by John Myers, May 7, 1978, Orono, Maine. 6 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. The McKays talk about the McKay family; emigration from Nova Scotia to Boston and its social implications.
NA1188 Jonathan Myers, interviewed by John Myers, May 2, 1978 and May 4, 1978, Orono, Maine. 6 pp. Tape: 67 min. w/ brief cat. Myers talks about the Myers family and its emigration from the Maritimes to Orono, Maine.
NA1196 James Campbell, (1877-1981), interviewed by John Myers, May 11, 1978, Brewer, Maine. 7 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ brief cat. Campbell talks about his emigration from Prince Edward Island to Brewer in 1923; Maine and his life there and here; also sings four songs. Topics include: working in a brickyard; raising cattle; farming; working on the railroad; and lobster fishing.
NA1203 James Campbell, (1877-1981), interviewed by John Myers and Art Ruston, August 4, 1978, Brewer, Maine. 8 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Campbell talks about emigration from Prince Edward Island; woods work; railroad work; sings several ballads.
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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).
NA1940 Ted Dorr, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, summer 1985, Camden, Maine. Dorr, a harmonica player, talks about his musical background and plays a selection of old time dance tunes and hymns. RESTRICTED.
NA1941 Warren Maddocks, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, fall 1985, Belfast, Maine. Maddocks, an old time piano player, talks about his days playing with the Allie Batchelder Orchestra in the 1930s. The group performed weekly at the Knights of Pythias Hall in Prospect, Maine. RESTRICTED.
NA1955 Henry Hatch, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, spring 1986, Islesboro, Maine. Hatch talks about his thoughts on Maine humor and storytelling; tells many of his favorite stories and recites several poems.
NA1956 Lester White, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, spring 1986, East Andover, Maine. White, age 75, talks about his experiences working in the woods and on river drives in Western Maine. He describes the types of songs, music and dancing that he remembers from the logging camps. Also includes Mr. White singing and playing the harmonica.
NA1957 Jim Conley, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, September 2, 1985, Portland, Maine. Conversation and music with Conley who has been playing accordion and harmonica for over 40 years.
NA1958 Stan Durgin, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, fall 1985, South Paris, Maine. Fiddler Durgin recalls and plays many of the old dance tunes he learned from his father, who played with Maine's legendary Mellie Dunham. Doc Tikander backs Stan on guitar and sings several songs including "The Hills of Dear Old Maine."
NA2230 Earl Grendell, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, fall 1991, Frankfort, Maine. Grendell of Frankfort talks about his personal experiences and memories of working in lumber camps and river drives. Field notes from an unrecorded interview.
NA2404 Blaine Woodbury and Nellie Woodbury, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, January 1996, Morrill, Maine. Field notes from unrecorded interview with the Woodburys about Herb Jackson stories.
NA2405 Clarence Choate, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, January 1996, Montville, Maine. Choate talks about Herb Jackson stories. Field notes from an unrecorded interview.
NA2406 Granville Dutton, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, January 1996, Morrill, Maine. Dutton talks about Herb Jackson stories. Field notes from an unrecorded interview.
NA2407 Chet Grady, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, January 1996, Belfast, Maine. Grady talks about Herb Jackson stories. Field notes from an unrecorded interview.
NA2408 Wilfred Cross, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, January 1996, Belmont, Maine. Cross talks about Herb Jackson stories. Field notes from an unrecorded interview.
NA2409 Mr. Horace Jackson, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, April 3, 1992, Morrill, Maine. Jackson talks about his distant cousin, Herbert Jackson, an infamous local "character."
NA2410 Maria (Jackson) Twombly, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, April 3, 1992 Belfast, Maine. Maria talks about her memories of her father, Herbert F. Jackson.
NA2411 Red Mitchell and Freedom town meeting participants, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, April 24, 1992, in South Freedom, Maine. Mitchell talks about Herbert F. Jackson. Recording of Freedom town meeting.
NA2412 Clayton Littlefield, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, April 25, 1992, Montville, Maine. Stories about Herbert F. Jackson.
NA2413 Ester Cross, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, February 17, 1993, Belfast, Maine. Stories of Herbert F. Jackson.
NA2414 Lewis Newell, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, March 24, 1993, Montville, Maine. Stories of Herbert F. Jackson.
NA2415 Maurice Johnson, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, February 5, 1993, Belfast, Maine. Herbert F. Jackson stories.
NA2416 Mildred Pottle, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, April 18, 1992, Montville, Maine. Herbert F. Jackson stories.
NA2417 Clarence Bartlett, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, Spring 1992, Montville, Maine. Herbert F. Jackson stories.
NA2418 Charlie Boynton, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, December 6, 1994, Belfast, Maine. Stories of Herbert F. Jackson and other local characters.
NA2419 Lee Carter, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, November 28, 1994, Montville, Maine. Stories of Herbert F. Jackson.
NA2420 Elmin Mitchell, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, March 30, 1993, Montville, Maine.Stories of Herbert F. Jackson and Clev Oliv.
NA2422 Ralph Overlock, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, February 1996, Camden, Maine. Overlock talks about growing up in South Freedom, Maine; local character anecdotes on Herb Jackson and others.
NA2423 Phillip Spaulding, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, February 1996, Morrill, Maine. Spaulding tells stories of local characters from Montville, including stories of Herb Jackson. Also present Mrs. Spaulding.
NA2429 Adrian Beal, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, fall 1993, Milbridge, Maine. Beal talks about local stories and fiddle tunes.
NA3296 Hal Lone Pine Radio Shows, deposited by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, December 1949, from the radio station CKCW in Moncton, New Brunswick, and CKCL in Truro, Nova Scotia.
Cassette 2432 Side A for December 15, 1949 on Moncton CKCW lists “Move it on Over,” “Anniversary Song” with a Hawaiian guitar solo, “Who at my Door is standing,” “Sleigh Song,” a hymn and recitation by Gene Hooper, “Listen to the Mockingbird” by Harold Carter, “Sign off Song,” “Theme Song,” “Chisholm Trail,” “Freight Train Blues” by Betty Cody, “Shanty in Old Shanty Town” by Little Abner and Florence, and “Torched and Tormented Tonight.”
Cassette 2432 Side B for December 14, 1949 lists “Lone Pine Theme,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Swiss Yodel” by Betty Cody, “Kentucky Waltz” by Smokey Martin, Gene advertising the upcoming show, “Slipping Around” by Gene Hooper, “Orange Blossom Special” by fiddling Harold Carter,” and “Little Boogie” by Little Abner.
Cassette 2433 Side A for December 17, 1949 lists “Lone Pine Theme,” “Texacana Baby,” “That Little Boy of Mine” by Betty Cody, “That House of Too Much Trouble” by Lone Pine, “Birthday Song,” dedications, “White Christmas” by talent winner Colline Watson, “Riding, Hiding Teardrops” by Smokey Martin, Gene Hooper, “Fiddle Time” by Harold Carter, “Baggage Coach Ahead” by Gene Hooper, and instrumental with spoons.
Cassette 2433 Side B for December 13, 1949 lists “Lone Pine Theme,” birthdays and dedications, “Star Spangled Waltz,” “Flop Eared Mule” by Harold Carter, “Okie Boogie” by Yeanir Andreas, “Red River Flows” by Gene Hooper, “Don Messer Theme song, Tommy Sullivan’s hornpipe, “Way Down Yonder,” “Prince Edward Island,” “When Cloney Lowered the Boat” by Big John McNeil, “The Old Red Barn,” “New Brunswick Breakdown,” tribute to Lone Pine and his radio troupe, “Hold Fast to the Right,” “Lone Pine and Co.,” “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” “Cowboy Blues” by Betty Cody, and “My Little Pea Patch Sweetheart” by Cowboy Frank Ellison.
NA3297 Oxford Grange Musician, deposited by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, recorded July 7, 1990.
NA3298 Gene Hooper, Betty Cody, Lone Pine, Dick Curliss, Westbrook Masters Music, deposited by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, June 22, 1959, unknown location. Artists include Gene Hooper, Betty Cody, Lone Pine, and Dick Curliss.
NA3299 Roy Bessey and Shirley Bessey, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, December 31, 2002, Thorndike, Maine. Interview begins after a five minute story by Roland Harrison.
NA3300 Chester “Chet” Grady and Josephine Grady, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, December 2, 2002, Belfast, Maine.
NA3301 Roland Harrison, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, November 19, 2002, Stockton Springs, Maine.
NA3302 Al Hawkes, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen. Hawkes discusses the business of country music on the radio in Maine in the 1940s and 1950s.
NA3303 Gene Hooper, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, July 17, 1989, unknown location.
NA3304 Ken Kingsbury, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, February 7, 2003, Frankfort, Maine.
NA3305 Ida Mitchell, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, February 11, 2003, Monroe, Maine.
NA3306 Harold “Red” Mitchell and Mildred Pottle, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, January 29, 2003, Montville, Maine.
NA3307 Alva Philbrook, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, January 16, 2003, Belfast, Maine.
NA3308 Clinton Piper, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, February 13, 2005, Troy, Maine.
NA3309 George “Leland” Sherman and Velmae Sherman, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, January 10, 2003, Lincolnville, Maine.
NA3310 George Worthing, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen, December 9, 2002, Liberty, Maine.
NA3447 Various Country Music Performers, recorded by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen.
NA3474 Delia Mitchell, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen.
NA3686 Blanche Sockabasin, Joseph and Margaret Nichols, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen. The recording also included recordings of Passamaquoddy Songs from the original wax cylinder recordings of Newall Jackson in 1890 and then of an unidentified male singer. This is believed to be part of a set, possibly from a set of tapes called Passamaquoddy Songs. RESTRICTED
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MF148 Margaret "Mimi" Killinger / Helen Nearing Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Interviews by Margaret "Mimi" Killinger about Helen and Scott Nearing whose lives as homesteaders in Vermont and Maine came to embody the simple living philosophy of Agrarianism that became the core of America's "Back to the Land" Movement of the 1960s, 1970s, and 2020s.
NA3378 Nancy Berkowitz, interviewed by Mimi Killinger, March 3, 1999 and April 2, 2001, Blue Hill and Harborside, Maine, respectively. March 3, 1999: Berkowitz talks about Helen's novels Living the Good Life and Loving and Leaving; Helen's relationship with her husband, Scott; Juliette of the Herbs; Helen's interaction with visitors to the farm; astrology and mysticism; Scott's death; Helen's relationship with Berkowitz and her family; Scott's granddaughter Elka Schuman and her Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont; Scott's letters from Central and South America; Helen's relationship with Berkowitz's children; Scott's 100th birthday party; Helen's relationship with Dr. Lovell; Helen's relationship with her family; Elliot and Susan Coleman; Jean and Keith Hebron.
April 2, 2001: Also present: Rachel Glickman and Henry Zacchini, resident stewards of Forest Farm. Berkowitz talks about the history of Forest Farm; how she came to live there; her duties; Brett Brubaker, builder of the house; growing and storing their own vegetables; changes in Blue Hill; Sunday music nights and Monday meeting nights; speaker Alicia Bay Laurel; the interior of the house; Helen and Scott and their trip to Europe; the Common Ground Fair; University of Maine Environmental History professor Dick Judd; her neighbors the Burts and Dietrichs; the introduction of the telephone at Forest Farm; life at Forest Farm; artist Max Schuman; friend Bill Copperthwaite; Helen's practice of recycling cards; the Clivis Multrum Abby Rockefeller toilet; their Thorndike stove; painter Connie Caney; the Bread and Puppet people of Vermont; Pusso the cat; Helen's travels after Scott's death; Gail Disney; Paul Breedman; painter Cole Morgan; Rachel and Henry's experiences living in Africa; Cuban patriotism.
NA3380 Gail Disney, interviewed by Mimi Killinger, March 5, 1999, South Brooksville, Maine. Disney talks about the Nearings: Scott Nearing's (SN) participation in the Arden Community in Wilmington, Delaware in the 1930s; living with the Nearings at Arden; Helen's (HN) travels in Europe with Krishnamurti; separating HN and SN for Killinger's feminism class; HN's opinions on vegetarianism; HN's love of animals; SN's belief in communism; Forest Farm; HN's and SN.'s colleagues Elliot Coleman, Keith Hebron, Stanley Joseph and Greg Sommers; SN's Monday night lectures; HN's travels to Cuba; HN's publishing house, the Social Science Institute; SJ's suicide; SJ's contributions to the community; SJ's book The Maine Farm; HN's relationship with her family; HN's personality and idealism; HN's friend Nancy Cudle Johnson; the effects of SN's death on HN; HN's knitting; SN's mentorship of HN; the effects of HN's death on the community.
NA3381 David Trager and Merle Trager, interviewed by Mimi Killinger, October, 14, 2001, Jamaica, Vermont. Also Present: Joshua J. McCloud. Trager talks about Scott Nearing: Scott being fired from Princeton for his views; Scott Nearing's marriage to Helen; Scott Nearing's followers; the Norm Williams house and its history; realtor Jim Howard, who sold his house to the Tragers; the Trager's stone house; Scott Nearing's colleagues Wes Frost and Norman Williams; Ron Curtis's work on the Trager's house, colony member Pearl Buck; the history of the Trager house, its construction and work done to it.
NA3384 Jeanne Gaudette, interviewed by Mimi Killinger, March 3, 1999, Blue Hill, Maine. Gaudette talks about Helen Nearing (HN) and her life: Scott's (SN) mentorship of his wife; SN's paternalism towards HN; HN's travels and relationship with Krishnamurti; how HN met Krishnamurti; HN's book Loving and Leaving; teacher CW Leadbetter, friend of Annie Besant; theosophy; the disintegration of HN's romantic relationship with Krishnamurti; SN's unwillingness to have kids; German photographer Lotta Jacobi; SN's colleague Eliot Coleman; Peitra Mueleman, President of the Theosophical Society of Holland; friend Ellen Laconte; book Making of a Radical; HN's relationship with her family; SN and HN's relationship; HN and SN's astrological relationship under their signs; friend Diane Fitzgerald; Barbara Damarosch; HN's accidental death; friend Karen Frangoulis; the possibility that HN committed suicide; Gaudette's participation in the simple life; colleagues Stanley Joseph and Keith Hebron; HN's personality.
NA3385 Rebecca Lepkoff, interviewed by Mimi Killinger, December 29, 2001, New York City, New York. Also present: Gene Lepkoff and Sarah Pandiscio. Lepkoff talks about Helen Nearing (HN) and her life in VT 1950-1954: the Nearings' Good Life Farm in Jamaica, VT; neighbors and colleagues Norm and Natalie Fields, Norm and Winnie Williams, Hilda and George Wendland and the Smiths; the Nearings' exploitation of their neighbors; Hilda Wendland's braided rugs; colleague Charles Kent; Jewish neighbors Miriam and Herb Leider; Scott Nearing's (SN) lectures; John Saltmarsh's autobiography of SN; SN's debating skills; SN's views on capitalism; Jerry Goldman's views on SN; HN's friend Toby Goldman; how meeting and marrying Scott changed HN's lifestyle; the Nearings' dietary practices as vegetarians; SN's rules for living; the Nearing's choice to sell their land to George Breen; writer Pearl Buck; the Williams' and their home, which they sold to the Tragers; artist Peter Wendland, creator of the Stratton Arts Center; recluse Gary Washburn; Werden's history of Jamaica, VT; Lepkoff's photo display at the Deider Gallery in Chicago, IL.
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MF160 Fisheries / Ted Ames Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
There are two parts of the Fisheries / Ted Ames Collection, but both are recordings by Ted Ames that have to do with fisheries. Part I a series of interviews by Ames about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine and Penobscot Bay fisheries. Part II is recordings from the Localized Fishery Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ted Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks on October 31 and November 1, 1997.
PART I
NA3315 John Ames, interviewed by Ted Ames, January 27, 1995. Ames talks about spawning grounds for fishing in Maine; best location and season for fishing; fishing around Seal Island; fishing techniques like hand lining and trolling; bottom locations for hake, haddock, cod, cusk, and herring; fishing in the late 1800s, early 1900s; redfish fishing near the Canadian shore; fishing seasons by species; techniques to have a good fishing year; details of tub trolling; how to start out fishing in Maine.
NA3316 Clarence Bennett, interviewed by Ted Ames. Bennett talks about Penobscot Bay fisheries.
NA3317 Arthur Colbeth, interviewed by Ted Ames. Colbeth talks about Penobscot Bay fisheries.
NA3318 Elmer Gross, interviewed by Ted Ames, February 14, West Palm Beach, Florida. Gross talks about his profession as a fisherman in Stonington, Maine in the 1940s and ‘50s; the kind of fish he’d catch; where he went to find fish; encountering a German submarine; names of different fishing vessels and owners; names of fellow fishermen; size of hauls; by-catching lobsters; fishing off Cutler and Grand Manan; Old Sow Whirlpool; using pigeons for communication; who had passed away; some of the problems of fishing.
NA3319 Merton Rich, interviewed by Ted Ames (date and place unknown). Rich talks about the procedure for a sternman to get a master’s license for fishing; fishing as a family tradition versus learning it off the street; the knowledge and investment that goes into being a successful fisherman; disadvantages of lobsterman meetings; consequences of illegal fishing and impact on the business; how to get a good haul in lobster trapping; what should be done to control fishing and maintain the industry.
NA3321 Eddie Thorn Johnson, interviewed by Ted Ames (date and place unknown). Johnson talks about red fishing in Maine in the early 60s; early fishing experiences on the Maine shore for red fishing, shrimp, and whiting; good cod fishing places in Maine; pen raising fish and releasing them in the wild; government programs growing fish and their negotiations with fishermen; practical approach to setting up a fish farming business; ways of increasing fish population along the east Maine coast; changes in Maine fisheries from the 60s to present; ways to regulate fishing so fishermen can make a living and leave sustainable resources.
NA3457 Bill Sargent, interviewed by Ted Amesion January 27, 1995?, Stonington, Maine. Sargent talks about fishing locations for cod and haddock in the recent past; methods for ground fishing; time of year that fish were caught in old Maine fishing locations; use of foot rope in past fishing; locating fish by following their feed; catching haddock in the early 80s; effect of stress on a fish population.
NA3459 Alvin Jones, interviewed by Ted Ames. Jones talks about Penobscot Bay fisheries.
NA3460 Paul Venno, interviewed by Ted Ames, February 6, 1995, at Venno’s bait house in Harborside, Maine. Venno talk about Penobscot Bay fisheries; places Venno fished when he was younger including off Lincolnville, Turtle Head, Fort Point Ledge, Orrs Cove, Barred Islands; hatching blackbacks; flounder; seals eating lobsters; his relatives selling hogies; what it was like lobstering in the early days around 1880 and 1890; hunting seabirds; about ten years ago they could catch fish right off the dock in Eastport; fishing with his grandfather around Saddleback; cod fishing; dragger towing; cod eating lobsters; shag population; blackbacks; eider ducks; eelgrass; urchins; how to set out a trawl; preventing snarls.
NA3454 Bernard Raynes, interviewed by Ted Ames, 1995. Raynes talks about practicality of farm raised fish as a fishery; locating fish to start a sustainable farm fishery; importance in cycling between fishing types and catching different species; ways to make fishing sustainable and restock fishing areas that are becoming less populated; scallop fishing in the 70s; some fishing spots could be closed off without hurting fishermen and be used to try and repopulate the fish population there; hotspot locations for fishing in the recent past along the Maine coast; map use to mark fishing locations and paths to get to them; fishing practices and locations passed down by family; barren fishing locations used up by previous generations; reappearance of species like haddock; fishing spots damaged by pollution and those recovered by removal of pollution.
NA3455 Dick Jellison, interviewed by Ted Ames. Jellison talks about Penobscot Bay fisheries. MISSING
NA3456 George Lawson, interviewed by Ted Ames. Lawson talks about Penobscot Bay fisheries.
NA3458 Collis Jones, interviewed by Ted Ames (date and place unknown). Jones talks about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine; catching blackback flounder off Skate Bank and in Grand Manan Channel; fishing at the mouth of the St. Croix River; fishing for haddock in the Bay of Fundy; fishing around the Wolves; Bulkhead Rip below Grand Manan; what fishing was like in the past; dangers of fishing near tankers; fishing around Vinalhaven; identification of spawning grounds; rules to protect the fisheries; fishermen can’t make a living with limits on cod fishing; big corporations will probably control fishing on the east coast; setting mesh size, Nordmore grate, and shrimp gear should help; lobster fishing in 1953 in Grand Manan Channel; help with lumping out; raising fish in pens; experienced fishermen should help set fishing regulations; helping other fishermen so they would not make the same mistakes he made.
NA3461 Ellsworth Sanford and Ray Miller, interviewed by Ted Ames. Sanford and Miller talk about Penobscot Bay fisheries.
NA3462 Will Spear, interviewed by Ted Ames. Spear talks about Penobscot Bay fisheries.
NA3463 Craig Pendleton and Charlie Pendleton, interviewed by Ted Ames (date and place unknown), about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine. The Pendleton talks about how to bring back the depleted fishing grounds around Wood Island; what the fishery was like in years past; Machias Bay Cod Run; fishermen know more about controlling the fisheries than a research scientist sitting in a laboratory or some manager sitting at a desk; fish around Long Hill, the Whistler, Hue and Cry, Old Orchard Ground; cod, haddock; Drunken Ledge; cod came because of fresh water springs; sloops and shallops; the Lambo, New Meadows River; pollock and hake in the Kettle; Hawk Wings; Sagadahoc, Church Steeple Shoals; fish whiting east of Half-Way Rock; many whiting boats out of Portland.
NA3464 Avery Kelly, interviewed by Ted Ames (date and place unknown). Kelly talks about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine; a story about federal marshals seizing his boat and load of fish in Portland harbor; how he got one of his crew out of jail and got him to Jonesport; what fishing was like in the old days; stories about his father and grandfather who were fishermen; fishing around Moosabec Bank and Buffets Rock in the fifties and sixties; fishing for haddock and cod; story about not getting any fish and telling a crew member to shave off his mustache because that was keeping them from getting fish.
NA3465 William Smith, interviewed by Ted Ames. MISSING
NA3466 Ray Gilmore, interviewed by Ted Ames (date and place unknown). Gilmore talks about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine; restocking of fisheries off Swans Island, Bar Harbor, Seguin, Sheepscot; effect of gill nets on ocean bottom near Rockport; effect of gill netting and dragging on the ocean bottom; dragging affected ocean bottom near Isle au Haut, Vinalhaven, Seal Island, Jeffreys Bank; bathymetric chart; marking of charts; haddock fishing near Cranberry Island; gilling off Matinicus; how to estimate the population of fish in an area; effect of draggers on fish populations; discarding by draggers of small dead fish.
NA3467 Jerry Balzano, interviewed by Ted Ames (date and place unknown). Balzano talks about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine; the fishing skills of [Ellsworth(?)] Sanford; fishing around Richmond Island; use of Nordmore grate; what ground gear to use to cause the least damage; fishing at the Hue and Cry Gully; tagging of fish being dispersed; spawning grounds of cod and haddock.
NA3468 Barna Norton, interviewed by Ted Ames.
NA3469 Ellis Batson, interviewed by Ted Ames (date and place unknown). Batson talks about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine: disappearance of fish around Cape Neddick because of sewer treatment plant pumping out chlorine; fishing for black backs on Skate Banks and Grand Manan Channel off Boot Head; historical habitat survey; places where fish ought to be released; once cod and haddock were cleaned out they did not come back; a lot of spawn cod fish outside the Merrimack; no spawn fish on Cape Porpoise Peak; more going on than overfishing; size of mesh, closing of spawning grounds, throwing back dead fish; Batson started sardine fishing in 1950 and then in the sixties went ground fishing; shrimping; time of year when fish spawned; effect urchins and kelp; food fish; effect of pollution; overfishing not a problem on Georges Bank; repeatability of appearance of fish in certain areas; squid in Nantucket Sound; should size of gear and boats be regulated; should be a boundary for big boats.
NA3470 Roger Beal, interviewed by Ted Ames.
NA3476 George Seavy, interviewed by Ted Ames.
PART II
NA3605 Recorded by Ted Ames, October 31, 1997. Localized Fishey Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ames.
NA3606 Recorded by Ted Ames, October 31, 1997. Localized Fishey Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ames.
NA3607 Recorded by Ted Ames, October 31, 1997. Localized Fishey Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ames.
NA3608 Recorded by Ted Ames, October 31, 1997. Localized Fishey Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ames.
NA3609 Recorded by Ted Ames, November 1, 1997. Localized Fishery Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks.
NA3610 Recorded by Ted Ames, November 1, 1997. Localized Fishery Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks.
NA3611 Recorded by Ted Ames, November 1, 1997. Localized Fishery Stock conference attended and recorded by Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks for the restoration of historical sites.
NA3612 Recorded by Ted Ames, November 1, 1997. Localized Fishery Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks.
NA3613 Recorded by Ted Ames, November 1, 1997. Localized Fishery Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ted Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks.
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