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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.
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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.
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MF162 Immigrants and Identity
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
In 2005 the Maine Folklife Center and the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine proposed to study and present the ways that immigrants in central and eastern Maine connect themselves with their ethnicity. These fifteen interviews were conducted from February to June 2005 by the Maine Folklife Center staff with members of the local African, Hispanic, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and Eastern European immigrant communities in preparation for the Folk Festival in August. An exhibit of panels consisting of interpretive text, excerpts from the oral histories, portrait photos, and objects was prepared by the Hudson Museum.
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MF163 Somalis in Lewiston, Maine Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This collection includes interviews with five Somali women living in Lewiston, Maine in 2003. The interviews were conducted by Elizabeth Hoyt Hannibal and Dianne Schindler for a project for ANT 425 taught by Dr. James Moreira at the University of Maine. Included is a narrative of how Hannibal and Schindler set up the interviews with Fatuma Hussein, Azeb Hassan, Hawa Kahin, Kiih Issa, and Ayan Ismail. Interviews took place in Lewiston at Daryeelka, Inc., a resource for families that assists them in becoming economically independent and active participants in community life. Also included in the collection is a paper by Caterina Anderson at the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy “The Somalis of Lewiston, Maine: A Policy Perspective” written on May 10, 2004. Also included is a small collection of current articles with maps from the World Wide Web about Somalia and about Somalis in Lewiston.
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MF164 Maine Pack Basket Makers Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Maine Pack Basket Makers Tradition consists of nine interviews conducted by Bill Mackowski between 2010-2012 with basket makers in several communities involving Maine basket making techniques.
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MF167.1 Edward D. “Sandy” Ives Collection: Research
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This collection consists of interviews conducted by Sandy Ives on Prince Edward Island between 1969 and 1970, as part of his work to document the folk songs of Prince Edward Island, specifically the songs “made by” Joe Scott, Larry Doyle, and Larry Gorman. Material included in this collection served as source material for Ives’ later publications, Lawrence Doyle: The Farmer-Poet of Prince Edward Island (1971); Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs (1977); Joe Scott: The Woodman Songmaker (1978); and Drive Dull Care Away: Folksongs from Prince Edward Island (1999). This collection includes recordings of interviews conducted as well as 17 photographs taken by Ives.
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MF168 Crab-Picking Project / Blossom Kravitz
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Interviews about crab-picking in Maine. This research led to Crab Picking: An Endangered Maine Cottage Industry, Northeast Folklore XLVI.
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MF174 Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
A series of interviews with people who knew and lived with Fannie Hardy Eckstorm (1865–1946) of Brewer, Maine. Hardy Eckstorm was an American writer, ornithologist, and folklorist who earned recognition as one of the foremost authorities on Maine's history, wildlife, and cultures. Hardy Eckstorm served as the first female superintendent of schools in Brewer, Maine from 1889-1891. Though she authored many works, Hardy Eckstorm maybe best known for her book The Penobscot Man, first published in 1904.
See: Volume XVI of Northeast Folklore Fannie Hardy Eckstorm: A Descriptive Bibliography by Jeanne Patten Whitten, 1975.
See also: Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers and Fannie Hardy Eckstorm in General Maine History Photographs in this repository.
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MF175 NAACP & Civil Rights in Maine Project / Charles Lumpkins
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Interviews by Charles Lumpkins about NAACP & Civil Rights in Maine. Lumpkins conducted this series of interviews as part of his Master's thesis “Civil Rights Activism in Maine from the 1940s to 1971: Black Mainers, Black and White Activists, and the Resistance against Racism.” Interviews discuss the reason for a Civil Rights movement in Maine. Lumpkins received a Master’s Degree in History in 1992 from the University of Maine.
NA2149 Gerald Talbot, interviewed by Charles L. Lumpkins, fall 1990, Portland, Maine. Talbot talks about his life as an African-American Mainer; his activism in the Maine Civil Rights movement as a member of the Portland Chapter of the NAACP; the development of the Portland chapter of the NAACP from 1964; and his experiences as a legislator in the Maine State House, being Black in Maine.
NA2172 Stephen Halpert and Judy Halpert, interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, winter 1990, Portland, Maine. The Halperts talk about their involvement in Portland, Maine in NAACP during and after the 1960s; what NAACP has accomplished; brief discussions of what life was like for Jewish Mainers in Portland; race relations and discrimination in Maine.
NA2173 Elizabeth Jonitus and Peter Jonitus, interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, winter 1990, Lewiston, Maine. The Jonituses discuss their involvement in Central Maine NAACP; its origins and activities; race relations in Maine in comparison to other parts of the country; various forms of racial discrimination; their thoughts on the Maine Human Rights Commission.
NA2174 Sterling Dymond, Jr., interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, winter 1990, Bangor, Maine. Dymond, former Maine NAACP president (1970-1973), talks about the history of the black community in Bangor; race relations in Maine; establishment of the NAACP Bangor Chapter (1940s and 1950s); the KKK; unions in Maine.
NA2175 Dr. David Smith, interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, winter 1990, Bangor, Maine. Dr. Smith, history professor at the University of Maine, discussing his involvement with the black community and the NAACP in Maine.
NA2176 Beverly Callender and Willard Callender, interviewed Charles Lumpkins, winter 1990, South Portland, Maine. The Callenders talk about their participation in the organization of the Portland chapter of the NAACP; race relations in the state in the 60s and 70s. Willard Callender is professor of sociology at the University of Southern Maine.
NA2177 Anita Talbot, interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, fall 1991, Portland, Maine. Talbot talks about the civil rights movement in Maine.
NA2180 Donald Fisher, interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, winter 1990, Auburn, Maine. Fisher talks about the Lewiston / Auburn and Portland chapters of the NAACP in the 1960s.
NA2188 Dr. Esther Rauch, interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, fall 1990, Orono, Maine. Dr. Rauch, Vice-President of Bangor Theological Seminary, gives her views on race relations in Maine, an “outsider’s point of view” on the current status of race relations in Maine.
NA2189 Birger Johnson, interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, fall 1990, South Portland, Maine. Johnson, Congregationalist minister and one of the first presidents of the Portland chapter of the NAACP, talks about race relations in Maine.
NA2190 Jean Sampson, interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, fall 1990, Lewiston, Maine. Sampson talks about her involvement with the Lewiston/Mid-Central Maine area NAACP; the civil rights movement and race relations in Maine; and the history of the NAACP in Maine.
NA2197 Leonard Cummings and Mary Jane Cummings, interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, winter 1990, Portland, Maine. The Cummings talk about their involvement with the Portland chapter of the NAACP. This is a continuation of Lumpkins’s project that traces the history of the NAACP in Maine.
NA2199 J. Duff Gillespie, interviewed by Charles Lumpkins, summer 1991, Bangor, Maine. Gillespie, former president of the Bangor Chapter of the NAACP, talks about his experiences with the organization; covers race relations in Maine.
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MF176 Maine Ethnographic / Barry H. Rodrigue Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This collection contains items deposited by Barry H. Rodrigue that contains the sub-collection, Ashland Family Collection.
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