Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

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  MF137 Joseph Ogando Collection

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

  This collection consists of three interviews conducted by Joseph Ogando about country music in Maine and the Maritime Provinces and the paper that was written about the interviews for an independent study course with Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at the University of Maine in 1988. See also MF 094 Country Music Series (1975). Themes include the early years of radio; the importance of stories in early country music; and why country music was popular in northern Maine.

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

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

  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."

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  MF139 South Bristol Oral History Project

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

  This collection consists of 10 interviews for an exhibit, "Down on the Island, Up on the Main: A Recollected History of South Bristol, Maine," assembled by Ellen Vincent, as well as newspaper and newsletter articles, exhibit text, plans for the exhibit, and exhibit text. The purpose of the exhibit was to display the heritage of coastal South Bristol.

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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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  MF 143 Lovell Historical Society

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

  Series of interviews done primarily by Jo Radner in conjugation with the Lovell Historical Society about the history of Lovell. Copies of recordings and 2010 transcriptions available through the Lovell Historical Society.

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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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  MF146 Mary Ellen Barnes Collection

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

  A series of eleven interviews conducted by Mary Ellen Barnes in 1995 and 1996. Barnes interviews members of the Dysart family about family history and Dysart's Truck Stop. Barnes also conducted 10 interviews with residents of Chatham and Conway New Hampshire as part of the Chatham / Stow Oral History Project. Copies of these interviews were also deposited at the Chatham, New Hampshire Historical Society.

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  MF147 Nursing Collection

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

  A series of interviews recorded by students in the nursing program at UMaine for classes taught by Elizabeth Clark on the history of nursing.

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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.