Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

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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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  MF180 Woods Music Collection

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

  An assembled collection of accessions containing songs from or about the lumberwoods. Some are the written version, some are sung.

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  MF181 Hunting, Trapping, Poaching, and Recreational Fishing Collection

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

  Collection of interviews relating to hunting, trapping, poaching, and recreational fishing compiled in June 2014 from holdings across the archive.

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  MF194 UMaine 150th Anniversary

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

  Interviews with UMaine alumni and staff conducted for UMaine's 150th anniversary celebrations.

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  MF206 Aslambek Apaev, Chechnyan / Barry H. Rodrigue Collection

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

  Materials donated by Barry H. Rodrigue (primarily of USM) of personal experience interviews he conducted (with Irina Petranek and Natasha X, two Russian translators) with Aslambek Apaev. RESTRICTED. No signed release forms.

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  MF208 Oral History of the University of Southern Maine's School of Social Work / Barry H. Rodrigue Collection

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

  A collection of interviews from 2016 and 2017 related to the origin and history of the School of Social Work at the University of Southern Maine (USM). Interviews conducted by Dr. Barry H. Rodrigue and Sandra Wachholz. Materials: 22 cassette tapes, 16 release forms/ biographical data forms/audio and video recording logs, 2 binders with institutional history, 41 pp. collection index.

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  MF211 Little City, Bangor Collection

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

  Interviews conducted by then MA history student Sarah K. Martin with Louis Rolnick, Dorrice Trickey Wetzler, and Suzanne “Sue” Hodgins Mock on their experiences growing up in the Little City neighborhood in Bangor, Maine.

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  MF215 Guide to Farming Deer Foot Farm

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

  Oral history of the multi-generational Johnson-Mink Farm, later known as Mink Dairy Farm, then Deer Foot Farm, Appleton, Maine. Chris Roberts interviews his grandparents Keith and Grace Mink, his mother Sue Ellen Mink-Roberts, and great-aunt Natalie Irene (Mink) Gushee about the family farm and its operation through the first three generations of ownership. The property was acquired in 1897 and became a truck farm producing produce, eggs, and dairy.

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  MF224 Maine Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project

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

  The Maine Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project was conducted under the supervision of Christopher Beam, director of the Edmund Muskie Archives, Bates College. The project captured the recollections of Mainers who participated in a controversial watershed in U.S. history, the Vietnam War. Five students from Bates College, Lewiston-Auburn College, and the University of Maine at Farmington conducted 32 oral history interviews with veterans living in central and western Maine during the summer of 1999. Funding was provided by the Maine Humanities Center.

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  MF227 John Young, Hometown Poet

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

  Compiled collection of interviews and student research related to the life of John Young, a well-known poet and local character in Old Town, Maine. John Franklin Young was born in 1883, the son of John and Alberta "Martha" Young of Lowell, Maine. Following her husband's death in 1899, Alberta and son John, relocated to Old Town around 1903, where she married George Grover. John Young was generally accepted to have cognitive delays but worked as a manual laborer chopping wood and mowing lawns, as well as selling his poetry door-to-door. Brief mention of John Young may also be found in the following interviews: NA0579, NA1147, and NA1389.