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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.
NA3717 Lily Alavi, interviewed by Maria Sandweiss, May 23, 2005, at Alavi’s home in Bangor, Maine. Alavi talks about being born in Iran; coming to the United States in 1993; her first impressions when moving to Maine; difficulties in adjusting to new culture; languages; food; Islam; celebrations and holidays; work as a real estate agent; self identity; different cultures in Middle East; difference between American government and American people.
NA3718 Mohammad S. Dar, interviewed by Katherine Durbin, May 8, 2005, at the Stillwater Convenience store, Bangor, Maine. Dar talks about being from Pakistan; coming to the United States in 1983; his reasons for coming to the United States and then to Maine; arranged marriage; positive experiences; finding other Muslim families; teaching cultural values; comparison between his childhood in Pakistan and that of his children in the United States; Lahore; food and meals as a child in Pakistan; spices; food and meal schedule now in the United States; two identities Pakistan/America; tensions between Muslims and Hindus in Pakistan; social relationships with Americans; Eid; comparison between Pakistan and America.
NA3719 Maria Baeza, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, March 28, 2005, in Baeza’s office, Bangor, Maine. Baeza talks about being born in Puerto Rico; growing up in Brooklyn, New York; coming to Maine over 30 years ago when she married a man from Maine; her first impression of Maine which was that there were so many white people; culture shock; rural setting after living in a large city; concern with safety; life in Puerto Rico before the age of 5 when she moved to the U. S.; difference between Puerto Rico and the U. S.; learning English; living in two cultures; living as a minority; institutionalized racism; ethnocentrism; speaking Spanish; Puerto Rican food; express love and caring through food; learning to cook; Catholic religion; ear piercing; sewing; children’s stories; meeting Spanish-speaking people; aspects of Puerto Rican culture most important to keep; experiences with racism; in Maine people have not grown up around diversity and are ignorant about the minority experience.NA3720 Olivia Saritvanich, interviewed by Katherine Durbin, February 18, 2005, at Saritvanich’s home, Orono, Maine. Saritvanich talks about being born in Thailand; emigrating to America with her husband; being the owner of Thai Orchid, a restaurant in Orono, Maine; immigration in the late 1970s; reasons immigrants can become citizens; immigrant-specific employment; early history of Thailand; European colonization of Southeast Asia; struggles of immigrating to America; American soldiers in Thailand; Thai meals vs. American meals; Thai lifestyle compared to American lifestyle.
NA3721 Maria Del Carmen Sandweiss, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, April 19, 2005, in the library at the Maine Folklife Center, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Sandweiss talks about being born in Peru; moving to Maine in 1993 with her husband; her first impressions of Maine; speaking English or Spanish with family; living in two cultures; maintaining culture of Peru; Peruvian foods; typical dinner; food cooked in the ground; pachamanca; special cultural objects from Peru; languages spoken in Peru; language and family important parts of culture; stereotypes; diversity; differences and similarities between Peru and the United States.
NA3722 Maria Rave, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, April 1, 2005, at Thistles Restaurant, Bangor, Maine. Rave talks about being born in Colombia; coming to Ellsworth in 1985; moving to Bangor around 2001; being part owner of Thistles Restaurant; having two sons; language barrier at first in Maine; speaks Spanish and English; university education; difficult for younger son Santiago to adjust to school; sons graduating from Massachusetts College of Art; Santiago lives at home and manages Thistles; many relatives in the U. S.; helped with adjustment to new culture; difficulty finding ingredients for Colombian food at first; beans and plantains; Catholic religion; important personal objects from Colombia; ruined; climate in Colombia; needlework; dancing; tango; husband from Argentina; stories about Colombia; differences in the way of doing things in Colombia and the U. S.; many friends who are foreigners; more Spanish speaking people coming to Bangor last 5 years; celebrate New Year with friends at Thistles; encourages families to speak both English and Spanish; love for family; wants people to know the good things about Colombia; husband Alejandro is international chef who also sings, dances, plays piano.
NA3723 Norma Peters, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, May 12, 2005, at the home of Peters, Veazie, Maine. Peters talks about being born in Cartagena, Colombia; the differences between living in Panama and Colombia; differences in education; learning to speak English; marriage and children; first impressions of Maine; difficulty finding work; lived in Hampden and 6 years later moved to Bangor; teaching children Spanish; discrimination in Maine; making friends; teaching children to be proud of their heritage; cultural traditions; favorite foods from Colombia; going to Spanish restaurants in Florida; celebrating holidays; family stories; smoking cigars; difference between living in Colombia and the U. S.; what to tell people in the U. S. about Colombia and what to tell people in Colombia about the U. S.; trips to visit Colombia; attending Catholic church; learning to drive. Text: 19 pp. transcript, 2 pp. document from internet. Recording: CD 2510 58 minutes.
NA3724 Eric Li, interviewed by Elizabeth Hardink, June 5, 2005, at his home, Bangor, Maine. Li talks about bieng born in Hong Kong, China; living there until he was 8; comparison of Chinese and American cultures; favorite foods; came to the United States with his father around 1989; lived in New York; moved to Madawaska, Maine when he was in sixth grade; father owns Chinese restaurant in Madawaska named Tang’s Palace; comparison of city life in New York and Hong Kong; discrimination toward Asians in Maine schools; change in Hong Kong when People’s Republic of China took over; past communism compared to communism today in China; Chinese adapting to American culture.NA3725 Delia Michaud, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, June 21, 2005, at Michaud’s home. Michaud talks about being born in San Juan, a province of Argentina; coming to the United States in 1970; living first in Houston, Texas and then moving to Maine; cultural differences between Argentina and the United States; struggle of switching over from speaking Spanish to speaking only English; first experiences with Maine winter; highlights of Argentinean culture; family life in San Juan; importance of knowing many languages; artifacts from Argentinean culture; tango and milonga dances; crafts from Argentina; needle crafts done by Argentinean women; preparation of matambre; guiso; Maria Rave from Brazil and Hernan Rave (brother of Alejandro Rave) from Argentina.
NA3726 Mihail Margaronis, interviewed by Maria Sandweiss, May 31, 2005, at the Bangor House of Pizza (which is owned by Margaronis). Margaronis talks about being born in Greece on the island of Aegina; coming to Maine in 1976; adapting to Maine after growing up in Greece; cultural Greek items; being a citizen from multiple countries; Greek community in Bangor, Maine; Greek national identity compared to American; Greek opinion on American government and American people.
NA3727 Lilian Lo, interviewed by Elizabeth Hardink, April 16, 2005. Lo talks about being born in Hong Kong; spending her first twenty four years there; coming to Maine in 1981; owing Oriental Jade, a Chinese restaurant in Bangor, Maine with her husband Victor; working for a real estate business in Hong Kong; Hong Kong becoming more liberal; cultural differences in China from the 70s to the 90s; Hong Kong’s shift toward international food in recent times; Hong Kong immigrants during the 90s from political instability; adapting to American culture from Hong Kong; women’s rights in Chinese culture, past and present; Chinese opinion on education and its costs; change of importance of marriage and kids in Chinese culture; American media in Hong Kong; Chinese view on American work ethics; popularity behind the Oriental Jade in Bangor; difficulties of having a Chinese restaurant in Bangor.
NA3728 Aniko Fulep, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, May 16, 2005, in Fulep’s home, Hampden, Maine. Fulep talks about being born in Hungary in 1971; coming to the United States in 1996; emigrating from Budapest, Hungary to Maine; benefits of rural Maine compared to life in Budapest; view of Maine people compared to most American people; learning English in Hungary; life during the fall of Communism in Hungary; adjusting to American culture; speaking English around children vs. speaking Hungarian around them; typical Hungarian dishes; traditional Hungarian items in the household; Hungarian crafts and media; aspects of Hungarian culture that are important to keep in America; unique qualities of Hungarian language; European views of American culture.
NA3729 Iolanta Biderman, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, February 14, 2005, Pauleena’s office at UMaine, Orono, Maine. Biderman talks about living in the U.S.S.R. until she was 4 years old; living in the Ukraine and Kazakhstan with relatives; Kazakhstan culture; moving to Moscow at 17 to go to college; Soviet turmoil and the effect on Russians in Latvia in 1989; working for a shipping company in Latvia; Russians being removed from Latvia; meeting her U. S. husband in Latvia through the Coast Guard; depression in Moscow leading to loss of jobs; moving to the U. S. and wanting to teach at a Florida University; moving with her husband to Maine for his job; raising her Latvian son in U. S. culture; wanting her son to learn world literature and history like she did in her childhood schools; going back to school at UMaine; Russian culture’s less strict structure for young people; economic struggles in Maine and her job as a tutor in Bangor Education Department; difficulty finding a job in Maine due to being Russian and a woman; desire to leave Maine because it is not for Russians; difference in Russian and U. S. cooking.
NA3730 Nuam Wen “Mabel” Cen, interviewed by Elizabeth Hardink, in Mabel’s apartment, Bangor, Maine. Mabel talks about being from Canton, China and being born in 1984; differences in the Chinese and American education systems; Chinese people want to be rich; hard workers in China; prostitution is common there; Chinese dress is very modern and similar to American dress; Mabel’s family chose to come to the United States because her uncle lived here; her uncle opened a Chinese restaurant in Madawaska, Maine; Mabel’s family came to the United States to make money; difficulty of not speaking any English; easier for younger generations to learn English; women’s role in China; employment for women in China.
NA3731 Katya Begitova, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, May 11, 2005, in her home, Trenton, Maine. Katya talks about being born in Moscow; moving to Bar Harbor, Maine in 2000; difficulty of working in Maine without being able to speak English; meeting her husband while working in Maine; being multicultural as a Russian in America; struggles and strategy to learning a new language; meeting other immigrants with similar backgrounds; Russian cooking compared to American; Russian crafts; differences in Russian holidays and dress; generosity of Russian parents; kids in Russia compared to America; diversity in Russia and the United States.
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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.
NA2539 Field journal, created by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1969. Field journal kept by Ives during collecting in trips to Prince Edward Island August 20, 1965 - September 10, 1965. The first of three field journals kept by Ives while researching the life of Larry Doyle. Missing from the collection are Journal 2, September 10, 1965 - September 16, 1966, and Journal 3, March 30, 1968 - July 22, 1970. Handwritten text: 44 pp. No transcription available.
NA4357 Fred McLaine interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, July 17, 1965, at Lake George, Nova Scotia, Canada.
NA4358 Incomplete a capella folk song. Unidentified male singer.
NA4359 Introduction of performer is clipped, possibly James Bryant [?].
NA4361 John R. Dignan, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, August 24, 1965, at Howland, Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), Canada.
NA4362 Underhill A. and Emma W. Coughlin interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, August 23, 1965, in the Coughlin's home in Brooklyn, P.E.I.
NA4364 Malvina Doucette interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, August 26, 1965, at the home of her sister, Mary Blanche Gaudet, Tignish, P.E.I.
NA4365 Annie Laura (Mrs. Benjamin) Smith, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, August 27, 1965, in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Smith, age 84, in Alberton, P.E.I.
NA4366 Frank Buote, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, August 26, 1965, at Buote's home in Tignish, P.E.I.
NA4368 Philip Cameron interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, August 28, 1965, at Wellington, P.E.I.
NA4370 John Morrison, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, August 30, 1965, at Morrison's home in Charlottetown, P.E.I.
NA4371 Wesley Smith, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, August 29, 1965, at Smith's home in Victoria West, P.E.I.
NA4372 John O'Connor interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, August 31, 1965, at Hope River, P.E.I., Canada. (See NA2539, p. 25).
NA4373 Joseph “Joe” Walsh interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, September 1, 1965, at Morell Rear, P.E.I.
NA4374 Omer McKenna, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, September 28, 1965, in McKenna's home, Rumford, ME.
NA4375 Roderick Hanley, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives in Hanley's Charlottetown, P.E.I., home, March 31, 1968.
NA4376 Mrs. John MacIsaac, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives in her St. Peters, P.E.I. home on April 1, 1968.
NA4377 Alphonse Whitty, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at Whitty's home in Farmington, P.E.I. on April 1, 1968.
NA 4378 Leo Gorman, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at his home in Groshaut (St. Charles), P.E.I. on April 1, 1968.
NA4379 Leo Gorman, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at his home in Groshaut (St. Charles), P.E.I. on April 2, 1968.
NA4380 Leo Gorman, interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives at his home in Groshaut (St. Charles), P.E.I. on April 2, 1968.
NA4382 John Miller, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, April 2, 1962, at the Miller home in Morell, P.E.I.
NA4383 Reginald “Reggie” Banks, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, April 4, 1968, at Poplar Point, P.E.I.
NA4384 Herbert MacLeod, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, April 4, 1968, at the Senior Citizens Home, Montague, P.E.I.
NA4385 John J. "Jack" MacIssac, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives on April 5, 1968, at the home of a family member.
NA4386 John "Jack" Farrell, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives on March 31, 1969, at St. Georges, P.E.I.
NA4387 John "Jack" Farrell, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives on March 31, 1969, at St. Georges, P.E.I.
NA4388 William Banks, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives on April 1, 1969, at his home in Annadale, P.E.I.
NA4389 Vivian Banks, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at Reginald “Reggie” Banks' home in Annandale, P.E.I., March 31, 1969.
NA4390 Sandy Ives' spoken notes and observations following a brief interview with Chester Pratt in St. Peter's, P.E.I. on April 3, 1969.
NA4392 Frank Curran, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at the home of Mrs. Laura Curran, Farmington, P.E.I., April 3, 1969.
NA4393 John Miller, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, Morell, P.E.I., April 4, 1969.
NA4394 John Miller, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, Morell, P.E.I., April 4, 1969.
NA4396 James Whitty, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, Melrose, MA, Feb. 6, 1970.
NA4397 Arthur Cahill, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at Groshaut, P.E.I., July 18, 1970.
NA4398 John Farrell, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, at St. Georges, P.E.I. on July 20, 1970.
NA4399 John Farrell, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, at St. Georges, P.E.I. on July 20, 1970, continues.
NA4400 Victor LaPierre, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at Annandale, P.E.I., July 20, 1970.
NA4401 Joe Walsh, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at Morell Read, P.E.I., July 20, 1970.
NA4403 Leo Gorman, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at Groshaut, [St. Charles] P.E.I., July 21, 1970.
NA4405 John Banks, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at Poplar Point, P.E.I., July 22, 1970.
NA4406 Mrs. Margaret Walsh, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at Howe Bay, P.E.I, July 22, 1970.
NA4407 John Miller, interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives at Morell, P.E.I., July 22, 1970.
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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.
NA1118 Rev. Alfred G. Hempstead, interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, August 1977, Lake Onawa, Maine. Rev. Hempstead talks about his recollections of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm; one woods story.
NA1297 Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, interviewed by Miles L. Hanley, summer 1934. Donated by Audrey Duckert, 1979, Brewer, Maine. Copy of interview with Eckstorm, by Hanley, associate director of The Linguistic Atlas of New England. Mrs. Eckstorm was an informant for the Atlas (informant #404).
NA2353 Claire Crosby, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, January 1995, Wayne, Maine. Crosby talks about her memories of living with Fannie Hardy Eckstorm in Brewer, Maine in 1930.
NA2475 Wayne Libhart, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, summer 1997, Seal Cove and Tremont, Maine. Libhart talks about his recollections of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm during his youth in Brewer, Maine. Also included: hand-drawn sketch/floor plan of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm’s home.
NA2477 Pauleena MacDougall, August 1997, Maine. "Six Years under Maine Game Laws" by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. Photocopy of articles as they appeared in "Forest and Stream" magazine from March-August, 1891.
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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.
NA2287 John “Jack” Morrison, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue (1989-1991), Manchester, Massachusetts. Tape: 3 with transcript. In a series of interviews Morrison talks about his experiences as a Scottish sailor who immigrated to the United States in 1917 and worked, among other places, aboard yachts in Penobscot Bay, Maine, in the 1920s and 1930s; Maine and commercial sailing and shipping.
NA2288 Doris {Libby} Ashland (1909-1988) interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, 1987 1988, Belgrade Maine. Tape: 1 with no transcript. Doris Ashland talks about being a member of a French-Canadian family in the 19th and 20th centuries in Maine. Doris speaks of her husband Albert Felix Ashland (1897-1960) being born in Livermore Falls, Maine. His father, Joseph Ashland walking from Canada to Livermore Falls in 1878, becoming a subsistence farmer. Doris and Albert married in 1927. Topics include the farm burning down and community help to rebuild three years later; the Depression; family births and deaths; left-handed family members; tapping trees and making maple syrup; the cider mill; Grampa Ashland's quick temper and never learning to drive; rolling the road in winter; working with horses; and trouble with a border.
NA2289 Gladys Hadfield Roderick, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, April 15, 1991, Manchester, Maine. Tape: 1 with no transcript. Roderick (the interviewer’s mother) talks about her experiences as a World War II bride; describes her trip and arrival to Augusta, Maine from England around 1946.
NA2290 Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, May 1, 1991, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Tape: 1 with no transcript. Dr. Ives, a folklore professor at the University of Maine, talks about his early musical career; his arrival at the University; folk music; and oral history.
NA2298 Grady sisters and Arnie Hills, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, spring 1993, Augusta and Gardner, Maine. 6 pp. Tape: 3 w/no transcript. A series of three interviews concerning labor, ethnic, immigrant, and family histories of two families from Maine. C 1114 is an interview with the four Grady sisters, ages 90 thru 100, of North Whitefield, Maine. They talk about their lives and work in the shoe factories from 1915-1920. Tapes C 1115 and C 1116 are interviews with Arnie Hills about Irish and French Canadian immigrants, family histories.
NA2321 Louella Casselin and Roderick Gladys, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue and Gayle, spring 1994, Manchester, Maine. 2 pp. Tape: 1 w/no transcript. No release form enclosed due to being deceased. Casselin (Ashland) and Gladys (Hatfield) talks about life in Maine in the 1890s and early 1900s. The narration is about a French Canadian family in Belgrade, Maine, and the central Maine region. Also on the tape is a taped letter to Barry Rodrigue from Gladys Roderick, as well as miscellaneous taped music and singing by John Hatfield. This tape was made in about 1979 in Manchester, Maine.
NA2322 James Kivetoruk Moses, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue and Lela Kiana Oman Gray, spring 1994, Nome, Alaska. 5 pp. Tapes: 1 w/ transcript. Moses, an Inupiaq artist, talks about his artwork and life. Lela Kiana Oman Gray and Barry Rodrigue in Nome, Alaska made the interview in 1973. It is in Inupiaq (Eskimo). At the end an English language commentary by Lela Kiana Gray about Mr. Moses and Mr. Rodrigue. RESTRICTED.
NA2323 Frieda Larsen (Bokanna Kommonaseak) and Johnee Wellert, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue and Crystal Tack, spring 1974-1975, 1994, Nome, Alaska (at Frieda Larsen’s home). 52 pp. Tapes: 4 w/ transcript. Larsen and Wellert (her sister), talk about the supernatural. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. RESTRICTED: Not to be used until year 2020 without permission of the Collector or people interviewed in writing.
NA2325 Andrew Redmond, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, spring 1993, Madison, Maine and St. Georges de-Beauce, Quebec, Canada. Series of eight interviews. Redmond, a French-Irish timber jobber, entrepreneur, and Maine State Senator, talks about life on both sides of the Maine - Quebec border; people: Barry Rodrigue, Kenoci Rodrigue, Yvon Labbe, Liliane Labbe, Angela Hebert, Sylvester Redmond, and others. The interviews are in both English and French. Text: 257 pp. transcript.
NA2351 Judge Armand DuFresne, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, spring 1994, Lewiston, Maine. 3 pp. Tape: 2 w/ no transcript. Judge DuFresne talks about the Maine judicial and legal system; as well as Franco-American life and history; Judge Albert Beliveau of Rumford, Maine. A malfunctioning tape recorder caused static on several portions of the tapes, but they are decipherable.
NA2352 Judge Donald Webber and Lucy Webber, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue March 1994, Auburn, Maine. 3 pp. Tape: 3 w/ no transcript. Judge Webber and his wife Lucy Webber talk about the Maine judicial system and legal system in the mid 20th century; Franco-Americans; and Albert Beliveau of Rumford. There is static on part of these tapes due to a malfunctioning recorder, but it can be deciphered. Text: no transcript.
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