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  MF024 Maine Public Broadcasting Network

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

  Collection of various recordings by Maine Public Broadcasting Network. Copyright belongs to original broadcaster. For reference and educational use only. May not be copied.

  NA1346 Esther Wood, interviewed by Virgil Bisset, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, 1980, Blue Hill, Maine. 29 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Two radio interviews with Wood, Prof. Emeritus, Gorham State Teachers College, about her memories of rural life; Maine schools; spring house cleaning; spring signs; Memorial Day.

  NA2132 Susan Tibbets, hosts concert with 20 singer and songwriters, featuring Kendall Morse, Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, Lisa Null, and Slim Clark, deposited by Maine Public Broadcasting Network, fall 1989, Hauck Auditorium, UMaine, Orono, Maine. 11 pp. Cat. only. On February 11 and 12, 1977, a concert and a series of workshops called "Songs for February" held at the Hauck Auditorium UMaine. From the recordings made of the concert and series of workshops, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network produced an 8-part radio series as part of their “Roots and Branches” series.” Accession consists of a catalog of the radio program.

  NA2136 Carolyn McKeen, Ernie Freeberg, and Carolyn Chute on Maine Public Broadcasting show "Maine Things Considered", May 1, 1989, Orono, Maine. 3 pp. "Maine Things Considered" was taped off the radio including a piece on gay rights; proposed taxing of cable television; rental of videos; Carolyn Chute talks about the Maine work ethic; her experiences working in chicken plants, etc. RESTRICTED.

  NA2295 By Mary Lou Colbath, 1991-1992, statewide, Maine. 5 pp. Tapes: 30 w/ no transcription, catalog only. Thirty cassettes containing a collection of 49 recorded programs or vignettes which aired on Maine Public Radio during 1991-1992 as a series called “Hear Maine!” The segments were produced and aired as part of MPR’s “Maine Things Considered” program, funded by the Maine Humanities Council. The series reflects the diversity of people and culture in Maine and the issues and concerns of the people. Program titles include “Acadian Family Reunions,” “Waldoboro Germans,” “Rural Law Enforcement,” “Franco-American Social Clubs,” “Native American Mascots and Team Names,” “Blueberry Harvest,” “The AME Zion Church: A Profile,” “Women and the Sea,” and many others. Five complete sets of the series were made on audio cassettes, and a set was placed in each of five selected libraries or archives including the Bangor Public Library, the Cary Library in Houlton, the Maine State Library in Augusta, the Maine Folklife Center in Orono, and the Portland Public Library. RESTRICTED.

  NA601 Maine Public Broadcasting System, ca. 1998, various locations, Maine. Accession consists of three VHS video cassettes featuring three episodes in a television series titled “Home: The Story of Maine” produced for Maine Public Television. The three programs are: Program 1: “A Place Apart;” Program 2: “A Part of the Maine;” and Program 3: “They Came by Sea.” Program 1 deals with images of Maine as a vacation land for tourists as well as a frontier removed from the national mainstream. Program 2 looks at Maine’s natural resources and discusses European settlement of the state. Program 3 continues the look at Maine’s natural resources especially along the coast. A promotional sheet describing the programs is included. RESTRICTED.

  NA2623 Donated by Maine Public Broadcasting, 2000, Maine via the Julia J. Hixon (staff assistant for HOME: The Story of Maine). Accession consists of 4 video programs as follows: A Love for the Land: The legacy of Maine’s farmers is the open farmland they shaped from wooded rocky terrain. Their story is an inspiring tale of hardship, innovation, and remarkable endurance. The Nation’s Playground: With its remarkable coastline, deep-green forest, and rolling landscape, Maine has been a favorite place for visitors for over a century. Over the last century, tourism has grown into the state’s largest industry. Trails, Rails & Roads: The story of transportation in Maine is the story of the state’s ongoing challenge to keep its people connected both to economic markets and to each other. Maine’s communities have been formed by the patterns of transportation. Power Lines: Maine switched on its first electric light in 1880 and, within a decade, the state’s urban areas were benefitting from the advantages of electricity. However, electrification was slow to reach outlying rural areas and over one-quarter of the state didn’t receive electricity until into the 1940s.

  NA0705 Walter Trundy, Walter Wallace, Alva Clement, and Lorna (Douglas) Clement, interviewed by Kenneth Whitney, Florence Ireland, Bob Ireland, and Jill Allen, winter 1971-1972, Stockton Springs, Cundy’s Harbor, and Castine, Maine. Trundy, Wallace, and the Clement, all coastal people, on what Christmas was like around the turn of the century. Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

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  MF025 Honest Woodsman Collection

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

  This collection consists mainly of a series of interviews with David Priest, retired game warden, about his experiences as a warden, trapper, and guide.

  NA1288 David Priest, interviewed by William Warner, September 26, 1979 – March 9, 1980, Winn, Maine. Priest, a retired game warden, talks about his life and work in the Maine woods; his interest in hunting, trapping, and fishing as a child; trapping as more profitable than service as a game warden, which led him to abandon his first stint as a game warden; the seasonal cycle of trapping and working as a fishing guide; application process to become a game warden; responsibilities of a game warden in the late 1940s and early 1950s; the methods of gangs whose business was selling poached deer to hunters; changes over time in how confiscated illegal game and road kill was distributed; anecdotes from his years as a game warden; skinning animals and preparing the pelts; techniques of deer poachers; hunting bobcats with dogs; emotional connection and respect for the animals he hunted and trapped; bears terrorizing lumber crews; guns and which guns he used for specific purposes; his childhood in the 1920s and entering the workforce during the early 1930s; using skunk scent in traps; various traps for bear and beaver; legal manner of trapping, his dislike of Maine game laws, particularly those which allow Native Americans exemptions; combat in Italy during WWII; a poem about game wardens written by a fellow warden; changes in trappers’ attitudes and methods over time; definition of “woods queer” and an example of such a man; multiple cases of searching for people lost in the woods; hunting porcupines; apprehending poachers; discussion of photographs; release of caribou onto Mt. Katahdin; tragedies on Mt. Katahdin; use of his woodsman and hunting skills in the Army; poisoning foxes; odd jobs that made him money during his childhood; traditional medicine used by his grandmother; canoe designs and which ones are most useful for which tasks; cookouts as an outdoor guide; cases where the legal system did not serve justice, particularly as regards to unjust and biased judges; night hunting and apprehending poachers; pine martins and ways to trap them; responsibilities of an outdoor guide; varieties of snowshoes and materials used to make them; a notable poacher who used a plane to spot beaver; his respect for poachers and lack of personal animosity; use of salt pork to heal infection; anecdotes about encounters with wildlife; interview with Lillian Priest about life as David Priest’s wife, particularly while he was in the military during WWII; decline of sportsmanship over time; state regulations allowing for too many animals to be taken by 1979; coyotes as a menace; blowing ledges and beaver dams; fishing stories, guiding for Wilson’s East Outlet Camps; proportions of resident versus non-resident lawbreakers; and food served at camps. Text: 508 pp. catalog; plus copies of information sources related to Priest and his work, including genealogical history, newspaper articles, and official state documents, for which major themes are the search for people lost in Baxter State Park, notably the Mott brothers in 1965, and news relating to Baxter State Park laws and regulations; Warner’s biography of Priest is also included.

  NA1364 Donald Clendenning and Edward L. Lambert, interviewed by William Warner, July 28-29, 1980, Orrington and Greenville, Maine. Clendenning discusses David Priest and their friendship (Priest was interviewed extensively by Warner, see NA 1288); experiences hunting, fishing, and trapping with Priest; Priest’s commitment to his job as a game warden; his approach to apprehending suspects; and Priest’s personal characteristics and skills. Lambert discusses his relationship with Priest, one of a poacher and a game warden who were cousins; poaching being overlooked by game wardens during the Great Depression; working as a wilderness guide; conniving to get money for guide shirts from customers; playing jokes on out-of-state visitors and city people; various exploits, both his alone and those Priest was involved in; and lack of commitment among game wardens by 1980.

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  MF026 Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine / French Island Collection

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

  A 1992 community based oral history project co-sponsored by the Maine Folklife Center and the Franco-American Center at the University of Maine generated a series of 35 interviews focusing on the culture and history of the French Canadian immigrant community located on French Island, Old Town, Maine.

  The project resulted in a book of photographs, interview excerpts, and articles, Nos Histoires de l'Île: History and memories of French Island, Old Town, Maine (1999).

  NA2431 Rosalie “Rose” Bosse Flanagan and Flora Bosse, interviewed by Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, Yvonne Ouellette, and Betty Maderos, November 22, 1993, Old Town, Maine. The sisters talk about growing up on French Island in Old Town; family history; emigration from Canada; neighbors; swimming; ball games; food shopping on the Island; ice and milk delivery; parents' work; Great Depression; changes on the Island; vegetable gardens; keeping pigs and chickens; Christmas celebrations; French food; St. Joseph School; speaking French at home and school; buying and making clothes; funeral customs and wakes; bootlegging and homebrew; tobacco use; present-day use of French, and extent to which their children's generation speak French.

  NA2759 Benoit Bouchard, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, May 24, 1993, at his home in Old Town, Maine. Bouchard talks about family history; emigration from Canada to Old Town; businesses on French Island and work opportunities off the Island; his father's ice cream parlor and confectionery store; Fourth of July celebrations; baseball and other games; growing up with, and recovering from polio paralysis; speaking French at home and English at school; houses on the Island; cutting and storing ice; electricity on the Island; work and recreation on the Penobscot River.

  NA2760 Benoit Bouchard, interviewed by James J. Bishop and Amy Bouchard Morin, August 19, 1993, at his home in Old Town, Maine. Bouchard discusses the use of French on French Island, 1914-1920; starting school and learning to speak English; music; operation that allowed him to walk; WWII ration stamps; interior layout of the school; having to speak English in school; effect of language barrier on educational opportunities; Helen Hunt school; playing violin in a traveling orchestra, at dances in the area; introduction of radio to the area in 1920s; Old Town High School and Machias Normal School; prejudice against Catholics; St. Joseph's church; teaching at Herbert Gray school in Old Town; flu epidemic of 1918; changes on the Island after World War II.

  NA2761 Benoit Bouchard, Bernard “Bing” Bouchard, Albert “Bert” Morin, Walter Nadeau, and Beatrice Morin, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, February 18, 1994, at Albert and Amy Morin's home in Old Town, Maine. The group reminisces about life on French Island: family relationships; where specific families lived; stores; carpenter work; Great Depression; prices; homebrew, bootlegging, and Prohibition; nicknames; music and dances; cutting and storing ice from the river; coal and grain from the railroad; cellar flooding; property ownership and land use on the island; drainage and sewers; food packaging, barrels and boxes of pickles, crackers, molasses, etc.; buying gasoline; driving in the 1920s; stretching candy; smoking; buying houses in the 1940s and 1950s; fishing; delivering mail; nosy neighbors; funerals; helpful neighbors; college students.

  NA2762 John Bouchard and Benoit Bouchard, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, October 19, 1993, at Benoit's home in Old Town, Maine. The Bouchard brothers talk about French Island: neighbors; businesses; school on the Island and teacher's names; interior layout of the school; school yard games; recipe for homemade lemon, onion, and honey cough medicine; family relationships and mother's death; watching fights between Orono and French Island young men; boxing; children's work and play; relationships with neighbors; John's brush with tuberculosis; time at Maine Maritime Academy and joining the Coast Guard.

  NA2763 Norman Brilliant, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, August 25, 1993, at his home in Old Town, Maine. Also present, Benoit Bouchard. 18-page transcript. Brilliant discusses life on French Island; father's work; neighbors; businesses; swimming in the Penobscot River; St. Joseph's school and coming home for lunch; food; Christmas; children's and adult's entertainment; Fourth of July; Helen Hunt school; English and French at home and school; WWII in the Pacific; outhouses; weddings on Mondays; funerals; LaBree's bakery.

  NA2764 Lucienne Cloutier, interviewed by Carol Nichols and Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, August 2, 1993, in Old Town, Maine. Cloutier talks about living on French Island; neighbors; animals; stores; meeting her husband and moving onto French Island; emigration from Canada to the Lewiston mills, then to a farm in Old Town; Great Depression; names; Pea Cove school; woolen mill in Old Town; children's entertainment; peddlers; holidays; traditional foods; boxing and baseball games; changes on the Island. NA2765 Eva Collins, interviewed by Carol Nichols and Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, November 22, 1993, in Old Town, Maine. For the "Islands and Bridges" project. Collins discusses moving to French Island after her marriage; LaBree's bakery; other stores and businesses; speaking French; neighbors; adult's and children's entertainment; holidays; blood sausages (boudin); boxing; Great Depression; Prohibition and homebrew; changes on the Island.

  NA2766 Patrick Crowley, interviewed by Alan Comeau, September 21 and October 20, 1993, at the Shuffle Inn in Old Town, Maine. Crowley talks about life on French Island; family reunions and genealogy; businesses on the Island; St. Joseph's school; crossing the ice; swimming and the booms on the Penobscot river; changes in winter weather; children's work and recreation; neighborhood relationships; getting married; Christmas; mother's divorce; feelings about his religion; working at the University; Saturday baths; Father John's tonic; lighting a candle to pray; bars on French Island.

  NA2767 Yvonne Shorette Currier, interviewed by Carol Nichols and Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, November 22, 1993, at her home in Old Town, Maine. Currier, born on French Island in 1908, discusses St. Joseph's school and the Island school; friends and family; children's games; French at home and English at school; parent's work; traditional foods; Silver Slipper dance hall; changes on the Island; Christmas; family names of French Islanders; movie theaters; peddlers, including the ice man; nicknames; homebrew and bootlegging.

  NA2768 Albert Michaud, Walter Simon, Rand Trembly, and Ernest Dubay, interviewed by James Bishop, February 25, 1994, in Old Town, Maine. The group talks about their experiences and memories of growing up on French Island: sports and games, especially softball, boxing (the fights); scrounging donuts under the Milford bridge; swimming in the Penobscot River; conflict between St. Joseph's school children and the Island school children and between Islanders and Old Town; religious curriculum at St. Joseph's school; basketball; nicknames; Helen Hunt Junior High; newspapers; stores and taverns on the Island; work & factory jobs; food in the Great Depression; funerals, floods, and neighborliness; holidays, esp. Fourth of July and Mardi Gras; milk delivery; getting a driver's license; speaking French.

  NA2769 Clayton Landry, interviewed by Albert Michaud, October 6, 1993, at his home in Old Town, Maine. Landry discusses moving to French Island; boxing matches; neighbors; the Shuffle Inn; grocery stores; cutting ice from the Penobscot River; entertainment and children's games; changing French names to English; St. Joseph's school; children's economic activities; community garbage disposal; pulpwood river drives; heating (or not) with wood stoves; holidays; Catholic Order of Foresters; Ku Klux Klan; and his service in WWII.

  NA2770 Patrick (Leo) Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, June 4 or 6, 1993, at his home in Westbrook, Maine. Lagasse talks about his memories of French Island in Old Town; nicknames; French and the French Island school; factory and mill work; Great Depression; dairy farming and milk as part of the daily diet; cutting ice from the Penobscot River; lumberyard on Hildreth Street; polio; Benoit Bouchard and Herbert Gray School; children's and adult's entertainment; grocery stores; Great Depression and WPA work; Old Town airport; Monday wash day; boxing matches; plumbing and the first bathtub on French Island; automobiles; Prohibition, homebrew, and bootleggers; shining shoes at the University of Maine; and WWII.

  NA2771 Albert Michaud and Rita England Michaud, interviewed by Carol Nichols, July 27, 1993, at their home in Old Town, Maine. The Michauds discuss early memories of French Island; children's entertainment and games; why French Island was once called Skin Island; city dump; Shuffle Inn; softball; boxers; schools; meals; gardens; Mardi Gras and Lent; community and neighboring; Great Depression; 1936 flood; bootlegging; hunting, raising, selling, and eating rabbits and deer; and stores on the Island.

  NA2772 Albert Morin and Bernice Morin, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, August 27, 1993, at their home in Old Town, Maine. Also present, Benoit Bouchard. The Morins talk about family history; parent's immigration from Canada to French Island; schools; neighbors; children's entertainment; holidays; work, at lumber mill, and factories; Great Depression and WPA work; funerals and weddings; boxing and softball; LaBree's bakery and other French Island businesses; WWII; automobiles and roads; women's textile crafts; arrival of electricity; prices; clothing; peddlers; and the 1918 flu epidemic.

  NA2773 Rachel Hortense Morin, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, July 29, 1993, in Orono, Maine. Also present, Benoit Bouchard. R. Morin reminisces about living on French Island in Old Town: family history; neighbors; games and entertainment; businesses; nicknames; meals; Christmas; family relationships and economic activities; learning English in school; St. Joseph's School and the nuns; and nuns and priests from French Island. Interviewee frequently lapses into French.

  NA2774 Bella Nadeau, interviewed by Carol Nichols, 1993, at her home in Old Town, Maine. Nadeau talks about growing up on French Island in Old Town, including: movie theaters and music; St. Joseph's school; sawmill; stores and restaurants; LaBree's bakery; playmates and children's games; night school for adults; dangers of trains; delivering milk to the neighborhood; mourning customs; saw mills and woolen mill; wash day; and plumbing.

  NA2775 Gloria Thornton and Doris Nadeau, interviewed by Albert Michaud, November 1993, at the Thornton's home in Milford, Maine. The two sisters reminisce with their younger brother, Albert Michaud, about growing up on French Island in Old Town: schools; swimming and boating on the Penobscot river; bathing suits; Fourth of July; river drives of logs and pulpwood; New Year's celebration; businesses on the Island; Prohibition and bootlegging; nicknames; prejudice against the French; ice skating and sledding; Lent and saying the rosary; sewing circles; taking in boarders; neighborhood relationships; changing French names to English; and the Shuffle Inn.

  NA2776 Walter Nadeau, interviewed by Genie Wollstadt, December 9, 1993, at his home in Old Town, Maine. Nadeau talks about growing up on French Island in Old Town; parent's work; schools; children's games; father's grocery store; community telephone; transportation and transition to automobiles; businesses on the Island; 1934 flood; neighbors; funerals and weddings; medicine and doctors; sewing circles; 4th of July; employment opportunities in the Old Town area; and the Great Depression.

  NA2777 Meledore Ouellette, interviewed by Barbara Ouellette, 1994, at her home on French Island in Old Town, Maine. Ouellette discusses her memories of French Island. Topics include: the locations of houses and businesses; LaBree's bakery; stores on the Island; funerals; neighborhood relationships; keeping animals for food; jobs; food; boxing; Shuffle Inn; baseball games; and swimming.

  NA2778 Melvina Paradis, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin, June 11, 1993, at her home on French Island in Old Town, Maine. Also present, Benoit Bouchard and Velma Paradis. M. Paradis discusses her experiences on French Island; family history; her parent's work; schools on the Island and off; World War One; getting teeth pulled before dentists; cooking, growing, and preserving food; sewing circle; Catholic churches in town; arrival of electricity and running water; neighborhood relationships; and weddings.

  NA 2779 Cecile Pietrowski, interviewed by Carol Nichols and Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, August 14, 1993, in Old Town, Maine. Pietrowski talks about her experiences living on French Island in Old Town: short cuts; building patterns; bootlegging and home brew; Great Depression and food; women's baseball; boxing; nicknames; children's entertainment; holidays and traditional food; changes on the Island; women working outside the home; Shuffle Inn; why it was once called Skin Island; LaBree's bakery; churches and schools; father's work as a policeman.

  NA2780 Joseph C. "Spike" Richard, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin and Benoit Morin, July 29, 1994, at his home in Bradley, Maine. Richard talks about growing up on French Island in Old Town; and his involvement in the boxing matches held on the Island. Other topics include: schools; family relationships; his time in the CCC; children's entertainment; parent's work; traditional food; electricity; homebrew; and WWII, with the National Guard in Florida and New Zealand.

  NA2781 Rebecca St. Louis Paul, interviewed by Carol Nichols and Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, June, 1993, about French Island, Old Town, Maine. Paul discusses schools; children's entertainment; neighborhood relationships; holidays, including Lent, Halloween, Christmas; camping; food traditions; stores; and changes on the Island.

  NA2782 Estelle Voter and Henrietta Taylor, interviewed by Albert Michaud, December 3, 1993, in Eddington, Maine. The two sisters discuss life on French Island in Old Town, Maine: family relationships and history; children's entertainment; childbirth; schools; 1936 flood; funerals and mourning customs; holidays, especially New Year's Eve, Christmas, Mardi Gras, dating customs; Skin Island; woolen mill; boxing; and blood stoppers.

  NA2783 Betty Thibodeau Medieros, interviewed by Carol Nichols and Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, November 17, 1993, at her home in Old Town, Maine. Medieros reminisces about growing up on French Island: neighborhood relationships; family history; holidays; children's entertainment; nicknames; Shuffle Inn and stores on the Island; religious observances; Christmas; traditional foods; mother's work for wages; downtown Old Town; end of World War II; and changes on the Island.

  NA2784 Marion Guay and Gloria Thornton, interviewed by Albert Michaud, May 12, 1994, at Guay's home in Old Town, Maine. Guay and Thornton talk about French Island; schools; children's work; neighborhood and family relationships; women's work for wages; Great Depression; and blood stoppers.

  NA2785 Bernice Morin, Betty Labretton, Flora Bosse, and Pauline Baillargeon, interviewed by Carol Nichols and Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, March 2, 1994, in Old Town, Maine. Also present, Albert Morin. The group of women discuss life on French Island; traditional foods; Great Depression; nicknames; stores; movie theaters; schools; baseball; boxing; childbirth; Christmas; neighborhood relationships; children's and adult's entertainment; and changing French names to English.

  NA2786 Letter from Christina Bouchard Duplissa to her cousin Amy Bouchard Morin, December 15, 1994. This letter contains reminiscences about Duplissa's early years on French Island in Old Town, Maine, between 1939 and 1950. She recalls children's games and other entertainment; and neighborhood relationships.

  NA2787 Combination of excerpts from several letters written by Van Geroux to Leona Taylor (March 12, 1991), and Lelia Richards (several during 1994-1995). In these excerpts, Geroux reminisces about life on French Island in Old Town, Maine: the Shuffle Inn; baseball; children's entertainment; boxing; grocery stores; French Island characters; an extensive list of nicknames; taverns, barbershops, lumber yard, and railroad; street cleaners; movie theaters; priests; horses; feeding and butchering pigs; skiing; pickling and canning food; and beanhole beans.

  NA2788 Eugene Beaulieu, interviewed by Albert Michaud, November 16, 1994, at his home in Milford, Maine. Beaulieu remembers growing up on French Island in Old Town, including family history; schools; neighborhood relationships; softball; speaking French; children's entertainment; parent's work; changing French names to English; and placement of houses on French Island.

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  MF029 "Our Life, Our Work:" Lewiston Western Older Citizens Council / Marcella Sorg and Stefan Duplessis

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

  The project "Notre Vie, Notre Travail-Our Life, Our Work" was initiated by the Lewiston Western Older Citizens Council by Diane Brown who worked there. Funded by the Maine Humanities Council, this project involved a series of bilingual interviews utilizing family albums to stimulate discussion about Franco-American culture, particularly as it pertained to work. That is, it concerned the following: how work reflected cultural values; work ethic; work/occupation patterns; how work was integrated with family life (or interfered with it); the history of work patterns in the Lewiston area, and about Franco-American culture and family life in general.

  NA1623 Juliette Filteau, interviewed by Margaret Lanoue, October 8, 1982, in Lewiston, Maine. Filteau discusses growing up near Quebec in the 1910s; moving from Canada to Lewiston circa 1921; childhood experiences with nuns; living and working during the Great Depression; Franco-American food; operating a restaurant which sold alcohol; the advent of WWII; and her thoughts on cultural identity in Lewiston. Exhibit poster included.

  NA1625 Genoria Pelchat, interviewed by Margaret Lanoue, October 22, 1982, Lewiston, Maine. Pelchat talks about her childhood in early twentieth-century St. Joseph de Beauce, Canada; immigrating to Auburn, Maine in 1919; working at shoe shops 1920 to 1940; learning to speak English; food lines and shopping during the Depression; 1937 shoe shop strike; and working for elections. In the enclosed memoir, Pelchat wrote of early life at a Sisters of Charity orphanage; years of abuse by her father and stepmother; various jobs as a young woman; immigrating to Auburn; and forms of recreation.

  NA1667 Simone Michaud, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, February 18, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Michaud discusses identity as an Acadian growing up in Aroostook County in the early 1900s; working at her family’s summer camps; being bilingual and when she spoke French versus English; her views on Franco-American identity; French songs; her genealogical work; how she spends her retirement; pictures of her family; her parents’ winters in Florida during the 1920s; work ethic learned from her parents; school at St. Agatha (convent) and school plays; and religion. French (partially).

  NA1668 Adelard Janelle, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, February 18, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 3 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. No cat, or trans. Janelle talks about life as a Franco-American. French.

  NA1669 Faye Jordan, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, February 18, 1981, Auburn, Maine. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ partial trans. Jordan talks about her life as a Franco-American; celebrating Christmas in Canada with her grandparents; running away to marry a "swamp yankee;" jobs she worked; being bilingual and speaking "true French;" sewing, making clothes for her daughter; crochet work.

  NA1670 Retired State Supreme Court Justice Armand J. Dufrense, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, May 14, 1981, Auburn, Maine. English and French. Dufrense talks about his family history; his childhood in the early 1900s; his family’s baking work; putting himself through college and law school during the Great Depression; how being Franco-American helped his career as a lawyer and justice; his many years as an active and semi-retired justice; and working with the Franco-American population in Androscoggin County.

  NA1671 Jeanne d’Arc Turgeon, interviewed by Raymond Pelletier and Mark Silber, May 13, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Turgeon talks about her life as a Franco-American; exclusive use of French in daily life as a child; working in the shoe shop and mill during the 1940s; movement of Franco-Americans out of Lewiston’s “Little Canada”; social activities; and the value of sacrifice. Partially in French.

  NA1672 Albert Dumais, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, March 19, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 73 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. French. Dumais talks about his life as a Franco-American. Text: transcript (handwritten).

  NA1673 Raoul Pinette, interviewed by Raymond Pelletier and Mark Silber, May 14, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Pinette talks about his father’s unlikely career as an undertaker/funeral director (because he was afraid of the dead); the importance of education; working for his father during WWII; his identity as an ‘American with French-Canadian heritage’; how being Franco-American can be a benefit; and developments in funeral services.

  1674 Joseph and Anne Marie Blais, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Raymond Pelletier, January 29, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 16 pp. Tape: 1-1/4 hrs. Interview w/ partial trans. French. The Blais talk about their lives as Franco-Americans; Joseph's work as a jeweler and as a Steeple Jack..

  NA1675 Genoria Pelchat, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Stefan Duplessis, January 29, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 10 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ partial trans. French. Pelchat talks about her life as a Franco-American.

  NA1676 Berthe Roger, interviewed by Mark Silber and Steffan Duplessis, January 29, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Roger talks about her mother’s motivation for moving the family to Lewiston during the Great Depression; living as a Franco-American outside “Little Canada”; working in a shoe shop; and childhood family gatherings.

  NA1677 Lewiston Senior Citizens Choir, March 19, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 6 pp. Tape: 3/4 hr. w/ brief cat, of songs sung. A concert of mostly French songs given for the Lewiston Western Older Citizens Council by the Lewiston Senior Citizen Choir; list of Choir members.

  NA1678 Florida Charest, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, January 29, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 34 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. French. Charest talks about her life as a Franco-American.

  NA1679 Juliette Blais, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Marcella Sorg, March 10, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 51 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. French. Blais talks about her life as a Franco-American.

  NA1680 Armand G. Sansoucy and Venise L. (Leblanc) Sansoucy, interviewed by Mark Silber and Raymond Pelletier, March 10, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. The Sansoucys discuss his education and political career; their early musical experiences; his tenure as Lewiston’s mayor in 1949-50; the importance of education; and French culture and language as assets to his political career.

  NA1681 Cecile Dionne, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, February 18, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Dionne talks about her childhood in the 1910s and 20s on a farm in Auburn, Maine; her job drawing-in at Bates Mill; working in the shoe shops; speaking French and English; and working while raising a family. Partially in French.

  NA1682 Francoise Bolduc Charest, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, February 19, 1981, Auburn, Maine. 29 pp. Tape: 1 3/4 hrs. w/ partial trans. French. Charest talks about her life as a Franco-American.

  NA1683 Paul Labbe, interviewed by Mark Silber and Raymond Pelletier, February 18, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Labbe talks about his boxing career in the 1920s and 30s; his childhood in a boxing family; fighting for world championship; later life as a trainer; preparing for fights; and changing work ethics over time.

  NA1684 Alexander T. Rouleau and Lucille (Dumont) Rouleau, interviewed by Mark Silber and Raymond Pelletier, February 18, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. The Rouleaus talk about their lives as Franco-Americans, his various jobs; living during the Great Depression, his work as a school bus driver in the 1960s and 70s; religions as all the same; and her childhood on a family farm in Winslow, Maine.

  NA1685 Paul Belanger, interviewed by Mark Silber and Raymond Pelletier, February 18, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Belanger talks about the history of Franco-Americans in Lewiston and Auburn; Franco-American love of music; working during the Great Depression; working for a French newspaper, the Messenger, and radio station; his father’s musical work for St. Mary’s Church, importance Franco-Americans placed on education for their children; religion; and retirement. Partially in French.

  NA1686 Odilie Maillet, interviewed by Raymond Pelletier and Marcella Sorg, February 19, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 15 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ partial trans. (Side 1, French; Side 2, English). Maillet talks about her life as a Franco-American.

  NA1687 Marguerite Michaud, interviewed by Mark Silber and Raymond Pelletier, February 19, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 44 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. Michaud talks about her life as a Franco-American; her experience writing songs. Partially in French.

  NA1688 Irenée Bolduc and Simone Bolduc, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Raymond Pelletier, January 29, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. The Bolducs discuss their lives as Franco-Americans; his family’s move to Auburn in 1919; playing cards; raising chickens for eggs; retirement and the importance of staying active; and Irenée sings “Somewhere My Love” in French and plays the harmonica.

  NA1689 Neolia Fortier, interviewed by Raymond Pelletier and Marcella Sorg, January 29, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 35 pp. Tape: 1 1/4 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. (Side 1, French; Side 2, English). Fortier talks about her life as a Franco-American. Text: transcript (handwritten). Recording: T 1810 1 1/4 hours.

  NA1690 Raymond Fortier, interviewed by Neolia Fortier, fall 1977, Lewiston, Maine. 3 pp. Tape: 1 hr. French. No cat, or trans. Genealogy of the Fortier family by Raymond Fortier.

  NA1691 Ephrem Boucher, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Raymond Pelletier, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 3 pp. Tape: 1 hr. No cat, or trans. Boucher talks about his life as a Franco-American. Partially in French.

  NA1692 Cecile Lebel, interviewed by Mark Silber and Raymond Pelletier, February 18, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Lebel shares, with occasional comments from her mother, a tape of sing-along in French; her career as a seamstress and designer of bridal gowns; job seeking and working during the Great Depression; work ethic taught by her grandmother and mother; the sacrifices and benefits of designing dresses; her love of the French language; and large family weddings.

  NA1693 Romeo Boisvert, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Raymond Pelletier, January 8, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 38 pp. Tape: 1 3/4 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. Boisvert talks about his life as a Franco-American. Partially in French.

  NA1694 Cecile Boisvert, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis, Marcella Sorg, and Mark Silber, winter 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 38 pp. Tape: 1 1/4 hr. w/ handwritten trans. French. Boisvert talks about her life as a Franco-American.

  NA1695 Juliette Filteau, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Mark Silber, February 19, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Filteau discusses her childhood in Canada during the 1910s and 20s; moving to Lewiston in 1923; working in the shoe shop as a teenager; nuns and a convent in Canada; raising her daughter’s children; dates with her future husband; importance of religion and changes in Catholicism; leaving her alcoholic first husband, her catering business; opening her restaurant; dealing with drunks; buying black market food during WWII; serving Franco-American food; taking care of her parents; and making maple sugar in Canada.

  NA1696 Antoinette Boucher, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Mark Silber, December 15, 1980, Lewiston, Maine. 19 pp. Tape: 3/4 hr. w/ trans. French. Boucher talks about her life as a Franco-American and her family history.

  NA1697 Father Henri Carrier, interviewed by Raymond Pelletier and Mark Silber, March 19, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Carrier talks about his decision to become a priest in the 1930s; requirements for the priesthood; differences in parishes throughout Maine; changes in the priest’s role with the development of parish councils; Church involvement in political and social issues; motivations for people to stay in “Little Canada”; strengthening the family; and the declining use of French. Partially in French.

  NA1698 Josephine Morin, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, spring 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 39 pp. Tape: 1 1/4 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. French. Morin talks about her life as a Franco-American.

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  MF030 Lincoln County Project / Leighton Photo Collection

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

  Interviews conducted by Michael Chaney as research for a curated exhibit of photographs by E. Joseph Leighton. The images are owned by the Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Association. The exhibit was displayed at the University of Maine's Memorial Union, May 10-30, 1979, funded with a youth grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

  NA1150 Charlotte Donnell, interviewed by Michael Chaney, spring 1978. Newcastle and Sheepscot Village, Maine. 140 pp. Tape: 4 hrs. w/ cat. Donnel talks about Sheepscot area history. Map and 317 photos (E. Joseph Leighton and Leighton photographs). RESTRICTED: Photos: P 1922 - P 2238.

  NA1151 Ruth Bryant, Raymond Emerson, Charles Reay, interviewed by Michael Chaney, spring 1978, North Newcastle, Maine. 121 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ trans. Bryant, Emerson, and Reay talk about various portable sawmill operations in the Sheepscot-Newcastle area and Joe Leighton. Discussion of Leighton photographs and identification of people in them.

  NA1178 Elinor M. Lewis, 1918-2013, interviewed by Michael Chaney, spring 1978, Wiscasset, Maine. 8 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Lewis talks about Joe Leighton and his wife, at the Lincoln County Courthouse.

  NA1179 Helen Erskine, interviewed by Michael Chaney, spring 1978, Wiscasset, Maine. 9 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ brief cat. Erskine talks about Joe Leighton; Alna and Wiscasset area history.

  NA1180 Allen K. Jewett, interviewed by Michael Chaney, spring 1978, Topsham, Maine. 91 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Jewett, former Head Tide area resident, talks about his apple orchard business in the early 1900s. Copy of "Alna: Paradise on the Sheepscot," Down East, Sept. 1977, 68-75.

  NA1200 Nina R. (Jones) Cheney, 1898-1986 interviewed by Michael Chaney, summer 1978, Alna, Maine. 54 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. & trans. Cheney, 80, talks about Alna area history, farming, and Dr. A. M. Card.

  NA1201 Catherine Colby and Martha Vaughan, interviewed by Michael Chaney, summer 1978, Wiscasset, Maine. 7 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Colby and Vaughan talk about the E. Joseph Leighton photograph collection owned by the Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Association.

  NA1204 Harold Shea, Sr., interviewed by Michael Chaney, summer 1978, Wiscasset, Maine. 44 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Shea talks about the Turner Center Creamery.

  NA1205 Maurice Pendleton, Brian Pendleton, Mary Marston, and Steven McAllister interviewed by Michael Chaney, summer 1978, Wiscasset, Maine. 9 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ trans. Recollections of two unrecorded interviews, one with the Pendletons about Pendleton’s Market, and another with Marston about Wiscasset; information from McAllister about the Stanley H. Miner, a four-masted Schooner built in Newcastle, Maine in 1902.

  NA1210 By Michael Chaney, fall 1978, Lincoln County, Maine. 28 pp. ms. Copy of text which accompanies the E. Joseph Leighton Photograph exhibit, displayed at Memorial Union, UMaine, May 10-30, 1979. Exhibit done by Chaney with a youth-grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.