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MF080 Nash Island Light Project Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
A series of two interviews with Jenny Cirone, age 86, done on behalf of a group wishing to restore the Nash Island Lighthouse, by Anu Dudley in October, 1998. The interviews primarily focused on Jenny Cirone’s reminiscences of growing up on Nash Island, Maine, where her father was the lighthouse keeper. Topics include: raising and shearing sheep; fishing; lobstering; clamming; gardening; schooling; tending the Nash Island lighthouse; tourists; ice skating; hurricanes; games; boats; clothing; social life; storms; and wrecks.
NA2545 Jenny Cirone, interviewed by Anu Dudley, September 29, 1998, at Mrs. Cirone’s home in South Addison, Maine. Cirone, age 86, talks about growing up on Nash Island, Maine; raising and shearing sheep; fishing; lobstering; clamming; gardening; schooling; and tending the Nash Island lighthouse (her father was the lighthouse keeper); tourists; ice skating; hurricanes.
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MF081 Lynn Franklin Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
A collection 73 separate accessions containing interviews with Mainers on a wide range of topics relating to life and work in the state of Maine, conducted 1972-1983 by Lynn Franklin, a journalist who specialized in cultural stories, occupational lore, life histories, and human interest stories. Of special interest are Franklin's interviews relating to lobstering, woods work, guides and canoe building, boats and boat building, and rural education. Franklin published Profiles of Maine in 1976 based on some of his interviews deposited in the Northeast Archives.
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MF082 C. Richard K. Lunt Collection (Jones Tracy & Boat Builders)
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This collection consists of two series. The first, Jones Tracy, is a series of interviews conducted by Richard Lunt in 1963 and 1964 which served as the basis for Lunt’s University of Maine M.A. thesis. Some material was also published as Jones Tracy: Tall Tale Hero from Mount Desert Island (Northeast Folklore, Vol. X). Interviewees recorded on tape include: Chauncey Somes, Ralph Tracy, Laurie Holmes, John Carroll, Robert Smallidge, George Tracy Reed, Lydia Storer, Clark Manring, Gus Phillips, and Phillip and Charles Carroll. Material appears to include many hunting and fishing stories, some genealogy of the Tracy family and other folklore and local history.
The second series (boat builders), conducted by Lunt in 1970, relates to boat building and were done in preparation for his doctoral dissertation, Lobster boat Building on the Eastern Coast of Maine: a comparative study, Indiana University, 1975. These interviews are fully transcribed. Interviewees include Ronald Rich, Southwest Harbor; Malcolm McDuffy, Bernard; Len Pierce, Southwest Harbor; Clarence Harding, Bernard; Oscar Smith, Jonesport; Ralph Stanley, Bernard; James. E. Beal, Jonesport; Erwin Alley, Jonesport; Harold Gower, Jonesport; Alvin Beal, Jonesport; Bert Frost, Jonesport; Richard Alley, Jonesport; Harry Beal, Jonesport; Clinton Beal, Jonesport; and Raymond Bunker, Southwest Harbor.
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MF085 Thomas "Archie" Stewart Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
The Stewart family of Newburgh, New York, had a long association with the eastern Maine area where they had a camp. Rob Golding of Perry, Maine, acted as their guide for many years in the first half of the twentieth century. This collection consists of a series of interviews with Golding, a renowned storyteller, conducted by Archie Stewart; a manuscript history of the Stewart family; and video copies of Stewart family home movies.
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MF087 Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project / Davida Kellogg
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Series of 26 interviews by Davida Kellogg with Vietnam War veterans. Restricted interviews may be accessed for scholarly use, only.
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MF089 Marshall Dodge Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Rob Golding and Earl Bonness give humorous stories and anecdotes of Downeast about local people and events, and these anecdotes reflect the quintessential Downeast character and type of humor later made famous by Marshall Dodge in his stories of “Bert and I” and may suggest the origins of the types of characters and humor Dodge used in his “Bert and I” records.
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MF095 Dowsing and Dowsers Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
A series of interviews and supplemental manuscript material on dowsing or water witching, most conducted as part of a class project in Edward D. “Sandy” Ives’ Oral History and Folklore: Fieldwork (AY 125) course at the University of Maine in 1984. Other accessions were added to the series because of their focus on dowsing. Dowsers discuss techniques and materials; uses of dowsing in archaeology learning to dowse; beliefs about dowsing; dowsing as a way of healing; locating ley lines; and tell dowsing stories.
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MF097 Frank Spizuoco / Dexter Town History Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Interviews conducted by Frank Spizuoco from 1963 to 1970 of two residents of Dexter, Maine. Albert “Bert” Call, a retired Dexter photographer, talks about local history and about his working life before and after moving to Dexter, Maine in 1886, and Erma Bentley, a long-time resident of Dexter, records her memories about early Dexter residents and town history.
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MF098 Robert Black Recordings of Folksinger George Edwards
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
George Edwards, donated by Robert Black, summer 1989. Accession consists of three tape reels containing songs and ballads sung by George Edwards, a well-known traditional singer of ballads and folksongs from the Catskill Mountain region of New York. The recordings date from 1938-1944 and were made by various people and later compiled by Robert Black of the University of California at Berkeley then sent to Edward D. “Sandy” Ives at the Northeast Archives sometime in the 1960s.
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MF099 Frances Robinson Mitchell Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Frances Robinson Mitchell (1924-2018) was the daughter of Lawrence Robinson and Geneva A. Steen Robinson. Her paternal grandfather, Frank L. Robinson was the first member of the family to get into the lumber industry. Ms. Robinson Mitchell attended Ricker Classical Institute, Houlton, Maine. In 1942, she enrolled at the University of Maine, leaving after two years to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve during World War II. She published the book, Experiencing the Great Depression and World War II: A Look Back to an Unforgettable Period, in 1990.
Items donated by Frances Robinson Mitchell, including an essay for her children about her grandfather, her time in the Marine Corps in WWII, and woods work.
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