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MF120 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Acadia National Park
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
A series of interviews conducted by Maine Folklife Center staff with men who were enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corp. in the 1930s and served at one of the three camps run by ANP: the Eagle Lake or Bar Harbor camp (on the site of the current park headquarters), the Long Pond or Southwest Harbor camp (off Clark Point Road); and the Ellsworth camp (on the Buttermilk Road). Also included are interviews with women who married men from the camps and other local residents who remember the camps. Included are 226 photographs.
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MF121 Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA)
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This collection contains interviews with people associated with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) and the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. Themes include the process of beginning to farm organically, the early development of MOFGA and its growth; the Common Ground Fair and its expansion; marketing organic food; farming strategies; raising livestock; and MOFGA's interactions with conventional farmers and the wider community.
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MF123 Spiritualist Church / Bonita Freeman Witthoft Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This collections consists of a series of interviews and recordings of various meetings and sessions of the Spiritualist Church in Maine and especially at Camp Etna. They were conducted by Bonita Freeman Witthoft in connection with her thesis From the Other Side of Life: Modern Spiritualism in Maine, c.1975.
Witthoft was primarily interested in fundamental religious concepts, forms of apprenticeship, acquired patterns of perception and behavior, the discipline of mediums as spokesmen for spirit guides, and on the complex act of delivering messages. Among topics covered are healing, physical versus mental mediumship, projection, trance, controls and guides, and automatism.
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MF129 Emigration from the Maritimes / John Myers Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Interviews with individuals of Anglo-European descent about immigration from the Maritime Provinces to Maine.
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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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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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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.
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MF160 Fisheries / Ted Ames Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
There are two parts of the Fisheries / Ted Ames Collection, but both are recordings by Ted Ames that have to do with fisheries. Part I a series of interviews by Ames about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine and Penobscot Bay fisheries. Part II is recordings from the Localized Fishery Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ted Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks on October 31 and November 1, 1997.
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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.
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