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MF111 Folksong in February Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
NA2596 David Mallett, David Ingraham, Charlie Nevells, Larry Kaplan, Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, Kendall Morse, Margaret MacArthur, Norman Kennedy, Louis and Sally Killen, Yodelin' Slim Clark, Charlotte Cormier, Sparky Rucker, Sandy and Caroline Paton, Hazel Dickens, Tim Woodbridge, Joe Hickerson, Debby McClatchy, Gordon Bok, Sean Corcoran, Bill Shute and Lisa Null, by Maine Folklife Center, February, 1977, Orono, Maine. Recordings of a folk music concert program called "Folksongs in February" held at the University of Maine in February, 1977. Accession includes 8 black & white contact sheets of 35 mm photos of the performances. Text: 36 pp. index and copies of photos. NOTE: While most of the collection is digitized, there are 14 cassette tapes that have yet to be digitized.
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MF117 Frye Mountain Interviews / Jeffrey "Smokey" McKeen
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Interviews done by Jeff "Smokey" McKeen concerning the farming community of Frye Mountain in Waldo County and its acquisition by the federal government in the 1930s. Interviews cover the problems like having to selling land to the government, bad roads for automobiles, and other issues.
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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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