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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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MF163 Somalis in Lewiston, Maine Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
This collection includes interviews with five Somali women living in Lewiston, Maine in 2003. The interviews were conducted by Elizabeth Hoyt Hannibal and Dianne Schindler for a project for ANT 425 taught by Dr. James Moreira at the University of Maine. Included is a narrative of how Hannibal and Schindler set up the interviews with Fatuma Hussein, Azeb Hassan, Hawa Kahin, Kiih Issa, and Ayan Ismail. Interviews took place in Lewiston at Daryeelka, Inc., a resource for families that assists them in becoming economically independent and active participants in community life. Also included in the collection is a paper by Caterina Anderson at the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy “The Somalis of Lewiston, Maine: A Policy Perspective” written on May 10, 2004. Also included is a small collection of current articles with maps from the World Wide Web about Somalia and about Somalis in Lewiston.
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MF164 Maine Pack Basket Makers Collection
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Maine Pack Basket Makers Tradition consists of nine interviews conducted by Bill Mackowski between 2010-2012 with basket makers in several communities involving Maine basket making techniques.
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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.
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MF168 Crab-Picking Project / Blossom Kravitz
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Interviews about crab-picking in Maine. This research led to Crab Picking: An Endangered Maine Cottage Industry, Northeast Folklore XLVI.
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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.
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