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  MF001 Airline Road & Airline Community Project

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

  The collection consists of six interviews conducted by Joan Brooks and Jack Beard for an oral history fieldwork course taught by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives at the University of Maine in 1976. The interviews focus on the history of Eddington, Maine and the Airline Road (Rt. 9 from Bangor to Calais, ME) and the Airline community ca. 1900.

  NA1034 Adelbert “Del” Clewley, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, Eddington, Maine. Also present: Mrs. Clewley, his wife. Clewley talks about being from Eddington; using a pung as transport; going to school in Eddington Village; hunting for deer and the two deer maximum; how his family stored food through the winter; hauling ice from Eddington Pond; the first car in the area; the local mills; the baseball team; dances held around the area; skating and sledding; taxes; homemade clothes; not being affected by the Depression; playing cards; local stages; working days in fall, winter, spring, and summer; what he ate for meals throughout the day; his family; children’s jobs on the farm; ways to predict the weather; the local socials; village medicine; blacksmith’s shops; orphans; poor farms; pulling contests; moose meat; newspapers; chivarees; peddling turnips in Bangor; and snowshoeing

  NA1035 Verna (Mrs. Roscoe) Higgins, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, Eddington, Maine. Higgins discusses entertainment in the early 1900s; the Young Ladies Sociable; the Grange Hall; attending the local school in Eddington; how her family preserved meat; women’s jobs in the early 1900s; Bangor, the region’s central marketplace; Thursday, market day; food that was made for social events; how the Depression affected the area; Grange Hall meetings; the size of most farms in her day; local doctors; Sunday dinner; courtship rules; musicians in the area; summer plays; town meetings; when electricity came to Eddington; and mail delivery.

  NA1036 Gracie Strang, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, East Eddington, Maine. Strang talks about growing up in Eddington in the early 1900s; her father’s and then her work as an agent for the telephone company out of their house; being a teacher at the local school house; the owner of the first automobile in the area; self-sufficiency; holding dances in Eddington Grange hall; sledding or “sliding” for fun in the winter; ice skating; making her own clothes; celebrating Christmas; mayflowering; snow shoeing; peddlers; the local fortune teller; going into Bangor; summer theater; The Young Ladies Sociable; Fourth of July celebrations; mortuary practices; local remedies; Halloween; listening to the phonograph; listening to the radio; and berrying in the summer.

  NA1037 Clarence Grover, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, Eddington, Maine. Grover talks about knowing the people who drove the stage along the Airline (now route 9); getting married in 1930; how the Airline used to go over Chick Hill; poaching; working in his father’s mill; the first automobile; working to build the road around Chick Hill; working in a lumber camp; songs sung in the camp and at home; the Grange Hall in Amherst; his father; people who owned stills during Prohibition; fishing; working horses and driving horses; water-dowsing or water-witching; Jim Cranie, a healer, specifically a blood stopper; the farmers’ almanac; working with oxen; barn raising; what Christmas was like; knitting with his mother; and river driving.

  NA1038 J. Herbert Comins, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 25, 1976, Eddington, Maine. Comins talks about living in the same house he was born in; being a tree farmer; owning a dairy farm; his family history; serving three terms in the Sate Legislature; attending the school in East Eddington; driving the school team while in high school; how much of the food he ate was raised by his family; Thursday, market day; hunting; how they kept the meat; The Young Ladies Sociable; putting on plays; sewing circles; the local newspapers; getting and keeping ice; types of wagons his family owned; epidemics; mortuary practices; his wedding; town meetings; forecasting the weather; river travel; living through the Depression; and what Christmas was like in the early 1900s.

  NA1039 George Knox, interviewed by Joan Brooks, May 7, 1976, Holden, Maine. Knox talks about moving to Eddington, Maine, in 1902; raising their own meat; Frank Davis, a local market hunter; the route the old Airline road took; peddling in Bangor; trapping; poaching; Cal Graves; moose meat; going to dances; card games; what weddings were like; Halloween pranks; dowsing; weather lore; working in the woods; camp songs; men who made up songs in the area; working as a river driver; working for Great Northern; the other George Knox; and how he met his wife.

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  MF002 "Anna May: Eighty-Two Years in New England" Julie Hunter Collection

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

  Series of interviews with Anna Sevigny about her life history. Interviews were conducted by Julia Hunter in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1977. Topics covered include Irish immigrant ancestry; education levels; misunderstandings of different cultures; living conditions as a new arrival to the United States; disposition of parents.

  North Hartland, Vermont - descriptions of social life and mills in the region as well as tenants; learning women's roles; chores; marriage; sewing and cloth-making; food preparation; winemaking; entertainment; pets and livestock owned; travel and transportation over time; schooling; playing pranks; holiday celebrations; community church; lumbering; tensions with tourists; the introduction of electric light and telephones.

  Franklin, New Hampshire - working in a hosiery mill; meeting her husband and courtship practices; training to be a nurse in Manchester, New Hampshire; living conditions with first marriage; strikes in the mills; moving to Boston.

  Boston, Massachusetts - her husband's drinking problems; prohibition; entertainment and nursing in Boston, getting separated and moving to Woodstock, Vermont.

  Also covers social life during the Depression; her first car; getting divorced and living alone in Lebanon, New Hampshire; being a nanny; the Chicago World's Fair; working in Florida during World War II; her second marriage; hobbies and volunteer work; travels; shoulder accident; life after Mr. Sevigny's death; living in White River Junction, VT; learning to fly; and aging and living in a nursing home. See also Northeast Folklore XX: "Anna May: Eighty-Two Years in New England."

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  MF003 Argyle Boom Collection

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

  The Argyle Boom was one of several locations at which logs that were cut upriver and floated or “driven” down the Penobscot River were sorted before being sent on to the lumber mills in Old Town, Orono, Veazie, Bangor, and Brewer, Maine, from approximately 1900 to 1930. See also: Argyle Boom , Northeast Folklore, XVII (1976) and SpC MS 0398 Penobscot Lumbering Association, 1854-1953.

  NA0780 Leon Bussell, interviewed by Ralph Cook, October and November 1973; by Susan Tibbetts, October and November of 1975, at UM Lambda Chi Alpha house, Orono, Maine. Bussell talks about log-sorting booms on the Penobscot River, especially Argyle Boom; hanging and taking in the booms; his own work along the shore; making rafts of the logs; kinds of rafts; dropping off; equipment and clothing; Captain Kidd’s buried treasure; steamboats and their use in river drives; rescues and drownings; work of boom scalers; Pea Cove and other booms; and boom-related buildings on White Squaw Island.

  NA0781 Alfonse Martin and David Seymour, interviewed by Mary Beth O’Conner, October 1 and 8 and November 7, 1973, Old Town, Maine. Martin and Seymour talk about log-sorting booms on the Penobscot River, especially Argyle Boom; river drives; Penobscot Lumber Association (PLA); logging company marks used for sorting logs at the boom; construction and operation of boom; various jobs related to sorting and rafting the logs; tool and equipment used; living conditions for workers; other booms such as Mexico, Pea Cove, and Nebraska.

  NA0782 Victor Shorette, interviewed by Leslie “Dusty” Carr, October 2, 1973, Bradley, Maine. Shorette talks about log-sorting booms on the Penobscot River; logging companies; sorting long logs from pulp and spruce from hemlock and poplar, etc.; hanging and taking in booms.

  NA0783 Felix Cote, interviewed by Mark LaFond, October 6, 1973. Cote talks about log-sorting booms on the Penobscot Rive; the Pea Cove and Argyle booms; marks logging companies put on their logs; prize or unmarked logs; the sorting operation; rafting logs; working conditions; Penobscot Lumber Association (PLA); living conditions and recreation; origins of boom names.

  NA0784 David S. Brown, interviewed by Kenneth Whitney, October, 1973; by Susan Tibbetts, November, 1975, Tenant’s Harbor, Maine. Brown talks about the Pea Cove log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; his work on the boom in the summers of 1902-04 when he was 12 to 14 years old; the jobs of rafters, sorters, and runners; use of wedges to build rafts; meals; bosses; his marriage and work at Mt. Kineo; breaking up jams; daily pay; construction of boom and crib-work piers; buildings at Pea Cove; guiding; moose hunting; WWI enlistment and service.

  NA0786 Ernest Kennedy, interviewed by Ken Whitney, October and November, 1973; by Susan Tibbetts, November, 1975; by Elizabeth Warner and Cindy Lamb, October, 1975. Kennedy talks about the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot Rive; jobs such as checkers, runners; tools such as hookaroons, jiggers; method of tying joints to buoy; marks and prize (unmarked)logs; spring floods and jams; bosses Isaac Mann, Alonzo Mann, Wallace Drake, Walter Buzzell, Stephen Buzzell, and others; PLA; function of sorting gap, beats, joints, check line, swings, shear boom, buoys, dropping off; steamboats such as Toscah; cooks, cookees, and chambermaids; meals; description of kitchen and cooking methods; White Island boom house; pay; sleeping quarters; Indian and Irish workers; leisure activities such as gambling, music, dances, log rolling contests.

  NA0787 J. Kenneth LaFlamme, interviewed by Ralph Cook, October 10, 1973, Hancock, Maine. LaFlamme talks about the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; his work at age 12 and 13 on the boom rafting logs; PLA; bosses; pay; lice and wet clothes; cook house and bunk house; music. Accession also includes correspondence and handwritten notes from LaFlamme.

  NA0788 Emile Leavitt, interviewed by Mark LaFond, October 25, 1973, Old Town, Maine. Leavitt talks about the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; construction of boom piers; checking, rafting, dropping off and other aspects of boom operation; use of wedges in assembling rafts; use of pickeroon; swings; the back way drive; meals and living conditions; Pea Cove and Nebraska booms; his work building dams for Great Northern Paper Co.

  NA0789 Stephen R. “Rex” Buzzell, interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, October 23, 1973, Old Town, Maine. Buzzell talks about the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; the spring flood and resulting log jam of 1923; construction of jam piers; Sunkhaze, Nebraska and Pea Cove booms; use of shear boom; buildings on White Squaw Island; living conditions and recreation; structure and operation of boom, gap, beats, jigger, marks, swings, stray raft, dropping off; tools.

  NA0790 Harry Twitchell, interviewed by Leslie “Dusty” Carr, October 26, 29, November 27, 1973; by Lucinda Lamb and Elizabeth Warner, November 14, 1975, Greenbush, Maine. Twitchell talks about the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; tools and techniques for rafting, checking, and sorting logs; dropping off; swings; Sunkhaze Rips; Pea Cove; Nebraska boom; Cow Island; White Squaw Island; Birch Island; building piers; hanging the boom; the boom house, meals and living conditions; bosses Gene Mann, Billy Mann, and Walter Drake; pickeroons, hookeroons; rear crew’s duties; jams.

  NA0792 Leon Bussell, Emile Leavitt, Ernest Kennedy, Stephen “Rex” Buzzell, interviewed by class, November 8, 1973, November 15, 1973, November 20, 1973, and November 27, 1973 (respectively) Room B South Stevens Hall, UMaine, Orono, Maine. During the interviews, there was a model of Argyle Boom on the table, tools of the trade, maps, aerial photographs, and a number of Archives photographs available for the respondents to comment on. Bussell, Leavitt, Kennedy, and Buzzell talk about the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; the construction and operation of piers, gaps, and headworks; tools and techniques for sorting, rafting, and dropping off logs; wedges and mallets; stray pen; prize logs; beats; joints; swings; jigger and trapeze line; endways rafts; backway drive; jail boom; jobbers marks; living conditions and meals; Pea Cove, Nebraska, and Cuba booms; Black Island; Freese Island; Foster Island; Sunkhaze; Old Town; Gene Mann and Billy Mann.

  NA0793 Harry Kennedy, interviewed by Mark LaFond, November 12, 1973, Pea Cove, Maine. Kennedy talks about the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; rafting and dropping off logs; stray rafts; jillpoking; checking; Pea Cove and Nebraska booms; Gene Mann and Billy Mann; Walter Buzzell; Irish workers; Greenville; endway rafts; the trip.

  NA0796 Alex Rouleau, interviewed by Mary Beth O’Conner, November 30, 1973, Old Town, Maine. Rouleau talks about the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; living conditions; leisure activities (gathering spruce gum, fishing, swimming, games); meals; stray logs; wages; Nebraska and Pea Cove booms; log jams; tools; rigging; beats; jobber’s marks; Rex Buzzell; Walter Buzzell; Gene Mann; Billy Mann.

  NA0804 Wallace “Del” Soule, interviewed by Mark LaFond, March 8, 1974, April 17, 1974; by Lucinda Lamb, October 25, 1975, Costigan, Maine. Soule talks about the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; the use of steam boats and bateaus in moving the rafts and swings that had been made up at the boom to the logging company’s designated stretch of shore or mill.

  NA0836 John Costigan, interviewed by Mark LaFond, April 22, 1974, Costigan, Maine. Costigan talks about the techniques of shoring logs after they had been sorted at the booms on the Penobscot Rive; the use of steam boats and bateaux to haul the rafts of logs to the appropriate spot on the shore; diagrams.

  NA1001 William McLaughlin, interviewed by Elizabeth “Betsy” Warner, November 22, 1975, Old Town, Maine. McLaughlin talks about the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River; dropping off and running crews; marks; sorting logs; rafting logs; Nebraska and Pea Cove booms; White Island; friends Darky Willet, Harvy Cutliff, Dave Seymore, Cody Martin, Harry Cutliff; living conditions and meals; construction of piers; use of steam boats; mills.

  NA1002 Nick Ranco, interviewed by Lucinda Lamb, November 21, 1975 for a class project. The interview focuses on the Argyle log-sorting boom on the Penobscot River. Topics covered include construction and operation of the booms; French, Bangor and Indian crews worked different sections; living conditions; meals; jams; rafts; salvaging rafting poles and rope to sell; leisure activities.

  NA1014 Emile Leavitt, interviewed by Mark LaFond, March 27, 1974, Old Town, Maine. Leavitt talks about log sorting booms on the Penobscot River. Topics covered include shoring, mill drives, scaling, and the boom in general.

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  MF004 Aroostook Oral History Project

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

  The Aroostook Oral History Project, 1971-1972, which resulted in a collection of 119 cassettes (now digitized), totaling 73 hours. Interviews of more than 150 people were conducted by Helen K. Atchison covering a wide range of topics including early county history, early farming and machinery, the Aroostook War, railroading, lumbering, potato farming, maple sugar making, folk songs, folklore, folk medicine, politics, town meetings, cross-border migration, smuggling, Indians, sporting camps, schools and schooling, tall tales, superstitions, and many other aspects of the county's cultural heritage. Twenty tapes recorded in French and two tapes recorded in Swedish have not been abstracted and have only brief descriptions of contents. This collection was placed into the public domain by the Cary Library (Houlton, Maine).

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  MF006 Bowdoin College Folklore Papers

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

  Twenty-six student papers written for a course in folklore offered at Bowdoin College during the fall semester, 1980.

  NA1428 Brian Keefe, Chatham, Massachusetts. Superstitious beliefs among Cape Cod fishermen.

  NA1429 Elizabeth Poliner, Brunswick, Maine. Traditional French-Canadian cookery.

  NA1430 Irma Raitt, interviewed by Julie Greene, Eliot, Maine. A farm wife talks about her life.

  NA1431 Billy Edwards, interviewed by Judy Laster, Brunswick, Maine. Edwards talks about the history of Brunswick during Prohibition; rum-running; police chief Edwards; and how he dealt with the problem.

  NA1432 Debora Mish, Bridgewater, Maine. "Millwork and the Folk Tradition."

  NA1433 Judith Ocker, Brunswick and Topsham, Maine. "Folk Cookery in the Brunswick-Topsham Area."

  NA1434 Mary Rees, Bath and Brunswick, Maine. "Bath Iron Works: An Oral History."

  NA1435 Harold Ulrickson, interviewed by Sheba Veghte, Freeport, Maine. Ulrickson, from Freeport, Maine, talks about being a lobsterman.

  NA1436 Mrs. Christian Brown, interviewed by Lisa Rosen, Freeport, Maine. Brown, age 80, talks about being a quiltmaker, having made over a hundred quilts.

  NA1437 Eleanor Wormwood, interviewed by Lucinda Martin, Kennebunkport, Maine. Wormwood talks about how he uses herbs and berries to make folk medicines.

  NA1438 Andrew Segal, Brunswick, Maine. Collection of ghost stories.

  NA1439 Edward Poole, Merrymeeting Bay, Maine. "Merrymeeting Bay: Its Folk History and Duck Hunting Tradition."

  NA1440 Edith Smith, Lubec, Maine. The Smith family, lighthouse keepers at West Quoddy Head light for 30 years.

  NA1441 Eugene Alexander, interviewed by Suzanne Kort, Orr’s Island, Maine. Alexander, a boatbuilder, fisherman, lobsterman, talks about his life.

  NA1442 Normand Parent, interviewed by John Theberge, Maine. Parent talks about his lumbering experiences in northern Maine.

  NA1443 Sterling Mills, interviewed by Daniel Shannon, Bryant Pond, Maine. Mills talks about life in a family logging camp.

  NA1444 Douglas Ingersoll, Harpswell, Maine. Territoriality and rivalry among lobstermen in Harpswell. RESTRICTED.

  NA1445 Philippe Franqules, Harpswell, Maine. "Harpswell, Maine: Shipbuilding, Farming and Folklore."

  NA1446 Jean Poulin, interviewed by Scott Wright, Brunswick, Maine. Poulin talks about being a woods worker and carpenter.

  NA1447 Edmund "Rip" Black, interviewed by Jim Pasman, Bailey’s Island, Maine. Black talks about being a lobsterman.

  NA1448 Keith George, Mr. Potholm, and Irve Richardson, interviewed by Michael Sheehan, Brunswick, Maine. George, Potholm, Richardson talk about hunting in Maine.

  NA1449 Amy Homans, Augusta, Brunswick, and Bangor, Maine. "Cookery as a Folk Tradition in a Maine Family."

  NA1450 Captain Charlton C. Smith interviewed by Susan Caras, Marblehead, MA. "Sea Stories: A Focus on Captain Charles H. Snellen of Marblehead, Mass."

  NA1451 Charles Redman, East Otisfield, Maine. "Ellis Stone: A Story Teller."

  NA1452 Virl Reid, Peak’s Island and Portland, Maine. "Local Tales of the Supernatural as a Reflection of the Social Structure and Attitudes of Peak’s Island, Portland, Maine."

  NA1453 Carolyn Richins, Warwick, Rhode Island. "Rum-running in Warwick, RI."

  NA1454 Mr. Harry Baldwin & Mrs. Harry Baldwin, Raymond Charron, and Emory Booker, interviewed by Jane Patrick, Brunswick, Maine. The Baldwins, Charron, and Booker talk about life in a Maine mill town.