Maine State Grange
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Alice Coffin, interviewed by Harriet Tilley
Series
Abstract
0880 Alice Coffin, interviewed by Harriet Tilley, October 29, 1974, Bangor, Maine. Coffin discusses her life in northern Maine; her father’s canoe-making; working at Passadumkeag Kindling Wood Factory circa 1900; Passadumkeag in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the Grange as a social center; traditional medicine; doctors and home visits; celebration of various holidays; when she heard President McKinley was assassinated; the Great Depression as easier for those who had...
Dates:
1974-1980
Grange Conference Banners
Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1825-sc
Scope and Contents
Five banners for a grange conference in Orono, Maine, in 1926. There is no indication if the conference was local to the Orono Grange or if it was a larger conference for the Maine State Grange.
Dates:
1926
Jean English, interviewed by Anu Dudley
Series
Abstract
3063 Jean English, interviewed by Anu Dudley, September 21, 2002, Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. English talks about moving to Lincolnville, Maine in 1985; looking for and buying tillable land; farm budgets based on the Nearings model; having children; growing nursery crops for FEDCO; the specifics of growing bayberries; moving from farming to writing as a primary source of income; volunteering with MOFGA; becoming editor of the MOFGA newspaper; how the MOFGA newspaper has changed over...
Dates:
2000-2004
Maine State Subordinate, Juvenile, and Pomona Grange Records
Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0322
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of records of individual subordinate and juvenile chapters of the Grange in Maine. Included are secretarys' books, dues books, roll books, and account books.
Dates:
1873-2003
Traditional Music of Maine Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: MF039
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 37 cassette recordings of interviews (now digitized) with 44 individuals in addition to performances. Traditional Music of Maine celebrates the musical legacies of a variety of Maine folk communities by exploring their cultural and historical significance through oral history interviews with musicians and other community members. The tapes introduce the general public to the remarkable diversity and vitality of Maine's musical traditions.
Program...
Dates:
1987-1991
- 5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine - Orono, ME 04469-5729
- 207.581.1686
um.library.spc@maine.edu
library.umaine.edu/speccoll/
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