Butler, Joyce
Dates
- Existence: 1933-
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Allen H. Salisbury and Florence D. Salisbury, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Althea (Mrs. Frank) Beard, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Arnold Stinson, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Arthur Roberts, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Austin Wilkins interviewed by Joyce Butler
Bernard Hawkes, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Bessie Ricker, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Betty and Stanley Littlefield, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Carolyn (Mrs. Frank) Craig, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Champ and Elizabeth Gould, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Charlotte Stewart, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Clayton Weymouth, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Coyle Meserve, interviewed by Joyce Butler
1239 Coyle Meserve, interviewed by Joyce Butler, July 16, 1977, Dayton, Maine. Meserve discusses the fires of 1947 in Dayton; progression of the fire; tally of lost buildings; burning of his family’s barn and home; use of cider to save a house; aid given by the Red Cross; salvaging timber after the fire; how the town was different after rebuilding; why the forest in 1947 burned so easily; and improvements in firefighting by 1977.
Desmond O’Hara and Carl “Dick” Schmalz, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Dorothea (Mrs. Fred) Smith, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Dorothy H. Stanley and Christine Baker Rowell letters, read by Joyce Butler
Dr. John W. Kelley, monologue recorded for Joyce Butler
Earl Bibber, interviewed by Joyce Butler
1220 Earl Bibber, interviewed by Joyce Butler, February 14, 1977, Kennebunk, Maine. Bibber talks about his experience during the fires of 1947 as a member of the Arundel Engine Company; community firefighting efforts; working on the line fighting the fire; the Kennebunkport village under threat; purchase of new equipment after the fire; feelings of firemen about their work; depletion of water supply; and towns helping neighboring towns.
Esther Smith, interviewed by Joyce Butler
1232 Esther Smith, interviewed by Joyce Butler, November 2, 1977, Waterboro, Maine. Smith talks about the fires of 1947 in Waterboro; reading of a paper she wrote for a local historical society; outbreak of fire; escape to Saco; her young daughters’ reactions to the fire; reading of another paper she wrote; dry weather conditions that autumn; firefighters and feed stations; evacuation of Waterboro; buildings which were lost to the fire; and community and Red Cross relief efforts.
Esther W. Boynton, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Frank Handlen, interviewed by Joyce Butler
1228 Frank Handlen, interviewed by Joyce Butler, September 9, 1977, Kennebunkport, Maine. Handlen discusses his experience of the 1947 wildfires in the Biddeford – Kennebunkport area; sight of the smoke; fire coming through and description of it; a man who saved his house; lack of organized firefighting; fire lingering in a bog and loss of trees; how Goose Rocks burned; and a house that was spared.
G. Robert Butler, interviewed by Joyce Butler
1221 G. Robert Butler, interviewed by Joyce Butler, July 8, 1977, Kennebunk, Maine. Butler discusses the fires of 1947 in Biddeford, Maine; community effort to help those displaced by the fires; high school boys fighting the fires; locations he fought fire; firefighting in neighboring towns; preparations to leave; lack of awareness about fires in other parts of Maine; the woods after the fires had gone out; and learning to fight fire by experience.
J. Malcolm Barter, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Jane E. Cormier (Mrs. Edward) Obermeyer, interviewed by Joyce Butler
1422 Jane Cormier Obermeyer, interviewed by Joyce Butler, October 11, 1980, Kennebunk, Maine. Obermeyer talks about the fire of 1947 in Bar Harbor, Maine; where her family’s home was; the smell of the fire; waiting to be evacuated; leaving the island by Army truck; the accident during evacuation which killed her sister; attitude of those waiting to be evacuated; and her father saving the Catholic church.
Josephine Higgins, interviewed by Joyce Butler
1233 Josephine Higgins, interviewed by Joyce Butler, April 21, 1977, Bar Harbor, Maine. Higgins discusses the 1947 fires in Bar Harbor; delaying evacuation; evacuation routes; fear that gas tanks would explode; and the kindness of people and the Red Cross.
Kenneth Day, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Lawrence T. Dolby, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Lloyd Davis, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Louise and Raymond Russell, interviewed by Joyce Butler
1238 Louise and Raymond Russell, interviewed by Joyce Butler, August 8, 1977, Kennebunk, Maine. The Russells talk about the fires of 1947 in Kennebunk; distance traveled by the fire; moving their possessions out; progression of the second fire; saving Louise’s home; sense that firefighters couldn’t get ahead of the fire; and the building of farm ponds after 1947.
Mabel Emery and Ruth Gobeil, interviewed by Joyce Butler
Additional filters:
- Type
- Archival Object 35
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Evacuation of civilians 17
- Firefighting 17
- Volunteer fire fighters 10
- Arson 7
- Bar Harbor (Me.) -- History 6
- Fires -- Casualties 6
- Cape Porpoise (Me.) 5
- Fire fighters 5
- Fire prevention 4
- Goose Rocks Beach -- Kennebunkport -- Maine 4
- Salvage logging 3
- Spectators 3
- Telephone operators 3
- Telephone switchboards 3
- Waterboro (Me.) -- History 3
- Alfred (Me.) 2
- Biddeford (Me.) -- History 2
- First aid in illness and injury 2 + ∧ less