Pierce, Alice Mary

Abstract

NA3145 Marion Brown Payson, interviewed by Alice Mary Pierce, January 23, 1992, Cumberland Foreside, Maine. Payson, born in Portland in 1896, talks about the Westover School and Waynflete Academy; Congregationalist Church; describes neighborhood; Red Cross in Halifax; Nova Scotia; starting a canteen at Delano Park; working in a sick house during the 1918 Flu Epidemic; Bangor Theological Seminary. Text: 25 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1019 45 minutes (incomplete).

Abstract NA3131 Robert Hartford Cram, interviewed by Alice Mary Pierce, October 15, 1986, Falmouth Foreside, Maine. Cram, born April 20, 1904, talks about his background and family; moving to Yarmouth; moving to Falmouth; taking trolley to Portland High School; working as a janitor; drafting in high school; home life growing up; his grandparents in Baldwin, ME; family genealogy burned; siblings; telephone; landscape school (Newark, New York); Jackson Perkins (nursery); working as a landscaper; built...