Student paper, by Judith Ocker

Series

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Students from Bowdoin college investigated topics and wrote papers related to the folklore and folklife of Maine communities, including beliefs of fishermen, cookery, farm life, Prohibition and rum-running, mill work, Bath Iron Works, lobstering, quilting, folk medicine, ghosts,lighthouse keeping, boat building, lumbering, ship building, carpentry, hunting, and storytelling.

Dates

Creation: 1980

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

From the Collection: 27 items

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

1433 By Judith Ocker for AY 13 (Bowdoin College), fall 1980, Brunswick and Topsham, Maine. 30 pp. ms. Paper titled "Folk Cookery in the Brunswick-Topsham Area." Text: 30 pp. paper.