MF 004, collection summary, 2018

Aroostook Oral History Project, 1971-1972, which resulted in a collection of 119 cassettes (now digitized), totaling 73 hours, with interviews of more than 150 people covering a wide range of topics; i.e., early county history, early farming and machinery, the Aroostook War, railroading, lumbering, potato farming, maple sugar making, folksongs, 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. Tapes in French (20) and Swedish (2) have not been abstracted and have only brief descriptions of contents; a general index for the collection by subject and town is available in house. This collection was put into public domain by the Cary Library (Houlton, Maine).