Mrs. James (Estelle) Shea, interviewed by David Currier
Scope and Contents
Interviews that focus on lumbering, woods work, and river drives that are not associated with specific projects.
Dates
- 1969-1990
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
From the Collection: 54 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
0552 Mrs. James Shea, interviewed by David Currier, March 14, 1970, Bangor, Maine. Shea talks about going to her father’s lumber camp in Oxbow, Maine, as a little girl; riding in a pung to the camp; the wangan; ghost stories told by men in the camp; buying and selling spruce gum; the cook and cookee in the camp; lumbercamp songs; meeting up with her father’s river drive; superstitions; strange phenomena; and the poem or song, “The Preacher and the Bear.” Text: 15 pp. transcript. Recording: T 0285 1/2 hour.
- Folk music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ghost stories Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Horse-drawn vehicles Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lumber camps -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sleds Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Repository Details
Part of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207.581.1686
