Various, interviewed by Doris Stackpole

0361 Various, interviewed by Doris Stackpole for CP 180, spring 1962, Bridgewater, Maine. Informants include: Nall Bradbury, Mood Tompkins, Howard Lewis, Frank McKeen, Stanley Finnemore, and Charles Finnemore. Accession includes a description of Bridgewater, Maine, where material was collected; biographical sketches of informants. Bradbury, Tompkins, Lewis, McKeen, S. Finnemore, and C. Finnemore talk about devil stories; witch stories; forerunners; Indian superstitions; tall tales about corn popping in the field, hunting, farming; jokes about religion; origin of the name of Sugar Hill; skipping rhymes; the words to ballads including “I Had but Fifty Cents,” “The Blind Beggar’s Daughter,” “Sir James, the Rose,” “There was a Little Girl,” “The Brooklyn Theater Fire,” “Dear Italian Girl,” “The Road to Dundee,” “The Bold Fisherman,” “Fuller and Warren,” “The Miramichi Fire,” “Old Erin’s Shore,” “After the Ball,” “Lumberman’s Alphabet.” Also included: a tape of S. Finnemore singing “Sir Neil and Glengyle,” “The Soldier’s Letter,” “The Bright Silver Light o’ the Moon,” and “Sir James, the Rose.” Text: 86 pp. paper w/ brief catalog and partial transcript. Recording: T 0248 / PM 0018 / CD 0008 1/2 hour. RESTRICTED