Aroostook Oral History Project
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates
- 1971-1972
Creator
- Atchison, Helen K. (Interviewer, Person)
Language of Materials
English, Swedish, and French
Conditions Governing Access
For digitized items free from access restrictions, we are working to upload this material (pdfs, mp3s, jpgs) for public access, but it is an ongoing project. If you don’t find what you are looking for here, contact Special Collections (um.library.spc@maine.edu).
Conditions Governing Use
Information on copyright available in the repository.
Biographical / Historical
Project conducted under the auspices of the Cary Library in Houlton, Maine.
Extent
126 items
Existence and Location of Originals
Located at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: AFC 2012/047 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013655211.
Materials Specific Details
Audio files are the primary source material. Transcriptions are the transcriber's best effort to convert audio to text, but should be considered secondary to the audio.
- Allagash (Me.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Aroostook County (Me.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Farmers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Folk music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Houlton (Me.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lumbering Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Maine -- Politics and government Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Malabeam Subject Source: Local sources
- Malecite Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Native American and non-Native contact -- Hostile Subject Source: Local sources
- Oral histories Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Railroads Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Schools Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Aroostook Oral History Project
- Status
- Digital Objects Available
- Author
- Staff at the Fogler Library Special Collections Department
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English.
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
