Penobscot Bay Islands Interviews
Scope and Contents
A series of interviews with residents of the Penobscot Bay Islands. Interviewees discuss local history; economic aspects of island life; food supplies; summer people; fishing; farming; sail, steam, and motor boats; health care; and schools. Specific islands discussed include: Hog Island, Pond Island, Western Island, Pickering’s Island; Eagle Island, Opechee Island, Bear Island, and Butter Island.
Dates
- 1975
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
Rights assessment remains the responsibility of the researcher. No known restrictions on material.
Extent
7 items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
NA0990 Clara Orcutt, interviewed by John Bannon, summer 1975, at her home in Stonington, Maine. Orcutt (b. 1884) discusses life on Hog Island, Pond Islands, and Western Island in the late 19th and early twentieth centuries: farming; raising sheep and cattle; seine and weir fishing; boat building; summer people who visited; entertainment; schooling. Text: 17 pp. transcript/index. Recording: mfc_na0990_t0990_01, mfc_na0990_t0990_02, mfc_na0990_t0991_01, mfc_na0990_t0991_02, mfc_na0990_t0992_01,mfc_na0990_t0992_02, mfc_na0990_t0993_01 3 1/2 hours.
NA0991 Captain Erland Quinn, interviewed by John Bannon, summer 1975, Camden, Maine. Captain Quinn talks about Eagle Island. Text: 10 pp. catalog. Recording: mfc_na0991_t0994_01, mfc_na0991_t0994_02, mfc_na0991_t0995_01, mfc_na0991_t0995_02, mfc_na0991_t0996_01, mfc_na0991_t0997_01, mfc_na0991_t0997_02 1 1/2 hours.
NA0992 Lem Robbins, interviewed by John Bannon, summer 1975, Ellsworth, Maine. Robbins talks about Opechee Island; buildings; work; transportation; history. Text: 4 pp. brief catalog. Recording: mfc_na0992_t0998_01, mfc_na0992_t0998_02 1 1/2 hours.
NA0993 Wolcott Hardie, interviewed by Bannon, John, summer 1975, Deer Isle, Maine. Hardie talks about Bear Island. Text: 4 pp. brief catalog. Recording: mfc_na0993_t0999_01, mfc_na0993_t0999_02 1 hour 4 minutes.
NA0994 Vida Sylvester, interviewed by John Bannon, summer 1975, Deer Isle, Maine. Sylvester talks about Eagle Island. Text: 4 pp. brief catalog. Recording: mfc_na0994_t1000_01, mfc_na0994_t1000_02, mfc_na0994_t1001_01, mfc_na0994_t1001_02 1 hour 54 minutes.
NA0995 Abby Weed, interviewed by Lisa Schneider, summer 1975, Little Deer Isle, Maine. Weed talks about local history of Butter Island, Bear Island, Eagle Island. Text: 5 pp. brief catalog. Recording: mfc_na0995_t1002_01, mfc_na0995_t1002_02, mfc_na0995_t1003_01, mfc_na0995_t1004_01 1 hour 43 minutes.
NA0996 Laura Brown, interviewed by Lisa Schneider, summer 1975, Stonington, Maine. Brown talks about Eagle Island. Text: 8 pp. brief catalog. Recording: mfc_na0996_t1005_01, mfc_na0996_t1006_01, mfc_na0996_t1007_01, mfc_na0996_t1008_01 1 hour 51 minutes.
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.
- Folklore Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Maine -- History, Local Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oral histories Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Penobscot Bay (Me.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Penobscot Bay Islands Interviews
- Status
- Digital Objects Available
- Author
- Staff of Fogler Library Special Collections Department
- Date
- March 2018
- 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
