Joan Brooks Community Public Meetings
Scope and Contents
Recordings of town meetings and school board meetings of Eddington, Holden, and Brewer.
Dates
- 1977-78
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
6 items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
NA1101 By Joan Brooks, March 22, 1977, Eddington, Maine. Recording of annual town meeting, March 22, 1977 in Eddington; copy of 1976-77 Annual Town Report.
Text: brief catalog
Recording: mfc_na1101_t1126_01, mfc_na1101_t1126_02, mfc_na1101_t1127_01, mfc_na1101_t1127_02 4 hours
NA1112 Joan Brooks, May 25, 1977, Eddington, Maine. Recording of special town meeting held in Eddington to consider a town manager form of government; copy of Warrant for Special Town Meeting and Shoreland Zoning Ordinance.
Text: brief catalog
Recording: mfc_na1112_t1135_01, mfc_na1112_t1135_02, mfc_na1112_t1136_01 2 hours
NA1113 Joan Brooks, June 1977, Holden, Maine. Recording of the annual SAD 63 school budget meeting held at the Holbrook School; copy of Annual SAD 63 Report, 1975 - 76.
Text: 5 pp. brief catalog
Recording: mfc_na1113_t1137_01, mfc_na1113_t1137_02 1 1/2 hours
NA1127 By Joan Brooks, November, 1977, Eddington, Maine. Recording of SAD 63 school board meeting, discussing proposal for new high school for the district; news clippings, questionnaire, info sheet sent to citizens.
Text: 9 pp. brief catalog
Recording: mfc_na1127_t1186_01, mfc_na1127_t1186_02, mfc_na1127_t1187_01 3 hours
NA1128 Joan Brooks, November 8, 1977, Brewer, Maine. Recording of Brewer School Committee meeting, with S. Millett, Commissioner of Education, about the proposed new high school for SAD 63. News clipping.
Recording: mfc_na1128_t1188_01, mfc_na1128_t1188_02 2 hours
NA 1191 SAD 63 School Board Meeting recorded by Joan Brooks, spring 1978, Holden, Maine. Recording of SAD 63 School Board Meeting discussing action to be taken following a public meeting which voted down the request for funds to hire an architect to continue planning for a new district high school; copy of proposed budget to be presented to the public for school appropriation, July, 1978 to June, 1979.
Text: 8 pp. brief catalog
Recording: mfc_na1191_t1251_01, mfc_na1191_t1251_02, mfc_na1191_t1252_01 3 hours
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.
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- Title
- Guide to Joan Brooks Community Public Meetings
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Amy Dias
- Date
- May 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
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