Agriculture -- Maine
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Jackson, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen
Benjamin Wilcox, interviewed by Anu Dudley
Bertha Campbell, interviewed by Celeste Beaulieu, Jolene Walker, and Alison Bishop
Bertha Price, interviewed by Jolene Walker, Alison Bishop, Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, and Celeste Beaulieu
0846 Bertha Price, interviewed by Jolene Walker, Alison Bishop, Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, and Celeste Beaulieu for AY 125, October and December 1974, Argyle, Maine. Price talks about growing up on a farm at the turn of the 20th century; social customs; clothing; various aspects of farm life; outside of house; layout of rooms; furnishings; activities done in some rooms. Text: 19 pp. index; 29 pp. transcript. Recording: T 0780 - T 0782 / PM 0741 3 hours.
Bertha Price, interviewed by Jolene Walker, Alison Bishop, Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, and Celeste Beaulieu
Bill Whitman, interviewed by Elizabeth Hedler
Samuel Lane Boardman Letters
Letters of an agricultural editor, writer, and journalist and of a noted Maine naturalist. Included also are 2 letters signed by George A. Boardman.
Bonnie Rukin Miller, interviewed by Anu Dudley
C. R. Lawn, interviewed by Anu Dudley
Cathy Reynolds, interviewed by Anu Dudley
Chaitanya York, interviewed by Anu Dudley
Clayton Littlefield, interviewed by Fred Nehring
NA2824 Clayton Littlefield, interviewed by Fred Nehring for HTY 210 for Pauleena MacDougall, May 9, 2002, Montville, Maine. Littlefield talks about the federal government’s purchase of farmlands in the Frye Mountain area during the mid-1930s: the layout and residents of the community of Frye Mountain in the 1930s; farming; poor roads; CCC built roads; federal purchase of farm land; cemeteries; schooling on Frye Mountain; Freedom Academy. Text: 27 pp. transcript. Recording: C 2003.
Clayton Littlefield, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen
Academic Affairs. Dean, College Of Natural Sciences, Forestry, And Agriculture. College Of Agriculture (University Of Maine) Records
Academic Affairs. Dean, College Of Natural Sciences, Forestry, And Agriculture. College Of Life Sciences And Agriculture (University Of Maine) Records
Academic Affairs. Dean/Director, Cooperative Extension Service (University Of Maine) Records
Cynthia Thayer, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall
2635 Cynthia Thayer, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, September 22, 2000, at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. Thayer discusses moving to Maine to become a farmer; her organic farm; composting; relationship with local community; involvement with MOFGA; farm apprentices; certification; involvement with the Wednesday Spinners at the Common Ground Fair; and changes in her farming lifestyle over time. Text: 21 pp. transcript. Recording: C 1918 1 hour. mfc_na2635_c1918_01.
Deb Soule, interviewed by Anu Dudley
Denby Larrabee and Geneva Larrabee, interviewed by Jeffrey “Smokey” McKeen
Don Parker, interviewed by Joan Brooks
Donna Kausen, interviewed by Pamela Dean
Frank Harriman, interviewed by Ford Reiche
0844 Frank Harriman, interviewed by Ford Reiche for AY 125, Greenbush, Maine. Sandy Ives is also present at the interview. Harriman talks about being a farmer and woodsman. Text: 3 pp. catalog. Recording: T 0778 1 hour.
Frank Hunnewell, interviewed by Ford Reiche
0845 Frank Hunnewell, interviewed by Ford Reiche for AY 125, November 17, 1974,Greenbush, Maine. Hunnewell talks about his farm and especially the buildings and machinery. Also included: two pamphlets about the Skinner Settlement; an invitation to a benefit supper for the Skinner Settlement Association. Recording: 2 pp. catalog. Recording: T 0779 1/2 hour.
George Knox, interviewed by Joan Brooks
Glenn Dewitt, interviewed by James Moreira
Grace Clark, interviewed by Ilka List, Jolene Walker, Alison Bishop, Celeste Beaulieu, and Galen Beaulieu
NA0840 Grace Clark, interviewed by Ilka List, Jolene Walker, Alison Bishop, Celeste Beaulieu, and Galen Beaulieu for AY 125, October and December 1974, East Corinth, Maine. Clark talks about farm life at the turn of the century. Also included: pamphlet about the Skinner Settlement. Text: 77 pp. brief catalog and partial transcript. Recording: T 0764 - T 0771 7 hours.
Guide to Farming Deer Foot Farm
Oral history of the multi-generational Johnson-Mink Farm, later known as Mink Dairy Farm, then Deer Foot Farm, Appleton, Maine. Chris Roberts interviews his grandparents Keith and Grace Mink, his mother Sue Ellen Mink-Roberts, and great-aunt Natalie Irene (Mink) Gushee about the family farm and its operation through the first three generations of ownership. The property was acquired in 1897 and became a truck farm producing produce, eggs, and dairy.
Paul R. Hepler Papers
Research materials of Paul R. Hepler, an associate professor of horticulture at the University of Maine at Orono centered on his study of sugar beet growing in Maine.