Halloween

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1883 Alma Perkins and Donna Perkins, interviewed by Patricia Hutchins for ANT 325, fall 1985, Penobscot, Maine. 17 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. P. Perkins, born in 1905, talks about her Halloween experiences. Her daughter, D. Perkins, also participates. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1916 1/2 hour.

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1897 Amy Ranger, interviewed by Terrance McKay for ANT 325, fall 1985, Orono, Maine. 17 pp. Tape: 40 min. approx. w/ cat. Ranger, age 21, talks about her memories of the Halloweens she spent in Millinocket, Maine. Text: 14 pp. catalog. Recording: C 0230 (Side A) 40 min. approx.

Scope and Contents Material collected for ANT 325 (Oral History and Folklore: Fieldwork), fall 1985. Class materials collected pertaining to Halloween traditions in Maine. Eight-two individual accessions including tapes and transcripts and note cards containing citations of Halloween references in late 19th and early 20th century Maine newspapers. Interviewee ages range from 8 to 88 years old. Topics discussed include costumes; trick or treating; school and parties; Halloween treats; Finnish Easter; pranks;...

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1881 Arnold "Bing" Gross, interviewed by Patricia Hutchins for ANT 325, fall 1985, Penobscot, Maine. 26 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Gross, born in 1930, talks about his Halloween experiences as a child and his school days. Text: 23 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1914 1 hour.

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1838 Audrey Davis, interviewed by Georgia W. Prickitt for ANT 325, fall 1985, Cambridge, Maine. 19 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Davis talks about her memories of Halloween. Includes drawing of a hay fork. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1899 1 hour. Photos: P 6243 - P 6269.

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1875 Barbara Shane interviewed by Gregory Chanis for ANT 325, Fall 1985, Orono, Maine. 14 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Shane talks about how she celebrated Halloween in Portland, ME. Text: 11 pp. catalog. Recording: T1912 1/2 hour.

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1868 Ben Moore, interviewed by Anna L. Woloson for ANT 325, fall 1985, Orono, Maine. 8 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. approx. w/ cat. Moore talks about the significance of Halloween in his childhood growing up in Maine. Text: 6 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1909 1/2 hour. Photos: P 6225 - P 6242, P 6271 - P 6272.

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1894 Bertha Richardson, interviewed by David Richardson for ANT 325, fall 1985, Carmel, Maine. 6 pp. Tape: 25 min. approx. w/ cat. Richardson, age 85, talks about her Halloween experiences as a child, as an adult, and mother of eight children. Text: 3 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1920.1 25 min. approx.

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1858 Berwin Storer, interviewed by Annalee K. Libby for ANT 325, fall 1985, Monson, Maine. 8 pp. Tape: 20 min. approx. w/ cat. Storer talks about his Halloween experiences. Text: 5 pp. detailed catalog. Recording: T 1905 20 min. approx.

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1922 Bill Mitchell, interviewed by Jeffrey DeHart for ANT 325, fall 1985, Orono, Maine. 12 pp. Tape: 20 min. w/ cat. Mitchell describes how he celebrated Halloween growing up in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. Text: 9 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1938.2 20 min.

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1835 Brave Williams, interviewed by Georgia W. Prickitt, ANT 325, fall 1985, Cambridge, Maine. 6 pp. Tape: 1/4 hr. w/ cat. Williams talks about how he celebrates Halloween. Text: 3 pp. detailed catalog. Recording: T 1898 1/4 hour. Photos: P 6243 - P 6269.

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1870 Brownie Schrumpf, interviewed by A. Manette Ansay for ANT 325, fall 1985, Orono, Maine. 10 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. approx. w/ cat. Schrumpf, age 82, talks about Halloween in Maine. Text: 7 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1911 1/2 hour.

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1841 Calla Pease and Gladys Packard, interviewed by Georgia W. Prickitt for ANT 325, fall 1985, Cambridge, Maine. 11 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. approx. w/ cat. Pease and Packard talk about their memories of Halloween in the 1940s. Text: 7 pp. catalog, 7 pp. photo copies. Recording: T 1901 1/2 hour. Photos: P 6243 - P 6269.

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1886 Carol Laughlin, interviewed by Linda Zuch for ANT 325, fall 1985, Hampden, Maine. 40 pp. Tape: 45 min. w/cat. Laughlin talks about her memories of Halloweens past and present. Text: 40 detailed catalog. Recording: C 0226 45 min.

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1888 Carolyn Perry, interviewed by Terrance McKay for ANT 325, fall 1985, Hampden, Maine. 8 pp. Tape: 20 min. w/ cat. Perry, age 53, talks about her Halloween experiences in Monroe, Maine. Text: 5 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1917 20 min.

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1899 Charles King, interviewed by Deo McKaig for ANT 325, fall 1985, Old Town, Maine. 16 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. King, born in 1927, talks about Halloween pranks; parties; costumes; ghost stories; the history of Burnham Drug Store in Old Town; Fourth of July celebrations; his relationships to people in different areas of town during his childhood. Text: catalog. Recording: C 0231 1 hour.

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1851 Christine Blackmer, interviewed by Valerie Felt McClead for ANT 325, fall 1985, Lucerne Village, Maine. 29 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Blackmer, age 74, talks about celebrating Halloween as a child in Massachusetts and how her children observed Halloween in Maine. Text: 26 pp. detailed catalog. Recording: C 0215 1 hour.

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1916 Clayton Burgess, interviewed by Gregory Chanis for ANT 325, fall 1985, Orono, Maine. 10 pp. Tape: 20 min. w/ cat. Burgess, age 57, recalls how he spent Halloween as a child. Text: 7 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1935 20 min.

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1847 Clementina Smith interviewed by Elizabeth Dunn for ANT 325, Fall 1985, Hollis Center, Maine. 10 pp. Tape: 20 min. w/ cat. Smith, age 86, talks about her experiences with Halloween as a young girl, as a school teacher and as a wife and mother. Includes drawing of a pumpkin. Text: catalog. Recording: T1902.

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1873 Dana Noble, interviewed by Georgia W. Prickitt for ANT 325, fall 1985, Cambridge, Maine. 11 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Noble, age 46, in which he describes his memories of Halloween. Text: 8 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1901.2 1/2 hour. Photos: P 6243 - P 6269.

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1843 Daniel Burson, interviewed by A. Manette Ansay for ANT 325, fall 1985, Orono, Maine. 9 pp. Tape: 10 min. approx. w/ cat. Burson, age 5, talks about how he spends Halloween. Includes Daniel's drawing of a jack o' lantern. Text: catalog. Recording: C 0210 (Side A) 10 min.

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1836 Darrah Kimball (Wagner), interviewed by Deo McKaig for ANT 325, fall 1985, Old Town, Maine. 9 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Kimball talks about her experiences of Halloween as a child and as a parent: costumes; popcorn balls; trick or treating; parties; pranks; and pumpkins/jack o' lanterns. Text: catalog. Recording: C 0206 1 hour.

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1837 David Carlson, interviewed by A. Manette Ansay for ANT 325, fall 1985, Orono, Maine. 15 pp. Tape: 50 min. w/ cat. Carlson, age 16, talks about Halloween memories and experiences. Text: 11 pp. catalog, 1 pp. drawing. Recording: C 0207 50 min.

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1878 David Richardson, interviewed by Deo McKaig for ANT 325, fall 1985, Old Town, Maine. 27 pp. Tape: 80 min. approx. w/ cat. Richardson, born in 1947, talks about his memories of Halloween as a child and as a parent. Text: 24 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1913 80 min. approx.

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1896 David Stinchfield and Victoria Stinchfield, interviewed by David Richardson for ANT 325, fall 1985, Carmel, Maine. 18 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. The Stinchfields (husband and wife) regarding their Halloween experiences as youths and as parents; their memories of Old Town, Maine, and Brattleboro, Vermont; reflect upon changes in the Halloween tradition. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1920.2 1 hour.

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1844 Edith Hersey, interviewed by Deo. McKaig for ANT 325, fall 1985, Old Town, Maine. 15 pp. Tape: 50 min. approx. w/ cat. Hersey, born in 1915, talks about her Halloween experiences as a child and as a parent: dressing up and visiting the family; snitching vegetables for the poor; going out with her female friends; recollections of the Fourth of July in Orono, ME. Text: catalog. Recording: C 0211 50 min. approx.

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1866 Elizabeth "Betsy" Marsano, interviewed by Anna L. Woloson for ANT 325, fall 1985, Orono, Maine. 20 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Marsano, born in 1950, talks about the significance of Halloween and how she has celebrated it over the years. Includes drawing of a pumpkin. Text: catalog. Recording: T 1907 1/2 hour. Photos: P 6225 - P 6242, P 6271 - P 6272.

Abstract 1114 Ernest Kennedy (b. 1889) interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, summer, 1977, at Kennedy’s home in Argyle, Maine. Kennedy, 88, talks about his life working in the woods, on river drives, and on the Argyle Boom. Kennedy was the principle informant for “Argyle Boom,” Northeast Folklore, XVII (1976) which explained the workings of the sorting boom on the Penobscot River where the logs from the river drives were sorted for delivery to the various saw mills. In this series of interviews he...

Abstract NA3125 Eva O. (Curtis) Bowering, interviewed by Barbara Switzer, April 3, 1984, at Eva’s home in Sebago Lake. Bowering, born on December 25, 1908, talks about sea captain grandfather’s days at sea; grandmother’s hard life in Harpswell; singing hymns in evenings; mother; maternal grandfather (bookkeeper for Portland-Rochester Railroad Company); Scotland, England, and Belgium; neighborhood growing up; Baby and cherry tree; Harry Marr (Portland’s Fire Chief); neighborhood Catholics, Jews,...

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1892 Gary Brown, interviewed by David Richardson for ANT 325, fall 1985, Carmel, Maine. 10 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Brown discusses Halloween from the early 1950s through the mid 1960s as he was growing up in Carmel, Maine. Text: 7 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1919.1 1/2 hour.