Folk medicine

Abstract 1037 Clarence Grover, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, Eddington, Maine. Grover talks about knowing the people who drove the stage along the Airline (now route 9); getting married in 1930; how the Airline used to go over Chick Hill; poaching; working in his father’s mill; the first automobile; working to build the road around Chick Hill; working in a lumber camp; songs sung in the camp and at home; the Grange Hall in Amherst; his father; people who owned stills...

Abstract 2974 Clark Manring, interviewed by C. Richard K. Lunt, January 1, 1964, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Manring talks about Jones Tracy, his birth, his hunting philosophy; Bible knowledge; his health and his mother’s folk medicine; sources for his stories; “regular” vs. joke stories; origin of Jones’ name; schooling; others who listened to Jones’ stories; other storytellers on Mount Desert Island; also tells stories told by and about Jones Tracy, including: rain storm stories; Frank Thompson and...

Abstract NA4357 Fred McLaine interviewed by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, July 17, 1965, at Lake George, Nova Scotia, Canada. Present during the interview Sharon Spurrell and Fred Cogswell and Mr. McLaine's sister. McLaine, age 80, worked with Joe Scott cutting pulp while working for Fred Greenlow. Joe used to sing his songs while working with the Greenlow pulp operation. Heard Joe's songs before he met Joe. Discusses the song, "The Plain Golden Band." Discusses how Joe "could stop a toothache." Joe was...

Abstract 2971 Lawrie Holmes, interviewed by C. Richard K. Lunt, October 19, 1963, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Holmes tells a variety of stories about Jones Tracy, including squash seeds big as snowshoes; Jones shoots deer around curve of mountain by bending rifle barrel; mosquitoes and the kettle. Also talks about muzzle loaders and hunting deer on Mount Desert Island; book on folk medicine; Ben Bordeaux’s origin; and poaching. One of a series of interviews conducted by Richard Lunt in 1963 and 1964...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection includes twenty-eight interviews with thirteen Eastport residents, plus manuscript material collected as part of French’s research. In addition to the general history of Eastport, major topics discussed include the sardine industry and community holiday celebrations.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of student papers. The early items are largely miscellaneous gatherings of individual items: jokes, tall tales, ghost stories, traditional medicine, popular beliefs and superstitions, legends, local character yarns, etc. and only occasionally include tape recordings. Later accessions reflect the trend in the field of folklore to emphasize context over items gathered for their own sake. Thus they are more apt to consist of life histories with an emphasis on life...

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1519 Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, summer 1981, Maine. Microfilm of Maine remedies and cures in the W.P.A. Folklore Manuscript Collection, now housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. 387 pp. microfilm manuscript, M 1. Text: 1 pp. microfilm request form.

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NA0610 By Carolyn Turney for Folklore at Ricker College, spring 1971, Houlton, Maine. Paper deals with limericks set to music; stories about Indians; stories about treasure; remedies. Text: 24 pp. paper. Restricted: No release.

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1437 Eleanor Wormwood, interviewed by Lucinda Martin for AY 13 (Bowdoin College), fall 1980, Kennebunkport, Maine. 26 pp. ms. Wormwood talks about how she uses herbs and berries to make folk medicines. Text: 26 pp. paper.

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0101 Mary Dodge for CP 180, spring 1960, East Boothbay and Bowdoinham, Maine; Greenwich, Connecticut. Paper deals with remedies; anecdotes; poem; Pat & Mike stories; hunting stories. Text: 25 pp. paper

Abstract NA0891 Various, interviewed by Merryn Ferris & Michael O’Hara, for Folklore Course at Ricker College taught by Gifford Stevens, Houlton, Maine, spring 1975. Paper, titled “Everybody is a Doctor,” is a collection of folk remedies collected from fellow students, friends, family, and health food store owner Lydia Lauder; Evil Eye; unquiet grave (dreams); cures for: hiccups, colds, headaches, coughs, stomach aches, fevers, sore throats, bee stings, warts, arthritis, cramps, and many other...

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NA0609 By Nancy Campbell for Folklore at Ricker College, spring 1971, Houlton, Maine. Paper deals with hoax stories; devil stories; beliefs and proverbs; cures; sayings. Text: 27 pp. paper. Restricted: No release.

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NA0608 By Peter Sewall for Folklore at Ricker College, spring 1971, Yarmouth, Maine; Winchester, Massachusetts. Paper deals with summer complaint stories; jokes; folk remedies; forerunners. Text: 14 pp. paper. Restricted: No release.

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NA0823 By Raymond R. Lines for English Folklore course at Ricker College, spring 1973, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Paper deals with a collection of hangover cures and folk sayings. Text: 21 pp. paper. Restrictions: None

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NA0602 By Rosemary Elliot for Folklore at Ricker College, spring 1971, Houlton, Maine. Paper deals with home remedies. Text: 10 pp. paper. Restricted: No release.

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NA0023 Various, interviewed by Alice Bryant for CP 180, fall 1959, Woodland, Baileyville (Cooper), and Lubec, Maine. Informants include Violet Riguette, Florence (Bacon) Perkins, and Ross Sadler. Paper deals with dreams; superstitions; George Magoon stories; tall tales; hunting tales; local expressions; forerunners; healing. Text: 26 pp. paper

Abstract 0304 Various, interviewed by Barbara Nutting for CP 180, spring 1960. Paper deals with tale from Finland; remedies; Indian legends; pioneer story; poaching stories; haunted house story; story of a Boston police strike. Informants include Cora Tracy, of Naples, Maine; Myron Sanders, Jr., Casco, Maine; Lillian Peterson, Webbs Mills, Maine; T. E. Nutting, Otisfield, Maine; Barbara Nutting, East Otisfield, Maine; Mrs. Fred McKenney, Kezar Falls, Maine; Elwyn McConnell, South Portland, Maine;...

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0062 Various, interviewed by Iona Coffin for CP 180, fall 1963, Lubec, Steuben, Unionville, and Milbridge, Maine. Tall tales; legends; jokes; song; Will Stanley stories; Barney Beal; forerunners; bear stories; hunting stories; treasure; ghost; phantom ship; haunted house; devil; poem; small pox remedy; cante fable; place name. Text: 76 pp. manuscript

Abstract 0392 Various, interviewed by Margaret Small for CP 180, April 1967, Bangor, Maine; St. John River Valley near Mactaquac, New Brunswick. Grace Holmes McCarthy, Elizabeth Simmons, Daisy Leek, and Elsie Diamond Smith, Joe Perkins, and John Nelson. McCarthy, Simmons, Leek, and Smith, recorded in Bangor, Maine, April 21, 1967, (several Canadian mixed blood families are represented) talk about folk medicine, specifically Negro and Indian folk medicine; tell two tall hunting tales; a “Pat and Mike”...