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Fourth of July

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Michaud, Walter Simon, Rand Trembly, and Ernest Dubay, interviewed by James Bishop

 Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: A 1992 community based oral history project co-sponsored by the Maine Folklife Center and the Franco-American Center at the University of Maine generated a series of 35 interviews focusing on the culture and history of the French Canadian immigrant community located on French Island, Old Town, Maine. The project also resulted in a book of photographs, interview excerpts, and articles, Nos Histoires de I’lle: History and memories of French Island, Old Town, Maine (1999) ...
Dates: 1992-1993

Benoit Bouchard, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin

 Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: A 1992 community based oral history project co-sponsored by the Maine Folklife Center and the Franco-American Center at the University of Maine generated a series of 35 interviews focusing on the culture and history of the French Canadian immigrant community located on French Island, Old Town, Maine. The project also resulted in a book of photographs, interview excerpts, and articles, Nos Histoires de I’lle: History and memories of French Island, Old Town, Maine (1999) ...
Dates: 1992-1993

Charles King, interviewed by Deo McKaig

 Series
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1985

Ernest Quigley and Corinne Quigley, interviewed by Hugh T. French

 Series
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.

Dates: 1979-1980

Eva O. (Curtis) Bowering, interviewed by Barbara Switzer

 Series
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,...
Dates: 1984-1988; 1992

Gloria Thornton and Doris Nadeau, interviewed by Albert Michaud

 Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: A 1992 community based oral history project co-sponsored by the Maine Folklife Center and the Franco-American Center at the University of Maine generated a series of 35 interviews focusing on the culture and history of the French Canadian immigrant community located on French Island, Old Town, Maine. The project also resulted in a book of photographs, interview excerpts, and articles, Nos Histoires de I’lle: History and memories of French Island, Old Town, Maine (1999) ...
Dates: 1992-1993

Gracie Strang, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks

 Series
Abstract 1036 Gracie Strang, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, East Eddington, Maine. Strang talks about growing up in Eddington in the early 1900s; her father’s and then her work as an agent for the telephone company out of their house; being a teacher at the local school house; the owner of the first automobile in the area; self-sufficiency; holding dances in Eddington Grange hall; sledding or “sliding” for fun in the winter; ice skating; making her own clothes; celebrating...
Dates: 1976

Helen Huntley, interviewed by Hugh T. French

 Series
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.

Dates: 1979-1980

Leo Lee, interviewed by Hugh T. French

 Series
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.

Dates: 1979-1980

Madella “Mae” Nevells, interviewed by Marilyn Reuter

 Series
Abstract 1019 Madella “Mae” Nevells interviewed by Marilyn Reuter, April 13, 1975, Sedgwick, Maine. Nevells discusses her life in during the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries; dances; medicine shows; sliding in the winter; how she came to have the telephone office in her home 1928-1954; changes in the telephone office over time; minimal changes during WWII other than blackouts; her wedding and wedding dress; and Fourth of July and Christmas celebrations when she was a child. Text: 27 pp....
Dates: 1974-1980

Norman Brilliant, interviewed by Amy Bouchard Morin

 Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: A 1992 community based oral history project co-sponsored by the Maine Folklife Center and the Franco-American Center at the University of Maine generated a series of 35 interviews focusing on the culture and history of the French Canadian immigrant community located on French Island, Old Town, Maine. The project also resulted in a book of photographs, interview excerpts, and articles, Nos Histoires de I’lle: History and memories of French Island, Old Town, Maine (1999) ...
Dates: 1992-1993

Ruth Sawyer Smith, interviewed by Vaun E. Born

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Abstract

NA3151 Ruth Sawyer Smith, interviewed by Vaun E. Born, March 25 & 26, 1984, Westport, Maine. Smith, born June 26, 1893, recalls growing up in Westbrook, Pride’s Corner School and Westbrook High School; Union Church; Riverton Park; WWI had food ration books; got scarlet fever; Flu Epidemic of 1918; 4th of July at Riverton Park. Written notes. Text: information sheet; 11 pp. index. Recording: C 1022 90 minutes.

Dates: 1984-1988; 1992

Waldo Berry, interviewed by Hugh T. French

 Series
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.

Dates: 1979-1980

Walter Nadeau, interviewed by Genie Wollstadt

 Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: A 1992 community based oral history project co-sponsored by the Maine Folklife Center and the Franco-American Center at the University of Maine generated a series of 35 interviews focusing on the culture and history of the French Canadian immigrant community located on French Island, Old Town, Maine. The project also resulted in a book of photographs, interview excerpts, and articles, Nos Histoires de I’lle: History and memories of French Island, Old Town, Maine (1999) ...
Dates: 1992-1993

William Lawrence, interviewed by Hugh T. French

 Series
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.

Dates: 1979-1980