Hunting -- Anecdotes -- Maine

Abstract 0280 Various, interviewed by Roger Mitchell and Joyce Mitchell for CP 180, spring 1962, Mars Hill, Blaine, Bridgwater, Monticello, Houlton, Amity, Smyrna Mills, Merrill, Dyer Brook, and Hermon, Maine. Informants include Ted Boyce of Monticello; George "Nal" Bradbury of Bridgewater; Herman Brewer, Bridgewater; Kenneth Bully, Bridgewater; Steve Crane, Houlton; Garth Friels, Monticello; Delmont and Vera Getchell, Hermon; Howard Lewis, Bridgewater; Albert McKinney, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Don...

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0186 Various, interviewed by Sandra Hinkley for CP 180, summer 1964, Fairfield, Litchfield, Oakland, Waterville, Maine. Informants include Ervin E. Hinkley, Evelyn Murrey Hinkley, Ervin Eugene Hinkley, Jr., Sandra Hinkley, Erma Dancer, Margaret Smith, and Doris Foulkes Browne. Paper deals with songs; anecdotes; ghosts; legends; hunting stories; jokes. Text: 57 pp. paper

Abstract 0520 Various, interviewed by Selma Shirley and Lillian Shirley for FO 2, spring 1969, Argyle, Cardville, and Bangor, Maine. Interviewees include Mildred Avery, Clyde Burns, Mary Drake, Ernest Kennedy, Doreen LeClair, Bertha Price, Ruby Severance, Lillian Shirley, and Leon Bussell, all of Argyle, Maine; Beatrice Carey, Brownville Junction; Hatte Cottle of Alton; Ansel Fowler, Cardwille; Frank H. Hartley, Bangor; Mildred Miller of Pea Cove; Millard Neally, Newburgh; William Shirley and Henry...

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0446 Various, interviewed by Stephen Guptill for FO 179, fall 1967, Wesley, Maine. Informants include Harold Wallace Day of Wesley, Maine; Fred Perry Mawhinney, of Machias; Robert Maxwell Guptill. Paper deals with hunting tales; biography of informants. Text: 54 pp. paper.

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0388 Various, interviewed by Suzanne Stackpole for CP 180, fall 1966, Winthrop, North Waterboro, and Charleston, Maine. Informants include A. Allen Stackpole, Norwood V. Olmsted, James A. Jortberg, Mr. Monroe, and Esther (Mayo) Stackpole. Paper deals with family hunting anecdotes. Text: 24 pp. paper

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0479 Various, interviewed by William Tanner for FO 2, fall 1968, Sidney and Augusta, Maine. Informants include Russ Bodwell, in Orono; Denis Foster, in Orono; Mr. Briggs, in Orono; Carl Virtz, in Orono; Joe Trask, Sidney, Maine; Grace Tanner, Sidney; Dave Smith, Sidney; Martin Tracey, Sidney; and Ray Gangion, Waterville. Paper deals with folklore attached to hunting in Maine. Text: 33 pp. paper

Abstract 0403 Various, interviewed by William Townsend for CP 133, fall 1966, Calais, Maine, St. Stephen, Chamcook, and St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Those interviewed include Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Harmon, Joseph Bothwick, Dexter Thomas, Edith Beckett, Mrs. Gibson, Thomas McCullough, Annie Townsend, and John Townsend. Harmon, interviewed November 22, 1966, talks about stories of legendary woodsmen and poachers George Magoon, Frank Ellsmore, and Wilbur Day. Bothwick, Thomas, Beckett, the Harmons,...

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0835 Victor Archer, interviewed by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, July 17, 1974, Crawford, Maine. Archer talks about hunting and guiding. Text: Brief catalog and 68 pp. transcript. Recording: T 0755 - T 0756 1 hour.

Abstract 1163 Walter Trundy, interviewed by James Stewart for COM 101-46, December 15, 1977, Bradbury Nursing Home, Belfast, Maine. 5 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Trundy (age 98) talks about growing up in Stockton Springs, Maine; his many years as town clerk; hunting licenses; Mr. Trundy’s thoughts on living in Maine; his work as a storekeeper; prices seventy-five years ago; a fisherman story; stone quarrying; hunting stories; Trundy’s thoughts on Indian land claims; his job as town clerk. Text:...

Abstract 0713 Willard Jalbert, interviewed by Frederick Pratson, September 16 -17, 1972, Round Pond, Maine. Jalbert, with additional input from his son, talks about life and work in northern Maine through the early and mid-twentieth century; fighting in lumberjack camps; experiences as a lumberjack foreman; interactions with wildlife; chopping trees and tending sled; lumberjack camp food and the prevalence of beans; 1961 trip on the Allagash River with Supreme Court Justice Douglas; experiences as an...