Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies -- Maine

Abstract 0997 Addie Weed interviewed by Colleen George, November 2, 1974, Veazie, Maine. Weed talks about her interest in plants and the 500 glad bulbs she plants each year. She describes how holidays were spent during childhood including July 4, Thanksgiving and others; her mother's death in 1926; her first radio and first television; working at the University of Maine starting in 1908; her extensive travel from 1910-1950s; and family background. Text: 28 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans....

Abstract 1261 Carolyn Folsom, interviewed by Maureen Kane, April 19, 1979, Bangor, Maine. Folsom talks about her childhood in northern Maine in the 1930s and 40s; games and fun for poor children; responsibilities and division of labor in her marriage; celebration of the end of WWII in Millinocket, Maine; assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr.; racism in the South; movies of her childhood; her concerns for the future; changes in Millinocket; fashions when she was in high...

Abstract 0998 Dr. Doris Twitchell Allen (1901-2002) interviewed by Maryann Hartman, August 1, 1975 at Trenton-Bayside for IDL 105 Women of Maine. Dr. Allen, a native of Old Town, Maine, was a professor emerita from the University of Cincinnati and would become a Nobel Peace Prize nominee in 1979. Dr. Allen discusses her family history and how her early life influenced her later achievements, one of them being the founder of C.I.S.V., Children's International Summer Villages. Her father was a...

Abstract 0999 Eunice Young interviewed by Maryann Hartman, August 27, 1975, Lamoine, Maine. Young, age 93, discusses her work in the Lamoine Grange for 75 years and how the first woman to serve as Master of the Grange in the U.S. was from Lamoine in 1887. Young became Master of the Grange in 1928. She discusses working as the Lamoine Town Clerk for 40 years, and as a teacher during her youth; how the status of women has changed during her lifetime; World War II and the capture of two German spies not...

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1060 Gladis Mace interviewed by Nora Groce, July 30, 1976, Aurora, Maine. Notes on an unrecorded interview. Mace talks about growing up in Ellsworth, Maine; dropping out of high school; getting married in 1917; moving to Aurora, Maine; Mace’s Family Store; dances at Grange Hall; dancing lessons; Kitchen Breakdowns; George Magoon (known for poaching); and Calvin Graves (wanted for murder). Text: 3 pp. interview summary.

Abstract 1004 Stephen E. Sterns interviewed by Colleen Keef on November 2, 1975, Orono, Maine. Stearns, from Biddeford, Maine, discusses his childhood, games, and chores; working during his youth; his parents' gender roles; the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.; his views of the ideal man and woman; his service in Vietnam; his views on gun control, women's liberation, social hostility, hatred, and the media. Text: 35 pp. w/brief cat. and trans. Recording: T 1016. Approx....

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1977 Student paper, by Cynthia Emerson for AY 322, spring 1987, Garland, Maine. 44 pp. manuscript. Paper deals with a collection of women’s hunting and fishing stories; how men perceive women who hunt. RESTRICTED. Text: 44 pp. paper.