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MF 001 Airline Road / Airline
Community Project
Number of Interviews:
6
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1976
Time period covered: ca. 1890-1940
Principal interviewers: Joan Brooks; Jack Beard
Finding Aides: brief indexes and full transcripts
Access Restrictions: none
Description: The collection consists of six interviews done
by Joan Brooks and Jack Beard for an oral history fieldwork course
taught by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives at the University of Maine in 1976.
The interviews focus on the history of the Airline Road (Rt. 9 from
Bangor to Calais, ME) and the Airline community ca. 1900.
1034 Beard, Jack & Joan Brooks. (AY 122) Spring 1976. Maine:
Eddington. 79 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview
with Del Clewley, 76, about the Airline community at the turn
of the century. P678-P682 / T1047
1035 Beard, Jack & Joan Brooks. (AY 122) Spring 1976. Maine:
Eddington. 33 pp. Tape: 3/4 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview
with Mrs. Rosco (Verna) Higgins, 73, about life along the
Airline Road at the turn of the century. T1048
1036 Beard, Jack & Joan Brooks. (AY 122) Spring 1976. Maine:
Eddington. 40 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview with
Gracie Strang about the Airline community at the turn of the
century. T1049
1037 Beard, Jack & Joan Brooks. (AY 122) Spring 1976. Maine:
Eddington. 48 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview with
Clarence Grover about the Airline community at the turn of
the century. T1050
1038 Beard, Jack & Joan Brooks. (AY 122) Spring 1976. Maine:
Eddington. 47 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview with
J. Herbert Comins about life at the turn of the century in
the Airline community. Was a dairy farmer, now a tree farmer, member
of State Legislature, and long-time town official. T1051
1039 Brooks, Joan. (AY 122) Spring 1976. Maine: Eddington. 38
pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ brief cat. & partial trans. Interview with
George Knox about Eddington and the Airline Community at the
turn of the century; woods work; stories about Cal Graves and George
Knox, the witch (no relation); songs from lumbercamps. T1052
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