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MF 023 Hancock County Elders Project
Number of
Interviews: 10
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1983
Time period covered: twentieth century
Principal interviewers: Roberta Chester
Finding Aides: transcripts
Access Restrictions: none
Description: A series of interviews by Roberta Chester
sponsored by the Hancock County Cooperative Extension Service.
Interviewees discuss family and community life and activities in a
variety of Maine communities in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Towns discussed include North Orland, Blue Hill, Hancock, Osborn,
Deer Isle, and Cranberry Island.
1699 Chester, Roberta. Fall 1983. Maine: North Orland. 32 pp.
Tape: 1 1/4 hrs. w/ trans. Interview with Doris Johnson about
family and community life in North Orland, Maine, in early 1900’s
and now. Hancock County Elders Project, Hancock County Cooperative
Extension Service. T1820
1700 Chester, Roberta. Fall 1983. Maine: Blue Hill. 30 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ trans. Interview with Dorothy and Harry Duffy
about family and community life in North Blue Hill, Maine, in early
1900’s and now. Hancock County Elders Project, Hancock County
Cooperative Extension Service. T1821
1701 Chester, Roberta. Fall 1983. Maine: Hancock. 31 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ trans. Interview with Edith Towle about
community life in the town of Hancock; social and family activities
she remembered as a child. Hancock County Elders Project, Hancock
County Cooperative Extension Service. T1822
1702 Chester, Roberta. Fall 1983. Maine: Blue Hill. 40 pp.
Tape: 1 3/4 hrs. w/ trans. Interview with Lilla Bowden about
close family and community life growing up in Blue Hill, Maine at
the turn of the century. Hancock County Elders Project, Hancock
County Cooperative Extension Service. T1823
1703 Chester, Roberta. Fall 1983. Maine: Osborn. 41 pp. Tape:
1 1/4 hrs. w/ trans. Interview with Emery Jordan about family
and community life growing up in Osborn, Maine in the early 1900’s.
Hancock County Elders Project, Hancock County Cooperative Extension
Service. T1824
1704 Chester, Roberta. Fall 1983. Maine: Deer Isle. 32 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ trans. Interview with Beatrice Knowlton about
family and community life growing up in Deer Isle, Maine in the
early 1900’s. Hancock County Elders Project, Hancock County
Cooperative Extension Service. T1826
1705 Chester, Roberta. Fall 1983. Maine: Hancock. 20 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ trans. Interview with Ethel Johnson about
family and community life growing up in Hancock, Maine. Compares
life there now and in the early 1900’s. Hancock County Elders
Project, Hancock County Cooperative Extension Service. T1827
1706 Chester, Roberta. Fall 1983. Maine: Cranberry Island. 42
pp. Tape: 1 1/4 hrs. w/ trans. Interview with Marion Spurling
about attitudes toward the elderly; community and family life
growing up on Cranberry Island in the early part of the century.
Hancock County Elders Project, Hancock County Cooperative Extension
Service. T1828
1708 Chester, Roberta. Fall 1983. Maine: Deer Isle. 13 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ trans. Interview with Iva Morey about family
and community life growing up in Deer Isle, Maine in the early
1900’s. Hancock County Elders Project, Hancock County Cooperative
Extension Service. T1830
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