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MF 030 Lincoln County Project
Collection / Leighton Photo Collection
Number of
Interviews: 10
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1978
Time period covered: early-to-mid twentieth century
Principal interviewers: Michael Chaney
Finding Aides: brief indexes and transcripts
Access Restrictions: special for photos
Description: Images from the E. Joseph Leighton photograph
collection owned by the Lincoln County Cultural and Historical
Association were exhibited at the University of Maine’s Memorial
Union, May 10-30, 1979. The exhibit was curated by Michael Chaney
with a youth grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Text panels to accompany the photographs were derived from oral
history interviews conducted by Chaney with residents of Lincoln
County, Maine, in 1978. The Lincoln County Project Collection
includes the tape recorded interviews, copy prints of photos from
the Joseph Leighton Collection, and paper documents pertaining to
the exhibit and the tapes. Topics discussed in the interviews
include: Sheepscot area history; E. Jospeh Leighton; portable
sawmill operations; Sheepscot-Newcastle area; Alna and Wiscasset
area history; apple orchard business in the early 1900s; Dr. A. M.
Card; Turner Center Creamery; and Pendleton’s Market. Copy prints of
images from the E. Joseph (“Joe”) Leighton Photograph Collection are
found in the Northeast Archives as P1922 - P2238. [Permission
to use these photos must be obtained from the Lincoln County
Cultural and Historical Association.]
1150 Chaney, Michael. Spring 1978. Maine: Newcastle,
Sheepscot Village. 146 pp. Tape: 4 hrs. w/ cat. Interview with
Charlotte Donnel about Sheepscot area history; E. Joseph
Leighton and Leighton photographs; map and 317 photos, See Leighton
Collection. Lincoln County Project. P1922 - P2238 / T1213 - T1215
1151 Chaney, Michael. Spring 1978. Maine: North Newcas-tle.
121 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ trans. Interview with Ruth Bryant,
Raymond Emerson, and Charles Reay about various portable
sawmill operations in the Sheepscot-Newcastle area and Joe Leighton.
Discussion of Leighton photographs and identification of people in
them. (See Leighton Collection). Lincoln County Project. P1922 -
P2238 / T1216 - T1217
1178 Chaney, Michael. Spring 1978. Maine: Wiscasset. 8 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Elinor Lewis at
the Lincoln County Courthouse about Joe Leighton and his wife. See
Leighton Collection. Lincoln County Project. P1922 - P2238 /
T1240
1179 Chaney, Michael. Spring 1978. Maine: Wiscasset. 9 pp.
Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ brief cat. Interview with Helen Erskine
about Joe Leighton; Alna and Wiscasset area history. See Leighton
Collection. Lincoln County Project. P1922 - P2238 / T1241
1180 Chaney, Michael. Spring 1978. Maine: Topsham. 91 pp.
Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Interview with Allen K. Jewett, former
Head Tide area resident, about his apple orchard business in the
early 1900’s; copy of "Alna: Paradise on the Sheepscot," Down East,
Sept. 1977, 68-75. Lincoln County Project. T1242 - T1243
1200 Chaney, Michael. Summer 1978. Maine: Alna. 22 pp. Tape:
1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. & trans. Interview with Nina Cheney, 80,
about Alna area history, farming, and Dr. A. M. Card. See Leighton
Collection. Lincoln County Project. P1922 - P2238 / T1259
1201 Chaney, Michael. Summer 1978. Maine: Wiscasset. 7 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Catherine Colby
and Martha Vaughan about the E. Joseph Leighton photograph
collection owned by the Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Assn.
See Leighton Collection. Lincoln County Project. P1922 - P2238 /
T1260
1204 Chaney, Michael. Summer 1978. Maine: Wiscasset. 44 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview with Harold Shea,
Sr. about the Turner Center Creamery. See Leighton Collection.
Lincoln County Project. P1922 - P2238 / T1262
1205 Chaney, Michael. Summer 1978. Maine: Wiscasset. 9 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ trans. Recollections of two unrecorded interviews,
one with Maurice and Brian Pendleton about Pendleton’s
Market, and another with Mary Marston about Wiscasset;
information from Steven McAllister about the Stanley H. Miner, a
four-masted vessel built in Newcastle, Maine in 1902. See Leighton
Collection. Lincoln County Project. P1922 - P2238 / T1263
1210 Chaney, Michael. Fall 1978. Maine: Lincoln County. 28
pp. ms. Copy of text which accompanies the E. Joseph Leighton
Photograph exhibit, on display at Memorial Union, UMO, May 10-30,
1979. Exhibit done by Chaney with a Youth-grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities. See Leighton Collection. Lincoln
County Project. P1922 - P2238
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