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MF 042 Frederick Pratson Collection
Number of Interviews: 3
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1972
Time period covered: twentieth century
Principal interviewers: Frederick Pratson
Finding Aides: transcripts
Access Restrictions: none
Description: This is an independent collection
of folklore material donated to the Maine Folklife Center by
Frederick Pratson. It contains interviews conducted in connection
with donor’s “Oral and Visual History and Talent Development Program
Among Indians and Inshore Fishing People of the State of Maine, the
Canadian Maritime Provinces, and Quebec,” done under the sponsorship
of the New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Center (now the
Canadian-American Center) at the University of Maine in Orono, 1972.
700 Pratson, Frederick. Summer 1972. Nova Scotia: East Dover.
124 pp. Tape: 4 1/2 hrs. w/ trans. A group interview with Lloyd
Burke, Kingdom Burke, Kenneth Burke, and Hauk Anderson, inshore
fisherman, all of East Dover, Novia Scotia, about life in the area
and their experiences fishing. T417 - T420
713 Pratson, Frederick. Sept. 1972. Maine: Round Pond on the
Allagash. 75 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ trans. Interview with Willard
Jalbert, 85, about life and work in northern Maine lumbercamps.
T455 - T457
714 Pratson, Frederick. Sept. 1972. New Brunswick: Rexton. 99
pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ trans. Interviews with Chief Peter Barlow,
Micmac Reservation. T458 - T461
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