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Folklore Courses for Fall 2008

ANT 221 Introduction to Folklore taught by Karen Miller

ANT 426
Native American Folklore (online) taught by Pauleena MacDougall

ANT 490
Public Sector Folklore taught by Kathleen Mundell


Projects

Maine Papermakers

The Story of the Eastern Fine Paper Mill, Brewer, Maine

"Writing on the Wall" video premiered

Women in Maine's Paper Industry  1880 - 2006

Brewer Middle School's Mill History project

 

Maine Folklife Center


Collections

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 P
ratson, 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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