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MF 056 “Skinner Settlement” Project
Interviews
Number of
Interviews: 6
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1974
Time period covered: 1880s-1910s
Principal interviewers: Ilka List, Ford Reiche, Celeste
Beaulieu, Jolene Walker, Allison Bishop, and Edward D. Ives
Finding Aides: brief indexes
Access Restrictions: none
Description: A series of interviews about farm life in Maine
at the turn of the twentieth century, conducted by students in AY
125 in the fall of 1974. The interviewees discuss life at the
Skinner Settlement in East Corinth, Maine; including house layouts,
furnishings; farm buildings; machinery; clothing; and social
customs.
840 List, Ilka. (AY 125) Fall 1974. Maine: East Corinth. 77
pp. Tape: 7 hrs. w/ brief cat. & partial trans. Interview with Mrs.
Grace Clark about farm life at the turn of the century.
Skinner Settlement Project. T764 - T771
841 Reiche, Ford and Ilka List. (AY 125) Fall 1974. Maine:
Orono. 26 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ brief cat. & partial trans. Interview
with Leon Bussell about life on a farm at the turn of the
century. T772 - T774
843 Beaulieu, Celeste, Jolene Walker & Allison Bishop. (AY
125) Fall 1974. Maine: Old Town, Bangor. 52 pp. Tape: 4 hrs. w/
brief cat. & partial trans. Interview with Bertha Campbell
about life at the turn of the century in Corinth, Maine: house
layouts, furnishings of that period, diagrams. T775 - T777
844 Reiche, Ford. (AY 125) Fall 1974. Maine: Greenbush. 6 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Frank Harriman,
farmer and woodsman. Skinner Settlement Project. T778
845 Reiche, Ford (AY 125) Fall 1974. Maine: Greenbush. 4 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Frank Hunnewell
about farm buildings and machinery. Skinner Settlement Project.
T779
846 Walker, Jolene, Allison Bishop, Edward D. Ives, Celeste
Beaulieu. (AY 125) Fall 1974. Maine: Argyle. 54 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/
brief cat. & partial trans. Interview with Bertha Price about
growing up on a farm at the turn of the century; social customs and
clothing worn. T780 - T782
