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MF 063 UM-Augusta Communication Course
Interviews
Number of
Interviews: 19
Dates When Interviews Were Conducted: 1977
Time Period Covered: nineteenth and twentieth century
Principal Interviewer: various
Finding Aides: brief indexes
Access Restrictions: none
Description: The collection consists of a series of
interviews done for a University of Maine at Augusta course in
Speaker-Audience Communications, Fall 1977. Topics covered include:
the Farnsworth Museum; the Robert Abbe Museum; Lucy Farnsworth;
Rockland, Maine, in the early 1900s; Northport in the War of 1812;
Waldoboro News Stand; Knox Arboretum in Warren, Maine; lace mills
and the lace business in St. George, Maine; lime kilns; Clark Island
Quarry and quarry stone cutting; farm life in Vassalboro in the
1930s and 1940s; the Children’s Aid Society; Sweetser Children’s
Home in Saco, Maine; Fleming’s Upholstery Shop in Rockland; Stockton
Springs; work as a town clerk; Rockland, Thomaston, and Camden
Street Railway; teaching in Warren and Northport; Butler’s Boatyard;
Snow’s Shipyard; Graffam Island; lobstering; Belfast, Maine;
recreational activities in Thomaston, Maine, in the 1930s; sawmills;
school systems; transportation of blueberries to market; and the
Christmas tree business.
1152 Weatherbee, Katherine. (COM 101-46) Fall 1977. Maine:
Rockland. 10 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Wendell
Hadlock, former curator of the Farnsworth Museum, about his
anthropological studies of Maine Indians; his work at the Robert
Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor; papers he has written. UM-Augusta,
Speaker-Audience Communication Course. T1218 - T1219
[cassette originals = C1720, C1721]
1153 Huntley, Sandra. (COM 101-46) Fall 1977. Maine:
Rockland. 11 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Winola
Cooper about Lucy Farnsworth’s family history, family donation
of $1,300,000 estate to construct and support the William Farnsworth
Library and Art Museum in Rockland; recollections of Rockland in
early 1900’s, travel by electric car, horse and buggy, and
steamship. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication Course.
T1219 - T1220 [cassette original]
1154 Leavitt, Connie. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine:
Rockland. 6 pp. Tape: 3/4 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Ruth
Wiley, 81, about stories told to her by her great—grandmother of
British soldiers landing in Northport in War of 1812; Oakland Park;
Lucy Farnsworth; Thurlow’s Ice Cream Parlor; worst storms she
remembers. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication Course.
T1220 [cassette original]
1155 Petrovitz, Richard. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine:
Waldoboro. 7 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Douglas
Parent, 59, owner of the Waldoboro News Stand about his life,
business, community, opinions past and present. UM-Augusta,
Speaker-Audience Communication Course. T1221 [cassette
original = C1724]
1156 Provost, David. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine: Warren.
5 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Diane Corbett
about the Knox Arboretum in Warren, Maine; early history of the land
where it is now located; people who lived there with a pet lion.
UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication Course. T1222
[cassette original = C1725]
1157 Copeland, Anne. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine: Warren.
3 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Andrew Crowe,
80, retired lacemill owner and operator, about the lace business in
St. George, Maine 22 years ago. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience
Communication Course. T1222 - T1223 [cassette original =
C1726]
1158 Barfod, Ib. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine: Rockland. 6
pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Irving "Baldy"
Keizer, 72, about lime rock driving, lime kiln operations, home
life in 1910-1920’s, house rental business in the 1940’s.
UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication Course. T1223
[cassette original = C1727]
1159 Watts, Joan W. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine: St. George.
6 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Bjarne Peterson
about quarry stone cutting; kinds of quarry stones; Clark Island
Quarry. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication Course. T1224
[cassette original = C1728]
1160 Howe, Moyle B. (COM 101-46) Fall 1977. Maine: Vassalboro.
11 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ trans. Interview with Robert J. Howe
about farm life in Vassalboro during the 1930’s and 40’s.
UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication Course. T1225
[cassette original = C1729]
1161 Scott, Karne. (COM 101-46) Fall 1977. Maine: Belfast. 7
pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Margaret Stone
about the formation of the Children’s Aid Society in 1893, its
operation over the years, its cooperation with the Sweetser
Children’s Home in Saco, Maine. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience
Communication Course. T1225 [cassette original = C1730]
1162 Graf, John. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine: Rockland. 5
pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Evelyn Fleming
Raymond, owner of Fleming’s Upholstery Shop in Rockland, about
the upholstery business. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication
Course. T1225 [cassette original = C1731]
1163 Stewart, James. (COM 101-46) Fall, 1977. Maine, Stockton
Springs. 5 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Walter
Trundy, 98, about his many years as town clerk; growing up in
Stockton Springs. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication Course.
T1226 [cassette original = C1732]
1164 Boyington, Evelyn. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine:
Thomaston. 5 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with
Jennie F. Butler about the Rockland, Thomaston and Camden Street
Railway. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication Course. T1226
[cassette original = C1733]
1165 Ryan, Patricia. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine:
Rockland. 5 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Edith
F. Mahoney about teaching in Warren and Northport in 1918-1920;
modes of travel; Butler’s Boatyard; Snow’s Shipyard; Oakland Park.
UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication Course. T1226 - T1227
[cassette original = C1734]
1166 Barnes, Priscilla (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine:
Thomaston. 6 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Myles
Weston about personal history; Thomaston history; shipbuilding;
prison; kilns; large houses. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience
Communication Course. T1227 [cassette original = C1735]
1167 Peterson, Cinda. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine:
Graffam Island. 5 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with
Walter Drinkwater, Sr., 69, about the fishing industry;
caretaker for Graffam Island for 43 years; lobster fisherman off
Spruce Head for 57 years. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication
Course. T1228 [cassette original = C1736]
1168 Rich, Dorothy Ann. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine:
Belfast. 5 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Charles
Robbins about Belfast from 1901 to 1977. UM-Augusta,
Speaker-Audience Communication Course. T1228 [cassette
original = C1737]
1169 Jones, Pamela. (COM 101-46) Fall 1977. Maine: Thomaston.
5 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Sally Hill
about recreational activities during her youth in Thomaston in the
1930’s. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience Communication Course. T1229
[cassette original = C1738]
1170 Leonard, Susan. (COM 101-46) Spring 1977. Maine: Hope. 5
pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Roy Hobbs
about sawmills; school systems; transportation of blueberries to
market; Christmas tree business. UM-Augusta, Speaker-Audience
Communication Course. T1229 - T1230 [cassette original =
C1739]
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