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MF 123 Bonita Freeman Witthoft/
Spiritualist Church Collection
Number of Interviews:
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1971 - 1972
Time period covered: twentieth century
Principal interviewers: Bonita Freeman Witthoft
Finding Aides: brief indexes and full transcripts
Access Restrictions: none
Description: This collections consists of a series of
interviews and recordings of various meetings and sessions of the
Spiritualist Church in Maine and especially at Camp Etna. They were
conducted by Bonita Freeman Witthoft in connection with her thesis
From the Other Side of Life: Modern Spiritualism in Maine,
c.1975. Witthoft was primarily interested in fundamental religious
concepts, forms of apprenticeship, acquired patterns of perception
and behavior, the discipline of mediums as spokesmen for spirit
guides, and on the complex act of delivering messages. Among topics
covered are healing, physical versus mental mediumship, projection,
trance, controls and guides, and automatism.
669 Witthoft, Bonita. 1971 - 1972. Maine: Etna, Bangor, Orono.
75 pp. Tape: 4 hrs. w/ trans. Interviews, recordings of church
meetings, healing sessions, etc. in connection with the Spiritualist
Church. Interviewees and speakers include Loretta Fairjeon,
Forest Dinsmore, Marjory Flewelling, Elmer Stewart, Frank Libby,
Margaret Stevens, Henry Gardiner. T369 - T370
673 Witthoft, Bonita. 1971 - 1972. Maine: Etna, Bangor, Orono.
312 pp. Tape 13 hrs. with brief index and transcript. Interviews,
recordings of church meetings, healing session, in connection with
the Spiritualist Church. Interviewees include Henry Hewitt,
Pierre Fairjeon, Loretta Fairjeon, Irene Fratello, Rev. Mountain,
Lenona Flanders, Gladys Laliberte, Emer Stewart. T369 - T370
710 Witthoft, Bonita. Summer 1972. Maine: Etna. 437 pp. Tape: 16
hrs. w/ brief cat. & trans. Series of interviews on spiritualism at
Camp Etna, a Spiritualist Church camp. Interviewees include
Clarence Stewart, Elmer Steward, Robert Simpson, Louise Hagar, Vera
McGregor, Loretta Fairjeon, Helen Morgan, Millie Blover, Zelma
Dickerson, Bernice Damon. T435 - T450
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