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MF 131 John Meader Collection
Number of Interviews: 8
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1980-1982
Time period covered: twentieth century
Principal interviewers: John Meader
Finding Aides: brief indexes
Access Restrictions: none
Description: A series of interviews conducted by John
Meader with his grandfather, Dell Turner, and others about Turner.
Begun as a class project in Sandy Ives' Maine and the Maritimes
Folklore class at the University of Maine and continued in his
Fieldwork in Folklore and Oral History class, this series is the
basis for Dell Turner: The Stories of His Life. (Northeast
Folklore XXVII, 1988).
1327 Meader, John. (AY 122) Spring 1980. Maine: Fairfield. 171
pp. Tape: 5 hrs. w/ cats. Series of interviews with Dell Turner
about his life, woods cooking, lumber camps, farming, fishing
stories; 56 pp. oral autobiography of Turner; photos, P4662 -
P4667. T1448 - T1450
1397 Meader, John. (Ay 125) Fall 1980. Maine: Fairfield. 47 pp.
Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Interview with Chrystal Turner about her
husband, Dell; her family; spiritualist meetings; the KKK. T1534,
T1696
1398 Meader, John. (AY 125) Fall 1980. Maine: Fairfield. 51 pp.
Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Interview with Joyce Meader about her
father, Dell Turner; spiritualist meetings. T1535, T1697
1399 Meader, John. (AY 125) Fall 1980. Maine: Bangor. 27 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Mary Pearl McEachern about
her brother, Dell Turner; his early years; moving to Maine from New
Brunswick; homelife. T1537
1543 Meader, John. (AY 198) Fall 1981. Maine: Fairfield. 30 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Michael Meader about his
grandfather, Dell Turner. T1643
1544 Meader, John. (AY 198) Fall 1981. Maine: Fairfield. 31 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Glen Meader about his
father-in-law, Dell Turner. T1644
1545 Meader, John. (AY 198) Fall 1981. Maine: Fairfield. 21 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Daryl Buck about Dell
Turner. T1645
1565 Meader, John T. Winter 1982. Maine: Fairfield. 22 pp. Tape:
1 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Earl Doody about Dell Turner’s
life views, and stories. T1666
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