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Folklore Courses for Spring 2009

INT 410
Introduction to Linguistics (online) Taught by Pauleena MacDougall

ANT 425
Oral History and Folklore: Fieldwork (online) Taught by Pamela Dean


Maine Folklife Center


Newsletters
 

 

Currently Online:

 

Summer - Fall 2007

(in .pdf format):

  • Brewer Oral History Project Continues

  • AMERICAN FOLK FESTIVAL

    August 24-26, 2007

  • New Leadership for the Maine Folklife Center

     

Winter 2006 - Spring 2007

(in .pdf format):

  • Maine Humanities Council
    Supports Oral History Project
    with Former Eastern Fine
    Paper Mill Workers
    The Writing on the Wall—an update

  • Maine Folklife Center Leads Students
    in the History of the Pulp and Paper
    Industry

  • ANNOUNCING:

    Northeast Folklore Volume XXXX: I Got the Idear:

    My Love Affair With Maine Language by Marion

    Kingston Stocking with an essay “Maine Dialects”

    by Pauleena MacDougall

 

Winter 2006

(in .pdf format):

  • Maine Humanities Council

    Supports Oral History Project

    with Former Eastern Fine

    Paper Mill Workers

  • Northeast Folklore Volume XXXIX: "No Flies on Bill": A Granddaughter’s Tribute

  • WAgN, Windsor Chairs, and Hillbilly Music:

    The 2005 Common Ground Fair

 

Winter 2004 - 2005

(in .pdf format):

Landing a meduim-sized swordfish from a dory ca.1960. (Courtesy of Vernon Conrad)
  • Oral History Helps to Answer 4,000 Year Old Question

  • Maine Folklife Center Narrative Stage at the National Folk Festival August 28, 29 2004

  • Maine Folklife Center

    receives two grants to support our radio program, Maine Roots.

 

Man reading image

John Dearborn Sr.
image #P7807

Spring - Summer 2004 (in .pdf format):

  • The American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront is born
  • A Boat Building Story
  • Radio Program to be Broadcast Soon

 

Fall - Winter 2003
(in .pdf format):

  • Edward D. "Sandy" Ives awarded Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership at 2003 annual meeting of the American Folklore Society.
  • Distinguished Dissertation Award given to Betsy Hedler
  • MFC Well Represented at Oral History Conference
  • Wooden boat building traditions the subject of current research
  • Maine Indian Basketmakers’ Alliance Director Awarded International Prize
  • TIMBERRR...A History of Logging in New England by Mary Morton Cowan
  • The Continuing Saga of Rob Golding
  • A New Face in the Sound Lab
  • Archival Notes
  • St. John Valley Cultural Assessment Completed
  • Planning for 66th National Folk Festival Underway

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Spring - Summer 2003

  • "In Neptune's Court": A New research initiative
  • Thirty Minutes on the 1930s in Acadia National Park
  • Grant Enhances native Arts Area for 2--3 Festival
  • We Know Beans
  • Performaers at the National Folk Festival
  • New and Improved Folk Arts Marketplace
  • Musical Instrument Makers Featured at the National Folk Festival South Bristol Oral History featured in new book, Down on the Island, Up on the Maine: A Recollected History of South Bristol, Maine, by Ellen Vincent
  • Announcing Our Next Volume: KATAHDIN WIGWAM'S TALES OF THE ABNAKI TRIBES Written by Molly Spotted Elk With an Introduction by Bunny McBride Edited by Pauleena MacDougall XXXVII: 2002

Fall - Winter 2002

Spring/Summer 2002

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5773 South Stevens, Room 112B
Orono, ME 04469-5773
Phone (207)581-1891 | Fax: (207)581-1823
Email: folklife@maine.edu

 


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