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ACCESSION SHEET Accession Number: 0001 Maine Folklife Center Accession Date: 1962.06.01 T# C# P D CD M A # Collection MF 076/ MF 180 # T Number: P S V D D Collection Maine / Maritimes # # # V A Name: Folklore Collection/ # # Woods Music Interviewer Margaret Adams Narrator: Various /Depositor: Description: 0001 Various, interviewed by Margaret Adams for CP 180, spring 1962, Houlton, Maine and Boiestown, New Brunswick. Folklore materials collected as a class project by Margaret Adams in Houlton, Maine, and Boiestown, New Brunswick. Accession includes typewritten stories, songs, jokes, and legends. Songs include an untitled song (“In the Spring of ‘62”?), “The Letter Edged in Black,” “The Jones Boys,” “The Winter of ‘73” (“McCullom Camp”), and “On the Bridge at Avignon.” Tall tales deal with Tom McKee, a Civil War soldier, and a deer story. Forerunners tell of seeing unexplained lights, bad luck, and other happenings. One sheet lists beliefs. Tales and legends include the legend of the Buck Monument in Bucksport, several haunted house stories, a banshee, premonitions, several devil stories, a Frenchman’s joke about “God Lover Oil,” and a Lubec minister’s scheme for extracting gold from sea water. Text: 50 pp. paper Related Collections & Accessions Restrictions No release. Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewees and/or their heirs. X ACCESSION SHEET Accession Number: 0022 Maine Folklife Center Accession Date: 1962.05.00 T# C# P D CD M A # Collection MF 076/ MF 180 # T Number: P S V D D Collection Maine / Maritimes # # # V A Name: Folklore Collection/ # # Woods Music Interviewer Sara Brooks Narrator: Various /Depositor: Description: 0022 Various, interviewed by Sara Brooks for CP 180, spring 1962, Island Falls and Sherman Mills, Mills, Maine. Paper deals with devil stories; superstitions; tall tales; legends; jokes; ballads by Ed W. Rand; legends of the Machias area. Also included: map of New England. Song 1: “Among the Pines of Maine,” by Ed.W. Rand. Mr. Rand worked in the logging woods starting when he was 18 (1897). Song about longing for home as are several others by this singer. e.s. “The Girl I loved.....” and “Down on the Farm”. It seems to be a theme, perhaps because these songs were sung in a lumber camp. Song 2: “The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee,” by Ed. W. Rand. He said that every night the men would ask him to sing and that they always requested this song as the last number. Text: 84 pp. paper Related Collections & Accessions Restrictions No release. Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewees and/or their heirs. X ACCESSION SHEET Accession Number: 0179 Maine Folklife Center Accession Date: 1962.12.00 T# 0228, 0229 C# P 0003, D CD 0591.1, M 0004, A # 0591.2 Collection MF 076/ MF 180 # 0005 T Number: P S V D D mfc_na0179_t0228_01, Collection Maine / Maritimes # # # V A mfc_na0179_t0228_02, Name: Folklore Collection/ # # mfc_na0179_t0229_01 Woods Music Interviewer Geraldine Hegeman, Dolores Daigle, Narrator: Various /Depositor: Marilyn Daigle Description: 0179 Various interviewed by Geraldine Hegeman, Dolores Daigle, and Marilyn Daigle for CP 180, fall 1962, Fort Kent, Caribou, Allagash, Castine, Madawaska, and Presque Isle, Maine; New Brunswick. Accession includes two tape reels and supplemental documentation. Paper deals with ghost stories and devil stories; place name lore; jokes (many “off color”); word play examples; anecdotes of local people (such as John Stadig, counterfeiter); French songs; Indian legends; folk heroes; Papineau stories (Papino); Kluscap legends; folk songs (some in French); black medicine for babies; Maliseet Indian lore; primarily stories of Kluscap (Glooscap) told in the Maliseet language, “The Lost Hunters and the Corpse Chewer,” “The Man Who Married the Nun,” “How the Trappers Broke the Spell,” and a song “The Indian’s Lament.” See Northeast Folklore VI (1964): “Malecite and Passamaquoddy Tales.” Song: “Shanty Boys,” by Isaic Gardiner. This song was about 50 years old or older at the time it was collected. It was sung by men in lumber camps. It originated in a lumber camp in Allagash. Text: 205 pp. paper Recording: T 0228 - T 0229 / CD 0591.1 - CD 0591.2 4 hours French and Maliseet Related Collections & Accessions Restrictions No Release. X ACCESSION SHEET Accession Number: 0193 Maine Folklife Center Accession Date: T# 0230 C# P 0019, D CD 0017, 0018 M 0020, A # Collection MF 076/ MF 180 # 0021 T Number: P S V D D mfc_na0193_t0230_01, Collection Maine / Maritimes # # # V A mfc_na0193_t0230_02, Name: Folklore Collection/ # # mfc_na0193_t0230_03 Woods Music Interviewer Kay Hayes Narrator: Ernie McCarthy and Christopher Dolan /Depositor: Description: 0193 Ernie McCarthy and Christopher Dolan, interviewed by Kay Hayes for CP 180, Blackville, New Brunswick, July 1965. McCarthy and Dolan sing songs including “Mantle of Green,” “India’s Burning Sands,” “Howard Carey,” “Bashful Country Lover,” “Norway Bum,” “Sally Monroe,” “Jail Song,” “Poisoned Brothers,” “Two Lovers’ Discussion,” “Handsome Janie Ferguson,” “The Dirty Shirt,“ ”Whiskey in the Jar,” “Mother, the Queen of My Heart,” “Peter Emberly,” “Young Donald,” “Barbary Allen,” and “Harry Harrison” and talk about several stories and legends including a devil story. Text: 62 pp. paper Recording: T 0230 / PM 0019 - PM 0021 / CD 0017 - CD 0018 1.5 hours Related Collections & Accessions Restrictions No release. Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewees and/or their heirs. X ACCESSION SHEET Accession Number: 0194 Maine Folklife Center Accession Date: T# C# P D CD M A # Collection MF 076/ MF 180 # T Number: P S V D D Collection Maine / Maritimes # # # V A Name: Folklore Collection/ # # Woods Music Interviewer Ethel Hamilton Narrator: Various /Depositor: Description: 0194 Various, interviewed by Ethel Hamilton for CP 180, summer 1965, Dalhousie, New Brunswick. Paper deals with legends; phantom ship; place names; treasure story; songs. Song 1: “Sullivan Murder,” by Manny Monzello. Song Mr. Monzello heard while working in the woods. Song about a man in a jail cell regretting having murdered a widow and her son. Song 2: “The Jam on Gerry’s Rock,” by Margaret Hamilton. Collector’s mother had song written in book but didn’t know where it came from. The song is about six lumbermen who are killed along with the young foreman on a log jam on Gerry’s Rock. Text: 48 pp. paper Related Collections & Accessions Restrictions No release. Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewees and/or their heirs. X ACCESSION SHEET Accession Number: 0196 Maine Folklife Center Accession Date: T# C# P D CD M A # Collection MF 076/ MF 180 # T Number: P S V D D Collection Maine / Maritimes # # # V A Name: Folklore Collection/ # # Woods Music Interviewer Bernita Harris Narrator: Various /Depositor: Description: 0196 Various, interviewed by Bernita Harris for CP 180, summer 1965, Fredericton and Grand Manan, New Brunswick. Paper deals with ghost dog; witch in rabbit; headless horseman; haunted house; ghost stories; place names; devil stories: card players, refuses to go through town; forerunners; buried treasure; anecdotes; tall tales; songs. Song: “Loggin’ Song,” by Helena Damery. Informant was a cook for a gang of 28 Frenchmen, probably heard it there. Alternate title “Lumberman’s Alphabet.” Text: 66 pp. paper Related Collections & Accessions Restrictions No release. Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewees and/or their heirs. X ACCESSION SHEET Accession Number: 0213 Maine Folklife Center Accession Date: T# C# P D CD M A # Collection MF 180 # T Number: P S V D D Collection Woods Music Music# # # V A Name: # # Interviewer John Johnson Narrator: Various /Depositor: Description: 0213 Various, interviewed by John Johnson, Machias, Maine. Paper deals with lumbering stories; song; local characters; legends: Wreck of the Van Duzen; tall tales. Text: 11 pp. paper Related Collections & Accessions Restrictions No release. Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewees and/or their heirs. X ACCESSION SHEET Accession Number: 0217 Maine Folklife Center Accession Date: 1966.12.00 T# C# P D CD M A # Collection MF 076/ MF 180 # T Number: P S V D D Collection Maine / Maritimes # # # V A Name: Folklore Collection/ # # Woods Music Interviewer Nola Johnson Narrator: Various /Depositor: Description: 0217 Various, interviewed by Nola Johnson for CP 133, fall 1966, UMaine, Orono, Maine. Paper deals with ghost stories: Penobscot Hall, Kents Hill ghost; Joe Ware, Indian hunter; children’s counting rhymes. Song “The Legend of the St. John River,” by Earl Atkinson. Informant learned this song while he was a cook in lumber camps along the Charlo River. Text: 25 pp. paper Related Collections & Accessions Restrictions No release. Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewees and/or their heirs. X ACCESSION SHEET Accession Number: 0219 Maine Folklife Center Accession Date: 1959.00.00 T# C# P D CD M A # Collection MF 180 # T Number: P S V D D Collection Woods Music # # # V A Name: # # Interviewer Marion Kimball Narrator: Mike Gorman /Depositor: Description: 0219 Mike Gorman, recorded by Marion Kimball for American Folklore, summer 1959. Paper titled "A Miscellany of Poems and Stories Concerning the Penobscot River Lumberjack." Songs by Mike Gorman. Text: 56 pp. paper Related Collections & Accessions Restrictions No release. Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewees and/or their heirs. X ACCESSION SHEET Accession Number: 0225 Maine Folklife Center Accession Date: T# 0232, 0233 C# P 0001, D CD 0001, 0002 M 0002 A # Collection MF 180 # T Number: P S