Identifier
NA 790 (local)

Repository
Maine Folklife Center

Date
1973 - 1975 (Date created)

Summary
Interviews with Harry Twitchell conducted by Carr (October 26, 29, November 27, 1973), and Lamb and Warner (November 14, 1975) for class projects. Topics covered include tools and techniques for rafting, checking, and sorting logs; dropping off; swings; Sunkhaze Rips; Pea Cove; Nebraska boom; Cow Island; White Squaw Island; Birch Island; building piers; hanging the boom; the boom house, meals and living conditions; bosses Gene Mann, Billy Mann, and Walter Drake; pickeroons, hookeroons; rear crew’s duties; jams. Photo, P425 / T683-T686
101pp

Creator and/or Contributor
Harry Twitchell (creator), Dusty Carr (contributor), Elizabeth Warner (contributor), Lucinda Lamb (contributor)

Language
Dialects)

Other Subject Headings
Tools and techniques for rafting Checking Sorting logs Dropping off Swings Sunkhaze Rips Pea Cove Nebraska boom Cow Island White Squaw Island Birch Island b Tools and techniques for Rafting Checking and sorting logs Dropping off Swings Sunkhaze Rips Pea Cove Nebraska boom Cow Island White Squaw Island Birch Island Building piers Hanging the boom The boom house tools and techniques for rafting, checking, and sorting logs; dropping off; swings; Sunkhaze Rips; Pea Cove; Nebraska boom; Cow Island Tools and techniques for rafting Checking and sorting logs Dropping off Swings 0 Sunkhaze Rips; Pea Cove; Nebraska boom; Cow Island (Local)

Materials Designation
sound tape reels (analog)
photographic prints
manuscripts

Part Of
Argyle Boom Collection

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