COLLECTION
Curran Family Homestead Project
Identifier
MF 015 (local)
Date
1996 (Date created)
Summary
A series of student interviews done for Edward D. “Sandy” Ives’ class focused on the Curran Family Homestead, a living history museum in Orrington, Maine. Interview topics include: memories of Alfred, Eddie, and Catherine Curran; dairy farming in East Orrington during the first half of the twentieth century; MA Crook and Sons Hillside Dairy; relationship between the Kimball family and the Currans; swimming in the Fields Pond in the summer; tobogganing on the Curran property in the winter; a genealogy of the Curran family; growing up in Orrington and spending time on the Curran farm; daily management of the farm; food preparation during the winter; an ice house; farm livestock; making alcohol during prohibition; working on the Curran farm; Alfred’s younger years; farming practices; life in Orrington in the early part of the 1900’s; the layout of East Orrington in the 1920’s – 1930’s; East Orrington’s saw mill; and the Audubon Society.
Creator and/or Contributor
Tosca Devito (contributor),
Megan Foreman (contributor),
Dena Winslow York (contributor),
Shawna Chesto (contributor),
Nancy Dudley (contributor),
Babara Sumner (contributor),
Robin Fre (contributor),
Melissa Johnson (contributor),
Angela Herbert (contributor),
Brandon Portwine (contributor),
Elizabeth Cook (creator),
Joanne Kimball (creator),
Dickie Crawford (creator),
Joan Wicks (creator),
Eulalia Harriman (creator),
Carolyn Clark (creator),
Mary C. Fernald (creator),
Lawrence D. Fernald (creator),
Sherman Hinks (creator),
Brian Macleod (creator),
Ana Macleod (creator),
Michael Goodman (creator),
Nancy Raich (creator),
Benjamin Goldberg (creator),
Abigail Williamson (creator),
Jim Kearns (creator),
George Chapman (creator),
Evans Hart (creator),
Florence Smith (creator),
Morris Cronkits (creator),
Lucille Cronkits (creator),
Edward D Ives (contributor)
Language
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Other Subject Headings
Curran Family Homestead (Local)