COLLECTION
Argyle Boom Collection
Identifier
MF 003 (local)
Date
1973 - 1975 (Date created)
Summary
The Argyle Boom Collection consists of approximately seventy-five hours of tape-recorded interviews in twenty-nine accessions, most of which reflect interviews conducted by students in classes taught by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives at the University of Maine in 1973 and 1975. Argyle Boom was one of several locations at which logs that had been cut upriver and floated or “driven” down the Penobscot River were sorted before being sent on to the lumber mills in Old Town, Orono, Veazie, Bangor, and Brewer, Maine, from approximately 1900 to 1930. These interviews, along with associated photographs, maps, and diagrams, were the basis for “Argyle Boom” (Northeast Folklore, XVII:1976). Under Ives’ direction, the students consulted existing manuscript sources, sought out potential informants who had worked on the boom, conducted interviews, and wrote essays on various aspects of boom construction and operation and the daily lives of the workers. Ives then edited and rewrote these essays for publication. For more information see “Argyle Boom.”
Creator and/or Contributor
Susan Tibetts (contributor),
Ralph Cook (contributor),
Mary Beth O'Connor (contributor),
Dusty Carr (contributor),
Mark Lafond (contributor),
Kenneth Whitney (contributor),
Edward D Ives (contributor),
Lucinda Lamb (contributor),
Jack Beard (contributor),
Elizabeth Warner (contributor),
Ann Pierter (contributor),
Bessie Dem (contributor),
Leon Bussell (creator),
Alfonse Martin (creator),
David Seymour (creator),
Victor Shorette (creator),
Felix Cote (creator),
David S Brown (creator),
Ernest Kennedy (creator),
Kenneth LaFlamme (creator),
Emile Leavitt (creator),
Stephen R Buzzell (creator),
Harry Twitchell (creator),
Harry Kennedy (creator),
Alex Rouleau (creator),
Wallace Del Soule (creator),
John Costigan (creator),
William Mclaughlin (creator)
Language
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Other Subject Headings
The Argyle Boom Collection consists of approximately seventy-five hours of tape-recorded interviews in twenty-nine accessions, most of which reflect interviews conducted by students in classes taught by Edward D. “Sandy” Ives at the University of Maine in 1973 and 1975. (Local)
