Identifier
NA 1905 (local)

Repository
Maine Folklife Center

Date
March 8 1986 (Bulk dates)

Summary

Bangs discusses his experiences working in the woods along the Machias River beginning in the late 1930s; driving logs using a splash-dam; driving boom logs; how he began scaling; surveying work as mediating a fight; building roads to transport pulpwood; French-Canadians as good workers; no need to replant because seedlings were left standing; skidders as wasteful; introduction of chain saws and problems with early chain saws; and handling poached meat.

Creator and/or Contributor
Irving Bangs (interviewee), Edward D Ives (interviewer)

Language
English (Languages)

Other Subject Headings
Logging (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Occupational Folklore (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Log driving--Maine (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Poaching (crime) (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Logging tools (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))

Temporal Coverage
1930s

Geographic Coverage
Bangor, Maine (Geonames)
Alexander, Maine (Geonames)
Township 19, Maine (Local)
East Machias River (Geonames)
Nova Scotia (Geonames)
Township 24, Maine (Local)
Machias River (Geonames)
Machias, Maine (Geonames)
New Hampshire (Geonames)

Materials Designation
transcripts
sound cassettes (analog)

Part Of
Machias River Project

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