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Charles W. Joy, Martha Davis, Maude Goggins, Frieda Hillgrove, Edward Murphy, and William Silsby, interviewed by Joy for Folklore 107, fall 1969, Ellsworth and Veazie, Maine.

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Identifier
NA 0545 (local)
Date
December 1969 (Date created)
Summary

oy, Davis, Goggins, Hillgrove, Murphy, Silsby talks about “key figures”: Roderick MacDonald, Joe Tosh, Dan Donovan, and Freeman Archer; shipping in Ellsworth; picnic as a child; origins of Cork Hill in Ellsworth; rivalry between Bar Harbor and Ellsworth; salmon in Union River; Larry Gorman; mills, wages; Protestant and Catholics; dining at lumber camps; poplar trees not used to build lumber camps because Christ was crucified on a poplar cross; Edgar “Dingbat” Prouty; Prouty family tree. 

Creator and/or Contributor
Charles W. Joy (interviewee), Martha Davis (interviewee), Maude Goggins (interviewee), Frieda Hillgrove (interviewee), Edward Murphy (interviewee), William Silsby (interviewee), William Joy (interviewer)
Language
English (Languages)
Other Subject Headings
Lumber industry (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Towns (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Local character legends (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Lumber camps (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Oral histories (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Etiological legends (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Baseball (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Shipping industry (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Logging songs (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Superstitions (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Paper mills (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Occupational folklore (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Temporal Coverage
circa 1880 - 1969
Geographic Coverage
Ellsworth, Maine (Geonames)
Veazie, Maine (Geonames)
Franklin, Maine (Geonames)
Nova Scotia (Geonames)
Argyle Township, Maine (Geonames)
Penobscot River (Geonames)
Narraguagus River (Geonames)
Union River (Geonames)
Machias River (Geonames)
Related Entities:
Charles W. Joy (interviewee)
Martha Davis (interviewee)
Maude Goggins (interviewee)
Frieda Hillgrove (interviewee)
Edward Murphy (interviewee)
William Silsby (interviewee)
William Joy (interviewer)
Related Objects
Table of contents from NA 0545