Identifier
NA 3066 (local)

Repository
Maine Folklife Center

Date
September 22 2002 (Date created)

Summary

Breen talks about the choice to move to Troy, Maine, instead of Vermont in 1972; the attraction of organic farming as a way of life; apprenticing on a vegetable farm; moving to St. Albans, Maine; becoming a midwife; financial hardship; apprenticing as a means of learning a trade; the “Birth Tent” at the Common Ground Fair; isolation from the local community in Central Maine; raising children; meeting people in a rural community; operating a booth at the Common Ground Fair; and growing and selling organic melons with husband Peter DeBethune. Text: 15 pp. transcript. 

Creator and/or Contributor
Jill Breen (interviewee), Pauleena MacDougall (interviewer)

Language
English (Languages)

Other Subject Headings
Organic farming (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Rural life (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Apprentices (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Social isolation (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Midwives (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Poverty (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Back-to-the-land movements (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Maine Organic Farmers' and Gardeners' Association (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Community (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Contra dance (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Logging (forestry) (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Alternative education (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))

Temporal Coverage
1952 - 2002

Geographic Coverage
Los Angeles, California (Geonames)
Unity, Maine (Geonames)
San Francisco, California (Geonames)
Pennsylvania, United States (Geonames)
Thetford, Vermont (Geonames)
Putney, Vermont (Geonames)
Troy, Maine (Geonames)
St. Alabans, Maine (Geonames)
Canaan, New Hampshire (Geonames)
Hartland, Maine (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Dexter, Maine (Geonames)
Cambridge, Maine (Geonames)

Materials Designation
sound cassettes (analog)
transcripts

Part Of
MF 121 Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA)

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