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Nash Island Light Project Collection

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Identifier
MF 080 (local)
Date
1998 (Date created)
Summary

 A series of two interviews with Jenny Cirone, age 86, done on behalf of a group wishing to restore the Nash Island Lighthouse, by Anu Dudley in October, 1998. The interviews primarily focused on Jenny Cirone’s reminiscences of growing up on Nash Island, Maine, where her father was the lighthouse keeper. Topics include: raising and shearing sheep; fishing; lobstering; clamming; gardening; schooling; tending the Nash Island lighthouse; tourists; ice skating; hurricanes; games; boats; clothing; social life; storms; and wrecks.

Creator and/or Contributor
Anu Dudley (contributor), Jenny Cirone (creator)
Language
Dialects)
Other Subject Headings
Raising and shearing sheep Fishing Lobstering Clamming; Gardening Schooling (Local)
Related Entities:
Jenny Cirone (creator)

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