Aroostook County Oral History Project - 1971 / 1972

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0.00 Track 1    Track 2 Mrs. Charlotte Lenentine Melvin - Consultant, Aroostook Oral History Project
1.1 Track 1 Solomon Saucier (89) (French) Fort Kent
1.2 Track 1    Track 2 Joseph St. Germain (87) (French) Wallagrass
1.3 Track 1    Track 2 Side 1: Michel Fournier Side 2: Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Cyr, Mrs. Michel Fournier (French) Edmunston
1.4 Track 1    Track 2 Orvila Saucier (96) (French) Eagle Lake
1.5 Track 1    Track 2 Charles Cote (74)- Firman Daigle & Others (French) Edmunston
1.6 Track 1    Track 2 Onezime Cyr (81) (French) Fort Kent
1.7 Track 1 Eugene Beaulieu (87) & Edgar St. Pierre (French) Fort Kent
1.9 Track 1    Track 2 Theophile Freeman (95) (French) Fort Kent
2.1 Track 1 Fedime Morin (65) (French) Madawaska
2.2 Track 1    Track 2 Life in Madawaska, ME - 1869 to 1915 - Mrs. Dan Cyr (92) (French) Madawaska
2.3 Track 1    Track 2 Mr. and Mrs. Rene Guerrette (80 and 72) & Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cyr (87) Madawaska
2.4 Track 1    Track 2 Mrs. Leonie Albert (82) (French) Madawaska
2.5 Track 1    Track 2 Alicia Hebert Daigle (81) & Alma Hebert (70) Madawaska
2.6 Track 1 Ferry Boats on the St. John - Raymond Daigle (72) (French) Madawaska
2.7 Track 1    Track 2 History of the Dufour Family - Tom Dufour (89) (French) Madawaska
2.8 Track 1    Track 2 Mrs. Xavier Dufour (82) (French) & Felix Dufour (88) Madawaska
3.1 Track 1 Mrs. Rose Lajoie (76) (French) Van Buren
3.2 Track 1 Antoine Lebel (French) Van Buren
3.3 Track 1    Track 2 Mrs. Isidore Dumont (69) & Mr. Ernest Soucy (French & English) Van Buren
3.4 Track 1    Track 2 Mrs. Euphemie Dubay (93) & Sister Margarita (84) Van Buren
3.5 Track 1    Track 2 Flora Caron Saucier St. Pierre (84) (French) & Margaret Walsh (English) Van Buren
3.6 Track 1    Track 2 Euphemie Daigle Ouelette (81) (French with some English) Van Buren
3.7 Track 1    Track 2 Mrs. Remi Daigle (88) (French) & Isaac Harris (72) Van Buren
3.8 Track 1    Track 2 Christine Albert (71) (French) Van Buren
4.1 Track 1    Track 2 Henry Anderson (78) (Swedish) New Sweden
4.2 Track 1    Track 2 Fritz Anderson (76) - Stockholm & George Lindsten (77) - Woodland Stockholm / Woodland
4.6 Track 1    Track 2 Henry Anderson (78) New Sweden
4.7 Track 1    Track 2 Fritz and Lilly Anderson (76 and 72) Stockholm
4.8 Track 1 Mrs. E. Anderson (67) & Mrs. Fogelin & Mrs. E. Soderberg (72) Stockholm
4.9 Track 1 Mr. and Mrs. George Nelson Stockholm
4.10 Track 1 Axel Tall (64) Stockholm
5.1 Track 1    Track 2 Gussie Beaulier (75) & Lyle Gardner (85) Ashland
5.2 Track 1    Track 2 Katherine Coffin (87) Ashland
5.3 Track 1    Track 2 Climena Sylvester & Benton Craig Ashland
5.4 Track 1    Track 2 Lyle Gardner (85) Ashland
5.5 Track 1    Track 2 Joseph Theriault (87) & Mr. Clukey (75) Ashland
5.6 Track 1    Track 2 Ora Daggett (76) - Portage & Georgie Orcutt - Ashland Ashland / Portage
5.7 Track 1    Track 2 Old Time Music Ashland
5.8 Track 1    Track 2 Delta Ellis & Climena Sylvester Ashland
5.9 Track 1 Rev. George Plante Ashland
5.10 Track 1 Elizabeth M. Rafford Ashland
5.11 Track 1 George C. Sawyer Ashland
5.12 Track 1    Track 2 George Young (84) & Fred Coffin (83) Ashland
5.13 Track 1    Track 2 Ira McNally (81) Ashland
5.14 Track 1 Ira McNally (81) Ashland
6.1 Track 1    Track 2 Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Keaton Caribou
6.2 Track 1 French Customs and Folklore - school assignment by Susan Collins Caribou
7.1 Track 1    Track 2 W.F. & Ruth Howard (80's) & Earl Dow (70's) Fort Fairfield
7.2 Track 1 Mrs. Olive Stevens (68) Fort Fairfield
7.3 Track 1 Edward Johnston Fort Fairfield / Easton
7.4 Track 1    Track 2 Rommy Haines Fort Fairfield
7.5 Track 1    Track 2 Lewis Ayoob & Lester Parker Fort Fairfield
7.6 Track 1    Track 2 Folklore - Poems - Fort Fairfield & Rommy L. Haines - Maple Grove Fort Fairfield / Maple Grove
7.7 Track 1    Track 2 Rose Johnston & Pearl Robinson Fort Fairfield
7.8 Track 1 Hazel H. Cushman & Mary T. Kimball Fort Fairfield
7.9 Track 1    Track 2 Zella Carson Cogswell and Ike Carson & Marion French Fort Fairfield
7.10 Track 1    Track 2 Carl Rasmussen (82) Fort Fairfield
8.1 Track 1    Track 2 Belone Pelletier (80's) (# 1/2) Fort Kent
8.2 Track 1    Track 2 Belone Pelletier (80's) (# 2/2) Fort Kent
8.3 Track 1    Track 2 Tom Pelletier (85) Allagash
8.4 Track 1    Track 2 Tom Pelletier (85) - Allagash & Rosie and Aaron Jackson (90) - St. Francis Allagash / St. Francis
8.5 Track 1 Aaron Jackson (90) Allagash / St. Francis
8.6 Track 1    Track 2 Aaron and Rosie Jackson (90) Allagash / St. Francis
8.7 Track 1    Track 2 Jim Connors (64) Allagash / St. Francis
8.8 Track 1    Track 2 Jim Connors (64) Allagash / St. Francis
8.9 Track 1 John Lewis Page (61) Fort Kent
8.10 Track 1 Edith Kelly & The Well of Clay Allagash
8.11 Track 1 Sophie Pinette Brown (96) Fort Kent
8.12 Track 1    Track 2 Eva McBriety (95) Allagash
8.13 Track 1 Patricia Desjardin & David Michaud Fort Kent
9.1 Track 1 Fred Putnam (91) (# 1/3) Houlton
9.2 Track 1 Fred Putnam (91) (# 2/3) Houlton
9.3 Track 1    Track 2 Fred Putnam (91) (# 3/3) Houlton
9.4 Track 1    Track 2 Cooking in a Lumber Camp - Mrs. Stella Oliver (75) Houlton
9.5 Track 1    Track 2 Asael Logan & Memories of a Woodsman - Fred Logan Houlton
9.6 Track 1    Track 2 Asael Logan, fiddle; Don McAtee, guitar; with an assist by Eric Richards, violinist Houlton
9.7 Track 1    Track 2 Houlton Weather - William Cumming (80) Houlton
9.8 Track 1    Track 2 62 Years as Druggist - William Cumming (80) Houlton
9.9 Track 1    Track 2 Trip to Mt. Katahdin, Aug 16, 1925 - William Cumming (80) Houlton
9.10 Track 1 Great Houlton Fire of 1902 - Bruce Campbell Houlton
9.11 Track 1 Daughters of the American Revolution - Lydia Trask Putnam Chapter Houlton
9.12 Track 1 Russian Jewish Immigrants - Alfred Green Houlton
9.13 Track 1 60 years in veneer mills - Albin V. Larson (74) Houlton
10.1 Track 1    Track 2 Dr. Lore A Rogers (97) Patten
10.2 Track 1    Track 2 Harriet Sewall Harmon, Nancy Sewall Cunningham, Marice Cunningham Patten
11.1 Track 1 Mrs. Louise McLeod Limestone
12.1 Track 1 Mr. Elden Tapley (70's) Madawaska
12.2 Track 1    Track 2 Madawaska Centennial (1969) Pageant Lyrics & Music Madawaska
12.3 Track 1    Track 2 Bernadette Mayhew Madawaska
12.4 Track 1    Track 2 Farming in the St. John Valley - Ernest Chasse Madawaska
12.5 Track 1 Mrs. Geraldine Chasse Madawaska
12.6 Track 1 Mrs. Geraldine Chasse Madawaska
12.7 Track 1    Track 2 The Founder of Madawaska - Mrs. Frances Levasseur Madawaska
13.1 Track 1 Franklin S. Cunningham (70's) Presque Isle
13.2 Track 1 Murray Murphy (67) Presque Isle
13.3 Track 1 Dorothy Dingwall Presque Isle
13.4 Track 1 Augusta Christie Presque Isle
13.5 Track 1 Mrs. Avis Dudley (85) Mapleton
13.6 Track 1 Harold Glidden Presque Isle
14.2 Track 1 Charles Watson Van Buren
14.3 Track 1    Track 2 Ernest Soucy Van Buren
14.5 Track 1    Track 2 Everett Dionne (81) & Mathilda Derosier Van Buren
14.6 Track 1    Track 2 Farrells and Michauds & Elmer Violette Van Buren
14.7 Track 1    Track 2 Leo Poirier, Sr. Van Buren
14.8 Track 1    Track 2 Marcella Belanger Violette (Mrs. Elmer Violette) Van Buren
14.9 Track 1    Track 2 Mrs. James Franck & Mary Jane Michaud (89) Van Buren
14.10 Track 1    Track 2 Mildred Smith Gagnon Van Buren
14.11 Track 1    Track 2 Gerald Gagnon & Henriette Dionne Van Buren
14.12 Track 1    Track 2 Reading of Biography of the Hon. John Frank Rice by Mrs. Frances Levasseur Van Buren
14.13 Track 1    Track 2 Justina P. Marquis Van Buren
14.14 Track 1    Track 2 Sister Bertha Duperry & History of Keegan Post Office and Van Buren History Van Buren
14.15 Track 1 Cyr Genealogy - Marthe Cyr Genest Van Buren
15.1 Track 1    Track 2 Everett Cary (93) Washburn
15.2 Track 1 Blanche Price (70's) Washburn
15.3 Track 1    Track 2 Helen Haines & Arthur Plissey Washburn
15.4 Track 1    Track 2 Alta & Earl Munson Washburn
15.5 Track 1    Track 2 Myrtle Smith Washburn
15.6 Track 1 Autice Jardine Washburn
15.7 Track 1 Larry Wilcox Washburn
15.8 Track 1 Axie Fox Washburn
15.9 Track 1    Track 2 Evelyn Flewelling - Crouseville & Carol Blackstone - Perham Crouseville / Perham

Aroostook County Oral History Project

In June 1971, the Aroostook County libraries received a grant of $15,000 from Title I, LSCA Funds for the development of an informal oral history of the county. The project, with Mrs. Charlotte A. Melvin as historical consultant and with twelve libraries cooperating, was completed as proposed in September, 1972 and resulted in 115 cassettes, twenty of which are in French and two in Swedish.

As might be expected, the majority of the contributors were Senior Citizens, several of them well up in their 90's. The taped interviews with these people in the Saint John Valley, the Swedish settlement, the Syrian colony, the Allagash, and in all the major towns of the county have established a permanent and fascinating record of a time now gone by.

Subjects covered in the oral history are early farming and machinery, railroading, folksongs and folklore, politics, town meetings, smuggling, cross-border activities, Indians, sporting camps, schools and schooling, tall tales, and everything else that has made up the culture of the county.

Each participating library has a complete set of the cassettes for loan in its area. The Maine State Library has three sets, plus the general index, for loan throughout the state, and the Library of Congress, Folk Music Division, has several sets for loan nationally.

General Index

Acadian Colony, Madawaska, to 1842 - 0.00, 12.2, 12.7, 2.7 (Fr.)

Acadian cookery - 8.7

Acadian Cress - 2.7, 14.6

Acadian customs - See French Acadian customs

Acadian settlers - 0.00, 12.2, 12.7, 14.6, 14.8

Acadians and Acadian culture - 12.7, 14.6 (side 2), 14.8

Acadians and Acadian culture, differences from Franco-Americans - 14.6

Acadians, intermarriage with French of Quebec - 6.2

Acadians, origins and history before 1785 - 0.00, 6,2, 12.2, 12.7, 14.6 (side 2), 14.8

Acadians, now - 12.7

Acadian women, cultural role, historically - 12.2, 12.7

Accidents

Lumbering - 6.1

Mills - 4.10, 9.13

Advent Christian Church

Ashland - 5.8

Crouseville - 15.9

Agriculture, competition from the West - 0.00

Airplanes, early - 4.6, 8.2

Albert, Christian, Van Buren - 14.1

Albert, Dr. Louis - 14.1

Albert, Mrs. Julie - 12.7

Albert, Mrs, Leenie Dufour - 2.4

Alcohol plant - 6.1

Allagash, Maine

Family life - 8.12

Farming - 8.3

Churches and religion - 8.3

Source of supplies - 8.6

Allaware pottery story - 8.10

Allagash Cave - 8.4

Allagash region, lumbering in - 1.1 (Fr.), 8.3, 8.4

Allagash River - 8.7

Boating - 8.3

Channeling - 8.3

Origin of name - 8.3

Traveling - 8.3

Allagash Settlement - 8.7, 8.8

Allaware pottery - 8.10

American Legion, Stockholm - 4.7

American Revolution - 0.00, 14.6 (side 2)

American settlers in St. John Valley - 14.8

Amity, Maine

Early settlers - 9.4

Amusements - 1.3 (Fr.), 1.9 (Fr.), 2.2 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.), 2.5 (Fr.), 2.8 (Fr.), 3.1 (Fr.), 3.3 (Fr.), 3.4 (Fr.), 3.5 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 8.3, 14.1, 14.9

Andersen, Mrs. Elsie, Stockholm - 4.8

Anderson, Fritz, Stockholm - 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7

Anderson, Mrs. Lillian (Landfers), Stockholm - 4.7

Anderson, Henry, New Sweden - 4.1 (Swedish). 4.6

Arctic rescue team - 13.3

Aroostook County, population groups - 7.9

See Acadians, French population - 0.00, 8.8

American settlers - 0.00, 14.12

Danes - 7.4

English, British settlers - 0.00, 4.9, 7.9. 8.2

Irish settlers - 1.9 (Fr.), 14.10, 14.12

Jews - 9.12

Scotch-Irish - 0.00

Swedes, Swedish immigration - 0.00, 4.1, 4.2. 4.6. 4.7, 9.13

Syrians - 7.5

Aroostook libraries, oral history project - 0.00

Aroostook, oral history project

Explanation - 0.00

Conclusions - 0.00

Aroostook County, "The County"

Compared to the West - 0.00, 7.9

General description - 0.00, 7.9

Special features - 0.00, 7.9

Aroostook County, general history - 0.00, 7.9

Aroostook Telephone Company - 5.6, 5.12

Aroostook River Valley

Coming of railroads - 0.00

Settlers - 0.00, 7.9

See Aroostook Valley Railroad, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

Aroostook Road - 10.1

Aroostook Valley Park - 15.4

Aroostook Valley Railroad - 0.00, 4.6, 15.1, 15.2, 15.5, 15.6

Aroostook Valley Starch Company, Fort Fairfield - 7.4

Aroostook War - 0.00, 7.9, 12.2

Ashby, George, poem "Kingdom of Pines" - 7.6

Ashland, Maine

Blacksmith shops - 5.14

Businesses - 5.2

Churches - 5.9 (Catholic), 5.8, 5.12

Horse racing - 5.14

Library - 5.12

Livery stables - 5.14

Lumbering - 5.2. 13.2

Mills - 5.5, 5.12, 13.2

Railroads - 13.2, 15.12

Schooling - 5.2, 5.10, 13.4

Social life - 5.2

Telephone companies - 5.6, 5.12

See also Sheridan

Ashland Advent Christian Church - 5.8

Ashland Catholic Church and Mission - 5.9

Ashland Lumber Company and mills - 5.4, 5.5, 5.13

Ashland Race Track - 5.14

Astronomy and studies - 14.5

Atchison, Helen K., interviewer

Atlas Plywood Company, mills - 4.7, 9.15

Autographs, old book of - 11.1

Automobiles, early - 1.7 (Fr.), 2.6 (Fr.), 3,4 (Fr.), 4.1 (Swedish), 4.7, 4.9, 5.2, 8.2, 8.3, 9.3, 12.1, 12.3, 13.5, 14.11, 15.8

Ayoob, Lewis, Fort Fairfield - 7.5

Baker, John, and Baker crisis, 1827 - 1828 - 0.00, 14.12

Bakeries and baking - 2.4 (Fr.), 12.6

Bands and band concerts

Fort Fairfield - 7.5

New Sweden - 4.1, 4.2

Presque Isle - 13.1

Stockholm - 4.7

Bangor, as market - 0.00

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad - 0.00, 1.1 (Fr.), 1.3 (Fr.), 3.7 (Side 2), 4.6, 4.7, 4.9, 5.5, 5.12, 7.1, 7.6, 12.1, 12.2, 13.2 14.9, 14.10, 15.6

Bankruptcies, lumber - 8.1, 8.2

Baptist churches and Baptists

New Sweden - 4.7

Perham - 4.7

Barn construction - 7.10

Born raising - 1.1 (Fr.), 4.2 (Swedish), 7.9, 7.10, 8.2, 9.1, 15.5

Barrel mills and barrel-making

Fort Fairfield - 7.9

Houlton - 9.13

Barter - 3.3 (Fr.)

Butter and eggs - 3.3, 4.2 (Swedish)

Bateaus

See boats

Batty Mountain, Camden region, origin of name - 9.11

Beaulier, Gussie, Ashland - 5.1

Beaulier, Mao, Ashland, on guider - 5.7

Beaulieu, Eugene, Fort Kent - 1.7 (Fr.)

Beer and beer making - 1.9 (Fr.)

Beggars - 1.7 (Fr.)

Belanger, Marcella, Van Buren (Mrs. Elmer Violette) - 14.8

Benjamin, Michael ("Squire" of Patten) - 10.1

Bennett, "Put", Linneus, "self-made" doctor - 9.8

Bernard, James, Fort Fairfield - 7.9

Berry picking - 3.1 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 14.11

See also Raspberry factory

Birdseye Snyder pea operations - 9.1

Black Plague - 14.5

Blackflies and fly dope - 9.9

Blacksmith shops

Ashland 5.5, 5.14

Van Buren - 3.7 (Fr.)

Blacksmithing - 1.7 (Fr.)

Ashland - 5.14

Blackstone, Carol, Perham - 15.9

"Bloodless" War

See Aroostook War

Boarding houses - 3.7 (Fr.), 4.6 4.8, 4.9, 5.5, 7.2, 8.12, 15.9

Boats and boat building ‑

Bateaus - 8.3

Canoes - 8,2, 8.3

Pirogues - 8.2

Tow boats - 8.2, 8.5

Wangan boats - 5.1, 8.2, 8.5

Flanger - 2.6 (Fr.)

Bobsleds - 8.2, 8.3

Bookmobiles - 14.15

Boom, log, origins - 8.1, 8.5

Bootlegging - 5.5, 9.12

Border (U.S. and Canada)

See Boundary (U.S. and Canada)

Location and description

Question and settlement

Cross-border contacts

Cross-border migration

Customs houses

Customs officials

Smuggling

Bossie, Mr. _______, Madawaska - 2.4 (Fr.)

Boston, as market - 0.00, 4.2 (Swedish), 9.12

Boundary (U.S. and Canada) - 7.9, 12.2

Location and description

Question and settlement

Box socials - 5.10, 15.5, 15.6

Bragging - 1.5 (Fr.)

Bread making - 2.3 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.)

Brenner, Walter - 5.5

Bridges

Fort Fairfield - 7.9

Fort Fairfield, covered bridge - 7.4, 7.9

Fort Kent, footbridge - 8.2, 8.3

Fort Kent - Clair, N.B. - 8.2. 14.7

Fort Kent, Joe Long's - 8.2

Madawaska - Edmunston - 2.1 (Fr.), 12.1, 12.6

Stockholm - 4.7

Wallagrass - 1.2 (Fr.)

Washburn - 15.1

Brown, lumber operator (St. John Lumber Co.) - 8.1

Brown, Sophia Pinette, Fort Kent - 8.11

Buckwheat, raising and use - 3.2 (Fr.), 8.6, 8.7, 9.1

Buckwheat pancakes - 1.9 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.)

Burleigh, Albert A. - 4.7, 9.3

Butchering - 2.4 (Fr.), 4.7, 4.8

Hog - 5.14

Butter, making and churning - 1.3(Fr.), 2.3 (Fr.). 3.5 (Fr.)

Selling - 3.3. 4.7

Butterfield, Margaret, Caribous, interviewer

Bicycles - 8.3

"California", Stockholm - 4.7

California Road - 5.11

Camp, woods, how to make - 8.1

Campbell, Bruce, Houlton - 9.10

Canada, settlers from

See Cross-border migration

Canadian-Pacific Railroad - 1.3 (Fr.), 7.9, 15.6

See also Aroostook Valley Railroad

Canadians, potato pickers - 9.1

Candlemaking - 1.6 (Fr.), 8.7, 12.7

Canoeing and canoe-poling - 8.7, 8.12

Canoe-making - 8.6, 8.7, 8.12

Canoes, birch - 12,7

The Capitol, New Sweden - 4.6

Caribou, Maine

Alcohol plant - 6.1

As market - 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7

Businesses - 9.12

Churches 6.2

Doctors - 4.2 (Swedish)

Road to New Sweden - 4.1

Schools - 4.10

Soils - 7.9

Caribou loam (soil) - 7.9

Carmichael, Lawrence, Monticello - 9.6

Carson, Ike, Fort Fairfield - 7.9

Cary, Everett, Washburn - 15.1

Casket-making and makers - 8.12

Castle Hill - 13.5

Cates, Harriet and Margaret Greaves, Houlton - 9.11

Catholic churches

See Ashland, St. Anne's

Edmunsten, N.B., St. Basile

Frenchville, Our Lady of the Snows

Madawaska, St. David

Mt. Carmel Chapel, Madawaska

Sacred Heart Church, North Caribou

Upper Frenchville, St. Luce

Catholic churches and missions

Ashland - 5.9

Frenchville - 5.9

Portage - 5.9

St. David, Madawaska - 14.6, 14.13

Sheridan - 5.9

Catholic Church history, Aroostook, early general, - 5.9, 14.14

Catholic customs and traditions

General - 14.8

Liturgical year - 14.8

Recent changes - 5.9

Catholic orders - 5.9

Good Shepherd Sisters, Van Buren - 14.8, 14.15

Marist Fathers, Van Buren - 14.8

Sisters of Wisdom, St. Agatha - 14.8

Catholic organizations

Daughters of Isabella, Madawaska - 12.3

Knights of Columbus - 5.9

Ladies Sodality - 5.9

Catholic schools

Catholic boarding schools, St. Agatha

See St. Agatha

Cattle drives - 0.00

Cemetery and cemetery tales - 6.2

Chapel, Eddy Siding - 14.3

Charcoal and charcoal making - 8.1

Chasse, Ernest, Madawaska, with genealogy - 12.6

Chasse, Geraldine, Madawaska, interviewer

Chataqua - 4.9, 10.2

Cheese factory - 5.4, 5.12

Chicken raising - 7.10

Childbirth and child care - 2.2 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.), 3.4 (Fr.), 4.10, 8.2, 8.6, 14.11, 14.9

At home - 2.8 (Fr.)

Childhood games - 10.2

Christie, Mrs. Augusta, Presque Isle - 13.4

Christmas customs and celebrations

In French communities - 1.4 (Fr.), 14.11

Swedish "Julotta" and customs - 4.1, 4.2, 4.8

Christmas - 1.4 (Fr.), 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish), 4.8

Christmas celebrations

In woods - 6.1

Swedish customs - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish)

Church activities - 10.2

Circus - 7.9

Civil War letter - 7.8

Civilian Conservation Corps - 9.15

Clay well - 8.10

Clearing land - 3.1 (Fr.)

Clothespin mill, Stockholm - 4.7

Clothing - 3.6 (Fr.), 10.1

Clothing. homemade - 3.4 (Fr.), 3.5 (Fr.)

Clothing, for best - 13.5

Clothing, for school - 3.3 (Fr.), 2.5

Clothing, for woodsmen - 5.1, 5.2

Coffee and tea - 6.1

Coffin, Fred, Ashland - 5.12

Coffin. Mrs. Katherine (Kit), Ashland - 5.2

Cogswell, Zella, Fort Fairfield - 7.9

Cola & Pingree, lumber company - 5.2

Colleges -

See Fort Kent (State) College

Madawaska Training School

Normal schools

Ricker College

St. Mary's, Van Buren

Collins, "of Caribou"

Early auto - 4.1 (Swedish)

Lumbering - 4.1 (Swedish)

Potato buying - 4.8

Starch factories - 4.6

Congregational Church

Ashland, Union Congregational Church - 5.8

Aroostook Larger Parish (Portage, Ashland, Masardis, Oxbow) - 5.8

Connors, James (Jim), St. Francis and Allagash - 8.7, 8.8

Connors, Robert, story - 12.1

Connors, New Brunswick - 8.7, 8.8

Buildings

Founders

Lumbering

Mill

Temiscouata Railroad

Convent, St. Agatha - 12.3, 14.8, 14.10, 14.15

Cooking, for woods crew - 5.13, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4 (on wangan boat), 8.5 (on wangan boat), 8.12, 9.4

Cooking, home - 1.9 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.), 3.5 (Fr.), 8.12

Cooking, Syrian - 7.5

Cookstoves - 3.6 (Fr.), 5.2

Corn liquor, making - 5.14

"The Corporation" (Pond's Boom) - 8.2, 8.5

Cote, Charles - 1.5 (Fr.)

Courting customs - 1.7 (Fr.)

Covenant religious population (Evangelical Convent Church), "Covenant Church", "Mission Church"

New Sweden - 4.7

Stockholm - 4.2 (Swedish)

Covered wagons - 0.00

Craig, Benton, Ashland - 5.3

Craig, Gladys, Ashland, interviewer

Crétons - 2.3 (Fr.)

Cross-border (U.S. and Canada) contacts - 7.9, 8.5, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.12, 14.10

Cross-border (U.S. and Canada) migration - 1.1 (Fr.), 7.9, 8.2, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.12, 14.11

Crouseville - 15.9

Cullins murder - 5.11, 13.5

Cumming, William, Houlton - 9.7, 9.8, 9.9

Cummings, Mrs. Theodore, Caribou (formerly of Fort Kent)

(See for French customs) - 6.2

Cunliffe, genealogy - 8.3

Cunliffe's Depot - 8.1, 8.3, 8.7

Cunliffe's lumber operations - 8.1, 8.2

Cunningham, Frank, Presque Isle - 13.1

Cushman, Hazel Haines, Fort Fairfield - 7.8

Customs houses - 7.9, 14.2

Customs officials - 6.1, 6.2, 8.9

Cutler's Mill - 14.5

Cyr, Mrs. Dan, Madawaska - 2.2 (Fr.)

Cyr, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis - 1.3 (Fr.)

Cyr, Mr. and Mrs. Louis, Madawaska - 2.3 (Fr.)

Cyr, Onesime, Fort Kent - 1.6 (Fr.)

Daggett, Ora, Portage - 5.6

Daigle, Maine - 8.1

Daigle, Alice, Madawaska - 2.5 (Fr.)

Daigle, Firmin, Mrs. Robert Daigle (Baker Brook Old Age Home) - 1.5 (Fr.)

Daigle, Mrs. Remi, Fort Kent - 3.7 (Fr.)

Dairy farming and marketing - 4.7

Danes in Fort Fairfield - 7.4

Danish customs - 7.4

Daughters of the American Revolution - 9.11

Davenport, Donald, interviewer, Island Falls

Davis, Hunter - 10.1

Day, "Hez", lumber mill, Ashland - 5.10

Dead River Company - 14.5

Deane-Kavanaugh Commission - 14.8, 14.12

Death; funerals, caskets, beliefs and customs - 2.2 (Fr.), 6.2, 7.5

See also casket-making

Dentists, and services available - 5.2

Depression years - 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 8.1, 9.2, 13.4

Derosier, Mrs. Mathilda, Van Buren - 14.5

Desjardin, Patricia, Fort Kent - 8.13

Dickey, Major William - 12.7, 14.8, 14.10

Dickey settlement ("Dickeyville") - 8.3, 14.8

Dingwall, Dorothy, Presque Isle - 13.3

Dionne, Everett, Van Buren - 14.5

Dionne, Henrietta, Van Buren - 14.11

Diseases and illnesses - 4.8, 7.4, 9.8, 14.7

Black plague - 14.5

Diptheria epidemic - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.8

Pneumonia - 4.10

Disputed territory

See Boundary controversy

Doctors, and services available - 1.5 (Fr.), 2.2 (Fr.), 1.9 (Fr.), 4.8, 5.2, 8.6, 9.3. 9.8, 14.1, 14.3

Doctors by name

Dr. Louis Albert, Van Buren - 3.5 (Fr.) (side 2), 14.1

Dr. Page, Fort Kent - 1.9 (Fr.), 8.9

Dr. Sirois, Fort Kent - 1.9 (Fr.), 8.9

Dr. Thomas, Caribou - 4.2 (Swedish)

Dow, Earl - 7.1

Druggists and drugstores - 9.8

Drugs and prescriptions (Harrison Act) - 9.8

Drugstores - 5.2, 9.8

Drummond, William Henry, Poem, "The Bells of St. Michelle" - 8.8

Dubay, Mrs. Euphemie, Van Buren - 3.4 (Fr.)

Dubois, Alvey, Madawaska, interviewer

Dudley, Mrs. Mavis, Mapleton - 13.5

Dudley, David, store - 13.5

Dudley Homestead Restaurant - 13.5

Dufour family - 2.7 (Fr.), 2.8 (Fr.)

Dumont, Mrs. Isidore, Van Buren - 3.5 (Fr.)

Duperry, Sister Bertha - 14.14

Duperry, (Duperré) genealogy - 14.14

Dyes - 8.3, 12.7

Eagle Lake, Maine

Mills - 5.1, 8.2

Schools - 8.11

Eagle Lake Mill - 5.11, 8.2

Early settlers - 10.2

Earthquakes - 9.7

Oct. 24, 1924 - 14.2

Easter customs - 6.2

Easton, Maine, trading - 7.9

Edmunston, New Brunswick

As market - 8.12

Edmunston-Madawaska Bridge - 12.6

Hotels - 12.3

St. Basile Church - 12.7

Education

Crouseville - 15.9

Madawaska - 2.5 (Fr.)

New Sweden - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.6

New Sweden, Stockholm, Caribou - 4.10

Perham - 15.9

St. John Valley - 14.8

Elections - 14.10

Electric railroad

See Aroostook Valley Railroad

Electricity and electrical systems

Fort Fairfield - 7.2

Houlton - 9.3

New Sweden - 4.10

Stockholm - 4.7

Van Buren - 14.8, 14.11

Ellis, Delta, Ashland - 5.8

English settlers

In St. John Valley - 8.2

In Stockholm - 4.9

Eureka Hall, Stockholm - 4.8

European and North American Railroad - 14.14

Fairley, Marjorie, Houlton - 9.11

Family ties, then and now - 4.7, 9.12

Family outings - 4.7, 14.10

Farm animals - 0.00, 1.6 (Fr.), 1.9 (Fr.), 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7, 4.8, 4.11, 7.6, 7.9, 8.7, 14.11

Farm labor - 4.6, 9.1

Farm life - 1.9 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 4.7, 4.8, 14.5, 7.10

Farm machinery - 4.6, 4.7, 9.1, 9.3

Farm machinery, manufacturers - 9.1, 9.3

Farming - 1.1 (Fr.), 1.3 (Fr.), 1.3 (Fr.) (side 2), 1.4 (Fr.), 1.5 (Fr.), 1.7 (Fr.), 1.9 (Fr.), 3.4 (Fr.), 4.6, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 12.4

Farming

See Dairy farming

Peas

Potato farming

Farming, early - 13.2

Farming equipment, then and now - 12.4. 15.3

Farming methods

Swedes as farmers - 4.6, 4.10

Farrel, Michael, Van Buren - 14.6

Farrell family, genealogy - 14.6

Ferries

Fort Kent - Clair, N.B., Madawaska - Edmunston, N.B. - 2.6 (Fr.), 3.2 (Fr.), 3.7 (Fr.) (side 2), 6.1, 8.2, 14.7, 15.1

Allagash - 8.3

Fertilizer, use of and non-use of - 0.00, 1.6 (Fr.), 9.1

Fiddleheads - 8.7, 12.6

Fiddlers and their music - 9.6

Fire departments

Stockholm - 4.7, 4.9

Firewood, cutting - 1.1 (Fr.), 3.5 (Fr.)

Fish for food - 4.2 (Swedish), 8.7

Fishing - 8.8

Fitzherbert's Tavern (Fort Fairfield) in Aroostook War - 7.9

Flanger

See boats and boatbuilding

Flax, raising and use - 0.00, 12.7

Fleas - 9.5

Flewelling, Evelyn, Crouseville - 15.9

Floods and ice jams - 4.7, 8.4, 8.6, 8.12, 9.5

Flour - 2.3 (Fr.)

Flour mills - 5.12

Flu epidemic (end of World War I) - 8.1, 14.1

Fogelin, Mrs. Annie, Stockholm - 4.8

Folklore - 7.6

Food - 7.10

Food storage and preservation - 2.2 (Fr.), 6.2, 8.3, 8.7

Forest fires and firefighting - 4.6, 4.9, 13.2

Lookout tower, Stockholm - 4.9

Forestry service - 13.2

Forests, importance of - 0.00, 7.9

Forts, Fort Fairfield - 7.9

Fort Fairfield, Maine - 7.4. 7.9

Aroostook War - 7.9

Bands 7.5

Bangor & Aroostook Railroad - 7.6

Bridges - 7.9

Businesses - 7.4, 7.9, 9.12

Churches - 7.6, 7.9

Covered bridge - 7.4, 7.9

Danes - 7.4

Early history - 7.9

Early settlers - 7.8

Fire - 7.4

Forts - 7.9

Maple Grove - 7.6, 7.8, 7.9

Mills - 7.2, 7.4, 7.9

Plymouth Grant - 7.4

Potato industry - 7.6

Schools - 7.4, 7.6, 7.8

Social life - 7.9

Starch company - 7.4, 7.9

Stevensville - 7.2

Fort Kent, Maine - 1.4 (Fr.)

Bridge - 14.7

Businesses - 8.2, 8.13

Doctors - 8.9

Families - 8.4

Ferries - 8.2, 14.7

Fire Department - 8.13

Fires - 8.13

Footbridge - 8.9

Lumbering - 8.1, 8.2

Mills - 8.1, 8.2, 8.13

Schools - 8.11

Social life - 8.2

Fort Kent College (Fort Kent Normal School) - 2.5 (Fr.), 14.5

See also Madawaska Training School

Fort Kent Mills Co. - 8.13

Foster, Marguerite, Fort Fairfield, interviewer

Fournier, Michael, Fort Kent, interviewer

Fournier, Mr. and Mrs. Michael, Edmunston, N.B. - 1.3 (Fr.)

Fox, Axie, Wade - 15.8

Franck, Mrs. James, Van Buren - 14.9

Fraser Company, pulp - 2.1 (Fr.), 12.6

Fraser, Donald - 12.6

Freeman, Theophile, Fort Kent - 1.9 (Fr.)

French, Marion, Fort Fairfield - 7.9

French Acadian customs (dancing, weddings, dowries) - 1.6 (Fr.), 1.7 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.), 6.2, 12.7

French language, types spoken - 14.8

Frenchville, Maine

Catholic mission and church - 5.9

Early automobiles - 3.4 (Fr.)

Friends' meeting house, Fort Fairfield - 7.9

Frolics

See Social life

Frontier, Aroostook as a frontier - 0.00, 7.9

Fruit trees raised - 7.10, 14.11

Gagnon, Gerald, Van Buren, and ancestry - 14.11

Gagnon, Honore, legistlator

See Gagnon, Gerald

Gagnon, Mildred Smith, Van Buran - 14.10

Game wardens

Frank Austin - 8.1

General - 14.9

Tom Pelletier - 8.3

Games, checkers, cards - 1.9 (Fr.), 5.10

Gardens (home) and gardening - 1.4 (Fr.), 2.2 (Fr.), 3.5 (Fr.), 3.7 (Fr.), 14.11

Gardner, Lyle, Ashland

Pems and songs - 5.1

Toting - 5.4

Gardner, "Old Tom", famous guide - 8.7

Gas stations, early - 3.7 (Side 2 Eng.)

Genealogical information, by family name

Chasse - 12.4

Cunliffe - 8.3

Duperry (Duperré) - 14.4
Farrell - 14.6

Freeman - 1.9 (Fr.)

Gagnon - 14.11

Haines - 7.6, 7.8, 7.9

Le Blanc - 12.7

Marquis - 14.13

Michaud - 14.13

Pelletier - 8.3

Rice - 14.12

Smith, Mildred (Gagnon) - 14.10

Stevens - 7.2

Towle, Mary Estes - 7.8

Genest, Martha Cyr, Van Buren - 14.15

Glidden, Harold, Presque Isle - 13.6

Glue, homemade - 1.7 (Fr.)

Gorham Teachers' College - 4.10

Grain growing - 7.10

Grand Falls, New Brunswick

As market for groceries - 8.2

For outings - 4.7

Grange (Patrons of Husbandry) - 5.3

Great Northern Paper Company - 1.2 (Fr.), 14.6

Green, Alfred, Houlton - 9.12

Also for Green family, brothers

Green, Harry, peddler and businessman - 9.12

Green's stores - 9.12

Greenville, Maine. Atlas Plwood Co. mill - 9.13

Grindstone roads - 1.2 (Fr.)

Guerette, Mr. and Mrs. Rene, Madawaska - 2.3 (Fr.)

Guides and guiding - 5.13, 8.8

Haines, Daniel, Civil War letter - 7.8

Haines, Fred, inventor of the cultivator - 7.8

Haines, Helen, Washburn - 15.3

Haines, J. Wingate, early settler - 7.8

Haines, Rommy, Fort Fairfield - 7.4, 7.6

Haines, Rommy, Fort Fairfied, interviewer

Haines, Mrs. Rommy, Fort Fairfield, interviewer

Haines, Will, mill, Fort Fairfied, Maple Grove - 7.9

Hamlin, town affairs and officials - 14.10

Hamlin mills, lumber - 3.7 (Eng.)

Hammond Plantation - 9.11

Hannay, James, poem, "Maiden's Sacrifice" - 7.6

Harris, Isaac, Van Buren - 3.7 (Eng.)

Harvey, Chandler Gushman, Ed. For Fairfield Review. Poem, "Riverside Cemetery" - 7.6

Hayden, Sheriff (murdered) - 5.11, 13.5

Hebert, Sister Alma, Madawaska - 2.5 (Fr.)

Herron, Joe B., Van Buren - 14.7

Hersey, James - 9.11

Hildreth, Horace - 13.6

Hired girls - 3.7 (Fr.)

Holbrook, Stewart, quoted - 7.9

Holiday customs - 12.6

Home remedies and homemade medicines - 1.3 (Fr.), 1.6 (Fr.), 1.7 (Fr.), 2.8 (Fr.), 4.8, 8.7, 8.12, 9.8

Horse ailments and treatment - 9.8

Horse contests - 9.4

Horse Race Rapids - 8.1, 8.4

Horsedealers - 7.9, 9.3

Ashland - 5.2

Career Linwood R. Seeley - 7.9

Horse racing - 3.2 (Fr.), 5.14

Horsemen - 5.2, 5.11, 7.9, 8.2

Horse trading - 9.3

Horses, experiences with - 9.4

Horses, importance of - 8.8

Horses, use of - 1.5 (Fr.), 5.4, 8.2

Horses, race horses and owners. (John R. Braden, Jackson Gratten, Peter Simonson) - 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Horseshoeing

See Blacksmithing

Hospitals - 1.4 (Fr.), 14.3

See also each town

Hotels

Edmunston - 12.3

Stockholm - 4.8, 4.9

Van Buren - 3.7 (Fr.) (side 2), 3.5 (Eng.) (side 2)

Houlton, Maine

Atlas Plywood Company mill - 9.13

Businesses - 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.8, 9.12

Fire, 1902 - 9.10

Horse dealers - 9.3

Livery stables - 9.3

Machinery manufacture - 9.1, 9.3

Military Road "Houlton Road" - 9.11

Mills - 9.1

Organizations - 9.11

Potato shipping - 9.2

Race tracks - 9.3

Radio (WHOU) - 13.6

Schools - 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Settlement, War 1812 - 0.00

Tannery - 9.2

Weather, weather records - 9.7

Houlton, as market - 6.2, 9.12

Houlton Agricultural Society and Houlton Fair Association - 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Housekeeping and homemaking - 1.3 (Fr.), 1.9 (Fr.), 2.2 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.), 3.1 (Fr.), 3.3 (Fr.), 3.4 (Fr.), 3.5 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 3.7 (Fr.), 4.8, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.7, 8.3, 8.12, 14.11, 15.5

Housing, for mill workers

Fort Fairfield - 7.2

Stockholm - 4.7, 4.8, 4.9

See also boarding houses

Howard, Mrs. Ruth, Fort, Fairfield - 7.1

Howard, W. F., Fort Fairfield - 7.1

Howes, Frank, Oxbow - 5.11

Hunting - 1.2 (Fr.), 1.5(Fr.), 6.1, 8.8

See also guiding

See also wild animals

Ice cutting - 4.7, 14.1

Ice house - 14.1

Ice jams

See floods and ice jams

Ice racing (horses) - 5.14, 9.1, 14.3

Independent Telephone Company, Ashland - 5.6, 5.12

Indians - 0.00, 1.3 (Fr), 1.9 (Fr.), 2.7 (Fr.), 6.2, 7.6, 8.2, 8.4, 12.2, 12.7

Indians, contacts with white families - 3.4 (Fr.), 8.7, 8.12, 9.1, 12.7, 14.11

Indians, Maliseets (Malecites) - 12.6, 12.7. 14.8

Indians, relics and remains (burial grounds) - 8.4, 13.2

Indians, lore and legends - 7.6, 8.4, 12.6, 13.2

Indian Princess (Malabeam) legend - 0.00, 6.2 (Micmac error), 7.6, 8.4, 12.6, 13.2

Ingersoll, Richard - 9.11

Inman, Joseph, Houlton, interviewer

International Boundary Commission, 1909 - 14.10

International rivalry and controversy

France vs. England, 1600 - 1763 - 0.00

United States vs. Britain, 1783 - 1842 - 0.00, 12.7

Irish families - 1.9 (Fr.), 14.10, 14.12

Island Falls, Maine

Churches - 10.1, 10.2

Emerson, Martin - 9.5

Indian (lumbering stories) - 9.5

Railroad - 10.1, 10.2

Tannery - 10.1, 10.2

Italian workers, railroads - 4.6, 7.6, 5.12

Jackson, Aaron, St. Francis - 8.4, 8.5, 8.6

Jackson, Rosie, St. Francis - 8.4, 8.6

Jails - 4.7

Jardine, Autice, Washburn - 15.6

Jardine, Myrtle, Washburn, interviewer

Jemptland, New Sweden (also East Jemptland and West Jemptland) - 4.7, 4.10

Jewish population - 9.12

Johnson, Isa, Houlton - 9.11

Johnson, Warren, in Aroostook War - 7.9

Johnson, William, pioneer, Fort Fairfield - 7.9

Johnston, Edward, Fort Fairfield - 7.3

Johnston, John, Fort Fairfield, obituary 1904, - 7.9

Johnston, Olive Stevens, Fort Fairfield - 7.2

Johnston, Rose Trask, Fort Fairfield - 7.7

Kavanaugh (Edward) and Deane Commission Report, 1831 - 14.8, 14.12

Keaton, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo, Caribou - 6.1

Keegan, Maine - 8.5

Keegan, family genealogy - 14.10

Keegan, Peter Charles, Sage of the St. John - 12.6, 14.10, 14.12, 14.14

Keegan (sorting) Gap - 8.1, 8.5

Kelly, Edith, Allagash - 8.10

Ketchum and Clayton, lumber operators - 5.12

Kimball, Mary Fowle, Fort Fairfield - 7.8

Kindling mill (Ashland and Eagle Lake) - 5.1, 5.5

Knox, George, stories - 9.5

Ku Klux Klan - 15.1

Lajoie, Mrs. Rose, Van Buren - 3.1 (Fr.)

La Croix mill - 14.3

Landfors, Lillian, Stockholm (Mrs. Fritz Anderson) - 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7

Lard making - 2.3

Larson, Albin V., Houlton - 9.13

Larsson, Julius - 5.6

Law enforcement, Madawaska - 2.1 (Fr.), 8.12

Law enforcement and officers, Stockholm - 4.7

Lebanon district, New Sweden - 4.2 (Swedish)

Lebel, Antoine, Van Buren - 3.2 (Fr.)

Lee, Gen. Robert E., stay in Aroostook - 14.11

Legislators:

Christie, Augusta - 13.4

Gagnon, (Honoré) - 14.11

Gagnon, Mildred Smith - 14.10

Keegan. Peter Charles - 14.10

Theriault, Patrick - 12.7

Theriault, Peter - 12.6, 12.7

Violette, Elmer - 14.6, 14.11

Violette, Vital - 14.6

Levasseur, Frances, Van Buren - 12.7 14.12

Levasseur, Frances, Van Buren, interviewer

Libby, Josiah - 9.11

Libraries

Ashland - 5.12

Lighting, pre-electricity - 3.6 (Fr.), 4.10, 8.12

Limestone, Maine

Trading - 7.9

Lindsten, Annie, Westmanland - 4.2 (Swedish)

Lindsten, George, Westmanland - 4.2 (Swedish)

Limestone Air Force Base - 13.3

Liquors - 1.4 (Fr.), 1.6 (Fr.), 8.2

Livery stables

Ashland - 5.14

Fort Fairfield - 7.9

Houlton - 9.3

Presque Isle - 13.5

Livestock slaughtering, general - 4.8

See lard making

See sausage making

Log drives - 5.1, 6.1, 8.1. 8.2, 8.3, 8.5, 14.7, 15.9

Log houses, building - 1.6 (Fr.)

Log jams and breaking - 8.5, 9.5

Logan, Asael, Houlton - 9.5, 9.6

Logan, Fred, Houlton. "The Penobscot Lumber Woods" - 9.5

Lombard Steam Log Haulers - 5.5, 5.6. 8.1. 8.3

Long, Joe, bridge, Fort Kent - 8.2

Lathrop, J_____, Ashland, interviewer

Lowrey, Marjorie, Houlton, Maine - 9.11

Loyalists - 0.00 14.6 (side 2)

Lumber camps, as markets - 0.00, 1.3 (Fr.)

Lumber companies and operators

Ashland Lumber Co. - 5.4, 5.5, 5.13

Brown - 8.1

Cole & Pingree - 5.2

Cunliffe - 8.1, 8.2

Fort Kent Mills Co. - 8.3

Fraser Co. - 2.1 (Fr.), 12.6

Great Northern Paper Co. - 1.2

Marquis, Ben - 1.1 (Fr.)

Perrault, Roland - 1.1 (Fr.)

Pond, Ed - 8.1, 8.2

Realty Pulpwood Mill Co. - 6.1

St. John Lumber Co. - 8.2

Stetson and Blanchard - 5.1

Stockholm Lumber Co. - 4.7, 3.7

Stockholm, lumber companies - 9.13, 4.7

"The Corporation" - 8.2

Lumber towns, major

See Ashland (Sheridan)

Stockholm

Van Buren

Lumbering, types

See kindling mill

pine lumbering

pulpwood operations

shingle making & mills

veneer mills

Lumbering and lumber industry - 0.00, 1.1 (Fr.), 1,2 (Fr.), 1.3 (Fr.), 1.7(Fr.), 2.6 (Fr.), 3.2 (Fr.), 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.13, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.8, 10.1, 14.3, 14.6 (side 2), 10.1

Lumbering camps - 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.13, 8.1, 8.2, 13.5

Lumbering camps - building - 3.2 (Fr.), 8.1

Lumbering camps - cooking and food - 5.13, 8.1, 13.5

Lumbering operations, description and terms - 5.1, 8.1, 8,2, 8.5

Lumberman's Museum, Patten - 10.1

Lumbermen, making use of train - 1.3 (Fr.)

Lutheran population and churches

New Sweden - 4.7

Stockholm - 4.7

Lydia Trask Putnam Chapter, D.A.R., Houlton - 9.11

McAfee, Don, Houlton, on guitar - 9.6

McBriety, Eva, Allagash - 8.12

MacIlroy, Dorene L., interviewer, Stockholm and New Sweden, Houlton

McIntire, Clifford - 15.5

McIntire, Rufus, Maine Land Agent in Aroostook War - 7.8

McLeod, Louise, Limestone - 11.1

McNally, Ira, Ashland - 5.13, 5.14

Madawaska Centennial Book - 12.7

Madawaska Centennial Pageant - 12.2

Madawaska Historical Society and papers - 12.3, 12.4

Madawaska Lake - 4.7

Madawaska, Maine

American settlers - 12.7, 14.12

Businesses - 12.7

Churches and church history - 2.2 (Fr.), 2.5 (Fr.), 12.2, 12.3, 12.7

Famine, 1797 - 12.2, 12.7

Founders and early history - 12.7, 14.12

In boundary controversy - 12.2, 14.12

Incorporation and controversy 1831 - 12.7, 14.12

Incorporation and history, 1869+ - 12.2, 12.7

Railroads - 12.1 12.2

Schools and education - 2.2 (Fr.), 2.5 (Fr.), 2.8 (Fr.), 12.2

Madawaska Territory (disputed district, Acadian settlements, Madawaska Valley) - 0.00, 12.7, 14.12

Madawaska. The Aunt of Madawaska, La Tante du Madawaska

See Thibodeau, Marguerite Blanche

"Madawaska Territory Song" in French - 14.7

Madawaska Training School - 2.5 (Fr.), 8.13, 14.8

Madawaska Valley, Madawaska Territory

Area settled by Acadians - 12.7, 14.12

Description - 12.7

See boundary controversy and related headings

See subheadings under Acadians

See major towns: Fort Kent, Madawaska, Van Buren

Madigan, James, Education Commissioner, work with Acadians - 14.8

Madore Road - 3.3 (Fr.)

Mail carriers and mail deliveries - 6.1, 6.2, 7.4

Maine, State of, interests in boundary controversy - 0.00, 14.8

Maine, State of. land policies - 0.00

Maliseets, Malecites

See Indians

Maple Grove clay soil - 7.8

Maple Grove settlement, Fort Fairfield - 7.6, 7.8

Maple sugar candy, making - 6.1

Maple sugar industry - 15.9

Maple syrup and maple sugar making - 1.1 (Fr.), 1.5 (Fr.), 1.6 (Fr.), 1.7 (Fr.), 1.9 (Fr.), 2.2 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.), 2.8 (Fr.), 14.15

Mapleton, Maine - 5.11, 13.2, 13.5

Schools - 13.1

Mardi Gras celebrations - 2.5 (Fr.)

Marquis, Ben, lumber operator - 1.1 (Fr.)

Marquis, Justina. P., Van Buren - 14.13

Mars Hill - early radio - 13.6

Martin, Paul, Fort Kent, interviewer

Masardis, Maine

Congregational church - 5.8

Massachusetts land agents - 0.00

Mattawamkeag River, lumbering - 10.1

Mayhew, Bernadette, Madawaska - 12.3

Meat smoking and preservation - 1.6 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 4.7, 6.2

Meat stores and deliveries - 14.3, 14.9

Medicines - 1.5 (Fr.), 9.8

See also home remedies and homemade medicines

Melvin, Mrs. Charlotte Lenentine, consultant, Aroostook Oral History Project; interviewer New Sweden, Stockholm

Michaud, Mr. and Mrs. ________, Van Buren - 14.1

Michaud, David, Fort Kent - 8.13

Michaud, Leo, Ashland, on banjo - 5.7

Michaud, Joseph T. (Michaud farm) - 8.3, 8.7

Michaud, Mary Jane, Van Buren - 14.9

Michaud family, Van Buren - 14.6

Micmacs, erroneously substituted for Mohawks in recounting Indian legend - 6.2

Midsummer festival, Swedish towns - 4.2 (Swedish)

Midwives - 8.6, 8.12

Military Road ("Houlton Road") - 9.11

Milk storage - 2.2 (Fr.)

Mills, accidents - 4.10, 9.13

Mills, effects of closing

Stockholm - 4.7, 4.8, 4.9

Van Buren - 14.3

Mills, grist - 5.12, 7.9, 8.2

Mills, lumber

Ashland Lumber Co. - 5.4

Atlas Plywood Co. - 4.7, 9.13

Eagle Lake Mill - 5.11, 8.2

Fort Kent Mills Co. - 8.13

Haines, Will, mill - 7.9

Hamlin Lumber mills - 3.7 (Fr.)

"Hez" Day mill - 5.10

Kindling mill - 5.5

La Croix mill - 14.3

Morrison's mill - 8.5

Portage Lake Mill Co. - 5.6

Price Bros. mill - 14.7

Sheridan mills - 5.5

Standard Veneer Co. - 4.7, 9.13

Stockholm mills - 4.7, 9.13

Violette Bros. - 14.6

See also clothespin mill

lumber companies and operators

shingle mills

veneer mills

Millwork and millworkers - 4.10, 9.13

Ministers, traveling - 8.12

Mirimichi, New Brunswick - 8.2

Mission Church

See Evangelical Covenant Church

Missionaries, French - 12.6

Mitchell, Joe, Patten - 9.5

Molasses taffy making - 2.2 (Fr.), 6.1

Monticello, Maine, roads - 0.00

Morehouse, George, New Brunswick official, in boundary controversy - 14.12

Morey, Alice, Fort Kent, interviewer

Morin, Fedime - 2.1 (Fr.)

Mt. Carmel Chapel - 6.2, 12.6, 12,2

Mt. Katahdin, climbing and climbers - 9.9

Climbing 1925 - 9.9

Movies and movie houses - 4.8

Munson, Alta and Earl, Washburn - 15.4

Murder (Cullins) - 5.11

Murphy, Murray, Presque Isle - 13.2

Music, country. (Comparison, North and South, examples) - 9.6

Music, Old time music and songs - 7.5, 9.6

Naturalization - 4.7, 6.1

Negro Brook (also Nigger Brook) - 6.1, 8.3, 8.7

Negroes, in a woods crew - 5.12

Neighbors and neighborliness - 2.4 (Fr.), 3.1 (Fr.), 4.2 (Swedish), 7.9, 8.2, 8.12

Nelson, Mr, and Mrs, George Nelson, Stockholm - 4.9

New Brunswick, officials in boundary dispute - 14.12

New Canada - 1.4 (Fr.)

New England Telephone and Telegraph Company - 3.5 (Fr.)

New Limerick, Maine. Shaw's Tannery - 9.2

New Sweden, Maine

Agriculture - 4.2 (Swedish), 4.6

Anniversaries - 4.6

Band - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish)

Centennial - 4.4 (Swedish)

Churches - 4.2 (Swedish)

Districts - 4.2 (Swedish)

Early developments - 4.1 (Swedleb) 4.6

Founding - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.6

Later changes - 4.1 (Swedish)

Mills - 4.6, 4.7

Railroads - 4.6, 4.7

Recent times - 4.6

Schools - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.7, 4.10

Stores and businesses - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.6,

Swedish settlers - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.6, 4.8, 4.9

Doctors' services - 4.2 (Swedish)

See also Stockholm

New Year's customs - 2.2 (Fr.), 6.2

Newspapers, regularly received - 8.12

Nigger Brook (Negro Brook) - 6.1, 8.3, 8.7

Normal schools - 2.5 (Fr.), 4.10, 13.1

Northern Maine Fair - 13.5

Northern Maine Vocational Institute - 13.4

Noyes, Levi - 9.11

Oats - 4.2 (Swedish), 9.1

Oddfellows and Rebekahs, Stockholm - 4.7

Oliver, Stella, Cary - 9.4

Orcutt, Georgia, Ashland - 5.6

Ouellette. Euphemie Daigle, Van Buren - 3.6 (Fr.)

Our Lady of the Snows, Frenchville - 5.9

Ovens, outdoor - 1.7 (Fr.)

Oxbow Flats - 5.5

Oxbow Road to Knowles Corner - 5.11

Oxen, use of - 1.9 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 3.7, 4.2 (Swedish), 8.2, 10.1

Page, John Lewis, Fort Kent - 8.9

Paradis, Mr. and Mrs. William, Van Buren - 3.4 (Fr.)

Parker, Lester, Fort Fairfield - 7.5

Parks, Van Buren - 14.3

Patten, Maine - 1.2 (Fr.), 9.13, 10.1

Patterson, Tommie, stories - 15.4

Peas, raising for market

Houlton - 9.1

Stockholm - 4.7

Peddlers

Fprt Fairfield - 7.5

For Kent - 8.1

Madawaska - 2.4 (Fr.)

Washburn - 15.5

Pelletier, Belone, Fort Kent - 8.1, 8.2

Pelletier, Martine, Van Buren, interviewer

Pelletier, Tom, Allagash - 8.3, 8.4

Penobcot River. East Branch log drive & lumbering - 9.5, 10.1

Perham, Maine

History - 15.9

Mills - 15.9

Railroad - 15.9

Perrault, Roland, lumber operator - 1.1 (Fr.)

Phair Junction and railroad station - 7.1

Pine lumbering - 0.00, 8.1, 8.5,8.8, 10.1

Pinkham, Niles and Tom S., lumber mills - 8.13

Pioneer conditions, described - 0.00

Pirogues

See boats and canoes

Plante, Rev. Georges, Ashland - 5.9

Plays community, Van Buren - 14.10

Plissey, Arthur, Washburn - 15.3

Plymouth Grant, Fort Fairfield - 0.00, 7.4

Poirier, Lee, Sr., Van Buren - 14.7

Police

General - 2.1 (Fr.)

Police car - 2.1 (Fr.)

Snowmobile - 2.1 (Fr.)

Politicians, Perham - 15.9

See also legislators

"Polack" workers, mills - 5.5

Pond, Ed., lumbering activities, "The Corporation', invention of the boom - 8.1, 8.2, 8.5

Portage Lake, Maine - 5.6 5.9

Portage (Lake) Mill Company - 5.6

Potato baskets - 3.2 (Fr.)

Potato farming, machinery and equipment - 3.2 (Fr.), 4.6, 4.7, 7.3, 7.6, 7.8, 7.10, 9.1, 9.3

Potato farming, shipping - 7.10

Potato harvesting (picking) by hand - 4.6

Potato house construction - 7.10

Potato houses - 5.3, 9.1, 14.14

Potato industry - 0.00, 4.7, 5.3, 7.3

Potato inspection - 12.4

Potato marketing and marketing equipment - 5.3, 7.3, 7.8

Potato prices - 4.7, 7.3

Potato shipping and railroad equipment - 4.2 (Swedish), 5.3, 7.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Potato shipping, pre-Bangor and Aroostook Railroad - 9.2

Potato varieties - 7.3

Potatoes, seed - 0.00

Potbellied stove - 14.2

Powers Creek, New Brunswick - 14.11

Presque Isle Army Base - 13.3

Presque Isle, Maine

Band - 13.1

Becomes a city - 13.1

Building construction - 4.9

Businesses - 9.12, 13.4

Presque Isle, Army Base - 13.3

Radio and television - 13.6

Price, Blanche, Washburn - 15.2

Price Brothers, mill - 14.7

Prices, comparative (commodities) - 1.6 (Fr.), 3.4 (Fr.), 7.10, 8.1, 8.2, 13.5, 14.2

Priests

Traveling priests - 8.12

Visiting lumber camps - 8.2

See also Catholic churches and missions

Prisoners of War, World War II, Presque Isle - 13.3

Professional men (doctors, politicians, ministers) Perham - 15.9

Prohibition years - 2.1 (Fr.)

Pulp mill - 5.5

Pulpwood operations - 1.2 (Fr.), 6.1

Putnam, Amos - 9.11

Putnam, Fred, Houlton - 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.6

Quacks (doctors), "Montana Harry" - 9.8

Quakers - 7.6, 7.8, 7.9

Quebec, Province of, Canada

Canadians to Madawaska Valley - 6.2, 14.8

Market for supplies - 1.7 (Fr.), 8.1

Quigley. Mr., quoted in French on Acadians - 14.8

Race tracks

See Ashland

Trotting Park, Fort Fairfield

Radio stations - 3.5, 13.6

Radios, coming of - 1.2 (Fr.), 1.4 (Fr.)

Rafford, Dana, Ashland, on fiddle - 5.7

Rafford, Elizabeth, Ashland - 5.10

Railroading - 7.1

Railroads - 1.4, 8.4

Aroostook Valley Railroad - 4.6, 15.1

Bangor & Aroostook Railroad - 1.3 (Fr.), 13.2

Canadian Pacific Railroad - l.3 (Fr.)

First railroads - 0.00

New Brunswick Railroads - 0.00

St. Andrews and Canadian Railroad - 7.9

Temiscouata Railroad (Canadian) - 8 4, 8.7, 8.8

See also name of railroad

Railroads, building. Techniques and workers - 1.1 (Fr.), 1.3 (Fr.), 4.6, 5.5, 5.12

Railroads, Canadian - 0.00

See also Canadian Pacific Railroad

New Brrunswick Railroads

St. Andrews and Canadian Railroad

Temiscouata Railroad

Railroads, effects on communities - 0.00

Ashland area (Catholic missions) - 5.9

New Sweden - 4.6

Stockholm - 4.7, 4.8

Railroads, effects on potato industry - 0.00, 7.3

Railroads, freight handling - 7.1 (side 2)

Railroads, mail - 1.3 (Fr.)

Railroads, telegraph operators - 7.1

Railroads, ticket services - 7.1

Raspberry factory - 3.3 (Fr.), 14.3, 14.7

Rasmussen, Carl, Fort Fairfield - 7.10

Raymond, Mrs. Joseph, Caribou (See for French customs) - 6.2

Realty Pulpwood Mill Co. - 6.1

Rebekah Lodge, Stockholm - 4.7

Recipes and household hints - 7.8

Recreational activities in old days - 1.3 (Fr.), 1.4 (Fr.), 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7, 8.12, 9.1, 12.6, 13.5, 15.1

Woods camps - 5.4, 6.1, 8.8

Registry of Deeds, Madawaska and Fort Kent - 12.7

Religious customs - 2.4 (Fr.), 3.1 (Fr.), 6.2

Religion and religious activities

See each town

See each denomination

See French-Acadian customs

See Swedish customs

Religious services, difficulties of travel to - 1.5 (Fr.)

Religious services, in absence of priest - 12.7, 14.6

Rice, John Francis, Edmunsten, N.B. - 14.12

Richards, Eliphalet - 9.11

Richards, Eric, Houlton - 9.6

Richards, James - 9.1

Ricker Classical Institute - 5.2, 9.2, 9.3

Ricker College - 9.2

River crossing, by basket - 12.3

River flats - 8.4

Rivermen - 8.2, 8.6

Rivers, importance of - 0.00

Road building - 2.3 (Fr.), 12.4

Roads, importance of in early days - 0.00, 5.2, 5.12, 8.1

Roads, maintenance for lumbering - 3.2 (Fr.), 5.4

Roads, maintenance of winter roads - 12.4

Robbinson Potato planter - 4.7, 9.3

Robinson, Pearl Trask, Fort Fairfield - 7.7

Rogers, Lore A., Island Falls and Patten - 10.1

Russian workers, mills - 5.5

Russians, immigrants and businessmen - 9.12

Rye

Fort Fairfield - 7.9

Raised in Swedish settlements - 4.2 (Swedish)

Sacred Heart Church, North Caribou - 6.2

St. Agatha, Maine - 14.8, 14.15

Church customs - 12.6

St. Andrew and Canadian Railroad - 7.9

St. Anne's Catholic Church, Ashland - 5.9

St. Basile Church, Edmunston - 12.7

St. Daigle Parish - 14.14

St. David, Madawaska

Church and church activities - 2.8 (Fr.), 14.6, 14.8

Fiftieth anniversary, 1922 - 2.2 (Fr.), 2.3 (Fr.), 2.5 (Fr.), 12.4, 14.13

St. Francis, Maine

Railroad - 6.1, 8.4

St. Francis River, as part of boundary - 8.7

St. Germain, Joseph "Squirrel", Wallagras - 1.2 (Fr.)

St. Jean Port Jolie, Quebec, Canada, as market - 1.7 (Fr.), 8.1

St. John Lumber Co. mill - 8.2

St. John River

As transportation route - 0.00

Description - 8.7, 12.7

Origin of name - 12.7

See lumbering tapes

See Madawaska tapes

St. John River Valley

As a geographic region - 0.00, 12.7

Early history - 0.00

Description of upper region - 8.8, 12.7

Ste Leonard, New Brunswick, for supplies - 3.3 (Fr.)

St. Luce Parish, Upper Frenchville - 14.8

St. Mary's College, Van Buren - 14.8, 14.10

St. Pierre, Edgar, Fort Kent - 1.7 (Fr.) (side 2)

St. Pierre, Flora Caron Saucier, Van Buren - 3.5 (Fr.)

Saucier, Orvila, Eagle lake - 1.4 (Fr.)

Saucier, Solomon, Fort Kent - 1.1 (Fr.)

Sausage making - 2.3 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.), 4.8

Saws, crosscut - 9.4

Sawyer, George, Ashland - 5.11

Schools, discipline - 4.7

School, one-room - 1.7 (Fr.), 2.5 (Fr.), 4.10, 5.10, 13.4

School sessions - 2.5 (Fr.), 3.3 (Fr.), 6.1

School, summer - 4.7, 6.1

Schooling - 2.3 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.), 2.8 (Fr.), 3.1 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish), 4.6, 4.7, 4.9, 5.2, 5.10,, 6.1, 7.4, 8.6, 8.12, 10.2, 12.2, 14.3, 14.10, 15.3, 15.6

Schools - 1.5 (Fr.), 1.7 (Fr.), 2.2 (Fr.), 2.5 (Fr.), 2.8 (Fr.), 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish), 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.2, 5.10, 6.1, 7.4, 8.3, 8.6, 10.2, 12.2, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, 15.3

Schools, transportation to - 4.8

By dugout - 14.10

By sled - 3.3 (Fr.), 4.10. 14.9, 15.3

Seeley, Linwood, Fort Fairfield, obituary - 7.9

Senior citizens, organizations and activities - 9.4

Sewer system, Van Buren - 14.3

Sewing circles, Stockholm - 4.8

Shakespeare Club, Houlton - 9.2

Sheep raising and sheepherding - 1.4 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 4.2 (Swedish), 8.7

Shelley, Catherine. Poem "Spring Riches" - 8.8

Sheridan (Ashland) mills - 5.1, 5.5

Sheridan settlement (Ashland) - 5.5, 5.9, 5.10

Boarding houses - 5.5

Businesses - 5.5

Bangor & Aroostook Railroad - 5.5

Mills - 5.5

Social life - 5.5

Shingle-making - 0.00, 8.1, 14.5

Shingle mills - 3.2 (Fr.), 7.9

Shingles, selling - 14.2

Shoes, shoemocs, homemade - 1.6 (Fr.), 3.4 (Fr.), 4.8

Sister Margarita, Van Buren - 3.4 (Fr.)

Skiing - 4.7

Ski making - 4.2 (Swedish)

Sleds, for potato hauling - 9.1

Smith, Myrtle, Washburn - 15.5

Smith, Thomas, Supt. of Schools, Hamlin, - 14.10

Smuggling - 1.2 (Fr.), 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.9, 12.3

Snowmobiles - 2.1 (Fr.)

Snowstorms and snowbanks - 5.1, 7.1 (side 2), 9.5, 14.11

Soapmaking - 2.3 (Fr.), 4.8, 12.7

Social customs, Madawaska - 12.3

Social life (balls, box socials, clubs, dances, frolics, musicians both local and from afar, opera house, traveling shows) - 1.9 (Fr.), 2.5 (Fr.), 3.3 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 5.2, 5.5, 5.10, 6.2, 7.9, 8.2, 8.3, 8.12, 13.1, 15.5, 15.6

Sockalexis - 9.1

Soderberg, Monica, interviewer Stockholm and New Sweden (Swedish)

Soderberg, Mrs. Elsie, New Sweden - 4.2 (Swedish), 4.8

Soils

Caribou loam - 7.9

Maple Grove clay - 7.8

Soldier Pond Settlement, origin of name - 1.9

Song "Picking Potatoes" - 3.4 (Fr.)

Songs, French - 3.4 (Fr.), 6.2, 14.5, 14.7, 14.12

Songs and music - 5.7, 9.6

Songs and poems, traditional - 5.1, 8.4, 8.6

Soucy, Ernest, Van Buren - 3.3 (Fr.), 14.3

Sourdough and potato yeast - 5.13, 6.1, 8.1

Sports

Basketball - 15.3

Spring tonic - 14.15

Square dance music and callers - 9.5, 9.6

Squatters and legal cases - 14.10

Staceyville - 1.2 (Fr.)

Stage coaches - 0.00

Stage driving - 10.1

Standard Veneer Co. mills, Stockholm - 4.7, 4.10, 9.13

Starch (potato) factories - 3.2 (Fr.), 4.6, 7.4

Starch (potato) industry - 0.00

State chi1dren, caring for - 9.4

Step dancing - 9.5

Stetson & Blanchard, lumber operations (Stetson Mill Settlement) -

Stevensville Settlement, Fort Fairfield - 7.2

Stimpson, Anne, Presque Isle, interviewer

Stockholm, Maine

Agriculture - 4.7, 4.10

Band - 4.2, 4.7

Boarding houses and hotels - 4.8, 4.9

Cemeteries - 4.2 (Swedish)

Church and Sunday school activities - 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7

Depression years - 4.7

Districts - 4.7

Early developments - 4.7

Early Swedish settlers - 4.7, 4.10

English immigrants - 4.9

Farming - 4.7, 4.10

Fire department - 4.7

French inhabitants - 4.7

Mills and lumber industry - 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7, 9.13

Railroads - 4.7, 4.9

Schools - 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7, 4.10

Stores and businesses - 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7, 4.8, 4.9

Stockholm Band - 4.7

Stockholm Lumber Company - 4.7. 4.10

Stockholm, mills - 4.7, 9.13

Allen Quimby Co.

Atlas Plywood Co.

Clothespin mill

Perry and Yerxa

Quimby & Trafton

Standard Box Co.

Standard Veneer Co.

Stockholm Lumber Co.

Storage, milk - 4.7

Storms, hail, ice, snow, etc. - 4.1 (Swedish), 5.6

Straw rides - 4.1 (Swedish)

Suéron, Father (Charles), historical figure - 14.8

"Sugar Heights", Stockholm, origin of name - 4.7

Sunday in the woods camp - 6.1

Sunday school and activities - 4.7

Superstitions - 1.3 (Fr.), 2.8 (Fr.)

Surveyors

Brown, John, Fort Kent - 8.11

Swedish cooking - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7, 4.8

Swedish customs and language - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish), 4,6, 4.7, 4.8

Swedish immigration - 0.00, 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish), 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10

See also New Sweden

Stockholm

Swedish language

Adjustment to English - 4.1 (Swedish), 4.2 (Swedish), 4.7, 4.10

Retention in Swedish towns - 4.7

Tapes in - 4.1, 4.2

Sylvester, Climena, Ashland - 5.3, 5.8

Syrian customs - 7.5

Syrians, Fort Fairfield - 7.5

Tall, Axel, Stockholm - 4.10

Tall tales - 8.6, 8.7 (Tom "Old Tom" Gardner), 9.5

Tanneries - 9.2, 14.3

Tapley, Elden, Madawaska - 12.1

Taxi service - 9.3

Teacher training and certification - 2.5 (Fr.), 4.7, 4.10

Teachers on teaching experiences - 1.3 (Fr.), 2.5 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 4.10, 5.10, 8.11, 13.1, 13.4, 14.8, 14.11, 14.9

Teamsters - 5.11, 8.2, 14.10

Telegraph service and operators - 3.5 (Fr.), 5.6

Telephone companies

See Aroostook Telephone Co.

Independent Telephone Co. (Ashland)

New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Telephones and telephone service - 3.5 (Fr.), 4.6, 5.6

Television - 13.6

Temiscouata Railriad (Canadian) - 8.4, 8.7

Theriault, Elizabeth, Ashland, interviewer

Theriault, Joseph, Ashland (Sheridan) - 5.5

Theriault, Patrick - 12.6, 12.7

Thibodeau, Mrs. Blanche, Caribou - 6.2

Thibodeau, Marguerite Blanche, "La Tante du Madawaska" - 12.2, 12.7

Thomas, W. W., Jr., New Sweden founder - 0.00, 4.6

Thornton, Alice Ingersoll, Houlton - 9.11

Thurlough, James, County Commissioner, diary - 7.4

Tobacco, chewing - 1.9 (Fr.)

Tobique (Andover), New Brunswick - 7.9

Tobique Narrows - 9.5

Toboggans, motor - 2.1 (Fr.)

Toting, description and experiences - 4.10, 5.4, 8.2

"Tough End", Houlton - 9.8, 9.12

Towle, Mary Estes, Fort Fairfield, genealogy and old letters - 7.8

Town affairs, meetings and officials

Hamlin - 14.10

Houlton - 9.3

Madawaska - 12.2, 12.7

Van Buren - 14.10, 14.13

Town meetings - 9.3

Houlton - 9.3

Stockholm - 4.7

Van Buren - 14.7

Tramps - 2.4 (Fr.)

Transportation and means - 1.3 (Fr.), 3.3 (Fr.), 4.1 (Swedish), 4.6, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 14.5, 14.9

Trapping

Allagash - 8.6

Stockholm - 4.2 (Swedish)

Trask, Lydia (Mrs. Joseph Houlton) story - 9.11

Trees, record

Pine - 9.5

Umphrey, Harry - 13.6

Turnips, as special crop

Ashland - 5.10

New Sweden - 4.1, 4.6

Union Congregational Church, Ashland - 5.8

Unitarian Church, Houlton, history - 9.3

U.S. - History - Civil War - 14.2, 14.8

U.S. Post Office - 7.9

U.S. Weather Bureau - 9.7

University of Maine at Fort Kent

See Fort Kent College

Upper Frenchville, Maine - 14.8

U.S.S MADAWASKA - 12.6

Upper St. John Valley Region, as culture region - 14.8

Upsala district, New Sweden - 4.7

Van Buren, Maine

American settlers - 14.8

Background to French settlement

Bottling works - 14.2

Church - 14.8, 14.14

Custom house - 14.2

Doctors and hospitals - 3.5 (Fr.) (side 2), 14.3

Education - 14.2, 14.8, 14.9, 14.10

Ferry - 14.5

History - 14.6, 14.8

Lumber industry - 8.1, 14.1, 14.6, 14.10

Mills - 14.5, 14.10

Railroads - 14.9

Religious history - 14.6, 14.8, 14.13

Stores - 3.5 (Fr.) (side 2), 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.6, 14.9

Tannery - 2.8 (Fr.)

Van Buren, Maine 1910 (Boom times) - 3.5 (Fr.) (side 2), 3.7 (Fr.) (side 2)

Van Buren Circuit - 14.5

Veneer mills

See Stockholm, mills

Atlas Plywood Co.

Violette, Elmer, Van Buren - 14.6

Violette family, genealogical - 14.6

Violette, Mrs. Marcella Belanger (Mrs. Elmer), Van Buren - 14.8

Violette Brook - 2.7 (Fr.), 14.6

Violette Brook and settlement (Van Buren) - 8.1, 14.6

Violette, Vital, legislator, Van Buren - 14.6 (side 2)

Violette's camps (1900's) - 14.5

Violins and violin making - 14.15

Wade, Maine

History - 15.8
Schools - 15.8

Wages - 5.1, 5.6, 7.10, 8.1, 8.3, 14.8

Law enforcement - 2.1 (Fr.)

Lumbering - 1.7 (Fr.)

Teaching - 2.5 (Fr.), 4.7

Veneer mill - 9.13

Woods crew - 5.6, 9.4, 9.5

Wagons, makers

Taber, Silas, Houlton - 9.1, 9.3

Wallagrass Plantation, Maine - 1.2 (Fr.), 1.9 (Fr.)

Walsh, Margaret - 3.5 (Fr.)

War of 1812 - 0.00

Washburn, Maine - 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.5, 15.6

Aroostook Valley Railroad - 15.1, 15.2, 15,5, 15.6

Bangor & Aroostook Railroad - 15.5

Businesses - 15.5

Churches - 15.5, 15.6

Ferry - 15.1, 15.4
Fires - 15.1, 15.3

History - 15.5

Library - 15.5

Mills - 15.2

Newspaper - 15.5

Schools - 15.3, 15.5, 15.6

Tommy Patterson stories - 15.4

Veneer mill - 15.3

Washburn High School students. Interviewers

Water, scarcity - 3.6 (Fr.), 14.11

Water systems, Fort Fairfield - 7.2

Water systems, of wooden branches - 14.10

Watson Brothers Store, Van Buren - 14.2

Watson, Charles, Van Buren - 14.2

Watson, John E., - 14.2

Women's Christian Temperance Union - 13.4

Wealth, amount of land and number of sons - 6.2

Weather, general - 9.7

Weather predictions - 1.3 (Fr.)

Weather records and use of - 9.7

Wedding customs - 2.2 (Fr.), 2.3 (Fr.), 2.4 (Fr.), 4.2 (Swedish), 14.11

Webster-Ashburton Treaty - 0.00, 14.8

Welfare organizations and activities

Depression years - 4.7, 4.8, 8.1

Stockholm - 4.7, 4.8

Welfare policies

Fort Fairfield - 7.4

Swedish towns, early 1900's - 4.10

Well digging - 8.10

Well, of clay - 8.10

Wellington House, Fort Fairfield (formerly Fitzherbert's) - 7.9

Wessel's Hotel and Boarding House, Stockholm - 4.8

West: American westward movement, expansion

Agricultural competition - 0.00

Effect on populating Aroostook - 0.00

Western Union Telegraph Company - 3.5

Wheat, raising and harvesting - 1.4 (Fr.), 3.2 (Fr.), 5.12

Whiskey making - 1.1 (Fr.), 1.3 (Fr.), 1.9 (Fr.)

Wilcox, Larry, on history of Washburn - 15.7

Wild animals - 9.4, 5.13
Bears - 5.14, 8.4

Black cat (panther) - 8.6

Caribou - 8.7

Deer - 1.5 (Fr.), 5.13, 8.1, 8.7

Game - 8.3

Moose - 8.7

Raccoons - 5.13

Wild flowers - 14.15

Winter amusements - 3.7 (Fr.), 3.8 (Fr.), 14.9

See Ice racing

Winter roads, conditions and importance - 3.2 (Fr.), 4.10, 5.3, 6.2 8.7, 13.5

Winter supplies - 8.1, 8.6

Women, lives and experiences - 10.1

Cheese factory - 5.4

Farmer's wife - 7.7, 13.5

First woman to drive car - 5.2

Home and business - 4.8

Mill workers - 5.5, 9.13

Telephone operators - 5.6

Woman legislator - 13.4, 14.10

Women teachers - 2.5 (Fr.), 5.10, 8.11, 13.4, 14.8

Woods cook - 8.1, 8.12, 9.4

Women, shortage in early Madawaska colony - 6.2, 7.9

Wooden sidewalks - 4.8, 5.2, 14.2

Woodland, Maine

Railroad - 4.7

Swedish settlers - 0.00

Woods

See lumbering operations

Woods "Boss" - 8.1

Woods camp, building - 8.1

Woods camps, peddler's visits - 9.12

Woods camps, recreation - 5.1, 8.2
Woodsmen, clothing - 5.4, 9.5

Woods projects, Depression years - 4.7, 8.1

Woods roads - 8.2

Woodsmen - 5.1, 5.4, 5.6, 5.13, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.7, 8.8, 13.2

Woodstock, N.B., relations with Houlton - 0.00

Wool, and use of - 0.00, 2.4 (Fr.), 3.4 (Fr.), 3.6 (Fr.), 3.7 (Fr.), 4.2 (Swedish), 6.2, 12.7

Wool, processing (carding) - 0.00, 3.6 (Fr.), 3.7 (Fr.), 8.2, 8.7, 12.6

World war I - 12.1, 15.2

Casualties - 4.7

F1u epidemic - see diseases and illnesses

Men serving - 4.2, 4.7

News of the peace - 3.5 (Fr.)

World War I, veterans - 1.2 (Fr.), 2.1 (Fr.), 4.7

World War II - 15.2

Casualties - 4.7

Home front - 13.4

Presque Isle Army Base - 13.3

Prisoners of War - 13.3

Wrightsville (Ashland) - 5.10

Young, George, Ashland - 5.12

Young people's organizations, Stockholm - 4.8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List of Contributors to the Aroostook Oral History Project 1971 - 1972

(Special Project Grant Funded By Title I, LSCA Funds)

 

Key: Location established by number

 

1. Fort Kent (French)

2. Madawaska (French)

3. Van Buren (French)

4. New Sweden, Stockholm (Swedish)

4.6 New Sweden, Stockholm (English)

5. Ashland

6. Caribou

7. Fort Fairfield

8. Fort Kent

9. Houlton

10. Island Falls

11. Limestone

12. Madawaska

13. Presque Isle

14. Van Buren

15. Washburn

 

 

0.00 Charlotte L. Melvin, Consultant, Aroostook Oral History Project 1972 (Funded by Title 1, LSCA Funds)

 

 

Fort Kent - French

 

1.1 Solomon Saucier

1.2 Joseph St. Germaine

1.3 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Cyr

1.4 Orvila Saucier

1.5 Charles Cote, Firman Daigle and others

1.6 Onezime Cyr

1.7 Eugene Beaulieu, Edgar St. Pierre

1.9 Theophile Freeman

 

 

Madawaska - French

 

2.1 Fedime Morin

2.2 Mrs. Dan Cyr

2.3 Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cyr & Mr. and Mrs. Rene Guerette

2.4 Mrs. Leonie Albert

2.5 Alice H. Daigle

2.6 Raymond Daigle

2.7 Tom Dufour

2.8 Mrs. Xavier Dufour & Felix Dufour

 

 

Van Buren - French

 

3.1 Mrs. Rose Lajoie

3.2 Antoine Lebel

3.3 Mrs. Isidore Dumont< & Ernest Soucy

3.4 Mrs. Euphemie Dubay & Sister Margarita & Mr. and Mrs. William Paradise

3.5 Clara St. Pierre & Margaret Walsh (English)

3.6 Euphemie Daigle Ouellette

3.7 Mrs. Remi Daigle & Isaac Harris

3.8 Christian Albert

 

 

New Sweden, Stockholm - Swedish

 

4.1 Henry Anderson

4.2 Fritz Anderson & George Lindsten, Miss Annie Lindsten, Mrs. Elsie Soderberg

 

 

New Sweden, Stockholm - English

 

4.6 Henry Anderson

4.7 Fritz and Lily Anderson

4.8 Mrs. Elsie Anderson, Mrs. Annie Fogelin, Mrs. Elsie Soderberg

4.9 Mr. and Mrs. George Nelson

4.10 Axel Tall

 

 

Ashland

 

5.1 Gussie Beaulier

5.2 Katherine Coffin

5.3 Climena Sylvester & Benton Craig

5.4 Lyle Gardner

5.5 Joseph Theriault

5.6 Ora Daggett & Georgie Orcutt

5.7 Mac Beaulier, Leo Michaud, Dana Rafford & Country music

5.8 Delta Ellis & Climena Sylvester

5.9 Rev. George Plante

5.10 Elizabeth Rafford

5.11 George C. Sawyer

5.12 George Young & C. Fred Coffin

5.13 Ira McNally

5.14 Ira McNally

 

 

Caribou

 

6.1 Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Keaton

6.2 Judith Collins - French songs and folklore

 

 

Fort Fairfield

 

7.1 Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Howard & Earl Dow

7.2 Olive Stevens Johnston

7.3 Edward Johnston

7.4 James Thurlough's diary - Rommy Haines

7.5 Lewis Ayoob & Lester Parker

7.6 Poems, Maple Grove

7.7 Rose Trask Johnston & Pearl Trask Robinson

7.8 Hazel Haines Cushman & Mary Towle Kimball

7.9 Zella Cogswell and Ike Carson & James Bernard

7.10 Carl Rasmussen

 

 

Fort Kent

 

8.1 Belone Pelletier

8.2 Belone Pelletier

8.3 Tom Pelletier

8.4 Tom Pelletier & Aaron and Rosie Jackson

8.5 Aaron Jackson

8.6 Aaron and Rosie Jackson

8.7 Jim Connors

8.8 Jim Connors

8.9 John and Lewis Page

8.10 Edith Kelly

8.11 Sophie Pinette Brown

8.12 Eva McBriety

8.13 Patricia Desjardin & David Michaud

 

 

Houlton

 

9.1 Fred Putnam #1

9.2 Fred Putnam #2

9.3 Fred Putnam #3

9.4 Mrs. Stella Oliver

9.5 Asael Logan

9.6 Asael Logan, Don McAfee and Eric Richards

9.7 William Cumming (Weather)

9.8 William Cumming (Drugs)

9.9 William Cumming (Katahdin)

9.10 Bruce Campbell

9.11 DAR

9.12 Alfred Green

9.13 Albin Larson

 

 

Island Falls

 

10.1 Dr. Lore Rogers

10.2 Harriet Sewall Harmon, Nancy Sewall Cunningham, Maurice Cunningham

 

 

Limestone

 

11.1 Autograph book

 

 

Madawaska

 

12.1 Elden Tapley

12.2 Alvey Dubois - Madawaska Centennial Pageant

12.3 Bernadette Mayhew

12.4 Ernest Chasse

12.5 Geraldine Chasse

12.6 Geraldine Chasse

12.7 Readings from Madawaska Centennial Book

 

 

Presque Isle

 

13.1 Frank Cunningham

13.2 Murray Murphy

13.3 Dorothy Dingwall

13.4 Augusta Christie

13.5 Mrs. Avis Dudley

13.6 Harold Glidden

 

 

Van Buren

 

14.2 Charles Watson

14.3 Ernest Soucy

14.5 Everett Dionne & Mathilda Derosier

14.6 Farrells and Michauds & Elmer Violette

14.7 Leo Poirier

14.8 Marcella Belanger Violette

14.9 Mrs. James Franck & Mary Jane Michaud

14.10 Mildred Smith Gagnon

14.11 Gerald Gagnon & Henrietta Dionne

14.12 Mrs. Frances Levasseur (Biog. of Hon. John Rice)

14.13 Justina P. Marquis

14.14 Sister Bertha Duperry

14.15 Marthe Cyr Genest

 

 

Washburn

 

15.1 Everett Cary, Sr.

15.2 Blanche Price

15.3 Arthur Plissey & Helen Haines

15.4 Alta and Earl Munson

15.5 Mrs. Myrtle Smith

15.6 Autice Jardine

15.7 Myrtle Jardine & Larry Wilcox

15.8 Axie Fox

15.9 Evelyn Flewelling & Carol Blackstone