This interview with Kim Colbeth, a lifelong resident and former schoolteacher of Swan's Island, Maine, provides a comprehensive insight into the island's history, community, and socioeconomic ...
listen & learn moreAngela Johnston describes her twenty five years of experience working as a marine tour guide for Acadia Whale Watch, Acadia National Park, and the Bar Harbor Whale Watch. She’s seen populations ...
listen & learn moreElmer Hoffses tells a story about the boats in the harbor freezing during winter and the Coast Guard’s attempts to get them out. He then goes on to talk about Guy Peabody taking a car driving at ...
listen & learn moreIn this interview, Clinton Beal talks about his childhood and schooling on Beals island and jobs in the town. He describes how he and his friend tried to get a job with the Coast Guard and then ...
listen & learn moreChris Petersen is a faculty member at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. Petersen also serves as the Vice-President of Frenchman Bay Partners, and he is a member of the Bar Harbor Marine ...
listen & learn moreThis interview is with Adelmar “Tuddy” Urquhart, lifelong weir and stop seine fisher. Charlie Alley interviews Tuddy, or “Tudd”, as he calls him, as an old friend, there are many moments of...
listen & learn moreIn this interview, Willis Beal discusses boat building on Beals Island. He talks about building his shop in 1966 and the process of building boats in the winter and lobster fishing in the summer. ...
listen & learn moreThis interview is with Barna B. Norton, a native of Jonesport, Maine. Norton discusses his life's work, sharing stories of his fishing adventures with his father, as well as his experiences working...
listen & learn moreCharlie Alley and Bill Plaskon ask Ernest Kelley and Tuddy Urquhart about the process of getting permission to build a herring weir in the waters surrounding Jonesport, Maine, and about specifics ...
listen & learn moreThe oral history interview with Lillian Huntley, conducted by the Jonesport Historical Society, provides a comprehensive account of her family history and upbringing on Beals Island, Maine. The ...
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