Maine Sound + Story collects, catalogs, and preserves oral histories related to Maine’s history, peoples, and landscape. Compiled here is a database of first hand accounts from a range of projects and contributors. Search records (metadata, abstracts, and transcripts) by simply doing a keyword(s) search. For a more advanced search, you can use multiple keywords and/or you can filter by collection, interviewer, format, affiliation, and/or location. Search results can be sorted by relevance and date of interview. Send reference questions and requests by email anytime to mainesoundandstory@gmail.com.
Elmer 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 moreDavid Paine is the owner of Jordan’s Restaurant in Bar Harbor. He shares stories of the ways the Bar Harbor community has changed through the lenses of tourism, housing, business, and a lot of ...
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 moreCharlie Phippen has been the harbormaster in the town of Bar Harbor for the last 20 years. In this interview, he talks extensively about the town’s relationship with cruise ship visitations, from...
listen & learn moreIn this interview, Max St. Amand discusses his life as a young lobsterman in Stonington. St. Amand shares how he started fishing at a young age doing purse seining, lobstering, and clamming. Koch ...
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 moreIn this interview by Galen Koch with Alice Spencer of Stonington, Spencer shares stories about a trip to the White House, close calls with death, mischief her children and herself got into, ...
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