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.
Chris Petersen, a professor of biology and ecology at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME, talks about his research on marine resources, what he values about smaller communities, the changes ...
listen & learn moreChad Libby is in the 11th grade at Jonesport Beals High School. He has been a lobster fisherman for as long as he can remember. His goals for the future include to lobster fish, worm, and clam, and...
listen & learn moreButch Harris, a fisherman and summertime charter captain from Eastport, ME, talks about the community in his hometown, how he grew up and decided to stay in Eastport, the impact of the growing ...
listen & learn moreBruce Bourque lives in Freeport, ME, where he has taught archaeology and conducted research at Bates College since 1972. Now retired from teaching, he is working on a documentary film on the ...
listen & learn moreBobby Ingalls and Reggie Lee, fishermen from Bucks Harbor, ME, and Westport Island, ME, respectively, discuss longlining, lobstering, shrimping, and groundfishing, focusing on how the industries ...
listen & learn moreAnne Hayden, senior fisheries program manager at Manomet from Brunswick, ME, talks about her experiences researching river herring restoration in Maine. She touches on the impact of the bait crisis...
listen & learn moreA graduate student from Martha's Vineyard, MA, Ali Berlow is studying how the role of Atlantic herring has changed in the U.S. food system. She came to the Forum to ask fishermen for their ...
listen & learn moreAlex DeKoning, a mussel farmer based out of Bar Harbor, ME, is the son of seventh generation mussel farmers from Holland. DeKoning and his family run the only mussel farms in North America that ...
listen & learn moreAdam Mistler, a representative from the environmental NGO Ocean Conservancy in Washington, DC, talks about their efforts to include and listen to fishermen and other ocean stakeholders in their ...
listen & learn moreMicah Woodcock, a wild seaweed harvester from Stonington, ME, speaks about the reality of the practical, personal, and community sides of harvesting wild seaweed. He discusses his experiences in ...
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