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.
Avery Waterman, a 20-year-old lobsterman from North Haven, ME, speaks about where he predominantly fishes for lobster while highlighting the changes he has noticed since he began lobster fishing, ...
listen & learn moreThis interview by Galen Koch of Travis Fifield of Stonington, Fifield shares about his extensive family history and sense of place on Deer Isle. He shares how he ended up back in Stonington because...
listen & learn moreTyler Childers and Anson Kelley, lobstermen and high school students enrolled in the Eastern Maine Skippers Program in Jonesport, Maine, are old friends who speak about their experiences in the ...
listen & learn moreThis interview is with Rebecca Cole-Will, the Chief of the Division of Resource Management at Acadia National Park. Cole-Will discusses the direction of management within the park to include ...
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Valerie Peacock, an education consultant and head of the Eastern Maine Skippers Program from Bar Harbor, ME, Ro her background working in the fishing communities of Bar Harbor, and her concern ...
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