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.
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 moreFred Backman, the Winter Harbor Harbormaster, describes his time on the water from his childhood up through adulthood. This includes lobstering, gillnetting, scalloping, and shrimping. He offers ...
listen & learn moreMike Cronin and Janeeka Anderson describe their experiences as long-time clammers living in Gouldsboro. Mike tells about near misses and close calls during his time scallop diving, as well as his ...
listen & learn moreBill Horner, a Bar Harbor local and sailor, discusses the way that Bar Harbor and Frenchman Bay have changed in his lifetime. He talks about downtown Bar Harbor in the 1950s and earlier, going into...
listen & learn moreSean Todd tells about his time on Frenchman Bay as a professor of oceanography at College of the Atlantic. He grew up in London, and only moved here from Newfoundland after finishing graduate ...
listen & learn moreRustin Taylor describes his experiences as an glass eel fisherman and his perception of changes in Frenchman Bay’s seasonal climate. He shares a story about his father fishing for smelt on bay ...
listen & learn moreToby Stephenson, a College of the Atlantic alum from 1998, has spent many years on the waters from Frenchman Bay, from working on whale watch vessels to being the Director of Marine Operations at ...
listen & learn moreJosh Kane was born in Bar Harbor and has lived on Mount Desert Island his whole life. Josh talks about lobstering, shrimping, scalloping, and halibut-fishing on Frenchman Bay and the changes he has...
listen & learn moreThis is an interview with Joanna Fogg, the owner of Bar Harbor Oysters in Bar Harbor, Maine. She discusses how she started and runs the company, the cultural differences between aquaculture and ...
listen & learn moreThe interview with Helen Beal dives into her extraordinary hobby of creating a detailed miniature model railroad representing Jonesport, Maine. Helen discusses the project's origins, challenges, ...
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