147 resources

• [unedited footage of Acadian interviews, cookery, and festival]
  
  Unedited footage including interviews with Acadians, focusing on their daily lives, customs, food, music and dance. Original footage is 1/2-inch open reel videotape. From donor's notes: This video was done in 1979 intending to document how Christmas was celebrated on Prince Edward Island at the turn of the century. The first part of the video are interviews conducted in the Rumford, Me. area by Dr. Edward Martin (founder of Acadian heritage Society), who asked selected Acadian individuals what their Christmas celebrations were like prior to their migration to the U.S. The discussion involves foods, traditions, music, religion, and family involvement. The second part of the video documents how the Acadian Society made 'poutine' for their annual festival called the 'Fiddle Festival,' a celebration of Acadian music, foods and merryment. Poutine is a traditional Acadian food looked at with much fondness. You see that attitude reflected in the chefs preparing the poutine in the video. The last part of the video documents one of the fiddle festivals. Many of the musicians were Society members and self-taught. The step dancers were also self-taught. The festivals were always organized to include family participation.
• Acadian Heritage Society Collection - Finding AId
  
  Collection contains unedited footage including interviews with Acadians, focusing on their daily lives, customs, food, music and dance. The interviewer, Dr. Edward Martin, centers discussion around Christmas celebrations, Acadian history and life in Rumford. Footage includes documentation of the Acadian Society's cooking poutine, a traditional food, for the annual Fiddle Festival.
• Maine Acadian cultural survey collection, 1991 - Finding Aid
  
  Collection consists of sound and video recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, printed materials, correspondence, field notes, and administrative files documenting folklife--including architecture, music, dance, storytelling, material culture, and occupational culture--in the Upper Saint John River Valley on the Maine and New Brunswick border.
• Lowell Folklife Project collection - Finding Aid
  
  This year-long study conducted by the American Folklife Center yielded an ethnographic collection consisting of 196 hours of sound recordings covering a wide range of subjects and activities, including oral history interviews, religious services, musical events, parades and religious processions, ethnic festivals, ethnic restaurants, and neighborhood tours. An additional 23 hours of sound recordings of musical events and oral history interviews were copied from originals lent by Lowell residents. Collection materials also include correspondence; field notes; questionnaires; neighborhood maps; reports; publications; administrative files; interview transcripts; black-and-white photographic prints, contact sheets, and film negatives (ca. 10,000 images); and color slides and prints, (ca. 3,500 images) which documented community life in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1987 to 1988.
• [Franco-American Grandmother]
  
• [The Life of Mike Pelletier]
  
• [French Canadian Textile Worker]
  
• [French Canadian Textile Worker]
  
• [Noted French Canadian Personalities]
  
• Oral history interview with Jennifer Rodrigue, 2000 April 13
  
  An interview of Jennifer Rodrigue conducted 2000 April 13, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Rodrigue's home, in Berkeley, Calif. Rodigue discusses modeling professionally when a student at Mt. Holyoke College; her preference for posing to working in the dormitory kitchen; working for an open workshop in Martha's Vineyard, sessions that led to private modeling; her attraction to the different ways people "view me," and the experience of "watching people watching me"; the power relationship involved in the roles of observer/observed; the power dynamic between men and women and her seeking a relationship "balanced in power" and her view that the experience is about the artist "looking" and "acknowledging anatomy" (hers) as part of the process of image making.
• Oral history interview with Michelle Holzapfel, 2008 January 26 and March 1
  
  An interview of Michelle Holzapfel conducted 2008 January 26-March 1, by Josephine Shea, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Holzapfel's home and studio, Applewoods Studio and Gallery, in Marlboro, Vermont. Holzapfel speaks of her childhood in Rhode Island; her large extended family and their French-Canadian heritage; working with her father in his machine shop; early art education and exposure from elementary school through high school; the influence of high school art teacher Audrey Blake; trips to Rhode Island School of Design Museum and Boston Museum of Fine Arts; attending Marlboro College; meeting her husband, David, at Marlboro; traveling in Italy with friends and David; earning her B.A. from Norwich College; participating in craft shows; having two children in two years; teaching experiences at Worcester Center for Crafts and Wood Turning Center; the difference in relationships with galleries and museums; the woodturning field; and the struggles and success of women artists; and plans for the future. Holzapfel recalls Gilbert Taylor, Barry Friedman, Glenn Adamson, Nathan Ancell, Peter Joseph, Kenneth Trapp, Chris Tyler, Albert LeCoff, and others.
• Oral history interview with Michael James, 2003 January 4-5
  
  An interview of Michael James conducted 2003 January 4-5, by Patricia Harris and David Lyon, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Lincoln, Nebraska. James speaks of his childhood in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in a large Catholic French-Canadian family; his parochial school experience; the early influence of French language and textiles; his undergraduate studies at Southeastern Massachusetts University and graduate studies at Rochester Institute of Technology in painting and printmaking; his first exposure to the craft world; transitioning from painting to quilts while starting a family; his first teaching jobs and shift to self employment; he discusses his books Quiltmaker's Handbook I and II; being male in the women's world of quiltmaking; he comments on the importance of fiber as a means of expression; his artistic influences; his 1990 residency in Switzerland; creating fabrics by hand-painting and digital printing; representational imagery in his work and themes; commissions; the impact of religion, spirituality, mortality, politics and social issues on his quilts; his working environment in Somerset, Massachusetts, and Lincoln, Nebraska; teaching at the University of Nebraska, and the International Quilt Study Center there; his wife Judy and her art; quiltmakers inside and outside academia; the value of quilts as "art"; crafts schools; his involvement in national and regional craft organizations; his early exhibitions; his relationships with dealers; the state of the art market; the lack of critical reception in the quiltmaking field; his own writings; how American fiber arts rank on an international scale; and new uses of technology in his work. He also recalls Jon Gnagy, Donald Krueger, Susan Russo, Faith Ringgold, Mickey Lawler, Ulysses Dietz, Robert and Ardis James, Florence Dionne, Lois Martin, Diane Itter, Hilda Raz, and others.
• Oral history interview with Dennis Pinette, 2005 Aug. 30-Sept. 1
  
  An interview of Dennis Pinette conducted 2005 Aug. 30 and Sept. 1, by Susan C. Larsen, art historian, for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home and studio, in Belfast, Me. Pinette discusses his childhood in Williamstown, Mass., and Morristown, N.J., and his early fascination with industrial scenes and railroad sightings; his family and artistic bloodline from his maternal grandparents, Harold and Frances McMennamin; his education at Mount Greylock Regional High School in Williamstown; his first influential art teacher, John D. Maziarz; his secondary education at Hartford Art School where he studied with Rudolph Zallinger; his first job out of college for a picture framer in West Hartford, Conn., while at the same time continuing to paint at night; his marriage to Megan Pinette (née Smith) in 1975, and how they first met; the couple's easel-backed picture frame business in Westerly, R.I., in the early 1980s, which they gave up to move to Maine and paint; their move to Belfast, Me., in the summer of 1983, when they bought the house in which they still live; the Artfellows art cooperative, started in Belfast in 1980; his shift back to realism from abstraction in the early 1980s; his wanderings in and around industrial parks in Maine, including the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset, to find inspiration for his canvases; his total refusal of the idea that his paintings have social or political messages to convey; his continuing fascination with the visceral quality of industrial scenes; his artistic influences, including American artists of the early twentieth century, such as Edward Hopper, John Sloan, William Glackens, Charles Sheeler, and Charles Burchfield, as well as later American artists such as Agnes Martin and Jackson Pollock; the influence and inspiration of Maine's varied landscape; his preferences for working, especially plein-air painting during the spring and fall; and his most recent series of works, which focus on fire and on water. Pinette also recalls Vito Acconci, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Brown, Stewart Henderson, Richard Norton, Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Linden Frederick, Stephen Pasterhoff, Neil Welliver, Dudley Zopp, and others.
• Oral history interview with Bernard Langlais, 1973 Feb. 21
  
  An interview of Bernard Langlais conducted 1973 Feb. 21, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
• Oral history interview with Edouard Du Buron, 1993 March 9-May 13
  
  An interview with Edouard Du Buron conducted 1993 March 9-May 13, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Du Buron discusses his childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts in a poor family with an abusive father and his rearing in various Catholic orphanages; his loss of religion in his youth and growing up as a French-Canadian in New England; his career as a solo dancer in Boston (1925-32) and as a member of the Ruth St. Denis Troupe (1932-38); his dance career in New York City in the late 1930s and his job as a display designer at Filene's department store in Boston (1942-45).
• Omer E. Boivin papers - Finding Aid
  
  The majority of the collection consists of French-language newspapers and clippings pertaining to prominent members of the Fall River community, Franco-American organizations, and medical associations. The collection also contains notes, correspondence, and speeches from the various organizations of which Dr. Boivin was a member; programs for conferences and celebrations from The French Cultural Association and The St. Anne School; and a black and white photograph of the Lafayette Monument on Eastern Avenue in Fall River. The most notable item in the collection is a large 18x13x4 indexed scrapbook which contains newspaper clippings on local doctors, lawyers, church and school leaders of French Canadian descent, as well as events, organizations, and associations within the French Canadian community of Fall River. The bulk of these clippings date from 1935-1977. The scrapbook also contains thank you notes, cards, and photographs which are attached to the inside covers.
• Anita Turgeon
  
  Born 1920, the only child of French Canadian immigrants. Left school at age 15 to work. Spent 27 years at Pepperell Mill, then 17 years in shoe shop. Got her GED in 1989. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Glorianne Travaglini
  
  Born 1930 to Franco-American parents, and grew up in Little Canada. After marriage worked part-time as secretary, and shop manager. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Gertrude Mynahan, Catherine Connelly, Merita Fournier, Martha Friedman
  
  Sisters born 1928, 1919, 1921, who grew up at the Lewiston Poor Farm, where their father (Antoine Landry) was superintendant from 1926 to 1938. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Omer Morin
  
  Born 1917 and grew up in northern Maine. Moved to Lewiston with family in 1932. Was in Civilian Conservation Corps for two years. Worked in textile mill, then in other local businesses. Served in World War II. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Gerard Lajoie
  
  Born 1917, the fourth child of ten. Grew up in Lewiston. After high school attended seminary in Suffern, N.Y. Returned to Lewiston, married, and worked 40 years for Postal Service. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Robert Hamel
  
  Born 1918 in Lewiston, one of 13 children of French-Canadian immigrants. Worked in shoe shop and for W.P.A. After World War II service, had a 37-year career at Hahnel Brothers. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Fernande Audet
  
  Born circa 1916 in Lewiston. Began working for government in 1933. Spent entire career as interviewer in Department of Employment Security. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Ida A. Therrien, 1996
  
  Born 1917 in Lewiston, one of 12 children. Father a shoe worker. Graduated 8th grade. At 17 she also began a lifelong career as shoe worker. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Martha G. Rivard, 1996
  
  Born 1911 in Canada, one of 14 children. Came to Lewiston with parents in 1923. Left school at age 11, and began working in shoe shop at age 15. Married at age 29. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Germaine Letourneau, 1996
  
  Born 1917 in Lewiston. Parents moved a lot, she completed 5th grade. She returned here in 1933 and began a 37-year career at the Hill Mill. Married in 1937. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Jeanne P. Guy, 1996
  
  Born 1907, one of 5 children. Completed 8th grade at Frye School. Her mother, a widow, worked in the mill. She worked in a confectionery shop for 8 years, then at Styles Loading Co. for 32 years. Married in 1933. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Edgar J. Dube, 1996
  
  Born 1912. Worked in lumber industry in Van Buren during much of Depression. Moved to Lewiston and worked at American Bobbin and other jobs in Lewiston. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Francoise Cloutier, 1996
  
  Born 1916 in Canada, one of 14 children, and had 8 years of school there. Family moved to Lewiston when she was 17. Worked in the mill until she married in 1936. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Helen S. Chaput, 1996
  
  Born 1908 in Lewiston, one of eight girls. Completed one year of high school. Worked in shoe factory till marriage in 1932. Moved to Bangor, and returned to Lewiston in late 1980s. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Germaine R. Belanger, 1996
  
  Born 1908. Father was a painter. Educated at St. Peter's School, also normal school in Canada. Worked at Lunn & Sweet (shoe shop), also as a teacher and at J.J. Newberry's. Married in 1960 and lived in New Hampshire until husband died in 1971. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• Colette Albert, 1996
  
  Born 1916 in Lewiston. After high school studied at New England School of Embalming in Boston, then worked in father's funeral home in Lewiston. From the Collection: This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals
• The Experience of the Great Depression in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Oral History Collection - Finding Aid
  
  This collection is the work of two separate classes taught by Anne William, Professor of Economics at Bates College: First Year Seminar FYS 187 during the winter term of 1996, and Economics s37 during the short-term session in the spring of 1998. Together, the two projects comprise 45 interviews with 50 individuals. Recordings and transcripts are available for all except one interview. For this one interview the recording was faulty and in place of a transcript the interviewers wrote a summary of the interview.
• Pepin, W. Reid , June 10, 2005
  
  Growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts; Applying to Bates; Bates in the early fifties; The Outing Club; The Appalachian Trail; Memorable professors; Cultural Heritage; Sadie Hawkins Day; Mayoralty; Bow and arrow Story; Outing Club Advances; Coed Work Trip #1; Coed Work Trip #2; Batesies marrying Batesies; Chuck Phillips; The Bates Spirit; Water skiing story; Hearse story; Ladies hunting story.
• Archambault, Phillip , August 14, 1998
  
  In this interview Dr. Archambault discusses several topics including: his experiences as a Bates student living off campus; reminiscences of chapel, Winter Carnival, and cabin parties; interactions and impressions of several faculty members and administrators including President Gray, Harry Rowe and Dr. William Sawyer; town gown relationship; changes at Bates from his student days and impressions of Bates today; his experiences in the U.S. Army Medical Corp and as the physician to the Bates athletics department.
• Carignan, Sally, 1984 or 1988
  
  Interview covers Carignan’s observations and reflections on the social world of campus during her years at Bates: gender relations, race relations, the regional composition of the student body, student/ administration relations, student/ faculty relations, recreation, contests over the meaning of being a woman and a sense of community; posture photos; pranks; compulsory chapel; the political world of campus: her political views, campus political climate, the administration’s response to drinking, and comparison to activism at other campuses in the 1960s; relations between the College and local community; and anti-Franco-American sentiment in Lewiston-Auburn.
• Letendre, Benoit N. and Jacqueline B., August 28, 1998
  
  In this interview the Letendre’s discuss: their Franco-American backgrounds and experiences growing up in Lewiston; their decision to attend Bates; their student experiences including, off-campus living, freshman activities; curriculum requirements, chapel; the town girls room in Hathorn; changes in the relationship between Bates and the Lewiston-Auburn community; and memorable professors including John Willis, Anders Myhrman and James Miller.
• Freeman, Elaine , April 7, 2005
  
  Lewiston, Maine community; Bates College changes and stories 1970s-1990s; jeep story; donkey story; clapper story; photo story; Maintenance department; pay equality; gender equality.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Elmer Violette [2]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Aroostook County, 1946-1999; Maine Democratic Party post- 1946; Party organization; Violette’s contributions to the 1960s Maine legislature; the seclusion of Aroostook County; Dickey-Lincoln; Allagash Wilderness Waterway; Sumner Pike; running against Margaret Chase Smith; 1968 Maine Convention debates; Ed Muskie’s 1968 Vice Presidential campaign; Congressional campaigns of the early 1970s; politics as a justice; Bob Haskell; and John Martin.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Elmer Violette [1]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Violette family history; Van Buren, Maine history; unions; Catholicism; Maine House of Representatives in 1946; Muskie in the Maine State Legislature; and St. John Valley, 1919-1948.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Dennis Violette
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Van Buren, Maine community; Elmer Violette; Glen H. Manuel; Allagash Wilderness Waterway; Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC); and the World War II generation.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: William "Bill" Smith
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Elmer Violette and his work on the Allagash Waterway bill; John Martin and the influence of Claude Martin and Elmer Violette; and theVan Buren, Maine area.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Jim Schoenthaler
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family political and social views; boarding school; Boston College and religion; Bowdoin College; growing up in Waterville, Maine; John H. Reed; Office of Economic Opportunity; Labor Department; Opportunity Industrialization Centers of America; minimum wage laws; marriage to Betsy Carpenter; Ken Curtis; James Longley; confirmation process; tripartite commission on labor; Jimmy George; 2000 election; Republican control of Maine politics; Muskie as politician; recent jobs; Jane and Ed Muskie as friends; Ed Muskie’s temper; first meeting of Jane Gray and Ed Muskie; Muskie’s early political positions; Don Larrabee; Muskie’s final years; arguments with Muskie; property tax; and Muskie’s effect on the balance of political power in Maine.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: William "Bill" Rocheleau, Jr.
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Lewiston in the 1930s; Rocheleau’s Navy service; his attendance at law school; helping Muskie run for Governor; confrontations with Louis Jalbert; not being supported in the primaries; Robert Couturier; Lewiston politics in the 1960s; running for Mayor; confrontations with Denny Blais; Democratic split in Lewiston; “Ruining” the Democratic party in Lewiston; running for District Attorney; George Call in Lewiston; Mayoral appointments; racial relations in Lewiston; urban renewal money problems; trying to get Federal money redirected to Lewiston; his relationship with Ken Curtis; Ken Curtis’ role in urban renewal; help securing project funds from a New York Secretary; securing the land for Lewiston High School; meeting Ed Muskie; serving for Ken Curtis; Independence in Maine politics; supporting Nixon in 1968; getting silenced by the Democratic Party; his later political career; and Muskie’s contribution to Maine.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Larry Raymond
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family background; Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office in Portland; Patrick Tremblay; Lewiston ethnic make up; urban renewal; Bill Hathaway’s congressional campaign; campaigning strategies; his father’s political career; legal atmosphere of Lewiston; Lewiston politics; Ernest Malenfant; Lewiston mayoralty; and Louis Jalbert.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: James E. Poulin
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family background; Waterville community and education; Colby College; campaigns with Ed Muskie; dinner parties with the Muskies; community perceptions of Muskie; conversations with Ed Muskie; personal career and family life; Muskie’s political work for Waterville and Maine; and local environmental effects.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Fern Pontbriand
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Pontbriand family history; religion in Lewiston-Auburn; the French Language in Lewiston-Auburn; Lewiston French media in the 1940s; Louis-Philippe Gagne; the Couture family; Franco-American attitudes toward marrying other groups; University of Maine, 1946-1950; getting out of the family business; getting into the ski business; Lost Valley Ski Area history; politics growing up in New Auburn; Louis Jalbert; political make-up of Auburn; trolley transportation in Lewiston-Auburn; and Pontbriand hardware store.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Jerry Plante
  
  Interview includes discussions of: political, cultural, and economic dynamics of Old Orchard Beach, Maine; Office of Price Stabilization (OPS); first encounter with and impressions of Muskie; 1960 presidential election; Public Utilities Commission (PUC); Archives bill; Hildreth- Clauson debate; being a congressional aide to Peter N. Kyros, Sr.; Anderson bill; value of political contacts; AARP; and the Saco Bay Planning Commission.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Charles Peillet
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Rumford, Maine; Stephen Muskie’s tailor shop; Ed Muskie; Worumbo Mill in Lisbon Falls; decline of Maine mills; and recollections of Stephen Muskie: his personality and reputation.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Carmelle and Richard Paulson
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Rumford, Maine community in the 1950s and 1960s; how Muskie helped Carmelle’s family; Oxford Paper Company; description of Cape Elizabeth in the 1950s and 1960s; Model Cities in Portland; City Council, Portland; Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Portland; the Citizens Advisory Committee; West End Neighborhood Center; People’s Building; Youth in Action; Holy Innocence Homemaker Program; Twenty- four Hour Club; Serenity House for alcoholics; Our Place; Community Health Services; Jerry Conley Sr.; the impact of tourism on Portland; the impact of recent influx of immigrants on Portland; Catholic Charities Refugee Program; mill towns like Lewiston and Rumford; Bates College; mercury scare in fishing industry in the 1960s; and the fishing industry in Maine.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: John Orestis
  
  Interview includes discussions of: 1954 Maine gubernatorial campaign; 1969-1972 presidential campaign; environmental protection; Model Cities, Lewiston; Greek community in Lewiston and Maine; big box voting; social clubs and voting in Lewiston; anecdote about 1954 campaign about picklemaker; U. S. Conference of Mayors; National League of Cities; Maine Legislature; Louis Jalbert; Democratic National Convention in Miami 1972; Maine Municipal Association; Tax Reform Act of 1986; Severin Beliveau; Bill Hathaway; John Baldacci; Margaret Chase Smith; David Emery; and Olympia Snowe.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Michael Michaud
  
  Interview includes discussions of: environmental protection; Democratic Party in Maine; Maine Legislature (1975 to 2001); highways and roads; paper mills and unions; Great Northern Paper Company; education funding; the Maine University system; and health care.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: John Martin
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family history; legislative career overview; teaching and other early jobs; family involvement in politics; childhood experiences with ethnicity; social cliques at college; anti-French professor at UMO; political activism at UMO; influences before college; summer work after high school; Floyd Powell; influences at Orono; friends at Orono; Democratic state legislators in the ‘60s and ‘70s; early memories of Muskie, dual membership in Young Democrats and Young Republicans; Chubb Clark’s loyalty test; early work for Muskie; confrontation with Howard Hughes’ aide; liaison work with Secret Service; Muskie’s ‘68 campaign; ‘70 and ‘72 campaigns; impressions of other members of Muskie’s staff; Dickey Lincoln and Allagash Waterway projects; and his work in Connecticut.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Roland Marcotte
  
  Interview includes discussions of: military service; Lewiston/Auburn automobile dealerships; Center St. Auburn development; Lewiston snow storm election of 1951; Lewiston/Auburn tensions; relations between Franco-Americans and Yankees; Lewiston Development Department; Frank Coffin; and merging Lewiston and Auburn.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Bertha (Leclair) Libby
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Lewiston, Maine in the 1920s and 1930s; Catholic organizations; the Great Depression in Lewiston; Lewiston Catholic schools; political change in Lewiston; Louis Jalbert; Little Canada in the 1940s; Lewiston's downtown; Steckino's restaurant; Ed Muskie's influence on the Lewiston area; childhood skating in Lewiston and Auburn; and the Nichols Tea Room.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Emilien Levesque
  
  Interview includes discussion of: Van Buren, Maine; the US Army in Europe during World War II, including beach Landings, heavy machine guns, Levesque’s capture by the Germans, and German war hospitals and the care for Allied fighters; Frazier Paper Mill; becoming the Union President of Local 365; organizing voters in the St. John Valley for Ed Muskie in 1954; becoming Democratic Chair of Madawaska; Muskie’s interaction with the Valley; Don Nicoll; the rise of Democrats in Maine; Levesque’s involvement with the Maine State Legislature; Levesque as a legislator; Loring Air Force Base; Floyd Harding; Elmer Violette; John Martin; and Muskie as a leader.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Jacqueline (Boucher) Letendre
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Richelieu Club; Jean Charles Boucher and his career; Lewiston City Charter in 1939; Lewiston mayoral election between Pa Gould and Jean Charles Boucher; WAFU French radio station; Franco-American influence in Lewiston in 1920s, 1930s and 1940s; Great Depression in Lewiston; and Bates College 1952 to 1956.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Lionel A. "Lal" Lemieux [2]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Brooks Quimby; Bates College; working with Ed Schlick in Augusta; treatment of Lemieux by Muskie’s staff after writing critical articles; Burt Cross’ mistakes in his reelection campaign; Le Messager (French newspaper in Lewiston); Ernest Malenfant; and Jean Charles Boucher.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Lionel A. "Lal" Lemieux [1]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Bates College; Maine Legislature 1946-1949; 1952-1954 Maine Democratic Party; 1954 Maine gubernatorial campaign; Burt Cross’ campaign mistakes; polio known as blue fever; difficulty for Francos in Augusta public schools; father was Justice of the Peace: a notaire; Snoop Cat: Bates College publication; Brooks Quimby; Edna Confort; Irving Isaacson; Fernand Despins; Lewiston Charters; Council components; Lewiston/Auburn media, Evening Journal and Le Messager; atmosphere among State House reporters; Sun and Journal rivalries; Democrats could caucus in a telephone booth; Republican Party in Maine; Governor’s Council; 1951 Liquor Probe; impressions of Muskie; evolution of news business; Frank Hoy; and WLAM radio station.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Estelle Lavoie
  
  The interview includes discussions of: Muskie’s 1972 Presidential campaign; Muskie’s 1976 Senate campaign; Muskie’s years as Secretary of State; the Budget Act of 1976, the Budget Committee, 1976-1980; environmental protection; the Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee; housing, including the rehabilitation and subsidization of public housing; her Senate legislative work; Muskie’s sincerity, dedication and temper; Sunshine Government; the Sunset Act which makes legislation periodically expire to see if it is worth having; Maine getting an extra million dollars from Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare in 1973; Muskie’s late career, his 80th birthday party in Washington and Lewiston at the Ramada Inn, and his funeral two years later; Social Security benefits for college students with a deceased parent and surviving parent only working part time; French-Canadian migration to industrial centers of Maine; lack of interest in higher education among Franco-Americans of previous generations; depression as contributing to previous generations’ view of the importance of college; changing social mores of high school; first surgeon general’s warning about smoking in 1963; Nixon’s freeze on government hiring; rebuilding Muskie’s staff in 1976 with Maine people; acquiring Gov. Curtis job through contact with Georgette Berube and Bob Couturier (judge of probate); working on projects in Muskie’s office; her impression of pre-Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1980; Washington lobbyists as supplicates; transition to Mitchell from Muskie in the Senate, and Mitchell asking staff to stay until Election of 1982; her impression of differences in partisanship between time of Watergate and Clinton impeachment; Democratic control of both houses of Congress and presidency between 1976 and 1980; Reagan’s landslide win and Congressional shifts; the reauthorization of the Clean Water Act; Mitchell’s gubernatorial bid in 1974; U. S. attorney, 1978; Federal judge, 1979; Emery challenge 1982; her impression of decrease in political involvement and increase in those unenrolled in political party as a byproduct of partisanship in politics; the 1986 election in which Democrats retook the U. S. Congress, Mitchell as majority leader; in 1984, Deputy President Pro Temp created for Mitchell in the Senate; the impeachment of Clinton; the Maine State legislature as part-time, under funded, and under staffed; “citizen legislature” as obsolete because of complexity of legislation; political term limits; the Libra Foundation; and the Dinner for Women Lawyers in Maine with Gloria Steinem as speaker.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Roland Landry
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Maine Legislature 1946-1949; 1955-1956 gubernatorial term; 1957-1958 gubernatorial term; 1958 U.S. Senate campaign; 1968 vice presidential campaign; 1969-72 presidential campaign; 1970 U.S. Senate campaign; Roosevelt-Campobello International Park Committee (RCIPC); Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) (CETA Program); Emergency Employment Act of 1971; Democratic Party in Maine; Lewiston community history; Lewiston during the Great Depression; Roland’s brother being killed in World War II; vigilantes organization; delegate to 1968 Democratic National Convention; Louis Philippe Gagne’s political career; and insight into Franco-American culture in Lewiston.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Alice Lander
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family and personal background; Waterville, Maine community; meeting her husband, Charlie; various jobs; first impression of Ed Muskie; driving with the Muskies; picture with the Queen Mum; Secret Service parties; Washington, DC in 1968; Marjorie Hutchinson; William Loeb/Manchester incident; Muskie’s Washington staff; Charlie’s involvement with Muskie; Alice’s relationship with the Muskie family; Muskie’s later years in office; Muskie’s temper; and Muskie’s legacy.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Ed Kelleher
  
  Interview includes discussions of: World War II; ethnic makeup of Bangor, Maine; family background; Big Box voting; political makeup of Bangor; 1968 Maine campaigns; Maine legislature, 1968 to1984; Muskie gubernatorial race; going to church with Muskie; Ralph Owen Brewster; the Cohen family; Bill Hathaway; John Martin; and Louis Jalbert.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Emile "Bill" Jacques
  
  Interview includes discussions of: connection between Lewiston and Quebec in the 1930s-1940s; Robert Wiseman; bootlegging; “Wiseman Gang” of Paul Couture, Al Lessard, Jere Clifford, Robert Caron, Roland Tanguay, and Louis Jalbert; Lewiston political cliques; Muskie as a legislator; Ernest Malenfant; legislative issues of the 1950s; Frank Coffin; Le Messager; Richard Sampson; running for Senate President; determining Lewiston political line-ups; television; Ed Muskie story: convention 1960; lobbying for Kennedy at the 1960 convention; run-ins between Louis Jalbert and Bill Jacques; urban renewal; difference between Lewiston and the St. John Valley; airport politics; Kennedy visit to Lewiston; Clay-Liston fight in Lewiston; Ed Muskie’s impact on Maine; and Androscoggin County jail reconstruction.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Barry Hobbins
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family and educational background; interest in politics; 1960 presidential nomination; Maine legislature; 1972 presidential campaign; Muskie’s campaign for reelection to the Senate in 1976; Muskie’s pro-war stance; Muskie’s appointment as Secretary of State; 1980 Democratic National Convention; Muskie’s environmental legislation; and connections to various political figures in Maine.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Larry Harpe
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family background; Lucille Abbott; the draft; Oxford Paper Mill; serving as Fire Chief; Edmund S. Muskie; Rumford, Maine community; George Mitchell; class reunion; and the Senior Citizen Club.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Maurice Goulet
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Waterville law practice; 1954 Maine gubernatorial campaign; 1957-1958 Muskie’s second term as governor; urban planning and development; Democratic Party in Maine; community history of Lewiston; first industrial park in Maine; Bates Mill textiles; ethnic intolerance (specifically involving Francos) in Portland, Boothbay Harbor, and Lewiston schools (Irish v. French tensions); Model Cities program; Robert Couturier; Goulet’s wife drove Longley’s Winnebago during 1974 gubernatorial campaign; and Goulet was Frank Coffin’s right hand man when he lost gubernatorial race in 1960.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Paul Gosselin
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Hal Gosselin’s career; personal recollections of Margaret Chase Smith; Muskie in New Hampshire; Jim Longley’s “kitchen cabinet” and Bob Pachios and Hal Gosselin; Denis Blais; Ernest Malenfant; Louis Jalbert; changes in Lewiston-Auburn; Lucien Gosselin; Muskie’s accomplishments; and Maurice Goulet.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Lucien B. Gosselin [2]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: the exodus of Lewiston’s textile industry; difficulties attracting new industry to Lewiston/Auburn; downtown Lewiston; urban renewal grants; religion in Lewiston and Auburn; French heritage as a community asset; the “Democratic machine” of Lewiston; Lewiston getting “short changed” by Maine State government; social clubs; Lower Lisbon Street in Lewiston; the 1939 Lewiston Charter; the 1980 Lewiston Charter; Federal grants causing municipal re-organization; setting up a “Council-Administrator” form of government; Lewiston Auburn College; Gosselin’s personal education experience; Ernest Malenfant; Paul Couture; Maurice Goulet; and Mario’s Restaurant.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Lucien B. Gosselin [1]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: growing up in Lewiston; the Roman Catholic Church in Lewiston; the Franco-American community of Lewiston; French language in Catholic schools; his experiences working at Lewiston newspapers; Victor News; civil defense in Lewiston; the Lewiston City Charter of 1939; the Lewiston City Charter of 1980; economic development at the municipal level; Faust Couture; Franco-American media in Lewiston; Bill Rocheleau; Louis Jalbert; block voting for state representative; John Aliberti; Hal Gosselin; Al Cote; John Orestis; Ed Muskie fundraiser for George Mitchell; Estelle Lavoie; being a Democrat in Lewiston; and Muskie in Washington.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Julie (Chaput) Gosselin
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Maine newspapers; Hal Gosselin; “Lal” Lemieux; Louis Philippe Gagne; Faust Couture; WCOU; Hal’s involvement in Chamber, Junior Chamber, Elks Chamber, United Fund, Bates Manufacturing, CMMC, City Controller; Hal’s relationship with Margaret Chase Smith; attending Nixon and Johnson inaugurals with Hal; Hal’s impression of Muskie; Hal with John Beliveau ; Hal and public relations for Bates Manufacturing Company [Bates Mill]; Denis Blais; “Teas” (women and fund raisers); St. Mary’s May ball ; evolution of women’s group meetings; and Bates Mill potential.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Norman Paul Gauvreau
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Lewiston political history; environmental protection work; Anti-Vietnam War movement; Democratic Convention of 1968; Civil Rights movement in Maine; Maine politicians; “English Only” Bill; Maine Commission on Legal Needs; and Muskie’s environmental work.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Don Gautier
  
  The interview includes discussions of: Bates College; track; Muskie’s roommate Joe Biernacki; the Navy; Muskie presenting an award to Gautier; Muskie leading a parade in Auburn; the Democratic Party in Maine; differences between Lewiston and Auburn (L/A); “Loiston”; local students at Bates; tension between Bates and L/A; similarities between Bates and a teacher’s college; the percentage of Bates from L/A; the division between men and women at Bates; the Depression affecting everyone; cars on Bates campus then and now; Auburn as being Republican, and Lewiston as being Democrat; the postmaster as a political appointment; the ten point preference in civil service; the changing position of postmaster; 1974 political issues; 5 cent deposit on aluminum cans; teachers’ salaries; the influence of Kiwanis, Exchange, and Rotary in the 1950s; the Bates transition from conservative to liberal and the possible influence of war.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Stanley L. Freeman and Madeleine Richard Freeman
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Bates College; 1954 Maine gubernatorial campaign; 1955- 1956 Governor 1st term; environmental protection; Model Cities; Boys’ and Girls’ State; the Great Depression; World War II; League of Women Voters; and legal services for the elderly.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Anne (Desjardins) Freeman
  
  Interview includes discussion of : Northern Maine during the Depression; Joe Freeman; getting into the restaurant business; operating a Presque Isle restaurant during WWII; becoming a Pepsi bottler; registering Democrat in Northern Maine; 1954 Democratic campaigns; Ed Muskie’s progression in politics; Joe Freeman’s political ambitions; and meeting the Muskies in Washington.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Joanne Ducharme
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Lewiston in the 1950s; Lewiston's parish culture; downtown Lewiston in the early 1960s; decline of downtown Lewiston; service in small shops; Franco interaction in the community; Franco reception in World War II; family gatherings; textile mills; shoe shops in Lewiston; social clubs; discouragement of the French culture in the 1960s; and French language today.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Robert Dubord
  
  Interview includes discussions of: F. Harold Dubord’s relationship with Ed Muskie; his parents’ political backgrounds; Knights of Columbus; playing saxophone to save money in high school and college; China Lake; parental influences on Richard and Robert Dubord; the 1954 campaign; Waterville political and ethnic make-up in the 1930s; Colby’s move from downtown to up on the hill; election between Joe Jabar and Spike Carey; fishing with Don Nicoll; qualities of Ed Muskie; Frank Coffin; Maine’s progression from an extremely Republican state to more Democrat with Muskie and Coffin; and playing golf with Muskie.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Paul Dionne
  
  Interview includes discussions of: 1980-81 Secretary of State; Vietnam War; Democratic Party in Maine; transportation grant for Lewiston, Maine; Nestle; Angeline (Paul Dionne’s mother) instrumental in formation of seamstress union; Lewiston/Auburn campus of USM; economic transitions in Lewiston with downfall of Bates Mill; Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council; Maine government shutdown in 1993 over workers’ compensation disputes; National League of Cities; Roland “Rollo” Landry; Louis Jalbert; Paul Couture; and Hal Gosselin.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Pauline Dawson
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Rumford, Maine; Mexico, Maine; public school system; Oxford Mill; Democratic Party; Republican Party; Catholicism; stock market crash of 1929; and Ku Klux Klan (KKK) activities.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Delia North Davis
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Southborough, Massachusetts during the Depression; ethnic breakdown in Southborough; impressions of Ed Muskie; Democratic Party under Franklin D. Roosevelt; perceptions of how the Republican and Democratic parties have changed since the Depression; and Bates College 1932-1936.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Paul A. Cote [1]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: 1969-1972 presidential campaign; Republican Party in Maine; Democratic Party in Maine; Lewiston community history; political career of Rose Marie; Cote was last municipal court judge in Lewiston before it became full-time state district court; Governor’s Council; ethnic tensions growing up (French vs. Irish); anecdote about Governor Jim Longley; Old Lewiston City Charter; Paul A. Cote, Jr.’s rise to district court judgeship; Louis Jalbert’s move to eliminate September voting in Maine; 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami; Great Depression--Lewiston (Bates Mill Strikes); WGAN; and Adrian Cote (sister): first female boxing judge in the world.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Paul A. Cote [2]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: reflections on the Great Depression; WWII; 1941; worked as Margaret Chase Smith’s campaign coordinator in Androscoggin County for her last term; Margaret Chase Smith/Paul Fullam controversy; president of Young Republicans; Louis Jalbert and September elections; 1960 Kennedy’s visit to Lewiston; Frank Coffin; 1960 Election as an anomaly in Maine politics, with 94% of those eligible voting in Lewiston; Ed Beauchamp; Adrian Cote vs. Armand Dufresne for 1940 Androscoggin County judge of probate; question of state regulation of milk prices in mid-50s; Irish/French relations; Adrian Cote’s association with Sumner Sewall; 1970 Charter revision attempt failed; Finance board/Mayor tensions; and Ed Robinson.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Robert C. Chassie
  
  Interview includes discussions of: being babysat with Ed Muskie by his Uncle John (John Perreault); going to grade school and high school with Ed Muskie; ethnic and religious demographics of Rumford; becoming reacquainted with Ed Muskie in Rumford in 1952; the gubernatorial inaugural ball; Ed Muskie’s greatest strengths; recruiting Republicans to vote for Muskie; and Lucy Muskie.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Jim Carignan [1]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Bates College; 1954 Maine gubernatorial campaign; 1968 vice presidential campaign during which Carignan brought his kids to Laconia airport to see Muskie; 1969-1972 presidential campaign; Model Cities (Lewiston); Social Clubs in Lewiston; community history of Lewiston and Auburn; Washington, D.C. law practice; creation of the Muskie Archives: Washington, D.C. meeting between Muskie and Carignan to discuss Muskie’s vision and fundraising strategies; 1989 Secretaries of State at Bates College; William “Bill” Cohen; Catholic orphanages; intermarriages (Irish and French, etc.); Laconia, New Hampshire French community; Lewiston/Laconia comparisons; late 1950s Bates College students’ interaction with Lewiston limited to Blue Goose, Empire Theater, and American Legion; Walt Boyce; John F. Kennedy at Kennedy Park the night before the election, 1960; Kenyon College; Hedley Reynolds as president of Bates College; Mario’s restaurant, Lewiston; and Louis Jalbert.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Jim Carignan [2]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: World War II memories; Kent State massacre; conservative Ohio; Model Cities; Manchester Union Leader incident; Community Concepts; St. Mary’s hospital; Lewiston City Council; and the Bates College and Lewiston/Auburn relationship.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Richard "Spike" Carey
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Muskie mayoral race in Waterville, Maine; politics in Waterville in the 1930s and 1940s; Waterville, Maine community during the 1930s and 40s; Franco-Americans in Waterville; different ethnic communities in Waterville including Francos, Lebanese, Syrian and Irish; problems with environmental legislation in Maine; overall changes in Waterville over the last 60 years; 1972 Republican Convention in Augusta; personal impressions of Muskie; Waterville mayoral elections of 1970; Louis Jalbert; Veterans Committee; Ken Curtis; James Longley; Urban Renewal Projects; and anecdotes about Ed Muskie.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Helen Carey
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Malcolm Fortier; Ward Seven, Waterville, Maine; and Ed Muskie’s contribution to the state of Maine.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Cecil Edward Burns
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family background; Rumford community history; Mill towns in Maine; and the Oxford Paper Company.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: John Bubier
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Clean Air and Clean Water Acts; Model Cities in Portland; Portland City Council; Portland West Advisory Committee; diversity and poverty in Portland; Neighborhood Development Project; Portland Press Herald; Low Income People, Inc. (LIP); Southern Maine Economic Development District; neighborhood communities in Portland; and the development and economic problems and benefits of the Maine Mall in South Portland.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Mignonne B. "Midge" Bouvier
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Frank Coffin; Don Nicoll; Franco-American community; Lewiston, Maine; Foreign Aid Committee; Edmund S. Muskie; Bates College; and Social Clubs.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Henry Bourgeois [1]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family background; President Johnson’s “War on Poverty”; Model Cities; 1972 presidential campaign; Maine politicians; the “character” of Maine; Paul Couture; John Orestis; 1968 Humphrey-Muskie ticket; Vietnam; Muskie’s 1972 campaign; Manchester Union Leader; Nixon’s “dirty tricks”; Vietnam War; Watergate; and Muskie’s public speaking.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Henry Bourgeois [2]
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family background; Lewiston Public Library; Lewiston- Auburn Arts Council; au Canada; Model Cities program; Maine Development Foundation; and Muskie’s impact on Maine.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Denis Blais
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Maine legislature; Democratic National Committee; Maine Democratic Party (1952-1954); 1954 Maine gubernatorial campaign; Maine Governor (1955- 1956) ; 1956 Maine gubernatorial campaign; Maine Governor (1957-1958); 1968 Vice Presidential campaign; Muskie’s Presidential campaign (1969-1972); Denis Blais personal information; the merger of AFL and CIO; the revival of the Democratic party; the connection between Democratic Party and Labor; the Frank Coffin gubernatorial campaign; Blais’s election records from 1950; and the 1968 Democratic Convention.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Georgette Berube
  
  Interview includes discussions of: environmental protection; Prestile Stream, Aroostook County; Great Depression in Lewiston, Maine; ethnic tensions; Lillian Caron and other women in local politics; Louis Jalbert; Lewiston mills; Lewiston Public Library; women’s roles increasing in Maine legislature since 1970; nursing homes in Maine; and Ernest Malenfant.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Severin Beliveau
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Muskie family in Rumford; The Beliveau family and Rumford; Muskie’s law practice; Albert Beliveau, Sr; Maine Supreme Court appointment; Bill McCarthy; Louis Jalbert; Democratic Party organization in the 1950s-1960s; changing Maine politics; impact of Independents on Maine political parties; Muskie’s temper; Franco-American ethnicity in Maine; 1986 gubernatorial election; Margaret Beliveau; and Muskie’s legacy.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: John Beliveau
  
  Interview includes discussions of: 1954 Maine gubernatorial campaign; 1955-1956 Muskie’s first term as governor; 1968 vice presidential campaign; environmental protection; urban planning and development; Republican Party in Maine Democratic Party in Maine; Model Cities (Lewiston); bullet voting and straight ticket voting; Louis Jalbert, anecdote in which Jalbert tried to muscle Beliveau when he ran for mayor; old Charter and new Charter and its effect on Lewiston politics; finance board mechanics; Aliberti defeated Jalbert; Hal Gosselin; Beliveau beautification program; Central Drug Committee; Youth Commission; Lewiston gun ordinance as a result of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination; the importance of social clubs in Lewiston; anecdotes of Tom Delahanty’s interaction with Muskie; Frank Coffin; a Public Works strike during his first day as mayor; Phil Isaacson helping as corporation counsel with municipal labor relations act; Housing authority controversy as mayor; Muskie’s effects on the Governor’s Council; feeling that Muskie lost touch with Maine; and Franco-Americans in support of Muskie.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Cynthia Murray-Beliveau
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family political history; Bangor political history; brother’s election campaigns for secretary of state, Maine House of Representatives and Senate; McGovern campaign in 1972; Maine gubernatorial campaign, 1986; Watergate; 1954 Maine gubernatorial campaign; prejudice against Catholics in Maine; Women’s Rights movement; Maine Teacher’s Association Women’s Caucus; Maine Women’s Lobby; Gore campaign; personal meetings with Muskie; changes in the Democratic Party; Severin Beliveau; Janet Mills; and Albert Beliveau.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Michael Aube
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Biddeford and Saco area communities in the 1950s and 1960s; textile industry; importance of football in the Biddeford-Saco area; Boston College between 1968-1972; George Mitchell; Senator Muskie speaking at Georgetown, Kentucky; Muskie’s temper; receiving bronze eagles (the emblem of Boston College) at a Boston College campaign; similarities and differences between Ed Muskie and George Mitchell; and the importance of Muskie’s environmental legislation.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection, 1985-2007 - Finding Aid
  
  The Edmund S. Muskie oral history collection contains recorded spoken memories from a broad range of individuals who knew, affected or were affected by Senator Edmund S. Muskie in the course of his life and career. Narrators include Senator Muskie's childhood friends and acquaintances, college contemporaries, Maine legislators, political associates and competitors, reporters and editors, campaign supporters, gubernatorial and Senate office staff, Senate colleagues and committee staff members, public agency officials, lobbyists, State Department officials, foreign policy specialists, law practice associates, public policy advocates, citizens associated with Senator Muskie in a variety of programs, and personal friends. Their opinions and perpsectives range from adulation to criticism, providing a rich variety of insights and recollections. Each interview is documented with an audio recording, a transcript and a summary sheet, containing biographical information about the interviewee and an abstract of the interview. Funding for the creation, processing, and online publication of the Muskie Oral History Collection was generously provided by the Edmund S. Muskie Foundation.
• Interview with Francis Marsano by Andrea L’Hommedieu
  
  Interview includes discussion of: family and educational background; decision to attend Bowdoin College and his experiences there; Marsano’s involvement in politics; Barry Goldwater; the 1964 Democratic National Convention; Mitchell’s relationship with Muskie; Mitchell’s skill as a lawyer; working with Governor John “Jock” McKernan; Maine political campaigns and strategy; Mitchell’s decision to step down as federal judge and how that speaks to his commitment to public service; changes in Maine politics over time; the award that Mitchell received from the Maine State Bar Association after the Iran-Contra investigation; Mitchell’s leadership skills; the occasion when Mitchell welcomed the Maine State Bar Association to his Senate leader office; and Mitchell’s reputation as a great American.