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ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Living Lore in New England (Maine) TITLE Ovide Morin, French Canadian WRITER Robert Grady DATE WDS. PP. 7 CHECKER DATE SOURCES GIVEN (?) Interview...
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Date:1938
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1 Maine 1938-9 PERSONAL HISTORY OF OVIDE MORIN, FRENCH CANADIAN Ovide Morin, Sr. 224 Bosworth Street, Old Town, Maine. (Bosworth Street is on Treat and Webster Island, popularly known as “French Island”...
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Grady, Robert - Morin, Ovide
Date:1938
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2 Wife is an extremely attractive woman in looks and manner. Seems to be younger than her husband. Has remarkably attractive hair - white, wavy, and very “alive” looking. Probably Mr. Morin...
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Grady, Robert - Morin, Ovide
Date:1938
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1 THE LIFE OF OVIDE MORIN, FRENCH CANADIAN (As Told By Himself To Robert F. Grady) Mr. Morin: “Well, I don't know what I can tell you. I don't speak English very...
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Grady, Robert - Morin, Ovide
Date:1938
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2 Mrs. Morin: “Do you know there are some places up in this country, near Fort Kent and the border, where conditions are about the same as they were in Canada then....
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Grady, Robert - Morin, Ovide
Date:1938
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3 when we get done. But I wouldn't do it, no sir. I wouldn't work two days for twenty five cents. “My father worked twelve and fourteen hours a day. That was...
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Grady, Robert - Morin, Ovide
Date:1938
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4 Mr. Morin: “She kept those clothes for forty years. She had just that one hat and the shoes. The people she worked for gave her a homespun dress every year. She...
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Grady, Robert - Morin, Ovide
Date:1938
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5 “I worked off and on for twenty five cents a day and after five years of that I didn't have a cent to my name. When I was nineteen I told...
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Grady, Robert - Morin, Ovide
Date:1938
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6 “One day Gene was going by where I was working and I says, ‘Look here, Gene. I can do this work just as well as those fellows over there, can't I?”...
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Grady, Robert - Morin, Ovide
Date:1938
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7 “Well, I built it up five feet and I stood, back and looked at it and it was just as straight as a die. After that I called myself a bricklayer....
