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ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Living Lore in New England (Maine) TITLE Mike Pelletier, French Canadian [Pulp?] & Paper Worker) WRITER Robert F. Grady DATE WDS. PP. 66 CHECKER...
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The Life Of Mike Pelletier, French Canadian Pulp & Paper, (As told by himself to Robert F. Grady) (continued) The Life Of Mike Pelletier, French Canadian Pulp & Paper, (As told by...
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15 [??] Maine Living Lore Old Town——15 Mike: “All right, let's go. I wish James folks were here now. You'd get a lot about Oldtown from them. James and his family were...
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16 Mrs. Pelletier: (pointing to the picture taken on the Island) “It was very funny. Mrs. James asked one or the Indians if the natives ever got wild. She meant, or course,...
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17 “And speaking of travel reminds me of something about Oldtown. When the Maine Central first run here it was called the European Railroad. The Bangor and Aroostook was caned the Bangor...
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18 The kids have smashed out most of the windows, and it probably wont be long before it looks as bad as ever.” Mike: “That sawmill of General Veazie's where my father...
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19 to look around for some more frogs, and what did we see but our friend the snake with two more frogs in his mouth that he was bringin' to us. [See?]...
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20 Old Doctor Folsom brought me out of the black diphtheria. He used to stamp around with that wooden leg of his. One of his legs was out off so that the...
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21 “To play poker if you didn't have any money you could go to the wangan and get a can of smokin' or a plug or chowin' tobacco. The banker in the...
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22 That pot had an iron cover that fitted on tight. We never had to add any water because that cover kept all the steam in. We filled the hole in with...
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23 Mike: “When I started goin' to school there were just two schools here: the McKinley School up there next to the city hall, and that little one down on Main Street...
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24 “About the only story I can think of right now about when I went to school is about a boy named Fortin. He was pretty wild, and they had to expel...
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25 “I never had a bicycle when I was a boy—I was afraid to get on one. All they had here then were tricycles and those with a big wheel in front....
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26 R. Grady: “You evidently had an ambition to get a pretty nice house for yourself.” Mike: “Yes, I got this house, such as it is, and it's all paid for, too....
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27 Lewis played the accordian some, too. Some of those old pieces we used to play you never hear now, and I don't know where anybody could get them, if they could...
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28 then they stirred in some soda to make it {Begin deleted text}[foam?]{End deleted text} [foam?] up.. Then they'd take it out and pull it until it started to harden up. Some...
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29 There was an awful deep hole in the river bed right there. I've seen those tracks myself and I've walked barefoot in them. They were the tracks of a man and...
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30 She evidently had woke up out of the trance she was in, and as long as the air held out she struggled to get out of that grave. There was another...
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31 around the earth now on waves of electricity, and there's no reason why they couldn't have been then. Accordin' to the story, some people were sittin' on a porch one night,...
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32 Bangor Tuesday [night?], but we'll have to use our old accordians. I sent for two new ones to Montgomery, Ward, and Company, but when they got here I found they weren't...
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33 Mike: “I guess the reason father left Canada to come to Maine was because a lot of other people had left there and he had heard that there were more jobs...
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34 Mrs. Pelletier: “It took me longer than that, though, to put them up. “Mike and I played over at the convent as a social Sunday night. That was given for Father...
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35 I heard that old mill(the Oldtown Woolen mill, which has been shut down for two years) has been sold. They say they're going to junk some of she old looms and...
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36 three logs out of one tree. The head swamper planned the direction of the roads, and swampers would out the trees down as near the ground as they could. They'd throw...
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37 kind of mark for every kind of log; that is, pine, cedar, hemlock, wad so forth. Those marks were cut on the logs up in the woods, and the logs were...
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38 “Say, I thought of something since the last time you were here. I guess it would come under the head of superstitions. When I was a kid they used to have...
