United States, Massachusetts, Otis
· 1939-01-17
· 12 pages
Recorded by: Spring, Sammy, Welch, Edward
A Berkshire Borner Sammy spring irt Farmer and Old Time Fiddler STATE NALE OF WORKER ALLRESS LATE SUBc-CT NIAILE QF INFOPuw,ANT kii)LRESS LASSALEUSETTS ELWARL JCH PITTSFIED, ii.ASSAQ:hUSETTS JAZUARY 17, l39 LIVMG LURE SALLY SPRING OTIS, LASSCR-USLTTS Sammy Spring, dirt farmer and old time fiddler is fifty-six years old, a slim little man, not much over five feet tall, grey haired and grey eyed. Around his Otis farm, Sammy is unassuming and unpretentious on the podium of a dance hall he is king…
Otis, United States, Massachusetts
· 1939-02-01
· 13 pages
Recorded by: Hall, William, Welch, Edward
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheek one) PUE, Living Lore in New England TITLE William Hall East Otis WRITER Edward Welch DATE 2/1/39 CHECKER Pa. 10 •••=1111110•1•61••••••iiMin.i. DATE SOURCES GIVEN '10MMEN'TS Interview Ihr _s 7 _ J1VJ -Tobt).aL,T 112 -lattlh L6IALLT, 1, 13 VJL LortE Li.f2 Ltij 7 161 Oii XkJLLj sill hall is forty-five years old, five feet el6ht, one nunurea aria ei6hty pounus of handsome man- noou. is once °lona hair is now 6rey$ out his olue e,ies are as merry and -;ay as…
United States, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
· 1938-12-22
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Dowling, James, Welch, Edward
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheek one) PUB. javillk Lore in New Imgland TITLE James Dowling Pittsfield WRITER Edward Welch DATE 12/22138 1D6.. P.P. CHECKER DATE SOURCES GIVEN COMMENTS 6 Interview 13 MASSACHUSETTS STATE NAMZ OF WORKER ADDRESS PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS SUBJECT LIVING LORE NAME AND ADDRESS OF INFORMANT JAS BOWLING, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS EDWARD WELCH James Dowling is fifty-three years old, short, stocky and gray haired. his nose bulbous and slightly red is his out- standing…
Sweden, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Rockport, United States
· 1939-02-17
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Svenson, Gor, Wheeler, Harry
_--c--_ o "'Toll believe everything everybody tall you, you go crazy, harr. 1-o/1 know what feller tell me ,ell-er tell me there's feller over Glouc- In ester is cousin Pope. I don't believe him. If feller over 5.oucester In. cousin Pope, sometime Pope came visit him, have supper. You never boar Pope come over Gloucester, e in paper rope came Gloucester. Don't Comes Pope could not have cousin, any which. Not married. Won't let. "Lutheran minister have cousin, Get married, have lots children.…
Gloucester, United States, Sweden, Massachusetts, Rockport
· 1939-02-03
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Svenson, Gor, Wheeler, Harry
ORI M$E. OR FIELD NOTRE PUB. Living Lo mute.1.1wedish Lobet orlon ifitrin Harry Wheeler DVS 3/09 1136. =UR 80111085 intend COMMIT* Wheeler February 1939 Paper 8 ///tii") Concluding a record of interviews with -or sYvenson, 63, a oedish-born quarry -worker and lobsterman. "By gosh, that is going to be some thing, harr, that World's Fairs I have never seen a thing like that pair, harr. Only in the papers. I do not like to read mrch the papers. You cannot tell what in them is trrth, what is…
Massachusetts, Brookfield, United States
· 1939-02-06
· 11 pages
Recorded by: Bassett, Louise G., Meehan, Mary Anne
IN...Line: Louise u, Bassett Assignment: Brookfield Title: Living Lore Topic: Ella Bartlett II v ill you let me come in for a little visit or are you No itt- ousy?" I asked Ella Bartlett as she opened the door, incidentally, like a thunder cloud. "No, no, come right in, I'm right glad to see you but !'m not fit company for nobody, dead or alive. I'm jest regular 'mean cross', mean as tl:o pins an' crosser then a whole paper of ',em. Come in if you think you can stand me, I won't be nice an…
United States, Newburyport, Massachusetts
· 1939-07-19
· 16 pages
Recorded by: Bickford, Laura, Buck, Seymour
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (CHECK ONE) PUB. These Are Our Lives TITLE Laura Bickford WRITER Sevmour BInk DATE July 21.1939WDS CHECKER PP. 14 SOURCES GIVEN COMMENTS 7/21/39.„, July 19, 1939. Submitted by: Seymour D. Buck Newburyport, Mass/ Name of WPA Worker: Miss 'aura bickford. Residence: Willow Ave., Newburyport, Mass. Occupation: Laborer WPA Household Aid Project. (This WPA project permits workers to enter homes of WPA families where there is illness, to per- form the routine housework…
Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
· 1939-07-22
· 13 pages
Recorded by: Buck, Seymour
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (CHECK ONE) puB. THESE ARE OUR LIVES TITLE MINNIE CARANFA WRI LEK SEYMOUR BUCK DATE July 22,1939 WDS CHECKER PP. 12 SOURCES GIVEN COMMENTS Date: Ally 22, 1939 Submitted by: WPA Workers Consulted WPA Occupation: Seymour D. Buck Nemturyport, Mass. (Mrs.) Minnie Caranfa 13% Merrimac Street Worker on TPA Household -Aid Project. Minnie Caranfa planted her feet solidly on the kitchen linoleum and waved a beefy arm toward the outspread newspaper, "I don't know what you…
Massachusetts, Newburyport, United States
· 1939-07-16
· 14 pages
Recorded by: Buck, Seymour, Currier, Donald M.
ORIGINAL MSS OR FIELD NOTES (CHECK ONE) PUB. WE TIORK ON THE WA TITLE DONALD M. CURRIER WRITER SEYMOUR BUCK DATE JULY 16 1939 yips. pp 13 CHECKER SOURCES GIVEN COMMENTS July 16, 1939. Submitted by: Seymour D. Buck Newburyport, Mass. Name of WPA Worker Interviewed: Donald M. Currier. WPA Occupation: Laborer -tree climber, on Tree Repair Project, Local. Sketch: Age 34, married, (wife 28); three children, Carlene, six; Wilma, age four; Beryl, age 2. Mother pregnant; father supplements WPA work…
United States, Hoathboro, Massachusetts
· 1939-02-24
· 14 pages
Recorded by: Busby, Charlotte, Busby, Jared David
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheek one) PUB. Living Lore in New England TITLE Jared Dcvid Busby T:arren WRITER Charlotte Busby DATE 2/24/39 MDS. Pa. 12 CHECKER DATE SOURCES GIVEN (1) Interview COMMENTS 4.14.674•4.1.41- oTAiE ..2aDJLCI 1 4111%1...A 1/41.ti lisx, rt.1%—.11.1 ADDRESS L,TT6 FEiriToAtiY Llu-11,u JAh.LJ oh.ViJTTS o .3-6‘o3Y "IGTandfather" Jareu viu..,Lisloy, aged eeventy- eight, was born in the 3erkshires and has lived in 'arren more than forty years. he has been a notable figure…
Massachusetts, United States
· 1938
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Kelly, Alice, Manuel
Name: Alice Kelly 1/21/3ir Assignment: Portuguese Fish- erman Topic: 2nd Interview with Manuel "'No, I ain't been so good to -/day. When the weather she's damp 1 don' feel so good. But I don't care, I saved my boat. You ainl never heard about that? Well, I can' tell you alla story to -day, be- caushe I don' feel so good. But it was like thish. The boat she was sink in an I seen she wash goinl an' I feel like my arm she wash bein' pulled off orc some thin'. So I thinksh quick the enginel An' I…
Provincetown, United States, Massachusetts
· 1939-02-15
· 22 pages
Recorded by: Captiva, Joseph, Kelly, Alice
ORIGINAL }Ass. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Loro in New Enfland (gasocohesette). TITLE Portuguese Pisheraan Joseph Cept ye WRITER Alioe Kelly DATE g/igt:rn WM. PP. CHECKER DM SOURCES GIVEN CO Int 5fr-sriew COMENTS Fort4,v-thc, •xL Byt. Alice Kelly, Material obtained in Provincetown, Mass./-- pt,F: PJ)UESE p-r-,TrrimAN. Portugal end the Azores lie like armfuls of flowers bowls of deep blue water.* Exeept for brief storms and a rainy seaso# they know little of grey skies or of cold, Yet the…
Fitchburg, Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
· 1938-12-22
· 12 pages
Recorded by: Kidder, Christabel, Savage, Fredercik
STATE LassE..chusetts OF WORKER Christabel Kiuuer /1.DLRESS Fitchburg, kassachusetts SUBJECT Living Lore 1\:ALE AND ADDRESS OF INFORMANT: Frederick Savage) Harvard, Lassachusetts Lr. Frederick Savage of Still River, a part of Harvard is eighty years old, but as stronL and vigorous in appearance and manner as a man thirty years his unior. He is a handsome old man, tall, well-built with a keen eye that misses nothing, and a decisive Lamer tempered by a delightful sense of humour. Although his…
United States, Italy, Massachusetts, Beverly
· 1939-02-15
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Damiani, Roland, Lovett, Merton R.
ORIGINAL OB. OR.7AR !Jar* (Cheek one,) PUB, Livia, LGr muIngle* TITLE Shoe Naohineg Worker. Silvery 41 (I. 1. lapiett) DATE 2/109 WDS. rP,. 5 CBECKER DATE BOMBS GIVEN CO TtuitivellthAletAva CC/BENTS Paper No.-IDIF INTERVIEW with Roland Damiani 364 Cabot St., Beverly, Mass. by 7)961-- Employee at United Shoe Machinery Co. Merton R. Lovett "As well as remembered." INTERVIEW WITH ROLAND DAMIANI by Merton R. Lovett (from memory) "I wish you could see, Mr. Lovett, the town where I lived in…
Beverly, United States, Italy, Massachusetts
· 1939-03-02
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Dammiani, Roland, Lovett, Merton R.
-magnum S. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheek one) PUB. vi •r TITLE Italian Shoo Maca no o WRITER Mort° DATE 3/2/39 IDS. P.P. CHECKER DATE Roland SOURCES OIVEN Minter with Dammiania— COMIHMTS Paper No. 2 Interview with Roland Dammiani by Marton R. Lovett "As well as remembered INTERVIEW WITH ROLAND DAMMIANI by Merton R. Lovett (from memory) "I don't know bow many men of Italian blood work at the United Shoe Machinery Company. It is difficult. Let me think. "Well, there are surely three hundred. Maybe…
United States, Italy, Massachusetts, Beverly
· 1939-03-14
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Damiani, Roland, Lovett, Merton R.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Living Lore in New Englan TITLE Italian Shoe Machinery Worker -Beverly #3 WRITER Merton R. Lovett DATE 3/14/39 W1. P.P. 7 CHECKER DATE SOURCES GIVEN Interview COMMENTS Paper No. 3 Interview with Roland Damiani by Merton R. Lovett "As well as remembered." Interview with Roland Damiani by Merton R. Lovett (from memory) "I'd rather not talk about it, Mr. Lovett. Why? Well, I don't exactly know. A man can't find fault with his bread and butter. "How…
Italy, United States, Massachusetts
· 1939-03-24
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Lovett, Merton R.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheok one) PUB. Living_ Lore in New England TITLE Itallan Shoe _Machine Worker WRITER Merton R. Lovett DATE #4 3/24/39 wps. CHECKER somega.oxim..(1) COMMENTS PI'. 7 DATE Interview Paper No. 4 Interview with Roland Damiani by Merton R. Lovett "As well as remembered." Interview with Roland Damiani by Merton Lovett (from memory) "I hope, Mr. Lovett, that you will attend the evening school graduation. "Yes, this has been every successful year. The grad- uating…
Italy, Massachusetts, Beverly, United States
· 1939-04-05
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Damiani, Roland, Lovett, Merton R.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Living Lore in New Encland TITLE Italian Shoe Machine Workers_ Beverly WRITER Merton R. Lovett DATE 4/5/39 WDS. PP. 4 CHECKER DATE SOURCES. GIVEN 01 Interview COMMENTS Paper No. 5 Interview with Roland Damiani by Merton R. Lovett "As well as remembered." Interview with Roland Damiani BY Merton R. Lovett (from memory) "Yes, I read it in the papers. The government will no longer attack the United Shoe Machinery Company: "Well, Mr. Lovett, how can…
Italy, Massachusetts, Beverly, United States
· 1939-04-07
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Lovett, Merton R.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Chaok one) PUB. Livia& Lore in New Inland TITLE Italian Shoe *whim Worker isBever3s WRITER Norton R. Lovett DATE 4/609 WDS. PP. CHECKER DATE soun4S. quat (1) Interview COMMENTS Paper No. 6 Interview with Roland Damiani by Merton R. Lovett 0 "As well as rametbered, Interview with Roland Damiani BY Merton R. Lovett (from memory) "Yes, it was a tough day, Sunday, but the church was crowded. It VAS Palm Sunday. "A great many Italians attended mass. Others visited…
Italy, Massachusetts, Beverly, United States
· 1939-04-13
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Damiani, Roland, Lovett, Merton R.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheek one) PUB. Living Uwe ill Nor azi&land TITLEitalian Shoe *Adze Worker WRITER Merton R. Lovett DATE 4/13/39 •PP. 3 CHECKER DATE SOURCEZ.am.,,.(t).... Interview COMMENTS Paper No. 7 Interview with Roland Damiani by Merton R. Lovett "From Memory" Interview with Roland Damiani BY Merton R. Lovett (from memory) "I do not think that all Italian Americans agree on Mussolini. Some approve of his policy. Others think he is too reckless and will drag Italy into war.…