Newburyport, United States, Massachusetts
· 1939-07-25
· 15 pages
Recorded by: Buck, Seymour D.
July 25, 1939/ Submitted by: Seymour D. Buck Newburyport, Mass/- WPA Worker Consulted: Myron Buxton (36) 2 urange Street Draftsman Asst. to Engineer WPA Occupation: !rank up a chair, if you can find one. You'll see some old copies of LIFE and LOOK over on the end of the desk. Help yourself. Shove those blue prints aside, hey, wait for a second. Hold that up, will you? Is that the one for "Ferry Wharf?" Give it here, will you? I spend half an hour earlier, trying to find that damned thin,.…
United States, Massachusetts
· 10 pages
Yankee Folk PORTUGUESE FISHERMAN "I wouldn't never be happy without X had a boat under me." deeset I come near lose my boat. I just fix her up nice new paint, clean her up, everything. Then I was going put in whole new engine. Well, I need some tar, so I get her in a bucket, heat upAfire, see? First thing I know, she catches goes right up! My boy he shout. I grab the 'sting- uisher and let her have it, but tar she burns terrible. I see I'm going lose eyboat. I holler at the boy and the men.…
Massachusetts, United States
· 1938-12-14
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Kelly, Alice D.
December 14, 1938. Record of Interviews with Portuguese Fisherman, to date. From Notebook. (unrevised) Alice D. Kelly Description and impression of living room., house of informant. Very much like American Cape Cod parlours of early nineteen hundreds. Apparently.brought little from old country except tinsel pictures i.e. kind of mosaic made, I think of coloured mica. Mostly religious subjects...group photographs and some glass ware and vases. HOUBO immaculate. Must have acquired cleanliness…
United States, Massachusetts
· 1938
· 18 pages
Recorded by: Captiva, Cap. Joseph, Kelly, Alice D.
1,.........., ,),.4 ti et,...4.,........,./ 310.),- Jos .4 Assignment, Portuguese Fisherman Name* Alice D. Kelly Sub jeet. interview with Captain Joseph Captive, 'We had a little trouble to -day. Nothint much* The boy he started talk about peeg, antthe men don' like* They say talk of peeg briggsh bad luck* Canthave a black oat aboard.. some don' want no woman go over boat.. I ttink ts a lotta nonsense, but I seen some strange tbeengs happen ails. same, "You ever hear hew 1 got name Captiva?…
United States, Lynn, Massachusetts
· 1938
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K.
Section #4. /1 0 Name; Jane K. Leary Subject: The Shoeworker of Lynn "During the Lockout in the 70's, that strike lasted about a month, the strikers lould meet evenin's in a hall down on Market St. An' them as could 'ould entertain the others. There'd be songs an' things. A song sung a lot at that time was something like this: "I am an Irishman I can't deny the same, I came from Tipperary Patty Burke, it is my name. Row boys, row, The more I wish to roam The sun will shine in the harvest time…
United States, Lynn, Massachusetts
· 1939-04-10
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K.
OR/011UiL M. OR FIILD NOTE6 (Cheek one) Livia4 Lyre in Wow *Owl WRITER all 4111 L, ISAWIfir DATE 4/10/113 ES. PP. 13 CHECKER D1LTE souRcEs, ouni (t) Aptereim COMMENTS page 5. THE TRIP TO AMERICA Whin I 'us 21, I come over alone in a steamboat that landed at Philadelphia ant there I seen the first cable cars I iver seen in ma life. I jest had three sovereigns in ma pocket whin got, there, but I said ta myself, 'If it tikes a hull sovereign, I am agonna eat: An' I got me a good meal fir maself.…
United States, Lynn, Massachusetts
· 1939-06-07
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Hughes, James, Leary, Jane K
ORIGINAL MS. OR FIELD EOM (Cheek one) PUB. Living Ifs* in Newikutiand TITLE Irish Shoe Lairter of Lynn .543 WRITER Jane I. Leary DATE 6/Y39 EDS. PP. 9 CHECKER DATE SOURCES. rilat "Mat•rri, '4 Wes Ettgboc COMMENTS Section gr Page 1 Name: Jane K. Leary Informant: James Hughes, 51 Johnson St. Subject: The Shoe Laster of Lynn "In Ireland ya owned a firm an yet ya dinft, 'cause ya always heda pay rint ta the gentleman that wuz over thet piarta the land ya wuz alivint on. Still it wuz better ta…
Massachusetts, United States, Lynn
· 1938
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K., Uncle Jimmie
Name Jane K. Leary Subject An Irish Shoemorker in Lynn Section #3. My w/indering conversation with Uncle Jimmie led us to a discussion of the changing complexities that intermarriage of various racial groups is bring- ing about in Lynn. "Well, a course when two young people that gets married, has been brought up entirely diffrunt, a it makes it aorta hard fur 'em 0 learn holy ta get 4 along tagether. But y4t, know too, that if the same marries the same fur too long, it sometimes makes fur a…
United States, Lynn, Massachusetts
· 1939-03-17
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K., Robinson, Elmer
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheek one) PPE. Livia/ Ire in New Enftland TITLE Shoo likator of /am WRITER Jane IC. _Leary' DATE 3/17/39 E. CHECKER DATE SOURCES_ czynt,(t) nterview E. -Robilum_., COMMENTS Name: Jane K. Leary 32 Acorn St., Lynn, Mass. Informant: Elmer Robinson, 101 Nahant St. Assignment: The Shoe Laster of Lynn Page 1 Section #2 I 7/3 7 "The Laster's Protective Union was organized in 18/9. In 1882 I come to Lynn from Maine where I practically come up myself, because my mother…
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 1939-03-17
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Karen K., Reilly, Patrick
ORIGINAL MSC OR FIELD NOTES (Cheek one) pm Living Lore in New England TITLE sh9olastac of zaw.ii% IR/TER 41inejLoAigy DATE 3/109 *004 pp. 6 CHECKER DAIS SOURCES. GDU ,Interriew P. Re13,1z...., COMILENTS Name-- Jane K. Leary Page 1 Informant --Patrick Reilly, 165 Fayette St., Lynn SectionI Assignment --The Shoe Laster "I been a laster fur morein fifty years. I wuz a hand laster." This informant has lived in Lynn for more than fifty years. Questioning will print, forth the information that ne…
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 1939-04-28
· 15 pages
Recorded by: Huges, James, Leary, Jane K.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Livint Lore in Newftgland TITLE Shoe iattitr o 'NM #2 WRITER Jane K. Leary 2 pppers DATE 4128/29 WDS, PP. lop. and 8 pp. CHECKER DATE souRm GWEN (1) interviews COMMENTS 2. Lc The walls of a mud wall house were made by plastering layers of clay and straw together. "'Ye hadda let it dry good, ivery tame ya put on a layer a mud an' straw. For thet raison ya couldn't maike (make) a mud wall house in the winter tame because it wuz sa rainy. YA hedda…
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 1939-04-18
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Hughes, James, Leary, Jane K.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Livinit. Lore in New Entlend TITLE Shoe Laster of Lynn #‘2.... WRITER Jane K. Leary DATE 4/14/39 /IDS' PP. 9 CHECKER DATE SOURCWOIVEV(?)...interView James gpige,p_ COMMENTS VI Page 1. a: JOne K. Leary Liting Lore James Hughes, Lynn Shoe Laster 4/18/.39 *Whin I inn a boiy (boy) in Ireland I usta go over a cartin (certain) stile ta go along the road ta school. I'd pass by a little shop thieye *her. (they'd) made shoes by hand. Minfs the day I'd stop…
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 1938
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Healy, John, Leary, Jane K.
Name: :Atte K. Leary t section Informants John Healy 114 Subject The Irish Shoemaker of Lynn c)( Catherine Healy, wife of above. 0)0:3 C 45,11•-eireppet-ine_ itervegriesnintgisider.enewtnerr., Piref4ai.,S7e/v "Them," 0494 said, "are a pair Jimmie Murray gilt when "1 A he was pall bearera;Ifor_ The number a times that man's been pall bearer I couldn't count. Every time I clean house, I find some of them gloves. They used ta give Ick ones but now they get gray. Don't look sa much A like pall…
United States, Massachusetts, Lynn
· 1939
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Healey, John, Leary, Jane K.
ii NALE Jane K. Leary, 32 Acorn St. WO INFORLATION John Healey, wife and son:1, SUBJECT THE SHOE WORKER OF LMN. ‘17-g Section 0- Page 1 Q, One typical mistake in the Irish community of Lynn is the use of "kis" in place of "Ure: Aunt Lary uses this in all her conversation. Ryan comes ta my place a lot and is always brin6inl me a bit ta eat a somethinl she's fixed. I always give her some- thing to take home with her toe. "She's got a hard life, list Ryan. Her husband drinks and aint he the devil…
United States, Massachusetts, Lynn
· 1938
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Healy, Caterine, Leary, Jane K.
Name: Jane K. Leary, 32 Acorn St. Informant: John W. Healey. Catherine Healey, wife of above. Frank Healey, son of above. Subject: The Shoeworker of Lynn (Description of Informant's character and living conditions) This informant, his wife and one bachelor son live in the second story of a three story house or "tenement." It is located in a section of West Lynn that is mainly a strong- hold of middleclass Irish folk. A fair sprinkling of the very old of this section were born in Ireland; most…
United States, Connecticut
· 1938
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Andrews, George
Ii Mrs. George Andrews, a sprig tiy lady of eighty two, lives in an old, but neatly painted house of the salt box type on South Road, Northfield. A city dweller, accustomed to cramped rooms and small apartments, would be struck im- mediately by the spaciousness of these old homes, built quite evidently for large families, but occupied in these times often by elderly couples who shut off the old fashioned living rooms in winter, live in the kitchen until bedtime, and then retire to cold…
Connecticut, United States
· 1938
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Gill, Henry
kNIFEMAkER G -ILL j2‘445 Almost at the top of the 104,6 hill lined on either side with old fashioned frame dwellings in good and bad repair that constitutes Northfield's Main Street is the home of Henry Gill, who conducts as a one man industry the once flourish- ing Northfield Knife Company. Mt. Gill's big white house bears evidence of care and attention. Its paint is new, roof tightly shingled, front and side verandahs neat and shining. Over the front door is the date of erection, "1856".…
Connecticut, United States
· 1938
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Mr. Marsh, Mrs. March
F- RC AD AT r 5 "Go see Mt. and Mts. Marsh, up on the Gulf Road," I an told; "they're the oldest couple around here. Close to ninety, both of thee, maybe more than ninety." The Gulf Road is that upper highway which is one of two approaches to the village from Thomaston; it is favored by residents of the upper part of the com- munity as the most direct route to their homes, but since the hurricane of last fall the bridge crossing Northfield brook just past the branch of the highway has been…
United States, Connecticut
· 1938
· 4 pages
Except for the hard -surfaced road which has replaced the dusty lane of bygone years, the village o Reynolds Bridge this afternoon presents to the casual eye the bucolic serenity which must have characterized it half a century ago on any working day. The little white houses are not all well kept, but it is not without the bounds of possibility that they were allowed to fall into decay when occupied by the roistering, happy-go-lucky knifemakers for whom they were built. Peace and quiet lie over…
United States, Connecticut
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Kerr, Charles
/rpm Mr. Charles Kerr, on whom I intend to call this afternoon, is not at home, and I take the upper road leading from the village of Reynolds Bridge to the main highway. About halfway along I meet an old gentleman, neatly dressed and wearing a slouch hat with the crown pulled to its highest possible peak somewhat in the fashion of a sombrero, who hails me in this manner: "Hi, neighbor, can you tell me if August Koegel is still alive?" Having seen Mr. Koegel within the papt five minutes…