Bud Leavitt travels to Fort Kent and canoes the Fish River with Bob Jalbert, Greg Jalbert, and Don Michaud. Leavitt speaks with the men in canoes beside the River about river canoeing, paddles, setting poles, canoes, navigating whitewater rapids, the use of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, and recommended steps for preserving the rivers. Many shots of Leavitt and the men canoeing in the River.
Invitation from S. Alphonse Daudelin, representing the 3rd Year students at Lavel. The invitation is directed towards the 2nd Year students, to play a game of baseball on an upcoming Saturday.
1683 Paul Labbe, interviewed by Mark Silber and Raymond Pelletier, February 18, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Labbe talks about his boxing career in the 1920s and 30s; his childhood in a boxing family; fighting for world championship; later life as a trainer; preparing for fights; and changing work ethics over time. Text: 19 pp. transcript. Recording: T 1804 CD 2522 1-1/2 hours.
This collection consists of four scrapbooks and 1 folder containing newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and images from the St. John Valley and beyond. It covers the period from 1947 through 2017. A wide range of topics are included in the collection but Mr. Chassé paid particular attention to sports in the St. John Valley in his volume 3 scrapbook, such as, snowmobiling, biathlon, skying, Can-Am dog races etc. Album 4 was dedicated to the history of the Church during a crisis. Most of the articles in this collection are undated.
Gloriane “Glo” Perrier was born in Lewiston, ME, March 21, 1929, to Philias and Alma Gosselin Perrier. She had two brothers, Conrad and Marcel, and one sister, Therese. Glo graduated from Lewiston High School in 1949, and went on to work for the Department of the Army, as a secretary, until retiring in 1983. She was active in and competed in multiple sports including softball, basketball, bowling, speed skating, canoeing and Olympic kayaking. According to an oral history with Glo, recorded at the Franco-American Collection in 1994, she started kayaking by accident. While playing softball, a friend asked her if she’d be interested in bowling, and Gloriane Perrier Collection, (1919-1994) Franco-American Collection University of Southern Maine Libraries later, while bowling, another friend (an Olympic canoeist) asked if she’d be interested in canoeing and kayaking. Glo competed in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, the first time U.S. women competed in kayaking at the Olympics. In 1964, she and her kayak partner, 15-year-old Francine Fox, won the silver medal for 500 meter doubles in the Olympics in Tokyo. After Tokyo, she continued to travel and compete, while also coaching olympic teams for 9 years. She also dabbled in aviation and motorcycle riding. For the last 35 years of her life, she lived in Alabama with partner Deb Magee.
Photograph of Yvonne Buhrle Strumpf (1911-2003) skiing, probably in Vermont or New York. Yvonne was born in France in 1911 to a French mother and a Swiss/German father. Yvonne spent time in a refugee camp during World War I due to her Swiss/German heritage. Yvonne emigrated to the United States in 1929.
The scrapbook, created by Gertrude Koch, consists primarily of newspaper articles about New England stunt pilot Robert St. Jock, as well as programs and advertisements for air shows in which he participated. Volume 2 also includes telegrams, photos, and additional materials concerning other pilots.
The collection contains catalogs and brochures published by the Roy Brothers, Inc., a manufacturer of croquet set located in East Barnet, Vermont. A few of the catalogs list the New York office and sales room at Riemann-Seabrey Company, Inc., 1107 Broadway (at 24th Street) in New York City. Unfortunately, most catalogs and other materials lack dates. The catalogs typically show individual croquet sets of various configurations, mostly in a black and white format, but a few are in full color. Also included in the collection are two rule books for the game of croquet, one published by Roy Brothers, the other by Wendell P. Roy. Other business items include pamphlets on butter stamps and cattle stanchions, as well as samples of company letterhead (Folder 2). There are several photos of the factory and the site on the Passumpsic River and two large photos from inside featuring workers (Folder 3). An undocumented timeline from around 1927 is included, as well as a poem written about some of the employees and their duties on the production line (Folder 4). A few photos of Ellen Paddleford Roy are included, along with a handwritten letter describing the flood damage in 1927 she wrote to her son (Folder 5).
This video is a reproduction of a 1975 oral history. The participants view a 1934 film of the first ski-tow in the United States and then discuss their experiences with skiing and using the ski-tow. Intereviewed here are: Douglas Burden, George Goodrow, George (Buster) Johnson, Lloyd Brownell, Robert Bourdon.
