| Collection Name: |
Cranberry Culture in Massachusetts Interviews |
| Repository Name: |
University of Maine. Maine Folklife Center. Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Orono, Maine, United States |
| Local Identifier: |
MF 013 |
| URL: |
http://www.umaine.edu/folklife/mf013.htm |
| Dates Spanned: |
1982-1983 |
| Description: |
A series of 20 accessions featuring interviews done by Stephen Cole and Linda Gifford (1982-1983) documenting cranberry growing in southeastern Massachusetts. Interviewees talk about A. D. Makepeace Co.; picking cranberries in the 1940s and 50s; making cranberry scoops & boxes; building sand jalopies; repairing picking machines; overseeing screenhouses and canning plants; changes in technology and marketing; the Fuller-Hammond Co.; competition between cranberry marketing cooperatives; early years of the cranberry industry; Cape Cod life in the nineteenth century; supplying shooks, barrels and boxes to growers; Cranberry Red, a 1938 novel about Cape Verdean bog laborers; the Cranberry Experiment Station in Wareham, Mass; Ocean Spray Cranberry Co.; Bailey Company; John J. Beaton Distributing Agency; and the traditional harvest of cranberries carried out on Gay Head by the Wampanoags. |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
20 |
| Broad Subjects: |
Intellectual life; Agriculture |
| ASP Subjects: |
Agriculture; Cranberries; Cranberry industry; Culture; History; Massachusetts; Oral history; United States |
| Other Subjects: |
Cranberry growing |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0000277 |
