Frances Hawkes Hale was 76 years old when interviewed by Joyce L. Hale in 2004. On Wall Street, “It was the worst of times!” and the beginning of the Great Depression. As the fourth of six children, I was born on April 3, 1928 in a midwife home on...
Frances Green Kari, a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot and wingwalker, was 72 years old when interviewed by Jean Hardy in 1993. I was born in Marshall, Texas, grew up in Galveston, Texas. Learned to fly in Galveston. I had three brothers, and was the only daughter. I had a...
Elizabeth Shames was 75 years old when interviewed by Beverly Staples in 1990. My name is Elizabeth Shames. Elizabeth Book was my maiden name and I still use it, because we’re very big library users, all of us, we’re readers. I was born March 12, 1915, in New...
Eleanor Durrah was 73 years old when interviewed by Rev. Samuel Abraham in 1991. The Road I travelled Introduction I am Eleanor Durrah and I was born on November 28,1928. 1 live alone at 18 Madison Street, Portland. I have three children namely Linda (40), John (39), and...
Elaine Duffett was 75 years old when when interviewed by Deborah Duffett in 1993. My parents were both born in Bath, Maine. When my father was a young man, he had evidently been going with my mother, but his family all went West and he went with them....
Elaine was 68 years old when interviewed in 1990. She lived in a small apartment in Milford, Maine, the sole guardian of her ninety eight year old father. She is a very small woman, weighing in at barely eighty three pounds whose health appears to be good for her age....
Dorothy Gunzelmann was 87 years old when interviewed by Julia Gaskins in 1990. My name is Dorothy Fitzpatrick Gunzelmann, and I lived at 24 Sherman Street, Cambridge. I don’t remember my grandparents. I remember, naturally, my mother, but I don’t remember my father. My father died when I...
Dorothy Clarke Wilson was 87 years old when interviewed by Deb Burwell in 1991. Childhood In my life one thing has usually led into another. Often times it has just happened. I have been very fortunate that way, particularly in writing. I will tell you a little bit...
Doris Robinson Conners was 82 years old when interviewed by Sheila Gallagher in 1991. FOOTSTEPS ONE TO EIGHTY-TWO The Town of Gorham into which Doris Elizabeth Robinson was born on October 30, 1909 was made up of many villages. Communication was limited but the people were bound closely...
Doris Congram was 67 years old when interviewed by Eillen Manglass in 2000. This is Eileen’s introduction to the interview: This is my mother’s story, transcribed by daughter number two. Doris is sixty-seven years of age, a strong, white woman of Irish-English descent. Doris’ health is currently good, although she...
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