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Memories of a Maine Island: Turn-Of-The-Century Tales and Photographs (Northeast Folklore, V. 33)
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by Marie Locke, Nancy A. Montgomery, Nancy Montgomery, and Maine Folklife Center
Sales Rank: 2434346
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$6.62
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on 10-30-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 112 pages
Published by: Maine Folklife Center May 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0943197252
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0943197258
Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 8.5 x 0.2 inches
Weighs: 12 ounces
Product Review
"Memories of a Maine Island," is a gem. The island is Little Cranberry, also known as the Village of Islesford, and the photographs are from glass plates by Fred Morse, Marie Locke's great-grandfather. These pictures conjure an era filled with summer visitors and fishermen, and the easy-to-follow narrative based on Locke's interviews with "Gram" (Irene Morse Bartlett) tells the lively story of Fred Morse, a fish skinner who married the storekeeper's daughter and, after her premature death from tuberculosis, studied photography in Illinois. Morse eventually married a young Irish girl whom he had met on Islesford and returned to run the store himself, recording island life in painterly photos. The photographs depict a way of life once common on many Maine islands but also specific to this particular place with its in-your-face view of the entire range of mountains on Mount Desert. -- The Boston Globe, 12/13/98
Word, photographs bring isles' past back to life.
Morse's photographs are full of breezy sea-story scenery, a harbor full of schooners, and boys with toy boats and straw hats. The photographs are composed as carefully as paintings by the great masters. Bartlett's words make "Memories" a story worth telling. Sharp, descriptive and funny, Marie's "Gram" doesn't just remember. She makes the past a place we can relate to, a place that was sometime silly, not always about survival. -- Bangor Daily News, June 6-7, 1998
Product Description
This book is as fascinating as going through your grandmother's attic, and it smells a whole lot better! And even at that, most of us do not have grandmothers whose attics are filled with as much fascinating stuff as Irene Morse Bartlett's. Marie Locke found her grandmother's attic captivating during her summers on Little Cranberry Island as a child. She discovered an eclectic mix of merchandise from the Island's turn-of-the-century general store, as well as glass plate negatives from photographs of the Island taken by Bartlett's father, Fred Morse, around the turn-of-the-century. From these childhood explorations of the attic came a grown person's curiosity about life on Little Cranberry Island at the turn-of-the-century. So, Marie Locke asked her grandmother, Irene Morse Bartlett, to tell her about what life was like on the Island when she was a child. The reminiscences of Irene Bartlett illustrate the photographs, rather than the other way around. Combined with the Morse photographs, and pictures of the objects of everyday life as found in a general store, these Memories of a Maine Island make for fascinating reading.
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