Item Data
- Collection Title: Ruth Storm Collection
- Item Title: Maine III
- ID Number: RS-003
- Date Range: 1940-1948
- Description: After Mabel's death, Ruth sold a parcel of Mabel's land to the Lord family which features in this reel as do several summer neighbors, and Mimi and Chennie, now a couple. Wonderful footage of the Ellsworth Falls archaeological dig, too.
- Biographical/Historical Note: Ellsworth Falls dig (1946-1955). The dig is known as a collaboration between Wendell Hadlock of the Abbe Museum and Douglas Byers, director of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archeology, Andover, MA, but the presence of Margaret Contant Blaker suggests the Smithsonian was also involved.
- Genres: Amateur Films
- Places: Corea, Maine; Ellsworth Falls, Maine
- Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission.
- Color or B&W: Color
- Related Versions:
- Running Time: 17:19
- Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) owns all rights.
- Sound: Silent
- Subjects: Lesbians
- Creators: Ruth Huntington Storm (1888-1981)
- Collaborators & Participants: Margaret Contant Blaker
Miriam Colwell
David Getchell
Chenoweth Hall
Frances Lord
John Lord
Nathaniel Lord
Bertha Moore
Jean Oser (possibly)
Maynard Wasgut
Charles Workman
Julia Lord Workman
Katie Young? (1888-1957)
- Source Format: 16 mm
- Format: 16mm
- Viewing Log: On porch, older woman sitting next to a Christmas cactus. A younger woman seated as well -- Bertha Moore, according to author Miriam Colwell. (Bertha had kept house for Miriam Colwell's grandmother.) 01:24 Possibly John Lord's mother
01:46 On the rocks. Chennie on the left. Julia Lord Workman in the blue hat with her son Charles Workman. Possibly they were from Union River, IL, per John Lord. Charles was the brother of Allen Workman, author of a book on the Schoodic Peninsula.
01:51 Chennie on left, Julia Lord Workman center, Charles Workman on right.
Charles Workman center frame on top of the rocks.
2:50 Julia Lord Workman on left, Chennie Hall on right.
03:04 Miriam Colwell closest to the water, Chennie in short shots
03:11 Ruth's cabin ahead, Maynard Wasgut handling the boat, looking left.
07:39 Ellsworth Falls archaeological dig (1946-1955), per Julia Clark, Abbe Museum. Woman in the large picture hat is thought to be Margaret Contant Blaker (1924-2008), who ultimately became Director of the Smithsonian 's National Anthropological Archives.
10:48 The short older woman may be Katie Young, per John Lord.
11:35 Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge
12:12 Man in the center next to the woman in dark blue may be Jean Oser, per John Lord, who also thought the Connie and Tommy Merriam may be in the group on the far left.
12:56 Nathaniel Lord on left (b. c. December 1931, John Lord on right (born 1937)
13:12 Frances Lord, mother of Nathaniel & John Lord, born Winnetka, Illinois. They were building what the dad called Tent City next door to Ruth's, where they lived as they were building their camps, after buying Mabel's land from Storm.
14:04 on boats Nathaniel Lord and David Getchell. When Nathaniel was 19, he and David were at a Bangor salmon pool below the Bangor dam fishing for stripers. "David made it, Nathaniel didn't," John Lord said.