Margaret Whalen

Item Data

  • Collection Title: Margaret Whalen Collection
  • Item Title: Whalen Home Movies, 1950s-60s
  • ID Number: MW-001
  • Date Range: c. 1950s-1960s
  • Description: Whalen family home movies, most shot by Margaret, record the family's City Island life, their earliest days in Maine and their many visits back & forth.
  • Biographical/Historical Note:
  • Genres: Home Movies
  • Places: City Island, NY; York, ME; Orchard Beach, NY; York Beach, ME; York Beach, ME; York Beach, ME
  • Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact film donor & participants with regard to any re-use.
  • Color or B&W: Color
  • Related Versions:
  • Running Time: 01:28:53
  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) holds all rights. All participants also have the right to approve uses of material they appear in during their lifetimes.
  • Sound: Sound
  • Subjects: Family, Lesbians
  • Creators: Margaret Whalen
  • Collaborators & Participants: Mike Bristol Joan Curry Elaine Enman Jean Hemingway Bob Kerry Tom Seretta Margaret Whalen's mother & sisters The Whalen clan For further information or to share related memories, email us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org.We'll share your input if that's okay, or just preserve it.
  • Source Format: 8mm
  • Format: DVD rip
  • Viewing Log: Sequence 1 York, ME, home. Toddler in red shorts. Other nephews join him. Sequence 2 City Island, NY, family gathering Sequence 3 York, ME, at shore Sequence 1: Nephews, York, ME Sequence 2: City Island, NY Family gathering Sequence 3 York, ME A recovering alcoholic Margaret's mother had "adopted" preparing a clambake on the beach. Family shots. Sequence 4 City Island, NY, Christmas gathering Sequence 5 York, ME family gathering Sequence 6 City Island, NY Wedding at St. Mary's Star of the Sea [dblchk I don't have these weddings reversed] Sequence 7 York, ME Snow. Joan Curry. Nephew in an igloo he built. shepherd Smoky. Sequence 7 City Island, NY Nephew's confirmation. He had chicken pox but it was the only time the bishop would be there so he had to attend. Sequence 8 York, ME? Toddlers on rocks at water's edge