Suggested References - Books

The list does not imply endorsement of any particular work. This is not a complete list. This list will be updated periodically to include additional material brought to our attention. 

General Work on Oral History

Hunt, Marjorie. The Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2003. Accessed at http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/pdf/interviewingguide.pdf (August 6, 2008).

Thomas L. Charlton, Lois E. Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. History of Oral History: Foundations and Methodology, Parts I and II. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2007.

Thomas L. Charlton, Lois E. Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. Thinking about Oral History: Theories and Applications. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2007.

Recording Technology and Transcription

Bogart, John W.C. Van.  Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling: A Guide for Libraries and Archives. Washington, D.C.: The Commission on Preservation and Access and the National Media Laboratory, 1995. Accessed at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub54/index.html (August 1, 2008).

Byers, Fred R.  Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists. Pp. 48, 2003.  Accessed at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/pub121.pdf (August 1, 2008).

Kolvos, Andy. Digital Audio Filed Recording Equipment Guide. Vermont Folklife Center, 2008. Accessed at http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/archive/res_audioequip.htm (August 1, 2008).
               
Powers, Willow Roberts. Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word. Walnut Creek, CA:  AltaMira Press, 2005  .

Oral History Education

Wendling, Barry A. Lanman and Laura M., ed. Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2006.

Books Based on Oral History (organized by region)

Northeast

Albee, Parker Bishop, Jr. Letters from the Sea, 1882-1901, Joanna and Lincoln Colford's Seafaring Childhood. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House and Penobscot Maritime Museum, unknown publication date.

Barringer, Richard. Changing Maine: 1960-2010. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House and University of Southern Maine, 2004.

Bunting, W.H. The Camera’s Coast: Historic Images of Ships and Shore in New England. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 2006.

Bunting, W.H. Sea Struck. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House and Martha's Vineyard Historical Museum and New Bedford Whaling Museum, unknown publication date.

Calabretta, Fred. Fishing out of Stonington. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport, 2004.

Carey, Richard Adams. Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman. New York: Mariner Books, 2000.

Crocker, Mike. Sharing the Ocean: Stories of Science, Politics and Ownership from America’s Oldest Industry. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House and Northeast Atlantic Marine Alliance, 2008.

Dobbs, David. The Great Gulf: Fishermen, Scientists, and the Struggle to Revive the World’s Greatest Fishery. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000.

Garland, Joseph. Gloucester on the Wind: America’s Greatest Fishing Port in the Days of Sail. Dover, NH: Arcadia Publishing, 1995.

Greenlaw, Linda. All Fishermen are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar. New York: Hyperion, 2004.

Greenlaw, Linda. The Hungry Ocean. New York, Hyperion, 1999.

Greenlaw, Linda. The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island. New York: Hyperion, 2003.

Johnson, Tora. Entanglements: The Interwined Fates of Whales and Fishermen. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005.

Kurlansky, Mark. The Big Oyster: A History on the Half Shell. New York: Ballantine Books, 2006.

Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. New York: Penguin, 1998.

Kurlansky, Mark. The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town. New York: Ballantine Books, 2008.

Leavans, John. The Catboat Era in Newport, Rhode Island. Ed. Judith Navas Lund. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 2005.

Lee, Linsey. Vineyard Voices: Words, Faces and Voices of Island People. Edgartown, MA: Martha’s Vineyard Historical Museum, 1998.

Lee, Linsey. More Vineyard Voices: Words, Faces and Voices of Island People. Edgartown, MA: Martha’s Vineyard Historical Museum, 2005.

McCabe, Marsha and Joseph D. Thomas. Portuguese Spinner. New Bedford, MA: Spinner Publications, 1998.

Mensch, Barbara C. and Phillip Lopate. South Street. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Molyneaux, Paul. The Doryman’s Reflection. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Norling, Lisa. Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Paine, Lincoln P. Down East: A Maritime History of Maine. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House and OpSail Maine, 2000.

Playfair, Susan. Vanishing Species, Saving the Fish, Sacrificing the Fishermen. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2005.

Smith, Leah J. and Susan B. Peterson. The New England Fishing Industry:  A Basis for Management.  WHOI Technical Paper, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA, August 1977.

Tollefson, Astrid. Following the Waters: Voices from the Final Norwegian Emigration. Brewster, MA: Leifur Publications, 2005.

Trueworthy, Nance. Down the Shore: The Faces of Maine’s Coastal Fisheries. Camden, ME: Down East, 2004.

Vickers, Daniel. Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Vincent, Ellen. Down on the Island, Up on the Main: A Recollected History of South Bristol Maine. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House and South Bristol Historical Society, 2003.

Woodward, Colin. The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier. New York: Viking, 2004.

Southeast, including Caribbean

Buckley, Michael. Voices of the Chesapeake Bay. Edgewater, MD: Geared Up Publications, 2008.

Burrell, Victor G., Jr. The Recreational Fishery in South Carolina: The Little River Story. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, unknown publication date.

Burrell, Victor G., Jr. South Carolina Oyster Industry: A History. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, unknown publication date.

Cecelski, David S. The Waterman’s Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Chowning, Larry S. Harvesting the Chesapeake: Tools and Traditions. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1990.

Feltault, Kelly. It’s How You Pick the Crab: An Oral Portrait of Eastern Shore Crab Picking. St. Michaels, MD: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, unknown publication date.

Garrity-Blake, Barbara. The Fish Factory: Work and Meaning for Black and White Fishermen in the American Menhaden Industry. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.

Holland, F. Ross. Maryland Lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical Trust Press, 1997.

Jacoby, Mark E. Working the Chesapeake: Watermen on the Bay. College Park, MD: Maryland Sea Grant, 1991.

Johnson, Paula. Working the Water: The Commercial Fisheries of Maryland’s Patuxent River. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1988.

Lawson, Glenn. The Last Waterman: A True Story. Crisfield, MD: Crisfield Publishing, 1988.

Levinson, Josh. Dropnet Tribes: Making a Day’s Work in North Carolina’s Winter Fishery. Masters Degree Thesis. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. 2002.

Mullen, Patrick. I Heard the Old Fishermen Say: Folklore of the Texas Gulf Coast. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1978.

Perez, Karni R. Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama’s Catfish Industry. Tuscaloosa, AL: Alabama University Press, 2006.

Trubyville, Linda. Bay Beacons: Lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay. Trappe, MD: Eastwind Publishing, 1995.

Vojtech, Pat. Lighting the Bay: Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1996.

West, Susan and Barbara Garrity-Blake. Fish House Opera. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport, 2003.

Younker, Richard. "Yankin’ and Liftin" Their Whole Lives: A Mississippi River Fishermen. Carbondale, IL: University of Southern Illinois Press, 2000.

Great Lakes

Chiarappa, Michael and Kristin Szylvian. Fish for All: An Oral History of Multiple Claims and Divided Sentiment on Lake Michigan. East Lansing: MI: Michigan State University Press, 2003.

Lloyd, Tim. Lake Eire Fishermen: Work, Identity and Tradition. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Lund, Jens. Flatheads and Spoonies: Fishing for a Living in the Ohio River Valley. Unknown publisher, unknown publication date.

Southwest

Duncan, Jeanne. Trolling on the Edge – the Story of a Noyo Fisherman. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing, 2001.

McKibben, Carol Lynn. Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration and Community in Monterey, California. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Northwest

Allison, Charlene J., Sue-Ellen Jacobs, and Mary A. Porter. Winds of Change: Women in Northeast Commercial Fishing. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1990.

Gilmore, Janet. The World of the Oregon Fishboat: A Study in Maritime Folklore. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1999.

White, Richard. The Organic Machine. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.

Alaska

Fields, Leslie Leyland. The Entangling Net: Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Fields, Leslie Leyland. Out on the Deep Blue: Women, Men and the Oceans They Fish. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2002.

Hawaii and Pacific Islands

World Wide

McCloskey, William. Their Father’s Work: Casting Nets with the World’s Fishermen. Thomaston, ME: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2000.

Glenn, Morris F. and Katherine A. Teetor. The Historic Thompson’s Point Fishing Ground. Charlotte, VT: Charlotte Historical Society, 2005.

Greenleaf, Elizabeth Bristol and Grace Yarrow Mansfield. Ballads and Sea-Songs of Newfoundland. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933.

Iglauer, Edith. Fishing With John. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1992.

Newell, Dianne and Rosemary E. Ommer. Fishing Places, Fishing People: Traditions and Issues in Canadian Small Scale Fisheries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Smylie, Mike. Herring: The History of Silver Darlings. London: Tempus, 2004.