Prospect Harbor, ME

Interviewee Collection Sort ascending Description Interviewer Date of Interview Location of Interview Affiliation
Elaine Lowell The Last Sardine Cannery - Prospect Harbor, Maine

Elaine Lowell was born in Stueben, Maine, in 1915. She and her husband George raised three children in Prospect Harbor. Elaine worked for the Stinson Canning Company in Prospect Harbor, Maine. She had several jobs at the former cannery: cutting and packing sardines, cleaning the offices at night, transporting injured employees to the hospital, and getting up at four o’clock in the morning to call the cannery employees if there was herring to come in to cut and pack.

Keith Ludden Prospect Harbor, ME Oral History & Folklife Research, Inc.
Charlie Stinson The Last Sardine Cannery - Prospect Harbor, Maine

Charles Stinson was the owner of the Stinson Cannery in Prospect Harbor, which was established by his grandfather.

Keith Ludden Prospect Harbor, ME Oral History & Folklife Research, Inc.
Diana Young The Last Sardine Cannery - Prospect Harbor, Maine

Diana Young worked as the bookkeeper at the Stinson Cannery in Prospect Harbor, Maine.

Keith Ludden Prospect Harbor, ME Oral History & Folklife Research, Inc.