Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Cluett, Hubert

4 sound files, digital, MPEG3 file

Some names and terms used in this interview: Cape Breton Island, Sidney, Joran, S.E. Georges Bank, Oporto, Prince Edward Island, Main topsail, Puritan, Capt. Ben Pine, Dragging, Barbados, Trawling, Lee, Ice shore, Bellorin, Newfoundland, Flunky, Seining, Loran, Sounding lead, Pat McHugh, Raymonde, Capt, Charles Nelson, High liner.

Linda Brayton and David Masters, principal oral historians; Interviewer: David Masters

TRACKS: CD28 1. Storms and hardships -- 2. Storm of February, 1978, similarities to other storms, The Can Do and the sinking of vessels -- 3. The Can Do -- 4. How started -- 5. Early experiences, sailing and fishing -- 6. Barbados, 1920 -- 7. U.S. immigration -- 8. Disliked fishing -- 9. How he learned fishing -- 10. Shares, pay -- 11. Narrator's children -- 12. Later years CD29 1. Dead reckoning -- 2. Change in U.S. -- 3. Trouble aboard -- 4. Pay and unionism -- 5. Unions -- 6. Financing vessels -- 7. Settling up and sending money home.

Originally issued on sound cassettes and transferred to compact discs.

Institution: Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library

Massachusetts--Essex (county)--Ann, Cape

Cluett, Hubert, Interviewee

Masters, David, Interviewer

1978

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[Gloucester, Mass] : Sawyer Free Library

Anecdotes

Manners and customs

Fisheries

Fishers -- Labor unions

Oral history

sound recording-nonmusical

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2 sound discs : digital, stereo

4 3/4 in.

Gloucester Oral History Collection

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