There are several very important books for you to check into. Start with British Ballads from Maine by Phillips Barry, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Mary Winslow Smyth. It's a fine collection and probably more to the point of your topic than even the wonderful books of Dr. Edward (Sandy) Ives, but you ought to read his books, too, because they're fine studies of some of the Maine woods songmakers and satirists, such as Larry Gorman and Joe Scott. Sandy also wrote Folksongs from Maine, which is Volume 7 in the series of Northeast Folklore bulletins he edited for a long time. Highly recommended. Another extremely important source would be A Heritage of Songs, the songs of Carrie B. Grover, a remarkable traditional singer who lived over in the Bethel area. She knew many old British ballads, Irish traditional songs, and had regional songs of the lumbermen, too. Roland Palmer Gray wrote Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks and Eckstorm and Smyth (without their mentor, Phillips Barry) produced Minstrelsy of Maine: Folksongs and Ballads of the Woods and the Coast. I haven't checked on his actual source singers lately, but I believe a number of Doerflinger's lumbermen informants were from Maine. His book was originally titled Shantymen and Shantyboys, and it has been reprinted in paperback as Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman. If you plan to include the songs of the lumbermen, you ought to see if you can find a copy of Franz Rickaby's Ballads and Songs of the Shantyboy for comparison of various texts. These collections ought to get you started. Make use of the wonderful Interlibrary Loan Service -- your librarian can tell you about it.

Sandy (Paton, that is, and a great admirer of Ives)
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