The application of space technology to practical problems such as those currently facing the mountain sections of the State of Colorado

Rapid growth in small Colorado mountain communities and dangers posed by development in areas that are potentially dangerous to life and property due to natural processes are studied. Special attention was given to snow avalanche, mudflow, rockfall, landslide and flood, as well as the slow continuous and frequently imperceptible form of soil creep and associated mass movement. Data are also given on the relative reliability of ERTS and Skylab imagery and conventional photography in identifying avalanche paths and run out zones

Application of LANDSAT data to delimitation of avalanche hazards in Montane, Colorado

The author has identified the following significant results. Photointerpretation of individual avalanche paths on single band black and white LANDSAT images is greatly hindered by terrain shadows and the low spatial resolution of the LANDSAT system. Maps produced in this way are biased towards the larger avalanche paths that are under the most favorable illumination conditions during imaging; other large avalanche paths, under less favorable illumination, are often not detectable and the smaller paths, even those defined by sharp trimlines, are only rarely identifiable

“The Only Man”: Skill and Bravado on the River-Drive

Handling logs on Maine\u27s swift-flowing rivers demanded great skill and dexterity and it was a source of pride for those who could do it well. Not surprisingly, stories about river driving have become an important part of Maine\u27s heritage. Not the least of these stories involve the “only man” to accomplish some particularly dangerous or difficult feat of prowess and bravery. These tales were bound up with the coming-of-age process along the banks of the Penobscot and Kennebec rivers, and the accomplishments they relate signaled a person’s acceptance into the select ranks of legendary loggers— if they didn\u27t go too far in testing their mettle against the fates. Edward D. “Sandy” Ives is professor emeritus at the University of Maine and former director of the Maine Folklife Center. His publications, concentrating on the oral traditions of Maine and the Maritime Provinces, Include Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs; Lawrence Doyle: The Farmer-Poet of Prince Edward Island; Joe Scott: The Woodsman Songmaker; and George Magoon and the Down East Game War

The World of Maritimes Folklore

Dr. Edward Sandy Ives is Professor of Folklore and Oral History in the Department of Anthropology, University of Maine (Orono), and Director of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. He is also Editor of Northeast Folklore. One of the most distinguished and respected folklorists in the United States, and widely known in Canadian folklore circles, he was considered by his peers and by the Trustees of the Helen Creighton Foundation to be the obvious choice to give the inaugural address in the Foundation\u27s new biennial Helen Creighton Lecture Series. This Lecture was given in February 1992 at the University of King\u27s College, Halifax, N.S

Northeast Folklore volume 5: Twenty-One Folksongs From Prince Edward Island

From the introduction by Edward D. Sandy Ives: The twenty-one songs printed in this little volume are a representative sample of the songs I collected on Prince Edward Island during the summers of 1957, 1958, and 1963. ... As a matter of fact, I wasn\u27t even collecting songs in the usual sense of that term; I was very specifically looking for songs by Larry Gorman and for biographical. Information about him, and when L wasn\u27t asking about Larry Gorman I was asking about Joe Scott. Thus the present collection is neither the result of my general acquaintance with the traditions of the whole Island nor of intensive research in a limited area. It is made up mostly of the songs people sang me while I was looking for something else. Table of Contents: Edmund Doucette, Miminegash John Ladner Johnny Doyle The Old Beggar Man (Hind Horn) Dan Curry Pretty Susan, the Pride of Kildare The Ghostly Fishermen Mantle So Green The Shepherd Joseph Doucette, Miminegash The Miramichi Fire The Lost Babes of Halifax Mary Cousins, Campbellton The Millman and Tuplin Song Uncle Dan Charles Gorman, Burton Drive Dull Care Away The Banks of the Little Eau Pleine Angus Enman, Spring Hill Benjamin Deane When the Battle It Was Won Wesley Smith, Victoria West Guy Reed The Lumberman in Town The Maid of the Mountain Brow The Silvery Tide There Was an Old Woman in Our Townhttps://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/nf/1004/thumbnail.jp

The Life and Work of Larry Gorman : A Preliminary Report

Lawrence Gorman, The Man Who Makes the Songs, was born in Trout River, Lot Thirteen, on the west end of Prince Edward Island in 1846. As a young man he worked on his father\u27s farm, in the many shipyards along the Bideford and Trout Rivers, as a fisherman, and as a hand in the lobster factories along the shore from Cape Wolfe to Miminigash. Up to about 1885 (age forty), he spent many of his winters in the lumberwoods and his springs on the river drives, mostly along the Miramichi River in New Brunswick. Then he would usually return to The Island in the summer. About 1885 he moved permanently to Ellsworth, Maine, bought a house there, was twice married, and worked in the woods and on the drives along the Union River. In the early 19oo\u27s he moved to South Brewer, Maine, just across the Penobscot from the great lumber port of Bangor. Here he worked mostly as a yard hand for the Eastern Corporation, a paper mill. He died in Brewer in 1917 and now lies buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Bangor

A General Interview Guide

What follows is in no sense exhaustive or complete. I started from O\u27Sullivan\u27s Handbook of Irish Folklore (that\u27s where the basic structure comes from), and then I adapted it to the scene here in the Northeast by adding some questions and changing others. For any one of the aspects covered here, you can get more suggestions by looking al O\u27Sullivan\u27s work. I don\u27t recommend trying to work straight through this guide with an informant. Nor do I particularly recommend interviewing with guide in hand, and I\u27m dead against it for the first interview. Read the Guide through a few times before you go out. Then, when you go back for further interviews, you can use this guide to help you work up good questions. And don\u27t forget to probe, to follow up, to get fuller explanations ( Did that ever happen to you? Can you give me an example? And, of course, Who, what, where, when, why? ) You will notice that this Guide has a clear orientation toward interviewing older people in a rural setting about how things used to be. That orientation is a function of my own lifelong historical interests. If you are more interested in present than remembered culture, you can adapt the questions to suit yourself. The compiling of a Guide like this is an on-going thing. Some of the questions will tum out to be absurd or even (God save the mark) counterproductive. And there are good questions that should be asked that aren\u27t in here. The whole thing is also very uneven. Some aspects of experience are covered rather thoroughly while others are barely suggested. Let us know how we can improve this guide. Meantime, here is something for those many people who have asked, What do I say then?https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/nf/1005/thumbnail.jp