1986 Fall Commencement

Program for the Harding University Fall Commencement on December 19. Commencement Speaker: Joseph J. Rodrigue

MF007 Canada Road Survey

A series of interviews by historian Barry H. Rodrigue on immigration into Maine from Quebec, Canada, along the Canada Road. NA2373 Alan Philbrick and Phyllis Quimby Philbrick, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, July 1995, Rangley, Maine. The Philbricks talk about French-Canadian family migration from St. Georges-de-Beauce, Quebec to Stratten, Maine, c.1881; and Yankee family migration up the Carrabasset Valley, Maine. A. Philbrick supplemented his Aunt Phyllis commentary by saying that the maiden name of his great-grandmother from Quebec was Pepin and her husband’s was Touchette (approximate spelling); two lobstering stories; and his story of migration from Quebec concerns the little known Lac Magantic Trail. Canada Road Survey. NA2374 Ruth Reed, Elaine Moore, Clayton Holden, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, August 10, 1994, Jackman, Moose River, Dennistown, and Sandy Bay Township, Maine and just over the Canadian border. Canada Road Survey, interview #1. This is a driving survey with three local informants along new and old Routes 201 between Jackman and the Canadian border. Reed, Moore, and Holden talk about old house sites; people and events in the 19th and 20th centuries. Rodrigue participated and conducted the interview from his car. NA2375 Barry H. Rodrigue, Ruth Reed, Hope Earley, Clayton Holden, Ruel Tapley, Ruth Tapley, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, August 19, 1994, Moose River Valley, Maine. Tape: 2 w/ no transcript. Canada Road Survey, interview #2. Two one hour tapes of a driving and still interviews. Rodrigue, Reed, Earley, Holden, the Tapleys talk about the early settlement of Moose River and vicinity. Part of the interview was made from the car in Jackman and Moose River and part was made in the Tapley’s yard and driveway in Moose River. NA2376 Margaret McCarthy Beliveau, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, fall 1994, Rumford, Maine. Beliveau, wife of the late Judge Albert Beliveau and daughter of Judge McCarthy of Rumford, talks about family life; Franco-American and Irish-American life in Maine during the 19th and 20th centuries; legal and judicial history; University of Maine. NA2391 Barry H. Rodrigue, June 1995, manuscript Disaster by the Bering Sea: November 1974, by Roderick and Tack. It is the account of the impact of the flood of November 11, 1974 upon several communities in the Seward Peninsula area, NW Alaska; the relief efforts; and life in the towns. NA2393 Governor Burton Cross, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, June 1995, Augusta, Maine. Gov. Cross of Maine discusses his political career and life in the early to late 20th century; political divisions of the Republicans and Democrats; Albert Beliveau; Franco-American, etc. A malfunctioning tape recorded caused static on portions of the tapes, but they are decipherable. RESTRICTED: Gov. Cross would not sign a release form. NA2394 Mr. W. J. and Mrs. Louise Banks, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, June 1995, St. Louis, Missouri. The Banks, of the International Shoe Company, talk about the company, taking over the Thomas G. Plant Company. This relates to the depositor’s book, Tom Plant, which is about Maine, New England, Quebec and Franco-American history. RESTRICTIONS: No release form has been obtained. NA2497 Barry H. Rodrigue, 1997, Ontario and the Maritimes, Nova Scotia, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Canada. Letter; song I am a Rambling Shoe Maker; and genealogy from the Maritimes. References relating to emigration from Archives, Prince Edward Island. NA2498 Bertha Goodrich Knowles and Kermit Knowles, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue and Penelope Markle Graham, 1997, Bingham, Maine. B. Knowles, and her son K. Knowles, talk about her family and property; local history; medical care; Yankee society; French Canadian; Franco-American and Irish history; environmental history; Kennebec Valley. NA2499 Dick Spaulding, Harry Melcher, Frances Smith, and Earle Smith, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, 1997, Embden, Maine. Spaulding and Melcher (both in their 70s), with some commentary by the Smiths, (who are all residence of the Upper Kennebec River Valley) talk about conducting logging operations (Spaulding and Melcher have for much of their lives); Upper Kennebec and Dead River Regions; the towns of Bowtown, Carrying Place, Piere Pond; Enchanted, Pleasant Ridge, Bingham, Moscow, Caratonk, The Forks, West Forks, etc.; The Canada Road; the Benedict Arnold expedition and artifacts found in the region; family history; folk stories; logging technology. NA2500 Ivy Laweryson Stuart Beane, Francis Stuart Smith, and Earle Smith, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue and Judy Feinstein, 1997, Embden, Maine. Beane (age 91), and the Smith (Beane’s daughter and son-in-law) talk about life in Bowtown, Maine (on the west bank of the Upper Kennebec river and the lower Dead River) from ca. 1901-1928; migration from Beauce County, Quebec (Cumberland Mills, St. George) to Moscow, Maine (ca. 1861) and to Bowtown, Maine (ca 1880-1910); the Old Canada Road; logging; dances; river travel; women’s life; schools; family history; construction of the Bingham Dam (1928); sport camps. NA2501 Howard Mitchell, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, 1997, Caratunk, Maine. Mitchell, recorded while traveling in a car in 1997, talks about the history of various sites in the Caratunk and Forks regions of Maine. NA2502 Mary Bode Markle, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, 1997, Berlin, Vermont. Markle talks about her father, William Adolph Bode, and his life and work as an engineer. NA2503 Georgina Shields Kidder, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, 1997, Rumford, Maine. Kidder talks about Canadian-American and Franco-American life in the early 20th century. NA2504 Eldred “Did” Doyon, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, 1997, Jackman, Maine. Doyon talks about his life; history of the Moose River region; the Canada Road; Dyerville; and a World War II prisoner of war (POW) camp. NA2505 Louis Philippe Rodrigue, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, 1997, Aylmer and Quebec, Canada. L. Rodrigue talks about personal and family history about grandfather about grandfather; WWII; the Cold War. NA2506 George Pratt, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, 1997, Pleasant Ridge and Concord, Maine. Also present: David Corrigan, Lynn Corrigan, and Carolyn Corrigan. Consists of both a driving and walking interview with Pratt, with some commentary by the Corrigan at the end. NA2511 George Pratt and Harry Melcher, interviewed by Barry H. Rodrigue, fall 1998, Concord, Bingham, Pleasant Ridge, Bowtow, and Pierce Pond, Maine. Pratt and Melcher talk about history of the region; logging in area; and Canada Road Survey. NA2527 Barry H. Rodrigue, February 1998, Old China Road, Maine. A dubbing of MPR (Maine Public Radio) Maine Things Considered, August 30, 1994. Barry Rodrigue talks about the Canada Road. RESTRICTED.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ne_findingaids/1005/thumbnail.jp

A LOOK AT LINCOLN: The Personal Relationships of Abraham Lincoln

Similar in format and length, both titles are well-written contributions to the new Concise Lincoln Library series of Southern Illinois University Press edited by Richard W. Etulain, Sara Vaughn Gabbard, and Sylvia Frank Rodrigue.1 While, at first glance, they cover sepa...

Does the Use of Imported Intermediates Increase Productivity? Plant-Level Evidence

This paper examines whether importing intermediate goods improves plant performance. While addressing the issue of simultaneity of a productivity shock and decisions to import intermediates, we estimate the impact of the use of foreign intermediates on plants' productivity using plant-level Chilean manufacturing panel data. We found that the switching from being a non-importer to being an importer of foreign intermediates can improve productivity by 3.4 to 22.5 percentproductivity, imported intermediates, plant-level

The status of the world's public-domain digital topography of the land and ice

There has been no reasonably comprehensive survey of what digital, elevation models of the Earth's land surface exist in the public‐domain. We have performed a survey of these data, and we report on the coverage and cost of the data we have established. To qualify for inclusion in our coverage, we required the data to be available to the general public, obtainable from a specific, identified institution, and to have a determined cost. We have established that at 100 m resolution coverage exists of most of the the developed world. In the United States and Australia, the data are available at cost, at around 3000 km^{2} £^{-1}. In the remaining countries, the data are available from mapping agencies with varying commercial pricing strategies. The total cost of the data we have identified is £ 1,688,312. For much of the world we are unable to confirm the existence of such data, and our experience is that in these regions it will prove difficult to obtain digital, elevation data, if, indeed, it exists at all

SRTMA: Reappraising the BP Well Blowout in Light of Pippen, Theriot, Doiron, and Grubart

The article discusses the issues on the choice of law and jurisdiction in tortious or contractual events involving binary terrestrial/aquatic oil and gas drilling operations in the U.S.\u27 Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and the provisions of the Outer Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA)

The computer ate my personality

Human–algorithm interactions are making the digital world more personal – and polarised. By Sofia Olhede and Russell Rodrigue

George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts

This is a report on the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts (GRFA) following an internship with the organization from June until September 2011. This report consists of an organizational summary, an account of the internship, SWOT analysis, best practices and concluding thoughts. Modeled after the Thea Foundation in Little Rock, Arkansas, GRFA advocates the importance of art in youth development, and its mission is reflected by George Rodrigue’s testimony of the positive influence of art in his life

George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts

This is a report on the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts (GRFA) following an internship with the organization from June until September 2011. This report consists of an organizational summary, an account of the internship, SWOT analysis, best practices and concluding thoughts. Modeled after the Thea Foundation in Little Rock, Arkansas, GRFA advocates the importance of art in youth development, and its mission is reflected by George Rodrigue’s testimony of the positive influence of art in his life

Epistasis not needed to explain low dN/dS

An important question in molecular evolution is whether an amino acid that occurs at a given position makes an independent contribution to fitness, or whether its effect depends on the state of other loci in the organism's genome, a phenomenon known as epistasis. In a recent letter to Nature, Breen et al. (2012) argued that epistasis must be "pervasive throughout protein evolution" because the observed ratio between the per-site rates of non-synonymous and synonymous substitutions (dN/dS) is much lower than would be expected in the absence of epistasis. However, when calculating the expected dN/dS ratio in the absence of epistasis, Breen et al. assumed that all amino acids observed in a protein alignment at any particular position have equal fitness. Here, we relax this unrealistic assumption and show that any dN/dS value can in principle be achieved at a site, without epistasis. Furthermore, for all nuclear and chloroplast genes in the Breen et al. dataset, we show that the observed dN/dS values and the observed patterns of amino acid diversity at each site are jointly consistent with a non-epistatic model of protein evolution.Comment: This manuscript is in response to "Epistasis as the primary factor in molecular evolution" by Breen et al. Nature 490, 535-538 (2012