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GLBT History at UNT

Description: Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the history of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Roberts, Amanda; Pomerleau, Clark A. & Wisely, Karen
Partner: UNT Honors College

Oral History Interview with Gretchen Legler and Ruth Hill, July 14, 2015

Description: Interview with Gretchen Legler from Salt Lake City, Utah, and her partner Ruth Hill, from Woburn, Massachusetts, both homesteaders. Legler and Hill discuss their respective families, upbringing, their interest in animals and the environment, the influence of their families, traveling to Anatarctica, Alaska, and other places, meeting one another and developing a relationship, returning to New England and developing a farm, neighbors and the local community, and slaughtering and the ethics of mea… more
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Date: July 14, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Hill, Ruth & Legler, Gretchen
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Eliot Coleman, October 10, 2013

Description: Interview with Eliot Coleman, an organic farmer and homesteader from Rumson, New Jersey. Coleman discusses his childhood, college experience, work at Franconcia College, befriending Scott and Helen Nearing and purchasing a stead from them, thoughts on government, counterculture, good methods for organic farming, local ecology and maintaining ecosystems, his marriages, different farms worked, stories about the Nearings, and thoughts on his way of life.
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Date: October 10, 2013
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Coleman, Eliot
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Warren Berkowitz, October 9, 2013

Description: Interview with Warren Berkowtiz, a teacher and homesteader from New York City. Berkowitz discusses growing up, attending college during the counterculture era, his career as a teacher, moving to Maine with his wife and tenting, communes, Scott and Helen Nearing, establishing a homestead, raising a family, thoughts on generational differences and culture, parenting, community life, and Helen Nearing's last years.
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Date: October 9, 2013
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Berkowtiz, Warren
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Doris Groves, July 14, 2014

Description: Interview with Doris Groves, a homesteader from Pequannock, New Jersey. Groves discusses growing up, school, her first marriage, moving to Maine, discovering Scott and Helen Nearing's work and meeting Helen, her second marriage and children, purchasing a stead, the family's lifestyle, the Good Life Center, gender, vegetarianism, and the Nearings.
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Date: July 14, 2014
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Groves, Doris
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Greg Joly, July 26, 2014

Description: Interview with Greg Joly, a homesteader from Northampton, Massachusetts. Joly discusses his family background, education, gardening and Polish culture, discovering Scott and Helen Nearing's work, establishing a farm in Jamaica, Vermont, the Good Life Center, thoughts on the Nearings and their relationship with each other and others, the community, the Nearings' spiritualism and Theosophy, and analyses of the Nearings' work.
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Date: July 26, 2014
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Joly, Greg
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Elizabeth (Ivy) and Joel Ricci, August 1, 2014

Description: Interview with Joel and Ivy Ricci, homesteaders and members of the Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine, from Everett, Washington, and Washington DC, respectively. The Ricci's discuss their upbringings, family backgrounds, and educations; their discovery of Scott and Helen Nearing's work and the appeal of homesteading; their marriage; becoming homesteaders and their thoughts on the experience; thoughts on community and property; and reflections on their relationship.
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Date: August 1, 2014
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Ricci, Elizabeth Feiga Ross & Ricci, Joel Anthony
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Jeanne Gaudette, October 10, 2013

Description: Interview with Jeanne Gaudette, a yogini from Lynn, Massachusetts. Gaudette discusses growing up, discovering a love of nature, astrology and spiritualism, meditation, considering a monastic vocation as a teenager and quitting religion, thoughts on her family's struggles, her marriage and divorce, having a son, becoming a Ayurvedic yogini, reading charts, planetary energy, Scott and Helen Nearing, dowsing, death and souls, chakras, and Helen Nearing's death.
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Date: October 10, 2013
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Gaudette, Jeanne
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Preetha Ravindranath, May 9, 2017

Description: Interview with Preetha Ravindranath, a Bharatanatyam dancer from the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu, India. Ravindranath discusses her childhood, family background, learning dance, her education, the different schools of traditional dance, effects of the digital age, changes in dance over the years and its teaching, starting a family and its impact on her, and thoughts on Indian identity. Included is a glossary of terms, and in appendix a photo of Ravindranath.
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Date: May 9, 2017
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Natesan, Prathiba & Ravindranath, Preetha
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Abbie McMillen, August 4, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Abbie McMillan, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; early experiences with gardening and self-sufficiency; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
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Date: August 4, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & McMillen, Abbie
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Chip Wadsworth, August 1, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Chip Wadsworth, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; early experiences with the outdoors; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
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Date: August 1, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Wadsworth, Chip, 1949-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Lee E. Cart, July 17, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Lee Cart, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; discovering homesteading and self-sufficiency; decision to homestead in Maine.
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Date: July 17, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Cart, Lee E., 1954-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Keith Heavrin Jr., July 31, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Keith Heavrin Jr., homesteader and simple life advocate. Heavrin shares concerning his childhood; military experiences in Vietnam; love of the sea; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
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Date: July 31, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Heavrin, Keith Jr., 1946-2016
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Gerry Bryan, August 6, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Gerry Bryan, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning his childhood; early experiences with farming; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings.
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Date: August 6, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Bryan, Gerry, 1941-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Robert "Bob" Kimber and Rita Kimber, August 8, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with with Robert and Rita Kimber, homesteaders and simple life advocates concerning their childhoods; early experiences with gardening and the outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life.
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Date: August 8, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Kimber, Robert & Kimber, Rita
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Janine Winn, July 18, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Janine Winn, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; early experiences gardening and outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine.
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Date: July 18, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Winn, Janine, 1948-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Diane B. Fitzgerald, July 24, 2014

Description: Transcript of an interview with Diane Fitzgerald, homesteader and simple life advocate. Fitzgerald shares concerning her childhood; early experiences with farming and outdoors; move to Maine; discovery of the Nearings; decision to homestead; and memories of the Nearings.
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Date: July 24, 2014
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Fitzgerald, Diane B., 1940-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Masanobu and Tomoko Ikemiya, August 7, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Masanobu and Tomoko Ikemiya. In the first part of the interview, Ikemiya Masanobu discusses his early life in China and Japan, and his education in the United States. He talks about religion and Zen, and sustainable lifestyles. In the second part of the interview, his wife Ikemiya Tomoko talks about her early life, and their lives together.
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Date: August 7, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Ikemiya, Masanobu, 1946- & Ikemiya, Tomoko, 1956-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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