Join me as I take a deep dive into the story of two very different humorists working in the same medium.: Joe Perham and Marshall Dodge.
Sources and Transcript after the break!
Griswold, Wendy. (Spring 2002). History + Resources = A Sense of Place. Maine Policy Review
Hodgman, John. Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches. 1st., New York, Viking, 2017.
Ryden, K. C. (2009). Landscape With Figures Nature and Culture in New England. Iowa: University of Iowa Press.
Ives, Edward (1984) Maine Folklore and the Folklore of Maine Some Reflections on the Maine Character and Down-East Humor, Maine Historical Society Quarterly Vol. 23, No. 3
McReynolds, Samuel A. (1987), Rural Life in New England, The American Archivist, Vol. 50, No. 4
Perham, Joseph A.. Reflections on Hopalong Cassidy: A Study of Clarence Mulford. Orono, Maine, University of Maine, 1966.
Phippen, Sanford (1980), Missing from the books: My Maine (check your local academic library, folks)
Routhier, Ray. “Tiny West Paris: It’s truly a gem of a place Series.” Portland Press Herald, 29 May 2005, pp. G1.
Thomas, Gerald (1989) Functions of the Newfoundland Outhouse, Western Folklore, Vol. 48, No. 3
Supplemental Sources
Flynn, Patrick. “That Wicked Good Sense of Humor Down East”, The Washington Post 31 July, 1988
Staff Report, “Penley: 80 years of clothespin manufacturing”, The Lewiston Sun Journal 30 January, 2013
Staff Report, “Penley Mill burns in West Paris, Nearby fireworks warehouse saved”, 29 January, 2013
Multiple, “Joseph A. ‘Joe’ Perham Obituary”, The Lewiston Sun Journal, 31 August, 2013
Alumni @ Large column, Colby Magazine, Multiple dates up to and including 2013.
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