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Oral History Review 2008 35(1):81-82; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohn012
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"No Flies on Bill": The Story of an Uncontrollable old Woman, My Grandmother, Ethel "Billie" Gammon

Katharine T. Corbett

Independent Scholar, Gorham, ME

"NO FLIES ON BILL": THE STORY OF AN UNCONTROLLABLE OLD WOMAN, MY GRANDMOTHER, ETHEL "BILLIE" GAMMON. By Darcy Wakefield. Northeast Folklore, Volume 39, 2006. Orono, ME: University of Maine, 2006. 188 pp. Softbound, $15.00.

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The family farm, once the mainstay of the state's economy, was already in decline in 1916 when Edith "Billie" Wilson was born in south-central Maine to a family of Nova Scotian immigrants. Her father, a struggling farmer, encouraged his energetic teenage daughter to strike out on her own: "There may be flies on Ma and Pa, but there ain't no flies . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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