Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Norton, Frederick (Dr.)

1 sound file, digital, MPEG3 file

The following names and terms were used in this interview: NACA, Langley Field, Experimental, Development Project, Plasticene, Babcock and Wilcox, David Dennison, Parian.

Linda Brayton and David Masters, principal oral historians; Interviewer:Linda Brayton(4/25/1978).

TRACKS:1. Dr. Norton's background in physics and ceramics, training at M.I.T., consulting work -- 2. Ceramics, sculpture, especially with children as subjects -- 3. The Norton home, the old Dennison homestead, the community of Lanesville -- 4. Books written by Dr. Norton, feelings about Gloucester -- 5. Gloucester Conservation Commission, purchase of Lane's Cove breakwater, need to rebuild after blizzard of '78 -- 6. Norton's forest, comments on schools.

Originally issued on sound cassettes and transferred to compact discs.

Institution: Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library

Massachusetts--Essex (county)--Ann, Cape

Norton, Frederick (Dr.), Interviewee

Brayton, Linda, Interviewer

04-25-1978

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[Gloucester, Mass] : Sawyer Free Library

Anecdotes

Manners and customs

Conservation of natural resourcs

Oral history

Sculptors -- Interviews

sound recording-nonmusical

Sound recordings

1 sound disc : digital, stereo

4 3/4 in.