Toward an oral history of Cape Ann: OH 1, CD 1-CD 2 : Ray, Hjalmer A

CD1. Track 1. Immigration to USA by Mr. Ray's parents

2. Father's work in quarries, ice camps

3. Mr. Ray's work in quarries (1925-1930)

4. Rockport Granite Co. [products, location of some quarries]

5. Co-workers, description of hoisting operations

6. Parent's home towns, cooperation among Finnish people

7. Quarry work [changes in methods, air compressors, explosives]

8. Hazards of quarry work, accidents

9. Pay unions [strike in 1923]

10. Shipping [in connection with quarrying]

11. Stone-carving and stone-cutting

12. Stone cutting [continued]

13. Operations, crafts necessary [i.e. pattern-makers]

14. Other nationalities involved in quarrying

15. Social activity in Finnish community [Wainola Hall, athletics, baseball; Lanesville BBA's]

16. Early years [42 Langsford St., midwives]

17. Importance of church in Finnish community.

CD2. TRACKS: 1. Games

2. Names of quarries, types, scrap granite's uses, Lanes Cove, breakwaters

3. Modern methods of quarrying, changes

4. Types of finish on granite, how made

5. Quarry blacksmith

6. College education obtained, efforts of parents [re: citizenship, educating children, experience of learning two languages]

7. Sisu [Finnish values, character]

8. Russo-Finnish War [reactions and recollections]

9. Growing up in Lanesville [school, Wainola Hall]

10. Finnish traditions, culture [holidays, food, gardening, making household supplies, use of horses, curfew, etc.]

11. Finnish culture and heritage [language, poetry, architects, music]

12. Wainola Hall, Temperance Society

13. Rink Hall, Socialists

14. Publications, Raivaja

15. Cape Ann Tool Co., names of quarries, "motions" ; Demise of quarrying, especially Rockport Granite Co.

16. Finnish traditions, sauna.