This is side one of the caseet tape with the interview with Douglas J. Parent and the only side.

It was a Sunday afternoon in April of 1977.

University of Maine student Richard Petrovitz sat down at the table with his subject and hit record on the cassette player.

This is Sunday, April 24th.

I'm having an interview with Douglas J. Parent, who owns the Waldebro Newsstand

in Waldebro Main.

My name is Richard Petrovitz and I'm also from Wahl

the interview was part of the coursework for Com1. 101, speaker audience

communication at the University of Maine at Augusta.

Students were documenting the stories of Maine in a collection of oral history

and 58 year old Douglas Parent had stories to tell.

Okay, my name is Douglas State Cameron, better known as DJ.

I am a native state of man, in Waterville March 24th, 1919.

Doug talked about his time in the Army, his career, his decision to strike out on his own and open Waldeboro newsstand.

Richard asked Doug about life in Lincoln County in the mid 20th century, how things had changed since he first came to

Waldeburo and what hadn't. And then Richard asked Doug this.

What do you think about any of the crime around here? Is there any bad crimes that you can ever remember?

Well, I mean, that's a touchy subject.

No, there's no, never, never been a major crime committed since I've been here.

But there's a lot of it. No, no, no, no, no murders. No murders, I know the town of Waller.

Nothing I can recall. No murders in the town of

Waldebaro. Not that Doug could recall on that Sunday afternoon in April of

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