Oral history interview with Mary Sloat

Oral History

Museum of the White Mountains

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

MWM2016.0005.0013

Scope and Content

Interview conducted in preparation for the 2016 Museum of the White Mountains' exhibition: “Taking the Lead: Women and the White Mountains” by students in the 2014 PSU American Women’s History course. Mary Sloat has long-term and active connections to the White Mountains, having lived and worked in the mountains. Her first trip to the White Mountains was at age eleven to visit her uncle who managed the Crawford House. She currently serves on the Board of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, the Citizen’s Advisory Committee for Nash Stream, the White Mountain Garden Club, and the Connecticut River Joint Commissions. Formerly vice-president of the board of directors of the North Country Council and chair of its Northern Forest Lands Committee, Sloat has taken leadership roles in the North Country League of Women Voters and 4-H.

Collection

Oral History Collection

Acquisition

Accession

MWM2016.0005

Source or Donor

Blaine, Marcia Schmidt

Acquisition Method

Gift

Notes

Date Release Form Signed: 2014-03-15

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Memoir

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Literary Works

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Women, Huts, Hiking

Search Terms

White Mountains (New Hampshire : mountains), Crawford House (Coos county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Appalachian Mountain Club, Childhood

General Notes

Note

Status Date: 2017-03-07 Scan ID#: WM201700470, WM201700471