Document Type
Oral History
Publication Date
7-12-2006
Interview Number
AROH 13
Abstract
Robert Treamer grew up on Carroll Street in Berlin, New Hampshire. Treamer’s father worked as a mason in Berlin and Treamer’s brothers worked in the Brown Company Mill. Treamer grew up fishing and playing around the Androscoggin north of Berlin. He worked on the river as a young man and then worked as a mason in Berlin for the Brown Company Mill for sixty years. Treamer continues odd masonry jobs in retirement. His two children are both in college.
Use Restrictions
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Recommended Citation
Pfeiffer, Mariah, "Treamer, Robert oral history interview" (2006). Androscoggin River Oral History Collection. 13.
https://scarab.bates.edu/androscoggin_oh/13
Scope and Content Note
This interview covers Treamer’s childhood activities: hide and seek, fishing on log jams, and neighborhood games; process and practices of river work; Treamer’s experience in various jobs: mason, log drive hand, and woodcutter; ice harvesting; fishing: fish stocking and family fishing trips upriver; travel; change and loss in Berlin; the clean water act; the impact of the mill’s closing; mill work: working conditions, the role of the union, and pranks; community in Berlin; local bridges; the act of remembering river work; and Treamer’s children: their occupations and their relationship to Treamer.