Toward an oral history of Cape Ann: OH 4, CD 5-CD 6 : Ferrini, Vincent

CD 5 TRACKS: 1. Place and date of birth, early years

2. Raiano, Italy, Voyage to Raiano

3. Lynn years, father was shoemaker, poverty, theory on fishermen

4. His life's primary functions

5. prole poet, W.P.A. - similarities to CETA, Poet in Residence, Salem

6. Work with prisoners, CETA - best thing

7. Study of societies, Social and personal poet, Know Fish

8. Lynn and Gloucester, drawn to water

9. Ten Pound Island, Gloucester Harbor, Opal Town, divide and conquer

10. Global perspective

11. Gloucester, poor city

12. Political and spiritual reawakening

13. Women and power

14. Artists and government jobs

15. Company Town (Gorton's, etc.)

16. Friendship with Olson

17. Unschooled poetry, gift between art and work

18. A Coat, W.B. Yeats, Gloucester character

19. Interrelationship between people and character of the town, and vice versa

20. Family

21. How to change Gloucester, some interesting thoughts.

CD 6 TRACKS: 1. Writing of meeting Olson

2. Shaun MacNiff

3. Ferrini's reaction to Maximus letter, Helen Stein

4. Four Winds

5. Olson and Ferrini after letter 5

6. It didn't affect our friendship

7. This Olson industry is not concerned with my work

8. Olson was a first class psychic pig

9. Olson and future, Ferrini's concerns

10. Quality of Ferrini's relation with Olson

11. Olson and city council, Olson and Gloucester

12. Olson's relationship with Ferrini,lacks

13. What Gloucester really is

14. Olson's spirit

15. He's done the work of pinpointing this city as the center of an idea

16. Olson

17. Olson's visit during the blizzard

18. Olson's attack of Ferrini, Olson's changing opinion

19. Olson's politics, power

20. Olson's influence.