Shettleworth, Earle G., Jr. oral history interview, 2000

Item

Identifier: MOH 170

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Shettleworth, Earle G., Jr. oral history interview

Scope and Contents

Interview includes discussions of: 1954 Maine gubernatorial campaign; 1964 Senate Campaign; 1968 Vice Presidential Campaign; environmental protection; 1966 Historic Preservation Act; Republican Party in Maine; meeting several times with Percival Baxter; Ralph Owen Brewster and the Klu Klux Klan (KKK); Peter Kyros, Jr. and mock Kennedy/Nixon debate; 1964 Democratic National Convention celebration; President Johnson’s visit to Portland; Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal and Johnson’s Great Society; and the Maine Historic Preservation Commission.

Dates

2000

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Biographical / Historical

Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. was born in Portland, Maine on August 17, 1948. Earle’s father, Earle Sr., was born in Connecticut and came to Maine to manage Woolworth’s on Congress Street in Portland from 1933-1946, then opened a small chain of 5 & 10 cent stores, E. G. Shettleworth Company. Earle wrote a history column, “Portland’s Heritage” for Portland Press Herald during his high school and college years. He attended Colby College, class of 1970, with a degree in architectural/art history and later Boston University, receiving a Master’s in architectural history. He did a pictorial history of Maine for a bicentennial project in 1968-1969. Governor Curtis appointed him to the Archives Board in 1969. He joined the Historical Preservation Commission in 1971 and became Director of the Commission in 1976.