Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Frank Pabst Lecture |
Collection |
Essex Community Heritage Organization oral history collection |
Object Name |
Tape, Magnetic |
Narrator's name |
Frank Pabst |
Scope & Content |
Informal lecture from Frank Pabst, member of Lake Champlain's Wreck Raiders diving crew, on the subject of skin- and scuba diving in North Country lakes, including Lake Champlain and Lake Placid, both for retrieval of archaelogical artifacts and also as a search-and-recovery method for water fatalities. Pabst also describes the recovery of the body of Mabel Smith Douglass in Lake Placid in 1963. Part of the Essex Community Heritage Organization (ECHO) oral history project. |
Call Number |
C-40 |
Catalog Number |
2017.083.0007 |
Date |
1973 |
Digital File |
Click here to read the interview transcript. |
Notes |
Three copies in various formats: 1 cassette (C-40) in audio cabinet 1 CD (C-40) in audio cabinet 13 .wav files in LibMedia drive. Transcription also saved in LibMedia. Transcription of this interview was made possible by a grant from the Lake Placid Education Foundation. |
Search Terms |
Shipwrecks--New York (State)--Lake Champlain.; Lake Champlain (N.Y.); Lake Placid (N.Y.); Scuba diving.; Skin diving.; Douglass, Mabel Smith, 1877-1933.; |
People |
Pabst, Frank |
Recording media |
Cassette Tape |
Length of Interview |
63 minutes |
Media quantity |
1 cassette |