MF227 John Young, Hometown Poet

Compiled collection of interviews and student research related to the life of John Young, a well-known poet and local character in Old Town, Maine. John Franklin Young was born in 1883, the son of John and Alberta "Martha" Young of Lowell, Maine. Following her husband's death in 1899, Alberta and son John, relocated to Old Town around 1903, where she married George Grover. John Young was generally accepted to have cognitive delays but worked as a manual laborer chopping wood and mowing lawns, as well as selling his poetry door-to-door. Brief mention of John Young may also be found in the following interviews: NA0579, NA1147, and NA1389.