Keywords: Adventures
Item 100821
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: 1847 Location: Bangor; Belfast Media: Ink and watercolor on paper
Item 190
Affidavit of capture and imprisonment aboard ship, 1842
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1842-08-22 Location: Portland Media: Color transparency
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
At the heyday of trolleys in Maine, many of the trolley companies developed recreational facilities along or at the end of trolley lines as one further way to encourage ridership. The parks often had walking paths, dance pavilions, and various other entertainments. Cutting-edge technology came together with a thirst for adventure and forever changed social dynamics in the process.
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 3 of 3
"… Adventures in Aroostook County"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3
"Adventures in Aroostook County X Text by Mary, a Presque Isle Middle School student Photos from the Jeremiah, the interviewee Jeremiah grew up…"
Story
A Florida Flatlander Finds Adventure in Maine (An Excerpt)
by Steve Hood
Humorous reminisces of former adventures in Maine from a Florida retiree
Story
The Year We Had Two Thanksgiving Days
by John Brooks Howard
The story is about a 1939 trip to Grand Lake Stream and Thanksgiving with Geo W MacArthur and family