Keywords: Bird hunting
Item 64136
Bird hunting, Strong, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Strong Media: Photographic print
Item 111602
Abercrombie & Fitch hunting pants, Rockport, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Rockport Media: cotton
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Exhibit
Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club
In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment
"… bead-work, snow-shows, gulls’ breasts, stuffed birds, clubs, carved sticks, bows and arrows, etc."
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"The children would hunt sea birds and spear crabs and lobsters. The men went deep sea spearing for (Passamaquoddy) porpoises and seals."
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Story
My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph
Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.
