Keywords: Black Bay
Item 80446
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1954 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard
Item 31337
Hunnewell House, Scarborough, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Bruce Thurlow through Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Scarborough Media: Slide, transparency
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement
"Patten's Bay, Patten's Pond and Patten's Pond Stream were named after him. In Samuel Wasson's Journal of East Surry, he attributes Jonathan Flye, an…"
Site Page
"(editor), Penobscot The Forest, River and Bay. Island Institute, 1996. Surry's Centennial Souvenir, 1903. Varney, George J."
Story
Warming Oceans
by David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
The rate of warming in the Gulf of Maine is faster than that of more than 95% of the world’s oceans
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
