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Historical Items

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Item 34047

Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Emma Clark Weeks through Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Item 34191

Cascade Pond drained, Hallowell, ca. 1931

Contributed by: Emma Clark Weeks through Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1931 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Item 34190

Cascade Pond drained for cleanup, Hallowell, ca. 1931

Contributed by: Emma Clark Weeks through Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1931 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

High Water

Melting snow, ice, warmer temperatures, and rain sometimes bring floods to Maine's many rivers and streams. Floods are most frequent in the spring, but can occur at any season.

Exhibit

Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

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CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections

Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Ice; The Ice Storm of 1998; Ice Storm '98

"Ice; The Ice Storm of 1998; Ice Storm '98 Ice Written By Tiffiny McCollett and Ashley Boerner Ice thickly covered every little branch and glittered…"

Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Comparisons

"In the ice storm in Canada they lost their power due to a layer of ice weighing down the power lines. The ice kept coming until the wire snaps."

Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"You wanted solid, clean ice, you know, without snow..” Ice Table frozen in place.Hubbard Free Library “It was a tough time then."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Finding and cooking fiddleheads with my parents
by Brian J. Theriault

My father has been picking and eating fiddleheads almost all his life, Mom prepares and stores them

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down