Keywords: Gift shops
Item 46387
Gift Shop, Lubec, ca. 1970, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard
Item 71589
Snowberry Park, Pine Point, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Scarborough Media: Linen texture postcard
Exhibit
Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms
According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"… the end of the street the widely acclaimed Peg's Gift Shop, operated by the much loved Nellie Earle."
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… grange hall, two stores, churches, a blacksmith's shop, a schoolhouse, a boarding house and two wharves, where, for a time, loads of coal and pulp…"
Story
A Lifelong Romance with Retail
by George A Smith
Maine's once plentiful small retail stores.
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
